“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
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1953
ISRAEL DEMANDS MORE ENGINEERS
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1955
NATIONAL INFRASTRUCURE WORKS
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1961
HOME GROWN HIGH-TECH
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1968
HOLDING UP THE WALL
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1975
MICROELECTRONICS
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1980
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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1985
THE HIGH-TECH REVOLUTION
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1990
THE BRAIN GAIN
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1992
SEEDING ISRAEL’S START-UP CULTURE
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2000
NANO RESEARCH IS LAUNCHED
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2004
FIRST NOBEL PRIZES IN SCIENCE
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2011
IRON DOME
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2013
THE NOBEL LEGACY CONTINUES
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2017
GLOBAL CONSOLIDATION
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2020
QUANTUM LEAP
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