Uzi Rubin (; born 1937) is an
Israeli defense
engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...
and analyst.
Defense industry involvement
Uzi Rubin has been involved in Israeli military research, development, and engineering programs for almost forty years. Between 1991 and 1999, he served as head of Israel's
Missile Defense
Missile defense is a system, weapon, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception, and also the destruction of attacking missiles. Conceived as a defense against nuclear weapon, nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic mi ...
Organization, and in that capacity he oversaw the development of Israel's
Arrow
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anti-missile defense system. He was awarded the
Israel Defense Prize in 1996. He is a fellow of the
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at
Bar Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...
.
See also
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Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security
References
External links
Rubin's article on Iraqi Missile systems
21st-century Israeli engineers
1957 births
Living people
Israel Defense Prize recipients
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