Presidents of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

, was established in 1961 by the

State of Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the

science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

s and

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

and create a think tank for advising the government on research projects of national importance. Its members include many of Israel's most distinguished scholars. The offices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities are located next door to the official residence of the

President of Israel The president of the State of Israel (, or ) is the head of state of Israel. The president is mostly, though not entirely, ceremonial; actual executive power is vested in the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet led by the Prime Minister of Israel, pr ...

and the

Council for Higher Education in Israel The Council for Higher Education in Israel (, ''HaMo'atza LeHaskala Gevoha'') is a supervisory body for universities and colleges in Israel. It is the only organization with the authority to award academic educational accreditation. The head of th ...

in Albert Einstein Square in

. In the sciences, the Academy funds projects on the

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

flora Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for f ...

, and

fauna Fauna (: faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding terms for plants and fungi are ''flora'' and '' funga'', respectively. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively ...

of Israel, and facilitates the participation of Israeli scientists in research at international projects, such as high-energy physics at

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

and

synchrotron A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The strength of the magnetic field which bends the particle beam i ...

radiation at the

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility The European Synchrotron (ESRF) is a joint research facility situated in Grenoble, France, supported by 19 countries (13 member countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switz ...

."Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 24, 1999
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'', 12 may 2007 The academy funds a number of prestigious awards in the sciences including the

Alon Prize Alon or ALON may refer to: * Alon (name), an Israeli given name and surname * Alon (Israeli settlement), an Israeli settlement in the West Bank * Alon Inc, an American airplane builder, known for the Alon A-4 * Alon USA, an American energy company ...

. In the humanities, research is funded into the study of the

Tanakh The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. ''

Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their Jewish peoplehood, nation, Judaism, religion, and Jewish culture, culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions and cultures. Jews originated from the Israelites and H ...

Jewish philosophy Jewish philosophy () includes all philosophy carried out by Jews or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until the modern ''Haskalah'' (Jewish Enlightenment) and Jewish emancipation, Jewish philosophy was preoccupied with attempts to reconc ...

, Jewish art, and the

Hebrew language Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language unti ...

, as well as Hebrew prose and

poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

. The Academy administers the

Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...

Fellowships fund, which fosters relations between scientists from around the world and the Israeli academic community, the

Israel Science Fund Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It occupies the Pale ...

, with an annual budget of $53 million, and a number of research funds based on grants from the

Adler Fund for Space Research Adler may refer to: Places *Adler, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Perry County *Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois, USA *Adler Township, Nelson County, North Dakota, USA * Adler University, formerly Adler School of Professional Psychol ...

, the

Wolf Foundation The Wolf Foundation is a private not-for-profit organization in Israel established in 1975 by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born Jewish Cuban inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. Ricardo Wolf Ricardo Wolf, the founder of the Wolf Found ...

, and the

Fulks Fund for Medical Research Fulks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Fulks (born 1982), American voice and stage actress * Clay Fulks (1880–1964), American writer * Watson Fulks (1919-2001), American professor of mathematics and author * Donn ...

. The Academy also runs the Israel Academic Center in

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

, which assists Israeli scholars with research into

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and

Egyptian culture The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded history. A cradle of civilization, Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations in the world. For millennia, Egypt developed strikingly unique, complex and stable cultures that influe ...

, and facilitates cooperation with Egyptian academics. The Academy has observer status at the

European Science Foundation The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 11 member organizations devoted to scientific research in 8 European countries. ESF is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization that promotes science in Europe. It was e ...

, and runs exchange programs with the British

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

, the

British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...

, the

Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy (), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body t ...

, and the National Research Council of

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

Members

Present (partial)

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* Shraga Abramson, Talmud * Saul Adler, Parasitology * Shmuel Agmon, Mathematics *

Yakir Aharonov Yakir Aharonov (; born August 28, 1932) is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California since ...

, Physics *

Shlomo Alexander Shlomo Alexander (; September 4, 1930 – August 7, 1998) was an Israeli theoretical physicist and winner of the Israel Prize, known for his contributions to the field of condensed matter physics. Early life Alexander was born to Jewish paren ...

