From the President

Board of Governors

HONORARY CHAIR

Uzia Galil, Israel*

CHAIR

Lawrence Jackier, USA*

DEPUTY CHAIRS

Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, Israel*

Norman Seiden, USA

CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL
Gideon Frank*

PRESIDENT
Prof. Peretz Lavie*

EXECUTIVE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
Prof. Adam Shwartz*

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Prof. Hagit Attiya

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH
Prof. Wayne Kaplan

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR GENERAL
Matanyahu Englman

VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS & RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Prof. Boaz Golany

DEAN OF THE JACOBS GRADUATE SCHOOL
Prof. Dan Givoli

DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Prof. Orit Hazzan

DEAN OF STUDENTS
Prof. Benveniste Natan

DEAN OF THE AZRIELI DIVISION FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION & EXTERNAL STUDIES
Prof. Zeev Gross

CHAIR OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Sigal First

MAYOR OF HAIFA
Yona Yahav

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Adv. Asaf Binder

ACADEMIC MEMBERS

Prof. Bertil Andersson, Singapore
Prof. Robert Calderbank, USA
Prof. François Diederich, Switzerland
Prof. Suzanne Fortier, Canada
Prof. Barbara J. Grosz, USA
Prof. Gabriel Krestin, Netherlands
Prof. Sunil Kumar, USA
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Israel
Prof. Wei Shyy, Hong Kong
Prof. Barry Simon, USA

