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With five campuses and almost None of this could have been The Investment Committee has done 20,000 students, I believe that Ben- possible without the international and continues to do an excellent Gurion University of the Negev is network of members of the Board of job, and I am happy to report to meeting the challenge of the great Governors who work hard to raise you that our Israeli and American man for whom it was named, David our profile and raise funds for the groups continue to meet to share Ben-Gurion, who said “Israel’s University. experiences and discuss best capacity for science and research practices for future success. will be tested in the Negev.” I thank each and every one of you and also our many donors It is with great pride that I sign University President Prof. Rivka whose generous support helps to this message and wish well to the Carmi accepted this challenge and develop activities at BGU; to offer entire BGU community as we move together with her management a better future for many young forwards towards even greater team leads this wonderful institution people, including some from very accomplishments in higher learning forwards with vision and hard work. disadvantaged backgrounds; to and academic research. improve the lives of the wider Negev I hope that all of you who attend community; and to shape young the 41st Annual Board of Governors future leaders to be well educated Meeting will use the opportunity and caring individuals. to see and hear firsthand from the students and faculty about their I am delighted to report that alumni studies, their research and about activities are expanding, with their outstanding achievements. groups now in three Faculties. The For those who are unfortunately Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business unable to attend, this edition of the and Management has recruited a President’s Report will offer you student to manage their alumni site some insights into these wonderful and outreach and the Israeli Friends accomplishments. Association, is focused on extending this level of activity to the other We are celebrating the innovation Faculties. and creativity that makes BGU such a dynamic center, again and again Gifts are now coming in from alumni, voted first choice by Israeli students proof that the potential is out there and now regularly recognized and that with hard work we can worldwide in many areas of scientific convince BGU graduates of the research for high standards and importance and worth of supporting outstanding achievements. their alma mater.

Roy J. Zuckerberg Chairman of the Board of Governors

4 From the Pres¡dent

This has been a good year for Ben- who go beyond the classroom and the-art research being performed Gurion University of the Negev. laboratory to have a positive impact at the University. Working with the In May 2010 BGU placed 1st in on the world around them. Israeli Ministry of Defense, BGU a survey of the National Student has started drafting plans to absorb Union as the best place to study. Also, thanks to fundamental changes the anticipated growth in student In December, the University was in the way that Israeli universities will enrollment, develop new teaching recognized by the Council for Higher be budgeted through the CHE, we programs and expand research in Education (CHE), which noted that are now operating within a stable and areas related to the Israel Defense BGU will be one of the primary growing five-year fiscal plan, rather Forces’ move to the Negev, such beneficiaries of the new funding than dealing with the debilitating as cyber-tech, robotics and remote provisions that allot budgets based budget cuts of the past few years. sensing. primarily on “excellence in research” rather than the number of students This is also the first time since I began We have taken it upon ourselves to enrolled. In February this year, BGU my tenure as President that we are lower the student-faculty ratio, which was ranked 46th on the worldwide actually in a position to make and was affected in the past few years survey of GreenMetrics, the only implement a long-term plan based on by budget cuts, and we are also Israeli university to make the list. a vision for growth. This has energized in the final stages of planning new and excited the entire senior staff as it buildings for the National Institute These accomplishments are a allows us to explore our dreams and for Biotechnology in the Negev, great source of pride and reflect the draw a blueprint for the future. the Avram and Stella Goldstein- University’s commitment to excellence Goren Department of Biotechnology in all of its endeavors. But they are BGU is well on the way to being Engineering and greatly needed also a result of hard work and the one of Israel’s leading research classroom space. commitment of our faculty and staff universities, and in certain fields it who are living the vision of Israel’s is already considered one of the BGU’s logo is that of a flame. In first prime minister David Ben-Gurion best. We continue to invest in and Hebrew, the word for flame is Lahava, “to build a scientific research and attract some of the most promising sharing the root of the word, l’hitlahev, teaching center which will be a source young researchers from around the which means to be excited. This is of moral inspiration and courage, world, and they in turn have proven BGU. Burning with excitement about rousing people to a sense of mission, themselves by receiving extremely the potential for learning and putting noble, creative and fruitful.” competitive research grants. knowledge into action as we work to develop the Negev and create a It is also a reflection of the special Work has begun on the first building stronger Israel for the betterment of atmosphere that has typified BGU in the Advanced Technologies Park, people around the world. since its founding: a pioneering spirit incorporating international companies that is looking to make a difference such as Deutsche Telekom and EMC, Thank you for joining us on this and which attracts the kind of people building on the innovative, state-of- journey.

Prof. Rivka Carmi President

5 Academ!c Development Prof. Zvi HaCohen, Rector

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Jewish thought. This year, twenty For the first time ever, a national is Israel’s fastest growing university in new postdoctoral fellowships will be consortium for an African Studies terms of its research output; however awarded to increase the University’s program was created as part of the its student enrollment has long ability to attract the very best Humanities Fund, a joint venture of been capped by the Planning and postdoctoral fellows. Yad Hanadiv and the PBC. Managed Budgeting Committee of the Council by BGU, the program allows students for Higher Education (PBC). Recently A number of new educational enrolled at any university to take the University has begun planning programs are being developed in relevant courses at other institutions for the growth which is expected as emerging research fields. The need towards a degree in this field. In a result of the Israel Defense Force’s to develop sustainable resources of addition to its teaching program, the relocation of its basic training and energy has prompted the creation of a Centre for African Studies arranges intelligence bases to the Negev. All new track in energy engineering. This annual delegations of students indications suggest that as many as unique program focuses on the study who volunteer with international 4,000 soldiers, officers and related of new alternative sources of energy. It aid programs in a variety of African family members will be interested in is the first such program in Israel and countries. Both were inspired by pursuing academic studies at BGU, one of the few in the world. the late Dr. Tamar Golan, a former requiring the University to invest in Israeli ambassador to many African building both its human and physical Our youngest campus in Eilat has countries and the dynamic founding capacity. opened a new interdisciplinary director of the Centre, who provided program that combines marine the spirit behind these activities. BGU’s transformation into a world- biology with biotechnology class research institution has been engineering. BGU is now the only The University has put the finishing built upon its ability to attract the very academic institution to offer such touches on its new English-language best graduate students – from Israel a program from undergraduate to Israel Studies International Program, and around the world. Funds such Ph.D. level. The Eilat campus is in the organized by the Ben-Gurion as Kreitman Foundation Fellowships process of creating a Center for the Research Institute for the Study of have played a significant role in Study of Cross-Border Cooperation. Israel and Zionism. The new program advancing the University’s ability to Intended to operate in conjunction broadens the English-language offer competitive graduate fellowships. with academic partners in Aqaba, offerings of the University as part of Jordan, the Center will capitalize on its BGU’s commitment to increasing its In 2010 BGU awarded 192 Ph.D. tri-border location and close proximity international student population. degrees and had a total of 1,121 to other Arab countries to explore the Ph.D. students, in comparison to 76 regional challenges of cross-border BGU continues to be consistently students and 817, respectively, in relations. ranked the #1 choice of Israeli 2003. This increase has corresponded undergraduate students for its warm to a similar increase in the University’s The Guilford Glazer School of atmosphere and dynamic teaching ability to offer fellowships, which Business and Management was environment. As the University are primarily provided by dedicated upgraded to a Faculty. With the grows, so does its ability to attract scholarship funds. This year BGU support of the Mandel Foundation, many of Israel’s most brilliant young awarded over 50 new Ph.D. USA, the Mandel Social Leadership scholars, scientists and students. We fellowships, and created new MBA program was created in order to take great pride in our world-class designated funds for students in the provide NGO executives with much- achievements, while we maintain our fields of nanotechnology, brain science needed managerial skills. special atmosphere.

6 The Eilat Campus

Distribution of Students by Faculty and Degrees 2008−2011

Humanities & Natural Engineering Health Business & Social Sciences Sciences Sciences Sciences Management * AKIS 2008/09 Bachelors 3,701 1,622 5,116 1,329 941 - Masters 1,359 219 729 1,011 1,782 99 18,776 Ph.D. 311 267 206 202 31 34 Others 158 32 167 18 9 4 Total 5,439 2,131 6,162 2,549 2,763 148

2009/10 Bachelors 3,855 1,587 5,340 1,357 1,046 - Masters 1,537 244 686 1,015 1,799 109 19,405 Ph.D. 290 272 209 202 33 60 Others 134 21 249 12 12 3 Total 5,736 2,114 6,413 2,568 2,894 173

2010/11 Bachelors 3,883 1,641 5,251 1,339 1,027 - Masters 1,647 234 746 1,008 1,635 97 19,342 Ph.D. 324 268 226 190 33 75 Others 128 22 167 18 16 5 Total 5,916 2,162 6,162 2,533 2,711 178

/// Not all totals add up because there are students enrolled in multiple faculties or pursuing multiple degrees. (e.g., 188 interdisciplinary Masters students and Ph.D. candidates at the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies and 119 interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidates of the Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies, who are included in the total figures). /// The above figures relate to the first semester only. /// First - to third - year medical students are included in the Health Sciences – Bachelors category. /// Students of the Medical School for International Health, in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center, receive their M.D. degrees from the Faculty of Health Sciences. /// An additional 775 students are studying for their Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees at the BGU campus in Eilat. /// "Other" : Preparation for graduate and doctoral studies. /// Total University figure does not include an additional 388 special students. /// * AKIS - Albert Katz International School of Desert Studies.