, Physics *

Noga Alon Noga Alon (; born 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers. Education and career ...

, Mathematics *

Ruth Arnon Ruth Arnon ( �ut aʁ'non born in Tel Aviv on June 1, 1933) is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. She is currently the Paul Ehrlich Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where s ...

, Immunology *

Shlomo Avineri Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew: שלמה אבינרי; born Jerzy Wiener; 20 August 1933 – 30 November 2023) was an Israeli political scientist. He was a professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Israel A ...

, Political science *

Robert Aumann Robert John Aumann (Yisrael Aumann, ; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University ...

, Mathematics, Nobel Prize (2005) in Economics *

David Ayalon David Ayalon (; born David Neustadt, 1914 – 25 June 1998) was an Israeli historian of Islam and the Middle East, specializing in the Mamluk dynasties of Egypt. Within Israel he was best known for the '' Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary'' he co-compile ...

, History of Muslim People *

Meir Bar-Asher Meir () is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer. Alfred J. Kolatch, ''The ...

, Islamic Studies *

Aharon Barak Aharon Barak (; born 16 September 1936) is an Israeli lawyer and jurist who served as President of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006. Prior to this, Barak served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1978 to 1995, and bef ...

, Law *

Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (; 6 April 1926 – 18 October 2024) was a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the The Holocaust, Holocaust. He was a professor of Holocaust studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew Univer ...

, Holocaust Studies *

Malachi Beit-Arie Malachi or Malachias (; ) is the name used by the author of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Nevi'im (Prophets) section of the Tanakh. It is possible that ''Malachi'' is not a proper name, because it means "messenger"; it has been as ...

, Palaeography *

Ze'ev Ben-Haim Ze'ev Wolf Goldman, later known as Ze'ev Ben-Haim or Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim (; 28 December 1907 – 6 August 2013), was a leading Israeli linguist and a former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Biography Ben-Haim was born in Mości ...

, Hebrew Studies *

Joseph Bernstein Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; ; ; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory. Biography Bernstein ...

, Mathematics *

Yehudith Birk Yehudith Birk (; 30 September 1926 – 14 January 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli biochemist, awarded the 1998 Israel Prize for agricultural research. Biography Yehudith Gershtanski (later Birk) was born in Grajewo, Poland to Frida (née Borowitz; ...

, Agricultural Biochemistry *

Joshua Blau Yehoshua Blau, also spelled Joshua (; 22 September 1919 – 20 October 2020) was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, previously Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Life and career Blau was born in Cluj, R ...

, Arabic Language and Literature * Haim (Howard) Cedar, Biochemistry, Molecular Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics * Ilan Chet, Agricultural Biotechnology *

Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover ( ; ; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. Biography Early life Ciechanover was born ...

, Biochemistry, Nobel Prize (2004) in Chemistry *

Nili Cohen Nili Cohen (; born 1947) is an Israel professor and legal expert. She is a recipient of the Israel Prize, and was the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, succeeding Prof. Ruth Arnon, Cohen's role model. She is a member of t ...

, Law * Solly Cohen, Experimental Physics *

Yadin Dudai Yadin Dudai (; born December 8, 1944) is a neuroscientist, Professor (emeritus) of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and the Albert and Blanche Willner Family Global Distinguished Professor of Neural Science at ...

, Neurobiology *

Itzhak Englard Itzhak () is a Hebrew given name and surname, meaning Isaac. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Itzhak Arnon (1909–2005), Israeli agronomist * Itzhak Bars (born 1943), American theoretical physicist at the University of Southern ...

, Law * Michael Feldman, Molecular Cell Biology *

Margalit Finkelberg Margalit Finkelberg (née Karpyuk; born 1947) () is an Israeli historian and linguist. She is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as pr ...

, Classical Philology *

Israel Finkelstein Israel Finkelstein (; born March 29, 1949) is an Israelis, Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Finkelstein is active in the a ...