MEMBERS

Joseph Ackerman, Israel
Dr. Eitan Adres, Israel
Reuven Agassi, Israel
Ruth Alon, Israel*
Yoram Alster, Israel*
Judge Hanoch Ariel, Israel
Avraham Assaf, Israel
Victor Asser, Greece
Eli Ayalon, Israel
Dr. Naomi Azrieli, Canada
Avi Balashnikov, Israel*
Zahava Bar Nir, USA
Col. (Res.) Natan Barak, Israel
Sarah Baruchin, Israel
Dr Nayim Bayat, Germany
Norman Belmonte, USA
Danny Benardout, Greece
Ing. Albert Ben-David, Israel
Jacques Benkoski, USA
Gen. (Res.) Avihu Ben-Nun, Israel
Matilda Beracha, Greece
Steven Berger, USA
Harry Bloomfield, Q.C., Canada
Lucien Y. Bronicki, Israel
Shraga Brosh, Israel
Pinchas Barel Buchris, Israel*
Paul Burg, USA
Yoel Carasso, Israel
Joseph Ciechanover, Israel
Edith Cresson, France
Jacob Dagan, Israel
Yisrael David, Israel
Robert Davidow, USA
Brent Dibner, USA
Shimon Dick, Israel
Uri Dori, Israel
Dr. Alon Dumanis, Israel
Moshe Dunie, USA
Ing. Zvi Dvoresky, Israel
Dr. Shimon Eckhouse, Israel*
Mooly Eden, Israel
Dr. George Elbaum, USA
J. Steven Emerson, USA
Carol Epstein, USA
Prof. Yuri Estrin, Australia
Irwin Field, USA
Edith Fischer, USA
Ruth Flinkman-Marandy, USA
Alan Forman, USA
Dr. Gilead Fortuna, Israel
Prof. Eby Friedman, US
Iaqueaniello Gaetano, Italy
Mark Gaines, USA
Dr. Terry Gardner. USA
Jacques Garih, France
David Gat, Israel
Yitzhak Gat, Israel
Zohar Gilon, Israel
Dr. Amit Goffer, Israe
Gary Goldberg, Canada
Ben-Ami Gov, Israel
Stephen Grand, USA
Doreen Green, Canada
Daniel Gutenberg, Switzerland
Gal Haber, Israel
Gen. (Res.) Shalom Hagai, Israel*
Gad Haker, Israel
Robert Hanisee, USA
Sir Michael Heller, UK
Lady Morven Heller, UK
Peter Hersh, Australia
Dr. Victor Hofman, Switzerland
Dr. Irit Idan, Israel*
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Shlomo
(Burstein) Inbar, Israel
Ing. Shaul Ivtsan, Israel
Dr. Irwin Jacobs, USA
Michael Kagan, Israel
Dr. Shlomo Kalish, Israel
Ronnie Kaplan, Canada
Miri Katz, Israel
Ilana Kaufman, Israel*
Avi Kerbs, Israel
Moshe Keret, Israel
Michael Klein, USA
Ofer Kotler, Israel
Yaacov Kotlicki, Israel
Kobi Kurtz, Netherlands
Benny Landa, Israel
Yeshayahu Landau, Israel
Dr. Stephen Laser, USA
Ron Lauder, USA
Ron Lazarovits, Australia
Scott Leemaster, USA
Charles Levin, USA
Prof. Jacques Lewiner, France
Moshe Lichtman, Israel
Yoseph Linde, Israel
Lorry I. Lokey, USA
Dr. Yoelle Maarek, Israel*
Israel Makov, Israel
Prof. Fadel Mansour, Israel*
Dana Maor, Israel
Joshua Maor, Israel
Inge Marcus, USA
Shlomo Markel, Israel
Dr. Dan Maydan, USA
Aryeh Mergi, Israel
Jonathan Metliss, UK
Giora Meyuhas, Israel
Melvyn Miller, USA
Gary Monnickendam, UK
Dov Moran, Israel
Avinoam Naor, Israel
Shlomo Nehama, Israel
Meir Nissensohn, Israel
Gilad Novik, Israel
Dr. Eli Opper, Israel
Marvin Ostin, Canada
Dr. Edgar Paltzer, Switzerland
Guido Pardo-Roques, Israel
Daniel Peltz, UK
Lois Peltz, UK
David Perlmutter, Israel
Orni Petrushka, Israel
Eliot Phillipson, Canad
Prof. Guilherme Ary Plonski, Brazil
David Polak, USA
Rina Pridor, Israel*
Dan Propper, Israel
Irith Rappaport, Israel
Dr. Ruth Ratner, Australia
Leon Recanati, Israel
Arnold Recht, Canada
Shlomo Reisman, Israel
Prof. Dr. Gerd-Volker
Roeschenthaler, Germany
Howard Rosenbloom, USA
Grace Rosman, USA
Martin Rosman, USA
Helio Bruck Rotenberg, Brazil
Joel S. Rothman, USA
Haim Rousso, Israel
Kobi Rozengarten, Israel
Joshua Ruch, USA
Julia Ruch, USA
Nina Sabban, USA
Edmundo Safdie, Brazil
Yoav Sarne, Israel
Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheper, Germany
Benny Schnaider, Israel
Arik Schor, Israel
Yigal Schreiber, Israel
Arie Scope, Israel
Dr. Yoram Sebba, Israel*
Arnold Seidel, USA
Joan Seidel, USA
Stephen Seiden, USA
Les Seskin, USA
Haim Shani, Israel
Ing. Shaul Shashoua, Brazil
Raphi Shavit, Israel
Leonard H. Sherman, USA
Dr. Robert Shillman, USA
Stanley Shirvan, USA
Abraham Shochat, Israel
Gadi Singer, Israel
Melissa Singer, Canada
Rafael Sirkis, Israel
Jonathan Sohnis, USA
Senator Paul Steinberg, USA
Ing. Isaac Eddie Streifler-Shavit, Israel
Stefan Sturesson, Sweden
Prof. Dr. Roderich Suessmuth, Germany
Ing. Sandor Szego, Brazil
Prof. Zehev Tadmor, Israel
Rami Tamir, Israel
Ira Taub, USA
Irwin Tauben, Canada
Gideon Tolkowsky, Israel
Itzhak Torgeman, Israel*
Oded Tyrah, Israel
Pim Van Den Dam, Netherlands
Dr. Yossi Vardi, Israel
John Veronis, USA
Dan Vilenski, Israel
Dr. Andrew Viterbi, USA
Dr. Kobi Vortman, Israel
Eyal Waldman, Israel
Prof. Dr. Peter Weinberger, Austria
Arthur A. Weiss, USA
Naftali Weitman, Israel
Eitan Wertheimer, Israel
Avigdor Willenz, Israel
Andrea Wolfe, USA
Ben Wygodny, Canada
Yoram Yaacovi, Israel
Danny Yamin, Israel
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Shlomo Yanai, Israel
Elisha Yanay, Israel
Chaim Yaron, Israel*
Dr. Giora Yaron, Israel
Imad Younis, Israel*
Avi Zeevi, Israel
Yehuda Zisapel, Israel
Zohar Zisapel, Israel
Miriam Ziv, Israel
Dr. Amir Ziv-Av, Israel*

ALTERNATE MEMBERS
Aron Ain, USA
Jack Bensimon, Canada
Ilene Berger, USA
Howard Berish, Canada
Serge Bitboul, France
James Blum, USA
Steve Bramson, Canada
Marilyn Caplovitz, USA
Neil Closner, Canada
Rita Emerson, USA
Rod Feldman, USA
Gill Fishman, USA
Laura Flug, USA
Joseph Freed, USA
David Friedman, USA
Harold Garfinkle, Canada
Dr. Harry Handelsman, USA
Tamara Handelsman, USA
Jon Hirschtick, USA
Evert Jonsson, Sweden
Tommy Klatzkow, Sweden
Sidney Lejfer, USA
William Marcus, USA
Steve Merling, Canada
Ruth Owades, USA
Beth Perlman, USA
Paul Raducanu, Canada
Bennett Rechler, USA
David Ronn, USA
Andrea Rush, Canada
Eugene B. Shapiro, USA
Jozef Stern, Sweden
Lauren Veronis, USA
Bruce Whizin, USA
Roma Wittcoff, USA
Dr Frank Witte, Germany