7 Resear©h and Development Prof. Moti Herskowitz, Vice-President and Dean for R&D

One of the key characteristics of a - Prof. Sammy Boussiba, Landau and preparedness (FP7-Health) leading research university is the Family Microalgal Biotechnology and development of a highly successful recruitment of the very Laboratory, French Associates sensitive and specific nano-bio- best new faculty members. In a global Institute for Agriculture and chemo-sensor based on surface- economy, recruiting high-quality Biotechnology of Drylands at enhanced vibrational spectroscopy scientists and scholars requires more the Jacob Blaustein Institutes through effective optical nano- than just an excellent reputation: a for Desert Research (BIDR) and antennae (FP7-Health). university must provide a suitable incumbent of the Miles and Lillian research environment including high Cahn Chair in Economic Botany in BGU has attracted a number of caliber graduate students, state-of- Arid Zones – genetic improvement outstanding young scientists, the-art infrastructure and attractive of algae for value added products reflecting the University’s success in start-up packages. (FP-7 FAB), and for biofuel from building an international reputation algae technologies (FP7-Energy); for excellence and a demonstrated BGU is the fastest growing research - Dr. Eugene Katz, Department of commitment to growth in a number institute among Israeli universities. Solar Energy and Environmental of emerging fields. New researchers For the academic year of 2009- Physics at the National Institute recruited over the past five years 2010, funding from research grants for Biotechnology in the Negev have already recorded significant increased from $47.5 million in 2008- (NIBN) – Large-area organic and accomplishments in terms of 2009 to $56.7 million, while the total hybrid solar cells (FP7-Energy) prestigious prizes and highly- research budgets increased from for Fullerene-based systems for competitive research grants received, $64.1 million to $72 million. This is oxidative inactivation of airborne as follows: partially due to submission of high- microbial pathogens (FP7-People); quality research proposals to foreign - Prof. Robert Marks, Department Six researchers were awarded funding agencies, the most important of Biomedical Engineering and prestigious European Research one being the European Union FP7 the NIBN – Crimean Congo Council (ERC) grants in the three Programme. Several faculty members hemorrhagic fever; Modern years since they were created. Some were awarded grants from this approaches to diagnostics, 10,000 researchers compete for 250- prestigious funding body: surveillance, prevention, therapy 300 grants annually.

- Dr. Amir Aharoni, Department Percentage of Grants by Faculty 2009/10 of Life Sciences and the NIBN – Protein engineering for the study Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business of detoxification enzymes and hub and Management 0.5% proteins; - Prof. Dr. Ohad Medalia, Jacob Blaustein Institutes Engineering Sciences 35.4% Department of Life Sciences and for Desert Research 10.4% NIBN – Revealing the molecular architecture of integrin mediated Natural Sciences 28.99% cell adhesion; Health Sciences 18.6% - Dr. Michael Meijler, Department Pinchas Sapir Faculty of Humanities of Chemistry, NIBN and the and Social Sciences 5.9% Edmond J. Safra Center for the Design and Engineering of

8 Masters student Eddie Zisser displays his four-legged robot from the Robotics Laboratory of Dr. Amir Shapiro

Functional Biopolymers (Safra Development of an accessible Dr. Taleb Mokari, Department of Center) – Chemical elucidation platform for ex vivo site specific Chemistry and IKI. of interkingdom communication post-translational modifications of pathways; proteins; The France-Israel Foundation Prize - Prof. Yoav Tsori, Department of - Dr. Gonen Ashkenasy, Department for Young Researchers was awarded Chemical Engineering and the of Chemistry and chair of the to Dr. Moshe Herzberg, Department Reimund Stadler Minerva Center Safra Center – Systems chemistry of Desalination and Water Treatment for Mesoscale Macromolecular from bottom up: Switching, gating at the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Engineering and the Ilse Katz and oscillations in non-enzymatic Research, BIDR, for Academic Institute for Nanoscale Science and peptide networks. Excellence in the Field of Water. Technology (IKI) and incumbent of the Joseph and May Winston BGU has also demonstrated an Other significant grants include two Foundation Career Development extremely high rate of success U.S. government grants (US-AID Chair in Chemical Engineering – in awards for young researchers, MERC) for regional cooperation to: Phase transitions and chemical receiving a significant number of - Dr. Moshe Herzberg for his project reactions in electric field gradients; European Commission International Reclamation of Secondary Effluents - Dr. Lital Alfonta, incumbent of Reintegration Grants (IRG). with Reverse Osmosis Membranes: the Elaine S. and Alvin W. Wene Fouling Mechanisms and Control; Career Development Chair in Three BGU members have received - Dr. Simona Bar-Haim, Department Biotechnology Engineering at the the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for of Physiotherapy and Dr. Amir Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren young researchers: Prof. Yoav Tsori Karniel, Department of Biomedical Department of Biotechnology and Prof. Ann Bernheim, Department Engineering and the Zlotowski Engineering and Safra Center – of Chemical Engineering and IKI, and Center for Neurosciences for their

9 Resear©h and Development (Cont.)

project Promotion of a physically capital in England during the Industrial to collaborate with other Israeli active life style in populations of Revolution of the 18th century. universities in submitting to the teenagers with cerebral palsy in the PBC proposals aimed at promoting Middle East (CP-PALS). Five grants were awarded from research in specific fields. BGU the Israel Science Foundation for a was a partner in the submission of Dr. Taleb Mokari received a Morasha new program for the Humanities in four proposals, including Systems- Grant for the Absorption of Scientists book publishing: Dr. Daniel Unger, Level Analysis of the Molecular Returning from Abroad. Department of the Arts; Dr. Yoran Basis for Human Diseases: From Hanan, Department of General Genomics to Personalized Therapy; Dr. Alberto Bilenca, Department of History; Dr. Gidi Nevo, Department Advanced Approaches in Cognitive Biomedical Engineering and IKI, is of Hebrew Literature; Dr. Adiel Sciences; Advanced Topics in the first BGU staff member to receive Kadari, Goldstein-Goren Department Computer Sciences; and Renewable, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Jewish Thought; and Dr. Raz Sustainable, and Alternative Sources Grant – awarded for his proposal Aviad, Department of Sociology and of Energy. The decision is still pending Affordable and Fully Noninvasive Anthropology. as of April 2011. Point-of-Care Testing of Malaria by a Cellphone. Several new faculty members who recently joined the University have Total Investment Dr. Itzhak Katra, Department of already been awarded two or three in Research ($US m) Geography and Environmental grants simultaneously: Total External Research Funding Development, is the first BGU BGU Research Funding researcher to receive an Environment - Dr. Anat Ben-Zvi, Department 16.1 21.6 and Health Fund Research Grant of Life Sciences and NIBN was 18.3 13.6 for his proposal Soils as a source awarded a BSF and an IRG grant; 71.97 13.3 for atmospheric particles: A spatio- - Dr. Moshe Shechter, Department 62.3 64.2 temporal impact on air quality and of Physics was awarded a grant 9.2 59.2 human health in the Negev. from the ISF and IRG; 44.4 40.1 - Dr. Eyal Gur, Department Life Prof. Varda Shoshan Barmatz, Sciences and NIBN received a GIF Director of the NIBN, a member of Young grant, a BSF Start-up grant 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 the Department of Life Sciences and and an IRG grant; incumbent of the Hyman Kreitman - Dr. Maoz Shamir, Department of Chair in Bio-Energetics was the first Physiology and Neurobiology also Total External BGU faculty member to receive the received three separate grants; Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of from the ISF the BSF and from the Research Funding ($US m) America Grant with her proposal IRG; Inducing cell death in CLL using - Dr. Yoav Bar-Anan, Department of Grants and contracts Other sources VDAC1-based peptides: A novel Psychology, was awarded an ISF 8.1 7.1 9.9 therapeutic approach. grant and an IRG grant; 9.2 63.8 - Dr. Oren Rigbi, Department of 55.2 54.3 The Institute for New Economic Economics, received a grant from 8.0 50.0 4.9 Thinking (INET) funded by the the ISF and an IRG grant. 36.4 Institution for New Economic 35.2 Thinking selected Dr. Karine Van Der BGU has also responded to the Beek, Department of Economics, call from the Israeli Centers of 2005/06 2006/07 2008/09 2009/10 to research the evolution of human Research Excellence (I-CORE) 2004/05 2007/08