, Archaeology *

Yohanan Friedmann Yohanan Friedmann (; born 1936) is an Israeli scholar of Islamic studies. Biography Friedmann was born in Zákamenné, Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1949. He attended high school at the Reali School in Haifa (194 ...

, Islamic Studies * Daniel Friedmann, Law * Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Talmud *

Dov Frohman Dov Frohman (, also Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky; born March 28, 1939) is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive. A former vice president of Intel Corporation, he is the inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) ...

, Applied physics *

Hillel Furstenberg Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (; born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. Natio ...

, Mathematics * Gideaon Goldenberg, Linguistics and Semitic Languages * Amiram Grinvald, Neurobiology * Yoram Groner, Molecular biology *

Avraham Grossman Avraham Grossman (; 10 March 1936 – 27 March 2024) was an Israeli historian and professor in the Jewish history department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, recipient of the 2003 Israel Prize for his contributions to Jewish history. Biog ...

, Jewish Studies * Don Handelman, Anthropology, Sociology *

Menahem Haran Menahem or Menachem (, "consoler" or "comforter"; ''Meniḫîmme'' 'me-ni-ḫi-im-me'' Greek language, Greek: Μεναέμ ''Manaem'' in the Septuagint, Μεναέν ''Manaen'' in Aquila of Sinope, Aquila; ; full name: , ''Menahem son of Gad ...

, Bible *

Haim Harari use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates ...

, Natural sciences *

David Harel David Harel (; born 12 April 1950) is a computer scientist, currently serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has been on the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980, and holds the Wil ...

, Natural Sciences *

Ehud Hrushovski Ehud Hrushovski (; born 30 September 1959) is a mathematical logician. He is a Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was also Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew Univers ...

, Mathematics *

Elhanan Helpman Elhanan Helpman (; born March 30, 1946) is an Israeli economist who is currently the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University. He is also a professor emeritus at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv Unive ...

, Economics *

Avram Hershko Avram Hershko (, ; born December 31, 1937) is an Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004. Biography He was born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, into a Jewish family, the son of Shoshana/Margit ' ...

, Biochemistry, medicine, Nobel Prize (2005) in Chemistry *

Yoseph Imry Yoseph Imry (; born 23 February 1939 – 29 May 2018) was an Israeli physicist. He was best known for taking part in the foundation of mesoscopic physics, a relatively new branch of condensed matter physics. It is concerned with how the behavi ...

, Physics * Benjamin Isaac, History *

Joshua Jortner Joshua Jortner (; March 14, 1933) is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a professor emeritus at the School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. Birth and education Jortner was born on Ma ...

, Chemistry *

Yosef Kaplan Yosef (; also transliterated as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ''Yôsēp̄'' and Yosseph, or Joseph, Arabic ''Yusof'') is a Hebrew male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yad ...

, Jewish Studies, History *

Benjamin Kedar Benjamin Ze'ev Kedar (; born 2 September 1938)Who's Who in Israel 2001 (Tel Aviv, 2002), p. 214: "KEDAR, Benjamin Z. is an Israeli historian, professor emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was president of the internat ...

, History *

Eitan Kohlberg Eitan () or Eytan is the Hebrew source of the male given name Ethan (given name), Ethan, and roughly translates to "strength" or "firm". Eitan may also refer to: People Biblical figure *Ethan the Ezrahite, Eitan the Ezrahite, the author of Psal ...

, Asian and African Studies *

Asher Koriat Asher ( ''’Āšēr''), in the Book of Genesis, was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah, and Jacob's eighth son overall. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Asher. Name The text of the Torah states that the name אָשֵׁ ...

, Psychology * Raphael Levine, Chemistry *

Alexander Levitzki Alexander Levitzki (; born 13 August 1940) is an Israeli biochemist who is a professor of biochemistry at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Birth and education Levitzki was born in 1940 in ...

, Biological chemistry *

Alexander Lubotzky Alexander Lubotzky (; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and former politician who is currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an adjunct professor at Yale University. He served as a member of the Knesset for ...