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS
Moshe Arens, Israel
Paul Bernstein, USA
Dr. Joel Birnbaum, USA
Scott Black, USA
Dr. Ilan Blech, USA
Robert Brand, USA
Leona Chanin, USA
Jack Chisvin, Canada
Frances Cohen, Canada
Elizabeth Corob, UK
Jeanette Dankner, Israel
Richard Davison, USA
Michael Dresner, Israel
Prof. Jerome Drexler, USA
Prof. George Feher, USA
Meyer Frank G., USA
Dr. Avi Friedman, Canada
Michael Frieze, USA
Pearl Gameroff, Canada
Edward R. Goldberg, USA
Sofia L. de Grimberg, Argentina
Gary Gross, USA
Jack Hahn, Canada
Dr. Michael Helper, Canada
Dr. Christian Hodler, Germany
Charles Housen, USA
Ivoncy B. Ioschpe, Brazil
Maggie Kaplan, USA
Barbara Kay, USA
Nathan Kirsh, South Africa
Stephen B. Klein, USA
Theodore H. Krengel, USA
Alexander Lidow, USA
Bernard Mars, USA
Louis Milgrom, USA
Raphael Mishan, USA
Jonathan Mitchell, USA
Dr. Hyman Mitchner, USA
Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, USA
Parviz Nazarian, USA
Justice Shoshana Netanyahu, Israel
Prof. Dr. Ewald Nowotny, Austria
Samuel Pisar, France
Herbert Pollack, USA
Rachel Pollak, Israel
Eugene Riesman, Canada
Morris Rochlin, USA
Barrie Rose, Canada
Daniel Rose, USA
Elihu Rose, USA
Shmuel Rotem, Israel
Eric Samson, South Africa
Paul Shatz, USA
Sholom Shefferman, USA
Harry Sheres, Canada
Emanuel Shimoni, Israel
Abe Simkin, Canada
Janey Sweet, USA
Bernice Tanenbaum, USA
Gen. (Res.) Dan Tolkowsky, Israel
Lucy Ullmann, USA
Yona Uspiz, Israel
François Wasservogel, France
Mary Werksman, USA
Stef Wertheimer, Israel
Estelle Yach, South Africa
Ruth Ziegler, USA
Robert Zinn, USA

REPRESENTATIVES OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS JEWISH AGENCY
Alan Hoffman

ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS
Simcha Afek
Amnon Bartal
Emanuel Zvi Liban

ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Prof. Yaron Silberberg

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Eyal Kaplan*
Dr. Ilana Maor

PROFESSORS
Prof. Ariel Orda*
Prof. Yehuda Pinchover*

PROFESSORS EMERITI
Prof. Abraham Berman

TEACHING STAFF UNION
Aviv Sharon

FACULTY ASSOCIATION
Prof. Eyal Zussman

ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICAL ENGINEERS (HANDESSAIM)
David Avi

M4 ORGANIZATION: THE ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES UNION AT THE TECHNION
Zvi Bar-Deroma

UNION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORKERS AT TECHNION
Aliza Blasberg

ORGANIZATION OF TECHNION PENSIONERS
Moshe Barak

STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
Undergraduate Students
Amir Gerti
Ido Weiser-Bitoun

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Amir David Nissan Cohen
Asaf Hershkovitz

*Technion Council member

70 Years of Nation Building

“It’s fortunate that Technion existed before the State of Israel. If it had been the other way around who knows what would have happened.” – Shimon Peres

THE NATIONAL IMPERATIVE

In 1912 the Technion cornerstone was laid with the vision to create a university to educate engineers and architects. By 1948, the infrastructure, knowhow and skills were in place to support the birth of the State of Israel.