10 BGN Technolog!es

BGN Technologies is the University’s technology transfer company, responsible for the commercialization of know-how and innovative technologies created by BGU researchers. BGN is responsible for filing patent applications worldwide and managing the University’s patent Masters student Lior Levy at the Ben-Gurion National and IP portfolio. Solar Energy Center checks the spectral behavior of a photovoltaic panel (Nechamia Hassid) Despite the still weak worldwide economic situation and its impact on R&D budgets in the business arena, 2010 was a good year for BGN and the University in terms of An effort was made this year to strengthen the University cooperation with the income generated from business Israeli homeland security industry. Agreements were signed with Elbit, Israel entities. A fifteen percent increase in Aviation Industries and its daughter companies, Plasan, Rafael and others. revenue was reported, totaling some $15 million in royalties and industrial Beside its classic technology transfer activities, BGN is involved in a number research, representing the highest of projects to advance the economic development of the Negev, such as the figure ever. creation of Bio-Negev − an umbrella organization that promotes biotechnology research and development activities in the region. BGN is also involved in the Among the recent highlights is the development of the Advanced Technologies Park adjacent to the Marcus Family agreement signed with PTT Chemical Campus. Public Company Limited of Thailand and the Landau Family Microalgal A significant accomplishment this year included the creation of the technology Biotechnology Laboratory (MBL) center for renewable energy. Initiated by the Eilat-Elot municipality and of the French Associates Institute Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Arava group recently won a tender for Agriculture and Biotechnology from the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor to establish and operate of Drylands, to collaborate on a technology center for renewable energy in the south of the country. The the development of the industrial government of Israel and the group will each invest half of $30 million over a production of dihomo gamma − five-year period. The group includes industrial leaders such as Ormat, Elbit linolenic acid (DGLA − Omega 6) Systems and Rafael; leading investment companies, including ProSeed Venture using BGU’s proprietary mutant strain Capital Fund, Direct Insurance Group and the Consensus Business group; of the green microalgae Parietochloris academic and research groups such as the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy incisa. The market potential of DGLA Center on the Sede Boqer campus; and the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy is estimated at $300 million by 2015. Authority.

11 From the V.P. and D!rector-General David Bareket

The past year marked the end of seven light of this situation, the University In anticipation of the future expansion difficult years in which Israel’s higher has initiated an emergency plan to the area north of the Marcus Family education system functioned with no for rapid construction of additional Campus, the University built an long-term budgetary plan and under spaces, including a classroom underpass for pedestrians and vehicles repeated debilitating budgetary cuts. building, a building for the Avram and beneath the railway tracks. Despite these great hardships, the Stella Goldstein-Goren Department University persevered and succeeded of Biotechnology Engineering, and a In cooperation with the “Green in maintaining financial stability, while research laboratory building for the Campus” efforts, the University has increasing both enrollment and research Faculty of Engineering Sciences. Until taken a number of concrete steps that activity. the expected completion of these range from adding nearly 1000 new buildings, the University will need to find bicycle stands on all of its campuses The financial markets, which continued temporary solutions in existing facilities. to installing state-of-the-art solar water to recover this year from the 2008 crisis, heating systems in the Zlotowski were characterized by continued low In addition to the immediate steps Dormitory Complex. All new buildings interest rates and a rise in stock market being taken, the University has begun are being planned following the criteria investments. Returns on endowment preparation of a strategic plan for for “Green Buildings.” A significant fund portfolios reached an impressive the next five years. The University number of existing buildings are now 6.1 percent, significantly more than the is also working to understand the using energy saving light bulbs, and budgeted amount. impact of the Israel Defense Forces’ many electrical systems – including planned relocation to the Negev. This the lighting and air conditioning units At the beginning of the 2010/11 includes anticipating higher enrollment – have been connected to “presence academic year, the Planning and and identifying areas of research sensors” which have significantly Budgeting Committee publicized a collaboration with the communication reduced the University’s electricity use. most welcome multi-year budgetary units that are moving to the Advanced plan for the years 2010-2016. Within Technologies Park adjacent to the While writing these words, Beer-Sheva this framework, the University was Marcus Family Campus. and the University are experiencing allocated a budgetary increase for the new missile attacks from Gaza, first time after many years of draconian We believe that at the end of this five- something that takes us back to the cutbacks. The new budget will allow year period, the University will be better difficult days of Operation Cast Lead. the University to increase the number equipped to meet the growing needs We hope that this period will pass of faculty members, thus lowering the of its outstanding researchers and quickly and that we will be back to student/faculty ratio and improving the students. normal times soon. quality of teaching and research. Meanwhile, dozens of hi-tech With the support of you – our friends While the new long-term plan is a very companies are showing interest in the in Israel and around the world – we positive development, the physical Advanced Technologies Park. All the are sure that we can set and reach the facilities at the University – laboratories, space in the first building has now been highest standards as a leading global offices and classrooms – are insufficient leased and negotiations are underway university. to allow for the planned growth. In for the second one.

2010/11 Overall University Budget (NIS Thousands in Current Prices)

Operating Budget Research Budget Development Budget Special Programs Total Budget Expenditures 1,040,000 252,000 26,921 100,685 1,419,606 Income 1,040,000 252,000 34,439 104,051 1,430,490

12 Students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering show off their project, the “Spirit of Ben-Gurion” race car

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Operating Budget

2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 NIS m $ m % NIS m $ m % NIS m $ m % % change INCOME Planning & Budgeting Committee 656.7 164.2 70.8% 672.8 177.1 68.1% 740.1 198.4 71.2% 10.0% Tuition and Dorms 184.8 46.2 19.9% 205.4 54.1 20.8% 203.0 54.4 19.5% -1.2% Contributions 12.3 3.1 1.3% 9.6 2.5 1.0% 9.8 2.6 0.9% 2.1% Endowment Funds 20.0 5.0 2.2% 40.0 10.5 4.1% 35.0 9.4 3.4% -12.5% Other Income 49.6 12.4 5.3% 44.3 11.6 4.5% 48.7 13.1 4.7% 10.0% Transfer from Funds 4.6 1.2 0.5% 15.5 4.1 1.6% 3.4 0.9 0.3% -78.1% TOTAL 928.0 232.0 100.0% 987.6 259.9 100.0% 1040.0 278.8 100.0% 5.3%

EXPENDITURE Salaries 693.0 173.3 74.7% 731.8 192.6 74.1% 749.0 200.8 72.0% 2.4% Fellowships & Student Assistance 52.7 13.2 5.7% 54.1 14.2 5.5% 58.9 15.8 5.7% 8.9% Teaching & Research Expenses 34.7 8.7 3.7% 37.8 9.9 3.8% 42.0 11.3 4.0% 11.2% Institute & Research Centers 24.3 6.1 2.6% 26.9 7.1 2.7% 30.5 8.2 2.9% 13.1% Computer Expenses 9.9 2.5 1.1% 9.7 2.6 1.0% 10.7 2.9 1.0% 10.4% Library Expenses 19.7 4.9 2.1% 21.8 5.7 2.2% 23.5 6.3 2.3% 7.7% Administration 24.3 6.1 2.6% 27.1 7.1 2.7% 33.1 8.9 3.2% 22.1% Maintenance 66.0 16.5 7.1% 74.8 19.7 7.6% 82.7 22.2 8.0% 10.6% Financing 3.4 0.9 0.4% 3.6 0.9 0.4% 9.7 2.6 0.9% 167.6% TOTAL 928.0 232.0 100.0% 987.6 259.9 100.0% 1040.0 278.8 100.0% 5.3%

NIS/$ exchange rate: 4.00 3.80 3.73 -1.8% Higher education expenses index 106.8 111.2 111.7 0.4%

13 From thә V.P. for External Affairs Prof. Amos Drory

The strength of Israel has always been growth, including a desperately One of our desired fundraising its ability to imagine the impossible. It needed new classroom building and objectives has been to create a was Theodor Herzl who said, “If you a building for the Avram and Stella culture of giving among our increasing will it, it is no dream,” and David Ben- Goldstein-Goren Department of number of alumni. Chairman of Gurion who turned this dream into a Biotechnology Engineering. the Board of Governors Roy J. reality. Since its founding, more than Zuckerberg of the USA kick-started 40 years ago, Ben-Gurion University Thanks to the support of a number of this effort by providing a matching of the Negev has worked to bring visionary donors, BGU has launched fund to alumni who support their alma development to the region. Today we several innovative new educational mater. A number of Israeli graduates are closer than ever to realizing this programs this year, including a degree have accepted the challenge and dream, as the University has grown in Youth Counseling Studies designed made significant gifts. We hope to beyond all expectations, attracting the to train graduates to work with youth- increase the visibility of their gifts and best and brightest researchers and at-risk, supported by Sam Pinto and leverage it to encourage a broader students to the Negev. Maurice Bidermann of France; an base of giving. MBA program in Social Leadership to As BGU looks towards the future, we prepare a new generation of leaders In the same spirit, two new matching are gearing up for growth – preparing focused on the development of civil funds were created by American for a nationwide initiative to increase society and non-profit organizations donors: Robert H. Arnow offered the number of researchers at all in Israel, supported by the Mandel matching funding for scholarships Israeli universities and anticipating the Foundation of the USA; and a designated to female Bedouin impact of the planned relocation of series of courses in Jewish Thought students, while the Ullman family the Israel Defense Forces training and specifically for students from other is now matching endowed gifts for intelligence bases to the Negev. More disciplines to expand their horizons the Center for Women’s Health and resources will be needed if we are to and deepen their knowledge of their Promotion. These initiatives are to be build the appropriate facilities needed own heritage, supported by Elie Horn applauded for their broad vision to to expand our research base, while of Brazil. effect change in Israeli society. increasing available classroom space and teaching programs. The University’s community outreach In recognition of the importance of programs will be enhanced by the celebrating the generosity of those Towards this end, we have identified creation of a new Center for Social donors who have made arrangements the University’s strategic priorities Awareness and Action to be housed for planned giving, BGU will and have invested considerable effort in the Deichmann Building for inaugurate the Living Legacy Garden in enhancing our research capacity Community Action. Made possible this May. The Garden will stand in in fields such as nanotechnology, through the generosity of the tribute to those whose legacy is one information systems technologies, Caesarea Foundation of Israel, the of hope for the future. robotics, chemistry, environmental technologically innovative center will and sustainable energy research and provide, for the first time anywhere During this year’s Annual Board the Humanities. At the same time, in Israel, a multi-media experience of Governors Meeting we will lay we have reaffirmed our commitment geared towards Israeli teenagers as the cornerstone for the American to provide scholarships for the most a catalyst for awakening intellectual Associates Village in Sede Boqer, to deserving students and graduate and actual involvement in the field. significantly increase the available fellowships to nurture excellence. We Students from the BGU’s Community dormitory space for graduate have also outlined a plan for physical Action Unit will act as facilitators. students and their families. We will