, Mathematics *

Raphael Mechoulam Raphael Mechoulam (; 5 November 1930 – 9 March 2023) was a Bulgarian-born Israeli organic chemist and a professor in the Department of Natural Materials at the School of Pharmacy in the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...

, Chemistry *

David Milstein David Milstein (; born June 4, 1947) is an Israeli chemist studying homogeneous catalysis. Education and early life Milstein was born in 1947 in Ulm, Germany where his family took refuge after being displaced during the Holocaust. With his family ...

, Chemistry *

David Navon David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stel ...

, Psychology * Ruth Nevo, English Literature *

Abraham Nitzan Abraham Nitzan (; born 1944) is a professor of chemistry at the Tel Aviv University department of chemical physics and the University of Pennsylvania department of chemistry. Education Abraham Nitzan was born in Tel Aviv. He received his bachelo ...

, Chemistry *

Ariel Porat use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates ...

, Law *

Michael O. Rabin Michael Oser Rabin (; born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli mathematician, computer scientist, and recipient of the Turing Award. Biography Early life and education Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, in Poland), th ...

, Mathematics *

Ariel Rubinstein Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין; born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in economic theory, game theory and bounded rationality. Biography Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the School of Ec ...

, Economics *

Leo Sachs Leo Sachs (; ‎14 October 1924 – 12 December 2013) was a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1933, and to Israel in 1952. There he joined the Weizmann Institut ...

, Biology *

Michael Sela Michael Sela (; Mieczysław Salomonowicz; 2 March 1924 – 27 May 2022) was an Israeli immunologist of Polish Jewish origin. He was the W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. He was a preside ...

, Immunology *

Uri Seligson Uri may refer to: Places * Canton of Uri, a canton in Switzerland * Úri, a village and commune in Hungary * Uri, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province * Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in India * Uri (island), off Malakula Island in Vanua ...

, Hematology * Shaul Shaked, Iranian Studies, Religious Studies *

Adi Shamir Adi Shamir (; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification sc ...

, Applied mathematics *

Dan Shechtman Dan Shechtman (; born January 24, 1941)Dan Shechtman
. (PDF). Retrieved on January 28, ...

, Materials Engineering *

Saharon Shelah Saharon Shelah (; , ; born July 3, 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Biography Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, 1945. He is th ...

, Mathematics *

Uri Sivan use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

, *

Yechezkel Stein Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (; ; ), was an Kohen, Israelite priest. The Book of Ezekiel, relating his visions and acts, is named after him. The Abrahamic religions acknowledge Ezekiel as a Hebrew prophet, prophet. According to the narrativ ...

, Medicine *

Izchak Steinberg Izchak Miller (September, 1935 – April 1, 1994) was a philosopher and author, known, among other things, for his scholarly writings on Edmund Husserl and his contributions to Husserlian phenomenology. Miller was a coordinator of the Cogniti ...

, Physical Chemistry *

Zehev Tadmor use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

, Chemical Engineering polymers *

Igal Talmi Igal Talmi (; born January 31, 1925) is an Israeli nuclear physicist. Biography Igal Talmi was born in 1925 in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. His family immigrated to Mandate Palestine later that year and settled in Kfar Yehezkel ...

, Particle Physics *

Daniel Weihs Daniel Weihs (Hebrew: דניאל וייס; born 1942) is the Israeli Louis and Lyra Richmond Chair of Life Sciences and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Aeronautical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the Head o ...

, *

Meir Wilchek Meir Wilchek (; born 17 October 1935) is an Israeli biochemist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Early life and education Meir Wilchek was born in Warsaw, Poland, scion of a rabbinical family. During the Holocaust, he esca ...

, Biophysics *

Itamar Willner Itamar Willner Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC () is an Israeli chemist who has been a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1986. He completed his PhD in physical organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jer ...

, Chemistry *

Menahem Yaari use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates = ...

, Economy *

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath (, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for B ...