1948

THE STATE IS BORN

1953

ISRAEL DEMANDS MORE ENGINEERS

1955

NATIONAL INFRASTRUCURE WORKS

1961

HOME GROWN HIGH-TECH

1968

HOLDING UP THE WALL

1975

MICROELECTRONICS

1980

COMPUTER SCIENCE

1985

THE HIGH-TECH REVOLUTION

1990

THE BRAIN GAIN

1992

SEEDING ISRAEL’S START-UP CULTURE

2000

NANO RESEARCH IS LAUNCHED

2004

FIRST NOBEL PRIZES IN SCIENCE

2011

IRON DOME

2013

THE NOBEL LEGACY CONTINUES

2017

GLOBAL CONSOLIDATION

2020

QUANTUM LEAP

From Jaffa to Java

Or, how a developing country became a developed country in half a century, and positioned itself as a world leader in new technologies in just 70 years

Israel: the garden of innovation

In the beginning there was a need: a need to take a barren, historic homeland and make it bloom; a need to rebuild the Jewish homeland and create a better future for its people. For over a century, Technion has provided the spirit of innovation that responds to the need: anticipating the problems of tomorrow with pioneering solutions born out of an infinite source of potential.

Often cited as father of the Start-up Nation, Technion Alumnus and serial innovator Yossi Vardi was first to describe Israel’s meteoric ascent into the community of prosperous nations, coining the term: from Jaffa to Java.

“People here are daring, willing to try, to sacrifice their best years in order to build something meaningful,” he said in honor of Technion’s cornerstone centennial. “If you look at the history, Israel was always a startup nation. A bunch of people came to this part of the world 120 years ago when nothing was here: Israel was a start-up; the kibbutz movement was a start-up; and Technion was a start-up. If you look into the virtues of Israelis you see that our main advantage is to come with an idea from an empty chaos, to create proof of concept and to build around the beginnings. If there had been no Technion, I think we wouldn’t have the kind of technological infrastructure or high-tech industry of today. Everything started in the Technion.”

A Jewish State is born

“Upon the education of the people, the fate of this country depends”– Benjamin Disraeli

70 years ago, the State of Israel was born, but this wasn’t the end of Technion’s work, rather the start of a whole new challenge. Never before did the fate of a nation rest so unequivocally on the education of its young people. Israel needed infrastructure, medicine, water and energy. It needed innovators, decision-makers and entrepreneurs. For all of this, the people looked to Technion.

“An Institute of Technology of a high level is one of the most vital needs of the State of Israel at this time,” said Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. “We are a small, poor people; our country is largely desolate; we are surrounded by hostile nations who threaten our existence. We are compelled to create, at an unprecedented rate, sources of livelihood for masses of our brethren who are returning to their homeland… For these great and difficult tasks we must call on the aid of the latest achievements of both pure and applied science and the most advanced improvements of technology.”

Technion was fast to meet the urgent needs of the fledgling nation, turning out top-quality engineers at vast speed. Yet Israel’s Institute of Technology was at the same time firmly rooted in the future. Reaching for the skies in 1949, Technion recruited Prof. Sydney Goldstein from Manchester University to chair Israel’s first department of Aeronautical Engineering. Within a decade, Technion had vastly expanded, leaving the original building in midtown Hadar to serve the young State of Israel and the world from the upper slopes of Mount Carmel.

At Technion, the fulfilment of a need is the starting point. The core of Technion power comes from vision – the vision to create a better future. This is a place where your imagination gets to work; where you are part of the global dynamo of reinvention – where everything is possible.

Israel: the paradox

How will the new-born state protect and sustain itself?

“I have seen with great satisfaction how the Technion has been indispensable to Israel’s agriculture, industrial development, economic growth and national security. Its engineers, scientists and architects have literally built the State of Israel.”– Albert Einstein

Leadership

**Lawrence Jackier**
Chairman of the Board of Governors

Gideon_Frank — **Gideon Frank**
Chairman of the Council

**Prof. Adam Shwartz**
Senior Executive
Vice President

Prof._Hagit_Attiya — **Prof. Hagit Attiya**
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Prof._Wayne_Kaplan — **Prof. Wayne Kaplan**
Executive Vice President for Research

Matanyahu_Englman — **Matanyahu Englman**
Executive Vice President and Director General

**Prof. Zalman Palmor**
Executive Vice President and Director General Elect

Prof._Boaz_Golany — **Prof. Boaz Golany**
Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development

DEANS

Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Prof. Orit Hazzan

Dean of the Jacobs Graduate School
Prof. Dan Givoli

Dean of the Azrieli Division of
Continuing Education and
External Studies
Prof. Zeev Gross

Dean of Students
Prof. Benveniste Natan

ACADEMIC HEADS

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Prof. Itzchak Frankel

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Prof. Iris Aravot

Faculty of Biology
Prof. Yehuda Assaraf

Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
Prof. Shulamit Levenberg

Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering
Prof. Marcelle Machluf

Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Prof. Gideon Grader

Schulich Faculty of Chemistry
Prof. Noam Adir

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Prof. Oded Rabinovitch

Faculty of Computer Science
Prof. Dan Geiger

Faculty of Education in Science and Technology
Prof. Yehudit Judy Dori

Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Prof. Nahum Shimkin

Department of Humanities and Arts
Prof. Efraim Lev

Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Prof. Carmel Domshlak

Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering
Prof. Yair Ein-Eli

Faculty of Mathematics
Prof. Michah Sageev

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. Yoram Halevi

Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Shimon Marom

Faculty of Physics
Prof. Ehud Behar

Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Vice Chancellor, Distinguished Prof. Aaron Ciechanover

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
Prof. Ron Brachman

Assistant to the President for Strategic Projects and Technion International
Prof. Paul Feigin

Technion Program for Excellence
Prof. Michael Elad

Center for Pre-university Education
Prof. Noam Soker

ADDITIONAL OFFICERS

Deputy Senior Vice President
Prof. Alon Hoffman

Deputy Vice President for Research
Prof. Anath Fischer

Deputy Vice President for Research for the Pre-Clinical Research Authority
Prof. Jackie Schiller

Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs
Prof. Avi Ostfeld

Deputy Vice President for Computing and Information Systems
Prof. Reuven Cohen

Deputy Vice President for Safety Matters
Prof. Yaacov Mamane

Deputy Director General for Finance
Dganit Shindelman

Deputy Director General for Human Resources
Ariel Hazan

Deputy Director General of Operations
Zehava Laniado

Board of Governors

HONORARY CHAIR

Uzia Galil, Israel*

CHAIR

Lawrence Jackier, USA*

DEPUTY CHAIRS

Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev, Israel*

Norman Seiden, USA

VICE CHAIR

Martin Kellner, USA

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

Asaf Binder

PRESIDENT

Prof. Peretz Lavie*

EXECUTIVE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

Prof. Adam Shwartz*

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Prof. Hagit Attiya

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

Prof. Wayne Kaplan

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

& DIRECTOR GENERAL

Matanyahu Englman*

VICE PRESIDENT FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS

& RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Prof. Boaz Golany

DEAN OF THE JACOBS GRADUATE SCHOOL

Prof. Dan Givoli

DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

Prof. Orit Hazzan

DEAN OF STUDENTS

Prof. Benveniste Natan

DEAN OF THE AZRIELI DIVISION FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION & EXTERNAL STUDIES

Prof. Zeev Gross

MAYOR OF HAIFA

Yona Yahav

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC MEMBERS

Prof. Bertil Andersson, Singapore

Prof. François Diederich, Switzerland

Prof. Stephen Forrest, USA

Prof. Barbara J. Grosz, USA

Prof. Gabriel Krestin, Netherlands

Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Israel

Prof. Eliot Phillipson, Canada

Prof. Wei Shyy, Hong Kong

Prof. Howard Stone, USA

MEMBERS

Joseph Ackerman, Israel

Reuven Agassi, Israel

Ruth Alon, Israel*

Yoram Alster, Israel*

Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, Israel

Judge Hanoch Ariel, Israel

Avraham Assaf, Israel

Victor Asser, Greece

Eli Ayalon, Israel

Dr Naomi Azrieli, Canada

Avi Balashnikov, Israel*

Zahava Bar Nir, USA

Sarah Baruchin, Israel

Dr Nayim Bayat, Germany

Sharon Beaconsfield, Australia

Norman Belmonte, USA

Danny Benardout, Greece

Ing. Albert Ben-David, Israel

Gen. (Res.) Avihu Ben-Nun, Israel

Matilda Beracha, Greece

Steven Berger, USA

Scott Black, USA

Harry Bloomfield, Q.C., Canada

Lucien Y. Bronicki, Israel

Shraga Brosh, Israel

Pinchas Barel Buchris, Israel*