14 Blowing bubbles at the Innovation 2010 fair, organized by the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship and Hi-Tech Management

also mark the dedication of the Yosef Pioneers of the Negev recognition Foundation in the United Kingdom is Ben David Ohayon Psychology and wall in honor of donors who have showing strong signs of rejuvenation. Behavioral Sciences Auditorium in the shown “exceptional generosity during This year, we have obtained some beautiful Abraham Ben David Ohayon Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s significant new multi-year major Behavioral Sciences Complex. 40th anniversary year.” There will be scholarship donations to support our Students and faculty are already a changing of the guard in Canada most needy students. enjoying the beautifully refurbished with the retirement of Leo Marcus, Guzik Family Auditorium Building and who has dedicated many years and None of this would be possible the adjacent Guzik Family Antiquities immeasurable effort in promoting BGU without the support and vision of our Pathway. there. A new office was opened in devoted friends and partners from Australia to expand BGU’s presence around the world and their continued Several significant developments in there. dedication and commitment. You our world associations have taken are the key to our future success in place during this year. The American Following a long process of playing a vital role building up the Associates have launched the reorganization, the Ben-Gurion Negev and the State of Israel.

Our Worldwide Family of Associates at Work 2009/10 Year-End Figures Total Unrestricted Contributions from Associates $28,558,226 $4,434,444 Interest Income from Endowments $7,861,471 $4,120,148 Endowment Fund Balance (as of 30/9/10) $209,973,665 $104,226,967

/// All figures are approximate due to fluctuating exchange and interest rates /// 2009/10 interest income was calculated at approximately 3.0% /// Figures do not reflect approximately $27.9 million in endowment and trust funds held in the U.S. by and on behalf of AABGU (including outside managed trusts).

15 Senior Administrat!on

Roy J. Zuckerberg Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Robert H. Arnow Adv. Yair Green Chairman of the Honorary Chairman Chairman Emeritus Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Board of Governors of the Board of Governors Executive Committee

Prof. Rivka Carmi Prof. Zvi HaCohen President Rector

Prof. Moti Herskowitz David Bareket Prof. Amos Drory Vice-President and Dean Vice-President Vice-President for Research & Development and Director-General for External Affairs 16 Prof. Shaul Sofer Prof. Amir Sagi Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor Prof. David Newman Dean - Faculty of Dean - Faculty of Dean - Faculty of Dean - Faculty of Health Sciences Natural Sciences Engineering Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences

Prof. Ayala M. Pines Prof. Miriam Amit Prof. Michal Shapira Dean - Guilford Glazer Dean - Eilat Campus Dean - Kreitman School of Faculty of Business and Advanced Graduate Management Studies

Prof. Pedro Berliner Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz Prof. Avigad Vonshak Director - Jacob Blaustein Director - National Institute Dean - International Academic Institutes for Desert Research for Biotechnology in the Negev Affairs & Director - Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism

Prof. Yael Edan Prof. Avishay Goldberg Prof. Dan Blumberg Yaakov Affek Deputy-Rector Deputy-Rector Deputy Vice-President Dean of Students and Dean for R&D 17 “And Abraham said, ‘I dug this well’… and planted a tamarisk tree in Be’er Sheva.” BigGenesis 21:30-33

18 Imp@ct

A mere speck on the global map, Beer-Sheva has always been a frontier town. With roots dating back to the 4th millennium BCE, today’s city still maintains its strong pioneering character and serves as the capital of the Negev, a region that includes 60 percent of Israel’s Big land mass but less than 10 percent of its population.

With campuses in Beer-Sheva, Sede Boqer and Eilat, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is at the forefront of developing this desert region. Its committed students, faculty and staff are using innovative outreach programs and cutting-edge technologies to improve people’s lives.

Embodying the spirit of David Ben-Gurion, BGU has turned its local passions into a global agenda, creating models and ideas that are having an impact in Israel and around the world.

19 !mpact at the Nano Level

Operating the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (IKI) at BGU is no small achievement. Its scientists are working on a range of nanoscale projects that may lead to megascale advances in medicine, computer power, electronics, homeland security, clean water and energy. These innovations will help find cancerous tumors without scalpels, build super- efficient solar panels as thin as sheets of paper and detect and destroy airborne bacteria and viruses.

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20 “Nothing is new in nano; what is new is that we have discovered it... All things existed before, but we weren’t able to see it.” President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres

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21 With the generous support of the health, renewable energy, water and Excellence Negev Foundation of Switzerland, the related environmental issues. Prof. IKI took some big steps forward this Yuval Golan from the Department of year as it moved into its impressive Materials Engineering was appointed that’s one new 7,500 square meter building Director of the Institute. and consolidated its state-of-the-art laboratories, including the Roberta As a member of the Israel National !n a billion and Ernest Scheller, Jr. Family Nanotechnology Initiative, the IKI has Surface Analysis Lab and the Stan been reviewed by its International and Ruth Elaine Flinkman Microscopy Nanotechnology Advisory Board and Wing. With the expansion of office has integrated their recommendations and laboratory space, the multi- into its long-term strategic plan. disciplinary Institute has embarked on a long awaited program of Now, the focus is on recruiting the strategic growth to strengthen its very best researchers and graduate core abilities in the areas of human students to enhance the human

22 10(-9)-scale R&D enabled by a $20M facility

potential. The launch of the Merage prestigious prizes this year for their A joint program between the IKI and Scholarships for Outstanding Doctoral exceptional accomplishments. local industries will be launched this Students is the first step in this year, reinforcing BGU’s pivotal position direction, allowing the IKI to attract The Institute’s dedicated research in the region. outstanding young researchers in this capacity was expanded with emerging field. A national university- the acquisition of an analytical Together these accomplishments add wide program to promote nano- transmission electron microscope up to big changes that are building studies at the undergraduate level is (A-TEM) that complements the newly- a bridge between the highest level now underway. built specialized nanocharacterization of basic research and life-changing laboratories. The nanofabrication applications in nanomedicine, Two new faculty members in the facility, including the Weiss Family biosensing and energy catalysis. emerging fields of soft matter X-ray Laboratory for Nanoscale Systems, scattering and biophysics were hired, has grown, reflecting the IKI’s success Dr. Sharon Vanounou from the Light while additional BGU researchers in developing an academic research Scattering Laboratory at the Ilse Katz joined the IKI team. A significant facility that serves BGU researchers Institute for Nanoscale Science and number of IKI researchers received as well as growing nano industries. Technology

23 !mpact at the Micro Level

Diabetes has become a worldwide epidemic. A number of research groups at BGU are making headway in unraveling the secrets of the disease – both DEDICATEDthrough lifestyle and nutrition studies and – for type 1 diabetes – a clinical solution that may provide a cure for the debilitating disease.