, Structural Biology, Nobel Prize (2009) in Chemistry

Past (partial)

Hanoch Albeck Hanoch Albeck (; August 7, 1890 - January 9, 1972) was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a foremost scholar of the Mishna and one of the pioneers of the scientific approach to Mishna study. Education Hanoch's fa ...

, Talmud *

Shimshon Amitsur Shimshon Avraham Amitsur (born Kaplan; ; August 26, 1921 – September 5, 1994) was an Israeli mathematician. He is best known for his work in ring theory, in particular PI rings, an area of abstract algebra. Biography Amitsur was born in Jeru ...

, Mathematics *

David Asheri David Asheri (Hebrew language, Hebrew: דוד אשרי) (1 November 1925, Florence – 3 February 2000, Jerusalem), born David Bonaventura, was an Italian-Israeli historian. Asheri is regarded as "one of the most distinguished scholars of ancien ...

, Classical Studies * Haim Beinart, Jewish Studies *

Jacob Bekenstein Jacob David Bekenstein (; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections betwee ...

, Physics *

Zvi Ben-Avraham Zvi Ben-Avraham (; born 16 November 1941) is an Israeli earth scientist, specializing in geophysics of the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea Transform. He is currently a professor of Geophysics at Tel Aviv University. Ben-Avraham was awarded the ...

, Geophysics * Michael Confino, Russian and Eastern-European History *

Hillel Daleski Hillel () is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Hillel the Elder (110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader * Hillel, son of Gamaliel III (3rd century), Jewish scholar * Hillel II, Jewis ...

, English Literature * Amos de-Shalit, Physics *

Ben-Zion Dinur Ben-Zion Dinur (; January 1884 – 8 July 1973) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli historian, educator, and politician. He held the position of professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and represented Mapai in the first ...

, Jewish Studies *

Israel Dostrovsky Israel Dostrovsky (; November 29, 1918 – September 28, 2010) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, laureate of the 1995 Israel Prize in the exact sciences. Early years Israel Dostr ...

, Physical Chemistry *

Aryeh Dvoretzky Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky (, ; May 3, 1916 – May 8, 2008) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. He was t ...

, Mathematics * Shmuel Eisenstadt, Sociology *

Ezra Fleischer Ezra Fleischer (; 7 August 1928 – 25 July 2006) was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist and laurate of the Israel Prize for Literature studies for 1959. Biography Fleischer was born in 1928 in Timișoara, in the Banat r ...

, Hebrew Literature *

David Flusser David Flusser (Hebrew: דוד פלוסר; born 1917 - died 2000) was an Israeli professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography David Flusser was born in Vienna on Septem ...

, Religious Studies *

Abraham Fraenkel Abraham Fraenkel (; 17 February, 1891 – 15 October, 1965) was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic ...

, Mathematics *

Gad Tedeschi Gad Tedeschi (Hebrew: גד טדסקי; Italian: Guido Tedeschi) (born 1907; died 1992) was an Israeli jurist. Early life Tedeschi was born in the town of Rovigo in north-eastern Italy in 1907. He emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine i ...

, Civil Justice * David Ginsburg, Chemistry * Jonas Greenfield, Linguistics and Semitic Languages *

Louis Guttman Louis Guttman (; February 10, 1916 – October 25, 1987) was an American sociologist and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known primarily for his work in social statistics. Biography Louis ( ...

, Sociology * Georg Haas, Zoology * Aaron Katzir, Physical Chemistry *

Ephraim Katzir Ephraim Katzir (; – 30 May 2009) was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the president of Israel from 1973 until 1978. Biography Efraim Katchalski (later Katzir) was the son of Yudel-Gersh (Yehuda) and Tzilya Katchals ...

, Biophysics * Yehezkel Kaufman, Bible * Abraham Kogan, Aeronautics *

Dorothea Krook-Gilead Dorothea Krook-Gilead (; b. 11 February 1920 d. 13 November 1989) was an Israeli literary scholar, translator, and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University. Bi ...

