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University of Haifa The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...

(B.A. in economics) *

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...

(MA in

industrial management In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perf ...

) , occupation = , years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , known_for = *President of El Al Airlines *President of Cellcom *President of the

, notable_works = , style = , height = , television = , title = , term = , predecessor = , successor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charges = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Amos Shapira (; born 1949) is an Israeli businessman. He is the former president of El Al Airlines, Cellcom, and the

Biography

Shapira is a sixth-generation Israeli. His grandfather was an Orthodox

rabbi A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ...

in the agricultural settlement of

Yesud HaMa'ala Yesud HaMa'ala () is a moshava and local council in northern Israel. The moshava was the first modern Jewish community in the Hula Valley. Built in 1883, the community was among a series of agricultural settlements founded during the First Aliya ...

in the

Hula Valley The Hula Valley () is a valley and fertile agricultural region in northern Israel with abundant fresh water that used to be Lake Hula before it was drained. It is a major stopover for birds migrating along the Great Rift Valley between Africa ...

in Northern Israel. Shapira earned his B.A. in economics from the

in 1980, and his MA in

from the

."New Haifa U president warns of Israeli brain drain,"
''The Canadian Jewish News''. Shapira was President and CEO of El Al Airlines from 2003 to 2005, and then of Cellcom (appointed in 2005), Israel's largest cellular provider. He then was made President of the University of Haifa, beginning in October 2012.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shapira, Amos Living people University of Haifa alumni Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of the University of Haifa Presidents of universities in Israel 21st-century Israeli businesspeople 1949 births