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One form of treating type 1 diabetics revolutionary idea: to use Alpha-1 the evidence for potential success is to transplant human pancreatic Antitrypsin (AAT) – an existing drug is convincing groups world-wide to islet cells. A successful graft restores that has been on the market to treat use AAT as an agent that targets normal glucose levels and eliminates emphysema for some 20 years – diabetes as well as other inflammatory the need for insulin injections. when conducting islet transplants. conditions, including ischemic heart Unfortunately, these transplants don’t disease, bone marrow transplantation, last too long due to currently used Now in clinical trials, Lewis and and multiple sclerosis. immunosuppressive drugs that leave his team have demonstrated that underlying inflammation unchecked. treating diabetic animals with human According to Lewis, “By targeting Within five years, most patients return AAT following islet transplantation multiple inflammatory molecules to insulin injections. eliminates the inflammation that using AAT, a safe, non-toxic and causes the procedure to fail. non-steroidal drug, we can block Dr. Eli Lewis, incumbent of the inflammation so effectively that we Ilse Katz Career Development Collaborators from Harvard University literally modify the immune response, Chair in Health Sciences Research have established that these outcomes facilitating transplant acceptance to and Director of BGU’s Clinical are consistent in overtly diabetic mice successfully treat diabetics. The safety Islet Laboratory, came up with a using another animal model. Together, factor, more critically evident when

26 considering that kids are recipients patents regarding other aspects transplantation, a protective branch of of this therapy, is flawless in over 30 of AAT have been filed by Lewis at the immune system has evolved.” years of clinical use.” BGN Technologies, the University’s technology transfer company. Lewis has received a number of The Phase I/II clinical trial is being prestigious research awards, including sponsored by OMNI Biopharma The results so far have been very a five-year Young Scientist Career at the Barbara Davis Center for promising, he notes: “After a second Development Award from the Juvenile Childhood Diabetes and other units grafting session was undertaken in Diabetes Research Foundation, a Yigal at the Anschutz Medical Campus of animals, to our surprise, the same Alon Scholarship, the Wolf Foundation the University of Colorado, Denver. strain of islets was accepted without Krill Award, a Marc Rich Foundation OMNI Biopharma has licensed patent further therapy, while foreign islets award and two Israel Science applications related to the method were expectedly rejected. The animals’ Foundation grants. of use of AAT for the treatment of immune systems were re-formatted, diabetes from the Regents of the so to speak, by human AAT, allowing University of Colorado and a privately the graft to be recognized and Dr. Eli Lewis, Director of the University’s held corporation. Lewis is on OMNI’s accepted. Apparently, by eliminating Clinical Islet Laboratory at the Faculty of scientific advisory board. Similarly, the inflammatory component during Health Sciences

27 When BGU was created to “bring development to the region,” there was no master plan as to how to make this happen. Over the years, a myriad of original outreach programs have been developed and implemented, reflecting the changing needs of the population of the region and the originality of BGU students, staff and faculty. For every student who has lived in an Open Apartment of the Community Action Unit or served as a mentor through Perach - the Big Brother/

Impact on the Commun!ty Sister program, there are scores of people who have personally benefitted from the one-on-one contact. Add those whose lives have been touched by the hundreds of other programs – in health, education and social action – and it is clear that BGU’s impact is enormous.

A28 m for the stars “Your students took my breath away. I applaud what you are doing with all my heart, not only for the younger folks, but for all of our futures!” Astronaut Col. Timothy J. Creamer,

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One such program, the Ilan Ramon various ages from across the social planetarium and a state-of-the-art Youth Physics Center, has become spectrum access to hands-on rooftop observatory – enable true a leader in the field of scientific learning experiences – from summer hands-on learning. education for gifted middle and camps through academic enrichment high school students. Now almost programs. A cadre of some 150 “young leaders” five years old, the program is a is developed each year through the joint venture of BGU, the Rashi Staffed by University students Scientific Leadership program in Foundation, the Ministry of Education, and faculty, the programs develop astronomy and physics. These high the Beer-Sheva Municipality and leadership skills while providing school students undergo leadership Madarom – Science in the South. participants with the tools needed training and serve as counselors Working to preserve the memory to achieve academic success in and guides for the Center’s different of Israeli astronaut and Beer-Sheva physics and related fields. University activities and events in Beer-Sheva native Col. Ilan Ramon through the facilities in the Sacta-Rashi Building and the surrounding communities. advancement of scientific education, for Physics – including advanced Highlights this year included the the Center provides students of teaching laboratories, an in-house 3rd Annual Astronomy and Space

30 The legacy of 1 Israeli astronaut influencing the lives of hundreds of kids every year

Contest for middle school students, This year, three high school students the University-wide Science Night, from the Center placed first, second and the presentation of astronaut and fourth in the annual “First Step Col. Timothy J. Creamer about living to Nobel Prize” competition held on the Space Station at the annual in Warsaw, Poland. “Once you’re event in memory of Ilan Ramon lucky, twice you’re good, but when it and the STS-107 crew and Assaf happens three years running, there Ramon. More than 8,000 people – has to be a pretty good reason,” said ranging from kindergarteners through Director of Physics at the Center retirees – took advantage of a special Prof. Victor Melamed, explaining their outreach program organized during success. He added that this year’s a rare solar eclipse that provided accomplishment builds on that of scientific explanations and appropriate previous years when students placed High school students benefit from a technologies for understanding the first or second in 2008 and 2009. state-of-the-art planetarium at the Ilan natural phenomenon. Ramon Youth Physics Center

31 WATEERR

"More water should be supplied for their use through various methods, including projects of regional and international cooperation." From the Peace Treaty between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of IS Jordan, October 26, 1994, article 6.3

LIFE32 WATEERR Israel, like all of the Middle East, has experienced a precipitous drop in rainfall. Israel’s Water Authority reports an average drop in water resources of over 10 percent during the past two decades. !mpact in the Region Responsible water management requires the immediate creation of additional sources of water — be they from desalinated sea water, brackish groundwater, recycled effluents or restoration of polluted water sources. A multi-disciplinary team at BGU has joined forces with IS researchers from across the Middle East to solve this regional and global problem.

LIFE 33 10% drop in water over the past 20 years Water, water everywhere but he®e

The Zuckerberg Institute for Water these pressing issues is the secret resulting in significantly decreased Research (ZIWR) conducts cutting- to all coexistence in the region.” performance. This phenomenon is edge interdisciplinary research and Secondary wastewater is water that known as biofouling. Incumbent of offers graduate education in water has already been treated for the the Helen Ungar Career Development sciences, while striving to improve removal of dissolved organic matters, Chair in Desert Hydrogeology human well-being in drylands through but still contains too many salts − Dr. Roni Kasher from the Department implementation of technologies and such as sodium − for agricultural of Desalination and Water Treatment policies for sustainable use of water irrigation. has developed synthetic organic resources. substances to be attached to the RO Dissolved salts must also be removed membrane that repel bacteria. According to incumbent of the Alain from treated wastewater if it is to be Poher Chair in Hydrogeology and Arid usable, most commonly by Reverse At the same time, BGU researchers Zones Prof. Eilon Adar, Director of the Osmosis (RO). Unfortunately, the are working with their Jordanian and ZIWR at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes micro-thin RO membrane is also Palestinian counterparts to develop a for Desert Research, “Transboundary an excellent breeding ground for technology that will help reduce and water sources don’t recognize bacteria. Microbes form a biofilm prevent this phenomenon. Funded borders. Cooperation in dealing with on the surface of the membrane by the US-AID Middle East Regional

34 Cooperation (MERC) program and the is a joint Israeli-Palestinian project from the Department of Desalination Rosenzweig-Coopersmith Foundation, that will benefit everyone, including and Water Treatment, the research the research team includes BGU Jordan, which has a particularly project will examine the energy output hydrology expert Dr. Moshe Herzberg critical water problem.” of the Zenith Z-20 solar power units and incumbent of the Gerda Frieberg built by Zenith Solar using BGU- Career Development Chair in Solar and water researchers from developed know-how and provide Agricultural Water Management Dr. the Institutes are working together to extensive empirical data and resultant Osnat Gillor, both from the Zuckerberg see if a revolutionary concentrated design recommendations for a new, Institute, and Prof. Mohammed Saleem photovoltaic system can be innovative solar-powered desalination Ali-Shtayeh of the Biodiversity and harnessed to power two widely used system especially configured for Environmental Research Center in desalination technologies − RO and energy optimization and cost- Nablus. electro-dialysis. effectiveness.

“We have suggested new ways to Leveraging the expertise of overcome the problem of microbial Prof. David Faiman, Director of the Dr. Osnat Gillor, Dr. Roni Kasher and growths on the reverse osmosis Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Dr. Moshe Herzberg from the Zuckerberg membrane,” explains Herzberg. “This Center, with that of Dr. Jack Gilron Institute for Water Research

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The PREPARED Center for Emergency Response Research was established to conduct cutting-edge research and increase knowledge and preparedness for states of medical emergency and disaster.