Paul Burg, USA

Yoel Carasso, Israel

Joseph Ciechanover, Israel

Edith Cresson, France

Jacob Dagan, Israel

Robert Davidow, USA

Brent Dibner, USA

Shimon Dick, Israel

Uri Dori, Israel

Dr Alon Dumanis, Israel

Ing. Zvi Dvoresky, Israel

Dr Shimon Eckhouse, Israel*

Mooly Eden, Israel

J. Steven Emerson, USA

Carol Epstein, USA

Prof. Yuri Estrin, Australia

Irwin Field, USA

Sigal First, Israel

Edith Fischer, USA

Ruth Flinkman-Marandy, USA

Alan Forman, USA

Dr Gilead Fortuna, Israel*

Gideon Frank, Israel*

Iaqueaniello Gaetano, Italy

Mark Gaines, USA

Pearl Gameroff, Canada

Jacques Garih, France

David Gat, Israel

Yitzhak Gat, Israel

Edward R. Goldberg, USA

Gary Goldberg, Canada

Stephen Grand, USA

Doreen Green, Canada

Daniel Gutenberg, Switzerland

Gal Haber, Israel

Gen. (Res.) Shalom Hagai, Israel*

Gad Haker, Israel

Robert Hanisee, USA

Sir Michael Heller, UK

Lady Morven Heller, UK

Peter Hersh, Australia

Dr Victor Hofman, Switzerland

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Shlomo

(Burstein) Inbar, Israel

Ing. Shaul Ivtsan, Israel

Dr Irwin Jacobs, USA

Gershon Kaddar, Israel

Dr Shlomo Kalish, Israel

Ronnie Kaplan, Canada

Miri Katz, Israel

Ilana Kaufman, Israel*

Avi Kerbs, Israel

Moshe Keret, Israel

Michael Klein, USA

Ofer Kotler, Israel

Yaacov Kotlicki, Israel

Kobi Kurtz, Netherlands

Benny Landa, Israel

Yeshayahu Landau, Israel

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Lapidot, Israel

Dr Stephen Laser, USA

Ron Lauder, USA

Eliaz Lavi, Israel

Ron Lazarovits, Australia

Scott Leemaster, USA

Sidney Lejfer, USA

Charles Levin, USA

Dr Daphna Levi, Israel

Prof. Jacques Lewiner, France

Moshe Lichtman, Israel

Lorry I. Lokey, USA

Dr Yoelle Maarek, Israel*

Israel Makov, Israel

Prof. Fadel Mansour, Israel*

Dana Maor, Israel

Joshua Maor, Israel

Inge Marcus, USA

Shlomo Markel, Israel

Dr Dan Maydan, USA

Jonathan Metliss, UK

Giora Meyuhas, Israel

Raphael Mishan, USA

Gary Monnickendam, UK

Avinoam Naor, Israel

Shlomo Nehama, Israel

Meir Nissensohn, Israel

Gilad Novik, Israel

Dr Eli Opper, Israel

Marvin Ostin, Canada

Dr Edgar Paltzer, Switzerland

Guido Pardo-Roques, Israel

Daniel Peltz, UK

Lois Peltz, UK

David Perlmutter, Israel

Prof. Guilherme Ary Plonski, Brazil

David Polak, USA

Rina Pridor, Israel*

Dan Propper, Israel

Irith Rappaport, Israel

Dr Ruth Ratner, Australia

Leon Recanati, Israel

Arnold Recht, Canada

Shlomo Reisman, Israel

Prof. Dr Gerd-Volker

Roeschenthaler, Germany

Howard Rosenbloom, USA

Grace Rosman, USA

Martin Rosman, USA

Helio Bruck Rotenberg, Brazil

Joel S. Rothman, USA

Haim Rousso, Israel

Kobi Rozengarten, Israel

Nina Sabban, USA

Edmundo Safdie, Brazil

Prof. Dr Thomas Scheper, Germany

Arik Schor, Israel

Yigal Schreiber, Israel

Arie Scope, Israel

Dr Yoram Sebba, Israel

Arnold Seidel, USA

Joan Seidel, USA

Stephen Seiden, USA

Ing. Shaul Shashoua, Brazil

Raphi Shavit, Israel

Leonard H. Sherman, USA

Dr Robert Shillman, USA

Stanley Shirvan, USA

Abraham Shochat, Israel

Gadi Singer, Israel

Melissa Singer, Canada

Rafael Sirkis, Israel

Jonathan Sohnis, USA

Senator Paul Steinberg, USA

Simcha Stern, Israel

Justice (Ret.) Tova Strassberg-Cohen, Israel

Ing. Isaac Eddie Streifler-Shavit, Israel

Stefan Sturesson, Sweden

Prof. Dr. Roderich Suessmuth, Germany

Ing. Sandor Szego, Brazil

Prof. Zehev Tadmor, Israel

Ira Taub, USA

Irwin Tauben, Canada

Gideon Tolkowsky, Israel

Itzhak Torgeman, Israel*

Oded Tyrah, Israel

Pim Van Den Dam, Netherlands

Dr Yossi Vardi, Israel

John Veronis, USA

Dan Vilenski, Israel

Dr Andrew Viterbi, USA

Dr Kobi Vortman, Israel

Eyal Waldman, Israel

Prof. Dr Peter Weinberger, Austria

Naftali Weitman, Israel

Eitan Wertheimer, Israel

Avigdor Willenz, Israel

Andrea Wolfe, USA

Ben Wygodny, Canada

Danny Yamin, Israel

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Shlomo Yanai, Israel

Elisha Yanay, Israel

Chaim Yaron, Israel*

Dr Giora Yaron, Israel

Imad Younis, Israel*

