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
From the President
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.
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
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
From the President
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