36 “I am and always will be an optimist, not seeing a glass of water half full, but finding a thirsty person to give it to him.” H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al-Hadid, President of the Jordan Red Crescent (JRC), and Chairman of the Red Cross Standing Commission

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staff as part of a response strategy creation of a camp for “internally Be in a state of emergency. The project displaced persons” at Timna during a aims to build a permanent team of simulated earthquake scenario. skilled University volunteers who will PREPARED be trained to assist the population in The exercise took place during the 4th the event of a disaster. conference of the Development and Strategy Forum (DSF) comprising key for the According to Center Director, Dr. officials from MDA, JRC and BGU and Limor Aharonson-Daniel, “Past was held in the presence of members experience suggests that people of the International Committee of the Worst, who have been given a task or Red Cross and the European Union, responsibility handle crises better. We who have supported the cooperative While you believe the volunteering project will initiative since it was founded some contribute not only to the community two years ago. surrounding BGU but also to the Pl@n for the volunteers themselves.” In parallel, the Center has also initiated a multidisciplinary national workgroup A survey was distributed to University for the assessment of community Best students and staff enquiring about “resilience,” defined as the capability their ability and willingness to to recover quickly from a disastrous volunteer and their pre-existing event. As recent adversities revealed, relevant knowledge and skills. It a collection of competent individuals The Center facilitates dialogue, addressed various emergency does not guarantee a resilient collaborative thinking and intellectual scenarios such as earthquakes, community. The research group, led enrichment between renowned missile attacks and pandemics by BGU faculty members, is working scholars and practitioners from a wide and asked whether they would be on deciphering the characteristics variety of disciplines. Working together prepared to remain in the south during of “resilient communities” to create with experts in psychology, social a state of emergency. models that can be studied and work, education, communication then develop a “conjoint resiliency and health services management, Researchers from the Center are assessment measure” (CRAM). the Center focuses on the practical also involved in the Jordan-Israel implementation of acquired Collaboration Project for Disaster The Israeli National Emergency knowledge to facilitate coordination Preparedness and Management Authority, the Ministry of Social between organizations, authorities initiative, which include joint exercises. Welfare and the Ministry of Health and countries. The goal is to develop Organized by BGU, the Israeli Magen have joined in the initiative in integrated, effective preparedness David Adom (MDA) and the Jordanian anticipation of the practical outcomes systems that function smoothly in Red Crescent (JRC), an event this of this leading applied academic times of need. year brought together nearly two program. hundred people − including trained BGU and the Israel Defense Forces’ professionals from both countries BGU students and faculty participate in a Home Front Command have united and academic faculty and students joint drill of Magen David Adom and the in an effort to integrate students and from the University − to simulate the Jordanian Red Crescent

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39 “Going to the moon and coming to the desert to plant saplings are similar acts in my opinion.” David Ben-Gurion

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The international community has long recognized that desertification is a major economic, social and environmental concern. This year close to 600 representatives from 63 countries participated in the Third International Conference on Drylands, Deserts & Desertification: The Route to Restoration organized by the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research. The attendees included government and non-government officials, as well as senior representatives of the UN, the Convention on Biological Diversity and participants in a number of different MASHAV − International Cooperation Agency of Israel’s Foreign Office − programs.

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The Chairman of the Conference’s for Water Research; and the Swiss demand around the world,” he Executive Committee Prof. Alon Tal Institute for Dryland Environmental explains, “particularly in Africa and of the Swiss Institute for Dryland and Energy Research. other desert regions.” Environmental and Energy Research explains that the problem is one Director of the BIDR and a member Research projects are carried out with of information and policies. “Trend of the French Associates Institute the help of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students doesn’t need to be destiny,” he says. Prof. Pedro Berliner explains: “Our enrolled at the very successful Albert interdisciplinary approach focuses on Katz International School for Desert “The problem is policies and topics such as efficient use of water in Studies (AKIS), the teaching arm of information dissemination. This irrigation, treatment of urban effluents the BIDR. AKIS is home to some 190 conference is starting to emerge for use in irrigation, agroforestry based graduate students who come from as a scientific think tank for the on flood water collection and animal countries all over the world to earn United Nations Convention to husbandry. We are able to integrate a degree in desert studies. Today, Combat Desertification (UNCCD) state-of-the-art science such as the there are more than 250 graduates and is a source of practical technical mapping of desertified areas using using their knowledge to promote information.” remote sensing techniques to provide the implementation of sustainable sustainable solutions for people living technologies and the policies BGU has long been a world leader in fragile ecosystems.” necessary to combat desertification in environmental studies, arid land around the world. agriculture and the biotechnologies Significant international funding of drylands. At the forefront of these and commericial interest has been efforts are the Jacob Blaustein invested in unique topics such as Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), use of brackish water for fish and through its three subsidiary Institutes: algae production at the Landau the French Associates Institute for Family Laboratory for Microalgal An African participant of the Third International Conference on Drylands, Agriculture and Biotechnology of Biotechnology Laboratory. “These Deserts & Desertification: The Route to Drylands; the Zuckerberg Institute kinds of technologies are in high Restoration (Wolfgang Motzafi-Haller)

42 66% of Israel is occupied by only 9% of its population

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IT and telecommunications networks are the backbone of modern communications structures. An effective security system for IT and telecommunications networks must protect against unauthorized access, such as as attacks by hackers. Secure communication may be supplemented by other measures, like access controls, as well as identity and transaction management.

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Since 2006, BGU has been home to Laboratories expanded and intensified are involved in ground-breaking the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories the longstanding partnership with DT. research that is mapping the new (DTL) at Ben-Gurion University – “Our focus is on helping them face realities of cyberspace. A recent study the company’s only R&D facility the new challenges of developing identified a new generation of malware located outside of Germany. The technologies in areas such as (software written for malicious unique facility allows BGU students prevention of customer data leakage purposes, such as identity theft) that and researchers to collaborate and more secure mobile devices.” collects data on human behavior with one of the world’s largest patterns, which is more dangerous telecommunications companies, The Laboratories filed 11 patents last than traditional, detectable attacks. while providing an environment that year and advanced a number of new encourages innovation. Working ideas, or “spin-off initiatives,” which The group “used mathematical closely with Deutsche Telekom (DT), researchers hope will improve social models based on actual mobile BGU researchers are able to maximize interaction through mobile devices. network data to demonstrate that the benefits of academia while malware attacks could be adapted capitalizing on the relationship with an BGU was the only Israeli university to follow human behavior on social industrial powerhouse. to participate in the Israeli-German networks,” Elovici said. Having Innovation Day last December in identified the problem, researchers are The Laboratories include more than Berlin. Organized by the Israeli now looking for ways to protect users 100 researchers and students from Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor before they even know there may be the Faculties of Engineering and and the German Federal Ministry of a problem. Natural Sciences who are focused Economics and Technology, the event on developing new products and brought together industrialists and applications and expanding mobile entrepreneurs from both countries to Masters student Lina Shlangman and infrastructure, while enhancing maximize future collaboration. The Dr. Rami Puzis from the Department of Information Systems Engineering display security and user-centered innovation. Laboratories exhibited three new a BGU project to CEO of Deutsche products in development. Telekom Rene Obermann at the Israeli- According to Director of the DTL at German Innovation Day (Deutsche BGU Prof. Yuval Elovici, in 2010 the At the same time, the Laboratories Telekom)

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With its myriad interdisciplinary Yiddish Resource Room, the largest commentator Uri Zvi Greenberg and programs in Hebrew literature, Yiddish of which came from the 10,000- author Shulamith Hareven; a set of language and culture, and Israel book library of the late Prof. Shmuel S. Yizhar’s letters; and a rare set studies, BGU has transformed itself Werses, including what Prof. David of the poet Zelda’s letters from the into an academic center for scholars Roskies, Director of the University’s 1930s and 1940s; along with the who are exploring the very essence of Center for Yiddish Studies, described ongoing additions to the archives of this “new” Israeli identity. as “probably the finest collection of Prof. Amos Oz, Prof. Aharon Appelfeld 19th-century Hebrew and Yiddish and poet Yehuda Amichai. This year the University received literature in private hands.” accreditation for its new English- With the support of the Edmond language Israel Studies International The Department of Hebrew Literature Benjamin de Rothschild-Caesarea Program, organized by the Ben- doubled the number of first year Foundation, the Institute has Gurion Research Institute for the undergraduate students to over undertaken the task of adapting Study of Israel and Zionism, that 110 – a huge achievement reflecting their archival center into an audio- builds upon its very popular Hebrew the quality of teaching, excellence visual museum. The comprehensive language track. According to Director in research and opportunity to learn program includes producing short of the program, Prof. Paula Kabalo firsthand from Israel’s most prominent movies, providing easy access to from the Institute, “Israel attracts authors, including Amos Oz and particular authors and their archives worldwide attention, but this interest Etgar Keret. A visiting scholar from and training guides to work with remains at the headline level. We the University of Granada in Spain groups of all ages. hope to provide students with the enriched the spring semester with necessary tools for understanding a course on Jewish literature from “We have created a truly dynamic the many layers of Israeli experience, Medieval Spain. A new Masters environment that brings together the including its history, culture, ideology, program focused on professional highest level of creativity with insightful society and politics.” Access to editing and the publication industry literary criticism,” explains Prof. Yigal the extensive Ben-Gurion archives was launched with 20 students, many Schwartz, head of the Heksherim and library, she adds, “provides the of whom are already working in the Institute. optimal environment for a critical, field. independent, research-oriented graduate program.” This year the “First Israelis” Hebrew Prof. Paula Kabalo from the Ben-Gurion literature archives at the Heksherim Research Institute for the Study of Israel Three significant gifts of Yiddish books Institute were enriched with the and Zionism with students in the Ben- were donated to the University’s new addition of the archives of poet and Gurion Archives (Wolfgang Motzafi-Haller)

50 13,000,000 Jews worldwide; 1 Jewish homeland

51 Milestones BGU was voted the #1 choice of Israeli undergraduate students in a survey commissioned by the National Union of Israeli Students that rated student satisfaction in student services, academics and overall social experience in 2010.

The Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management was upgraded to the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, becoming the University’s fifth Faculty.

52 Nәw and Noteworthy

Physical Development Jean Monnet Chair for the years A research fund was created by 2010-2013, making BGU only the Samuel Josefowitz from Switzerland The newly-refurbished Guzik Family second university in Israel to have ever to design, install, optimize and test a Auditorium Building and the adjacent been awarded this distinction from the pilot-scale agricultural facility aimed Guzik Family Antiquities Pathway European Union. at the environmentally sustainable were completed. production of staple crops in arid environments to be implemented by The Yosef Ben David Ohayon New Academic Programs, researchers from the Jacob Blaustein Psychology and Behavorial Centers and Research Activities Institutes for Desert Research. Sciences Auditorium will be named in the Abraham Ben David Ohayon With the generous seed support of The Moshal Scholarship Program, Behavioral Sciences Complex in May. the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family founded by Martin Moshal of the UK, Foundation, the Faculty of Health provided 18 substantial scholarships The cornerstone will be laid for the Sciences will establish an extremely supporting first-year undergraduate American Associates Village at Sede sophisticated and much needed students studying in specific areas Boqer in May to significantly increase Medical Simulation Center. with the hope of improving the the available student housing there. students’ economic situation and Project Jacob, an innovative family situation. The American Institute of Architects foundation model that will provide presented Raquel Vert Designs, in funding to help commercialize BGU A mutual ecohydrology research collaboration with Axel Grobman, research with proceeds and royalties project between the Zuckerberg a 2010 Design Merit Award for the reverting back to the University to Institute for Water Research at the Deichmann Building for Community underwrite additional projects, was Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Action and the Spitzer-Salant Building created with the support of Dariush Research, the Department of Applied for the Department of Social Work. Fakheri of the USA. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Hydrology & Water Chemistry Group An Honors MBA program in Social at Al-Quds University and Heidelberg New Academic Chairs Leadership was created with the University was established with the support of the Mandel Foundation support of Richard Menschel of The Elaine S. and Alvin W. Wene of the USA as part of a greater the USA to explore the biochemical Career Development Chair in three-stage program to develop this evolution of contaminants along Biotechnology Engineering was emerging field and train professional polluted streams in the area. created, and Dr. Lital Alfonta from managers in the public and third the Avram and Stella Goldstein- sector. Merage Scholarships for Outstanding Goren Department of Biotechnology Doctoral Students at the Ilse Katz Engineering was appointed its first A program to create elective courses Institute for Nanoscale Science incumbent. in Jewish studies specifically for and Technology were created by students from across the academic the Merage Foundation of Israel to Dr. Sharon Pardo, Director of the BGU disciplines was created by the encourage exceptional students to Centre for the Study of European Goldstein-Goren Department of study in the Negev. Politics and Society (CSEPS) and a Jewish Thought with support from Elie member of the Department of Politics Horn from Brazil. The Israeli Center for Qualitative and Government, was awarded a Research of People and Societies

53 Nәw and Noteworthy

established the BGU-DIPEx Israel Dr. Kobi Peled of the Ben-Gurion Engineering Education and Research in cooperation with the Health Research Institute for the Study (iNEER) Achievement Award. Experiences Group at the University of Israel and Zionism received the of Oxford, introducing experiences 2010 Bahat Award for Best Original Prof. Smadar Cohen, incumbent of of patients into public discourse on a Scholarly Book Manuscript for his the Claire and Harold Oshry Chair range of illnesses. work “The Shepherd’s Dwellings: in Biotechnology, and member of Ethnography at the Distance of Time.” the Avram and Stella Goldstein- Goren Department of Biotechnology Honors Bestowed Engineering, was awarded the Excellence Recognized 2010 ICRS Award for Outstanding Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of Great Achievements in Controlled Release. Britain received the Ladislaus Laszt BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi, International Ecumenical and Social incumbent of the Kreitman Foundation Prof. Ron Folman of the Department Concern Award. Chair in Pediatric Genetics, was of Physics and a member of the Ilse awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director of the the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and Technology received the 2011 Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Israel, for her significant contribution in Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser received the Ben-Gurion Medal from the academic world, in the fields Science and Quantum Optics. the Centre for the Study of European of medicine and genetics and in Politics and Society. advancing the health and welfare of BGU’s Negev Center for Regional children and adults in Israel through Development received the Israeli Antonina Rosa Naveh received the social projects. Geographical Society Prize 2010 for Spitzer Prize for Excellence and its many activities in developing the Innovation in the Field of Social Prof. (Emeritus) Arie S. Issar of Negev and raising awareness on the Welfare 2010 for her innovative work the Department of Environmental subject. with the Parent-Child Center in the Hydrology and Microbiology in town of Sderot. the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Prof. Boris Krasnov, a member Research of the Jacob Blaustein of the Swiss Institute for Dryland The fourth Goldstein-Goren Institutes for Desert Research received Environmental Research at the International Prize for Most Important the Ben-Gurion Prize 2010-2011 for Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Book in Jewish Thought 2007- Lifetime Achievement, as well as the Research, was awarded the Minister 2009 was awarded to Prof. Eliezer Lifetime Achievement Award from the of Immigrant Absorption’s Prize for Schweid from the Hebrew University Israel Water Association. Outstanding Scientists. of Jerusalem for his work “Criticism of Modern Secular Culture.” Prof. Ron N. Apte, incumbent Prof. Zvi Bentwich, Director of of the Irving Isaac Sklar Chair in the Center for Emerging Tropical Endocrinology and a member of Diseases and AIDS (CEMTA) and Prize Winning Books the Shraga Segal Department of a member of the Deptartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Virology and Developmental Genetics Dr. Michael Feige of the Ben-Gurion received the 2010 Samuel and Paula at BGU received the 2010 Lifetime Research Institute for the Study of Elkeles Prize for Outstanding Scientist Achievement Award from the Israel and Zionism was awarded in Medicine. Volunteering Unit of the Ministry of the Annual Shapiro Award for Best Health. Book in Israeli Studies 2009 for his Prof. (Emeritus) Herzl Aharoni of book Settling in the Hearts: Jewish the Department of Electrical and Prof. Yitzhak Hen of the Department Fundamentalism in the Occupied Computer Engineering received of General History and incumbent Territories. the 2010 International Network for of the Anna and Sam Lopin Chair in

54 The Guzik Family Antiquities Pathway

History has been elected as a senior encourage voluntary interaction and A UK-Israel Life Sciences Council, fellow of the Martin Buber Society cooperation and to promote friendship including four Nobel Prize laureates, of Fellows in the Humanities at the between the two parties for their was launched this year and will be Hebrew University of Jerusalem. mutual benefit.” chaired by British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould, and co-chaired BGU and the Eilat-Eilot municipality by Prof. Raymond Dwek of Oxford Regional and International won a tender from the Israel Ministry University and Prof. Rivka Carmi. Impact of Industry, Trade and Labor to establish and operate a technology With the support of the European “From Idea to Enterprise – BGU center for renewable energy in the Community’s Seventh Framework Business Plan Competition for south of the country. The Arava Programme, members of the Negev Regional Development” was Center for Renewable Energy includes Department of Communications wrote created through the generosity of the industrial leaders such as Elbit the “Emergency Communications Koshland family, USA. Systems, Rafael and Ormat; leading Guide for Public Entities,” which investment companies, including examined media deployment The 2010 updated Bedouin statistical Proseed Venture Capital Fund, Direct in emergency situations and yearbook was published by the Insurance Group and the Consensus presented it at two forums of Israeli Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Business Group; academic and spokespersons for national and Studies and Development, aimed research groups from BGU and the local authorities. Working as part of at raising awareness among the IKI, and the Eilat-Eilot Renewable a consortium of five universities, the public of essential issues in Bedouin Energy Authority; private management project includes a new website that society, improving policy-making groups and regional municipalities. provides comprehensive support for and encouraging research on the crisis communication managers in community. BGU is part of an initiative to create public organizations before, during a new research center focusing on and after major crises such as natural The Governor of Colorado signed energy efficiency in Singapore under disasters and major accidents that a Memorandum of Understanding the National Research Foundation’s involve life saving intervention. (MOU) with the Jacob Blaustein Campus for Research Excellence and Institutes for Desert Research “to Technological Enterprise program.