Yehuda Zisapel, Israel

Zohar Zisapel, Israel

Miriam Ziv, Israel*

Dr Amir Ziv-Av, Israel

ALTERNATE MEMBERS

Jacques Benkoski, USA

Jack Bensimon, Canada

Serge Bitboul, France

James Blum, USA

Steve Bramson, Canada

Julian Brass, Canada

Marilyn Caplovitz, USA

Neil Closner, Canada

Steve Ekstein, Canada

George Elbaum, USA

Rita Emerson, USA

Rod Feldman, USA

Gill Fishman, USA

Laura Flug, USA

Joseph Freed, USA

David Friedman, USA

Harold Garfinkle, Canada

Dr Harry Handelsman, USA

Tamara Handelsman, USA

Jon Hirschtick, USA

Evert Jonsson, Sweden

Tommy Klatzkow, Sweden

William Marcus, USA

Steve Merling, Canada

Ruth Owades, USA

Beth Perlman, USA

Herbert Pollack, USA

Paul Raducanu, Canada

Bennett Rechler, USA

David Ronn, USA

Joshua Ruch, USA

Julia Ruch, USA

Andrea Rush, Canada

Les Seskin, USA

Eugene B. Shapiro, USA

Cindy Sipkin, USA

Lawrence Sipkin, USA

Jozef Stern, Sweden

Bruce Whizin, USA

Roma Wittcoff, USA

Dr Frank Witte, Germany

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS

Moshe Arens, Israel

Evelyn Berger, USA

Paul Bernstein, USA

Dr Joel Birnbaum, USA

Dr Ilan Blech, USA

Robert Brand, USA

Leona Chanin, USA

Jack Chisvin, Canada

Frances Cohen, Canada

Sydney C. Cooper, Canada

Elizabeth Corob, UK

Jeanette Dankner, Israel

Richard Davison, USA

Michael Dresner, Israel

Prof. Jerome Drexler, USA

Prof. George Feher, USA

Israel Feldman, USA

Meyer Frank G., USA

Dr Avi Friedman, Canada

Michael Frieze, USA

Sofia L. de Grimberg, Argentina

Gary Gross, USA

Jack Hahn, Canada

Louis N. Harris, UK

Dr Michael Helper, Canada

Dr Christian Hodler, Germany

Charles Housen, USA

Ivoncy B. Ioschpe, Brazil

Maggie Kaplan, USA

Barbara Kay, USA

Nathan Rosen Kirsh, South Africa

Stephen B. Klein, USA

Theodore H. Krengel, USA

Ing. Zvi Langer, Israel

Alexander Lidow, USA

Bernard Mars, USA

Louis Milgrom, USA

Jonathan Mitchell, USA

Dr Hyman Mitchner, USA

Bennett Nathanson, USA

Ruth Leventhal Nathanson, USA

Parviz Nazarian, USA

Justice Shoshana Netanyahu, Israel

Prof. Dr Ewald Nowotny, Austria

Samuel Pisar, France

Rachel Pollak, Israel

Eugene Riesman, Canada

Morris Rochlin, USA

Barrie Rose, Canada

Daniel Rose, USA

Elihu Rose, USA

Shmuel Rotem, Israel

Eric Samson, South Africa

Paul Shatz, USA

Sholom Shefferman, USA

Harry Sheres, Canada

Emanuel Shimoni, Israel

Abe Simkin, Canada

Janey Sweet, USA

Bernice Tanenbaum, USA

Joseph Taub, USA

Gen. (Res.) Dan Tolkowsky, Israel

Lucy Ullmann, USA

Yona Uspiz, Israel

Franחois Wasservogel, France

Mary Werksman, USA

Stef Wertheimer, Israel Estelle Yach,

South Africa

Ruth Ziegler, USA

Robert Zinn, USA

REPRESENTATIVES OF GROUPS

AND ORGANIZATIONS

JEWISH AGENCY

Alan Hoffman

ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS

AND ARCHITECTS

Simcha Afek

Amnon Bartal

Emanuel Zvi Liban

ISRAEL ACADEMY OF

SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Prof. Yaron Silberberg

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Eyal Kaplan*

Dr Ilana Maor

PROFESSORS

Prof. Robert Adler*

Prof. Ehud Behar*

Prof. Yaron Paz

Prof. Yehuda Pinchover*

Prof. Moshe Shoham*

TEACHING STAFF UNION

Alon Dimatriuk

PROFESSORS EMERITI

Prof. Abraham Berman

FACULTY ASSOCIATION

Prof. Eyal Zussman

ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICAL ENGINEERS (HANDESSAIM)

Naftali Blau

THE M4 ORGANIZATION:

THE ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES

UNION AT THE TECHNION

Zvi Bar-Deroma

UNION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORKERS AT TECHNION

Aliza Blasberg

ORGANIZATION OF

TECHNION PENSIONERS

Josepha Ben-Yoseph

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Omer Amit

Nimrod Harani

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Amir Cohen

Hila Korach-Rechtman

*Technion Council member

This year, Israel celebrates 70 years of independence. At Technion, independence is a vessel that enables innovation to express itself in the world of real commodities.