, American Literature, English Literature *

Jacob Licht Jacob Fox (born Jacob Licht in 1984) is an American mathematician. He is a current professor at Stanford University. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial nu ...

, Bible *

Saul Lieberman Saul Lieberman (; May 28, 1898 – March 23, 1983), also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or, among some of his students, the ''Gra״sh'' (''Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul''), was a rabbi and a Talmudic scholar. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish T ...

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Zvi Lipkin Harry Jeannot Lipkin (; June 16, 1921 – September 15, 2015), also known as Zvi Lipkin, was an Israeli theoretical physicist specializing in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. He is a recipient of the prestigious Wigner Medal. ...

, Physics *

Benjamin Mazar Benjamin Mazar (; born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906 – September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also at ...

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Shlomo Morag Shlomo Morag, also spelled Shelomo Morag (; July 17, 1926 – September 4, 1999), was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the ...

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Yosef Naveh Yosef (; also transliterated as Yossef, Josef, Yoseph Tiberian Hebrew and Aramaic ''Yôsēp̄'' and Yosseph, or Joseph, Arabic ''Yusof'') is a Hebrew male name derived from the Biblical character Joseph. The name can also consist of the Hebrew yad ...

, Epigraphy, Palaeography *

Yuval Ne'eman Yuval Ne'eman (; 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of Tel Aviv University ...

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Franz Ollendorff Franz Heinrich Ollendorff ( or חיים אולנדורף; May 15, 1900 – December 9, 1981) was an Israeli physicist. Biography Franz Heinrich (Haim) Ollendorf was born in Berlin. In 1924, he joined the Siemens research department in Berlin, wo ...

, Electronics, Electrical Research *

Don Patinkin Don Patinkin (; January 8, 1922 – August 7, 1995) was an American-born Israeli monetary economist, and the President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Nissan Liviatan, 2008. "Patinkin, Don (1922–1995)," ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Eco ...

, Economics *

Chaim L. Pekeris Chaim Leib Pekeris (; June 15, 1908 – February 24, 1993) was an Israeli-American physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the helium atom. He was also ...

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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (Hebrew: איליה פיאטצקי-שפירו; ; 30 March 1929 – 21 February 2009) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician. During a career that spanned 60 years he made major contributions to applied science as well as p ...

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Shlomo Pines Shlomo Pines (; ; 5 August 1908 – 9 January 1990) was an Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English translation of Maimonides' '' Guide of the Perplexed''. Biography Pines was born in Charenton-le-Pont near P ...

, Philosophy *

Amir Pnueli Amir Pnueli (; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. Biography Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel) and received a Bachelor's degree ...

, Applied mathematics *

Hans Jakob Polotsky Hans Jakob Polotsky (; also Hans Jacob Polotsky, Hans Jakob Polotzky; 13 September 1905 – 10 August 1991) was an Israeli orientalist, linguist, and professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biograph ...

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Joshua Prawer Joshua Prawer (; November 22, 1917 – April 30, 1990) was a notable Israelis, Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem. His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European Colon ...

, History *

Giulio Racah Giulio (Yoel) Racah (; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician. He was Acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1961 to 1962. The crater Racah on the Moon is named after hi ...

, Physics *

Markus Reiner Markus Reiner (; born 5 January 1886, died 25 April 1976) was an Israeli scientist and a major figure in rheology. Biography Reiner was born 5 January 1886 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Austria-Hungary, and obtained the degrees of ...

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Nathan Rosen Nathan Rosen (; March 22, 1909 – December 18, 1995) was an American and Israeli physicist noted for his study on the structure of the hydrogen molecule and his collaboration with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky on entangled wave functions and ...

, Physics * Nathan Rotenstreich, Philosophy *

Dov Sadan Dov Sadan (; 21 February 1902 – 14 October 1989) was an Israeli literary critic and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment between 1965 and 1968. Biography Born Dov Berl Stock in Brody in the Galicia region of Aust ...