Independence is that which allows our scientists, students, and visionaries to think freely to delve into the unknown, unfettered by fears of survival or the terror of failure. This scientific independence is what has made Technion a partner in a new innovation paradigm, in which industry, researchers and visionaries join together with the objective of creating a better future.

The Technion cornerstone ceremony took place 36 years before the establishment of the State of Israel, in 1912. At the time, pioneering visionaries were determined to fight prejudice by creating a technical institute that would accept all qualified students regardless of gender or culture. From its earliest days, Technion played a key role in laying the foundations of a nation – educating the skilled workforce that would literally build the country.

In 2018, Technion continues to be a global trailblazer. We are proud that, according to a recent worldwide survey, Technion has been named the world’s leading academic institution in preparing students to take top positions in the digital revolution.

Moreover, the recent inaugurations of Cornell Tech in New York City and the Guangdong Technion- Israel Institute of Technology in China consolidate Technion’s global impact and empower a new kind of academic independence – an independence beyond the limitation of national boundaries.

On the dawn of Israel’s eighth decade, Technion is as committed as ever to serve the State of Israel and all of humanity. To realize this vision, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Technion World Wide Campaign, with a goal to raise $1.5 billion by 2024 – the year we will celebrate the centennial of Technion’s first incoming class. This campaign is groundbreaking, due to its unprecedented scope in Israeli academia. The funds raised will be used for upgrading infrastructure and research activities, as well as for faculty recruitment, and will essentially ensure the next 100 years of Technion. In the past year, we made great progress implementing the Master Plan to upgrade the physical campus. The building boom is underway with the completion of the David and Janet Polak Visitors Center; the renovation of the Ullmann Building, the new gates to the campus. We will soon start work on new wings for the faculties of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Architecture and Town Planning. In addition, we are planning an additional building for the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine as well as new student dormitories.

We recently announced a $50 million naming gift from the Helen Diller Family Foundation to support the university’s new state-of-the-art quantum center. The center will be named the Helen Diller Center for Quantum Science, Matter and Engineering and will strengthen the university’s position as a world leader in quantum science and engineering.

Unfortunately, alongside the many uplifting accomplishments of the past year, we have also been struck with a succession of sad news. Technion – and I personally – mourn the loss of three of our dearest friends: Ruth Rappaport, Peter Munk and Sanford Diller. May their memories be a blessing.

Herzl said: “If you will it, it is not a dream.” In recent years, our slogan was “Dream it. Do it.” To do it, we needed that first cornerstone in 1912.To do it, we needed that declaration of independence 70 years ago in 1948. Out of the foundations we lay today, the power of innovation will continue to flow through the laboratories, lecture halls and campuses of all that is Technion.

Peretz Lavie

New Faculty Appointments

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Joseph Lefkowitz
Assistant Professor

Oksana Stalnov
Assistant Professor

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FOOD ENGINEERING
Omer Yehezkeli
Assistant Professor

CHEMISTRY
David Eisenberg
Assistant Professor

Graham de Ruiter
Assistant Professor

EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Zehavit Kohen
Lecturer

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Shachar Itzhaky
Assistant Professor

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Ittay Eyal
Assistant Professor

Ilya Goykhman
Assistant Professor

Daniel Soudry
Assistant Professor

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
Izack Cohen
Assistant Professor

Ofra Amir
Lecturer

Uri Shalit
Assistant Professor

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Elad Koren
Assistant Professor

MATHEMATICS
Tali Pinsky
Lecturer

MEDICINE
Yonatan Butbul
Clinical Lecturer

Etty Daniel-Spiegel
Clinical Lecturer

Roni Dodiuk-Gad
Clinical Assistant Professor

Naama Geva-Zatorsky
Assistant Professor

Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen
Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Rinat Gabbay-Benziv
Clinical Assistant Professor

Zvi Gutmacher
Clinical Lecturer

Riad Haddad
Clinical Assistant Professor

Iyad Khamaysi
Clinical Assistant Professor

Alona Paz
Clinical Lecturer

Michal Stein
Clinical Assistant Professor

PHYSICS
Shay Hacohen-Gourgy
Assistant Professor

Enrique Kajomovitz Must
Assistant Professor