, Yiddish Language and Literature *

Jefim Schirmann Hayyim (Jefim) Schirmann (; October 19, 1904 – June 14, 1981) was an Israeli scholar of medieval Spanish and Italian Jewish poetry. Biography Hayyim Schirmann was born in Kiev in the Russian Empire. He studied in his home country until 1919. H ...

, Hebrew Literature *

Gershon Scholem Gershom Scholem (; 5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was an Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew Un ...

, Jewish Mysticism *

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, Bible *

Gershon Shaked Gershon Shaked (; 1929–2006) was an Israeli scholar and critic of Hebrew literature. Biography Gerhard Mandel (later Gershon Shaked) was born in Vienna, Austria. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine alone in 1939, and was later followed by his p ...

, Hebrew Literature * Nathan Sharon, Molecular Biology *

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Shmuel Shtrikman Shmuel (Mula) Shtrikman (; 21 October 1930 to 11 November 2003) was an Israeli physicist, and a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Winner of the Israel Prize for Research in Physics in 2003. Biography Born in Brest, Belarus (then Po ...

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Menahem Stern Menahem Stern (; March 5, 1925 – June 22, 1989) was an internationally acclaimed Israeli historian of the Second Temple period. He was murdered in Jerusalem by Palestinians during the First Intifada. Biography Menahem Stern was born in 1925 in ...

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Hayim Tadmor Hayim Tadmor (born Frumstein) (; November 18, 1923, Harbin, China–December 11, 2005, Jerusalem) was a leading Israeli Assyriologist. As a student of Benno Landsberger and Sidney Smith, his knowledge was grounded in immediate knowledge and exper ...

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Yoram Tsafrir Yoram Tsafrir (; 30 January 1938 – 23 November 2015) was an Israeli archaeologist. His research has included the Byzantine influence on ancient synagogues, demography of Palestine in the Byzantine period, mosaics at Horvat Berachot, excavatio ...

, Archeology *

Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (; born 13 November 1886 – 17 October 1973) was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language. Tur-Sinai was the first president of the Academy of th ...

, Hebrew Language *

Efraim Urbach Ephraim Elimelech Urbach (; born 1912 – 3 July 1991) was a distinguished scholar of Judaism. He is best known for his landmark works on rabbinic thought, ''The Sages'', and for research on the Tosafot. He was a candidate to presidency in Israe ...

, Talmud *

Haim Ernst Wertheimer Haim Ernst Wertheimer (; August 24, 1893 – March 23, 1978) was an Israeli biochemist. Biography Wertheimer was born in Bühl (Baden), Bühl, Germany in 1893 and studied in his native town and in Baden-Baden. He commenced studying medicine in ...

, Pathologic Physiology * Chaim Wirzubski, Classical Studies *

Israel Yeivin Israel Yeivin (; January 7, 1923, in Berlin – December 19, 2008) was an Israeli linguist, scholar of Masorah and the Hebrew language. Biography Israel Yeivin was born in Berlin. His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine when he was seven, ...

, Hebrew Language *

Moshe Zakai Moshe Zakai (; December 22, 1926 – November 27, 2015) was a Distinguished Professor at the Technion, Israel in electrical engineering, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Rothschild Prize winner. Biography Moshe Zak ...

, Electrical Engineering *

Jacob Ziv Jacob Ziv (; 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023) was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai ...

, Electrical Engineering *

Michael Zohary Michael Zohary (; born 9 April 1898 in Bóbrka, Galicia (Austria-Hungary); died 16 April 1983 in Jerusalem) was a pioneering Israeli botanist. Biography Michael Schein (later Zohary) was born into a Jewish family in Bóbrka, near Lviv (then Aus ...

, Natural Sciences Botany *

Bernhard Zondek Bernhard Zondek (; 29 July 1891 – 8 November 1966) was a German-born Israeli gynecologist who developed the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928. Biography Bernhard Zondek was born in Wronke, Germany, now Wronki, Poland. He studied medicine ...

, Natural Sciences Obstetrics

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"Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities"
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"About the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities"
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