55 Commun!ty Outreach

Community Action Unit and the Leumi Aharai Organization, Perach Under the banner, “With You, Society the Promoting Accessibility to From humble beginnings with a is Worth More,” the Community Action Higher Education in the Negev handful of students many years Unit continues to grow. Created over program marked a decade since ago, the nationwide Perach Big 30 years ago, the Unit runs a variety its establishment with a 15 percent Brother/Sister program received the of programs that reach almost 5,000 increase in the number of participating Israel Prize this year, reflecting its people each year. These interactions high school students, bringing the importance and influence in Israeli enhance the lives of both those who number up to 1,300. society. The Perach unit in the south give and those who receive and in of Israel (Perach South) is based at many cases is life changing. This The Unit launched Ben-Gurion BGU and comprises some 3,670 year the number of students actively Involvement, a journal in Hebrew, to mentors in 151 schools and projects. involved with the Unit increased by 33 provide a tool for staff and students to percent from previous years to some comment on social issues and receive In recent years, significant four hundred. updates on related news. contributions were received that were used for scholarships and In addition to the traditional activities The Sparks of Science program transportation for those students who of the Unit such as the Open opened a second class with 20 are willing to travel from Beer-Sheva Apartments and the Keren Moshe new students from the Ethiopian to the periphery. Over the last year, Leadership program, the “Rothschild community. Made possible through activities have begun in the Bedouin Ambassadors Organization” was the support of the Branco Weiss town Kuseife, and the development launched with the support of the Institute for the Development of town of Mitzpe Ramon. Caesarea Foundation of Israel. Thinking, Atidim and the Jewish The program aims to train 20 Agency, the program prepares 10th A new program was launched this student leaders annually who have grade students for university studies. year to improve mathematical skills outstanding personal qualities and among third graders. Priority is who excel in their studies. In cooperation with the Student given to the absorption of immigrant Association, an appeal was launched children from Ethiopia, Caucasus and The Caesarea Foundation has also to support students who are active the Muslim countries of the former committed to the development of in the community. In this framework USSR. A large number of mentors a unique multi-media center for seven student representatives were work in single-parent families in which teenagers and others to develop their rewarded for their activities in social they serve as a role model for the social awareness to be located in the involvement. children. Deichmann Building for Community Action. This year a new program was Working closely with the Ministry of launched to provide legal knowledge Education, there is an increase in The “Access for All” program was and practical tools to disadvantaged the number of mentors tutoring high launched in which students receive women in cooperation with “Women school students, which has led to an credits in return for teaching adults Lawyers for Social Justice.” impressive increase in matriculation and youth in their own fields of study. results. More than 500 University students Generously supported by the Ministry participated in a citywide program to The Nachshon Project continues, of Education, the Rashi Foundation, paint homes of the needy and elderly in cooperation with the Ministry of Atidim, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for Passover. Education, stressing virtual learning

56 Participants in the Perach program play soccer in the Deichmann Plaza

for high school students in Bible, Discharged Soldiers of the Ministry of accepted the challenge and made math and physics. There is also a Defense and Marmanet Organization significant gifts. virtual mentoring program for disabled & Projects Management Int. Ltd. children by disabled students, who Working together with the Israeli would otherwise be unable to mentor The Hi-Tech Horizons project was Friends of BGU, efforts have been because of mobility issues. created to encourage students from made to raise the University’s profile in the social and geographic periphery to the center of the country. Events such A large contribution from Partner study in the Faculties of Engineering as the “Science over Coffee” meetings Communications Company allows and Natural Sciences. The project is have brought together upwards of Perach to run a Community funded by Mr. Yehuda Zisapel, the 80 guests with BGU researchers on Communications Center in the Dalet Unit for Guidance for Discharged a monthly basis at the Journalists’ neighborhood in Beer-Sheva with Soldiers of the Ministry of Defense, House in Tel Aviv. another one in the plans in Eilat. the Rashi Foundation and Marmanet. The Alumni Association also Academic Preparatory A range of more targeted projects works to improve networking and Courses for the Bedouin population has been encourage reunions of different The Pre-Academic Studies Center developed thanks to the support programs and departments. The works to make higher education of the Landa Foundation for Equal Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business accessible to those who may not have Opportunity through Education, the and Management has taken up the had the opportunity to explore such Unit for Guidance for Discharged challenge and budgeted resources a path. In addition to its traditional Soldiers of the Ministry of Defense and to create alumni groups. The Honors preparatory courses, the Center offers Marmanet, which builds upon small MBA program held its annual event specially tailored projects for specific groups and includes empowerment this year, attracting an ever growing population groups, who benefit from and enrichment classes. group of graduates. The Department personal mentoring, tutoring and of Geological and Environmental financial support. Alumni Association Sciences and the Recanati School for Thanks to the vision and generosity of Community Health Professions have There are currently 14 students of Chairman of the Board of Governors also established active alumni groups. Ethiopian origin participating in the Roy J. Zuckerberg of the USA, a For more information about the Alumni regular preparatory tracks thanks to new matching fund was launched to Association, visit our site at the support of the UJA Federation of encourage alumni giving. A growing www.bgu.ac.il/alumni New York, the Unit for Guidance for number of Israeli graduates have

57 Student L!fe

Dean of Students Among its ongoing activities, the as an advocate for student rights in The Office of the Dean of Students Association organizes a number of academic affairs. Meetings between continued with its ongoing activities social events to bring the student student representatives and faculty providing assistance to students in community together: art fairs, live are held regularly to ensure that the the financial, social welfare, academic, concerts, lectures, holiday events and students’ needs and concerns are personal, social and cultural fields. the annual Student Day. heard.

Among this year’s strategic projects, This year the Association took In addition to representation services, the Office increased its focus on upon itself the added dimension of the Student Association offers other assisting students in job placement encouraging students to integrate elements of academic aid throughout and career development. A new into the larger society of the Negev the year, including a long-term lending computer system was launched to and initiate outreach projects with library and an exam bank service. The manage postings for job candidates. the local population. In November, lending library has been expanded Free online job listings resulted in the Association, together with the through the generosity of donors and more positions being made available University administration, selected the number of loans has increased to alumni. The number of workshops seven student-organized social dramatically. The examination bank for students, including seminars in projects and put both resources and has also been expanded. fields such as career management and energy into expanding their impact. business entrepreneurship, were also The projects included outreach to Financial assistance to reserve soldiers expanded. A careers week was held Beer-Sheva’s elderly; preserving the was expanded. This is in addition to which included an employment fair rights of workers and the physically the extensive support that is already and lectures by experts on workers’ challenged in the food business in the provided to help them compensate for rights, career management, self- city; support for social workers in the missed classes. presentation and other related topics. Negev; the establishment of support clubs for gay youth; musical activities The Center of International Over the summer, specially tailored for at-risk youth; support for activities Academic Affairs for children of minority populations; orientation programs were organized The Center of International Academic and help for African asylum seekers for students from population groups Affairs launched a reorganization living in the Negev. with special needs, including members process this year with the ambitious of the Ethiopian community, Arabic goal of branding the University in The Association also dedicates speaking students and students with the international arena. Despite the its efforts to creating a cultural learning disabilities. international climate regarding Israel, environment that encourages students the Office intends to establish BGU’s to expand their horizons. During the As part of the Green Campus initiative, reputation within specific spheres of past academic year, the Association a state-of-the-art solar water heating excellence. system was installed at the Zlotowski organized a series of free lectures and performances under the banner, Dormitory Complex; plans are under The ongoing reorganization has “Tuesday at Six,” that invited cultural way to install a similar system at the yielded its first fruits. Thanks to a figures from various fields such as AABGU Student Dormitory Complex special grant from the State of Israel sculpture, music and journalism, to this summer. through the Jewish Agency for Israel, speak about the interface between joint programs will be established Israeli society and art. Student Association with Arizona State University (ASU) The Student Association is committed and the College of New Jersey The Association also helps students to to improving student life by providing (CNJ). The program with ASU will improve their academic achievements a variety of services and a range of focus on environmental studies and and cope with some of the obstacles programs including cultural, academic sustainability, while the program and community-oriented activities. they might experience and serves

58 The annual Purim Carnival always attracts a colorful crowd

59 Student L!fe (Cont.)

with the CNJ will focus on Israel implement new applications and introduced in the Division of Human studies. The programs are aimed to technologies to improve user services Resources, as has a comprehensive provide BGU with a unique academic and functionality for the entire new system for the Finance and curriculum to attract more students University community. Inter campus Budget Management Division. to spend a semester or a full year networks were improved and faster under the framework of the Ginsburg- wireless access points were installed. Zalman Aranne Central Ingerman Overseas Student Program. Library An improved University internet web The Zalman Aranne Central Library In addition, Brandeis University and site has been developed, based continues to redefine itself in light of Middlebury College will establish a on SharePoint 2010, including a changing technologies, expanding study abroad program at BGU to “My BGU” option for personalized beyond its traditional role while begin in the spring of 2012. The homepages. A new web based transforming itself into a multi-media Brandeis and Middlebury program “tender management system” has center that meets the changing needs will be taught entirely in Hebrew and been developed internally. The email of students and researchers. adhere to the Middlebury College for new students has been shifted to Language Pledge – a promise to Google apps. Exchange 2007 has The planning of the new wing for speak no language other than the one been upgraded to Exchange 2010. engineering and natural sciences being studied. has begun. In the interim, plans are Online course instruction using underway to renovate the lobby of the The three programs highlight the tablet-pc’s continues to expand. existing building. Office’s intention to play to the Students on the Eilat campus and the University’s strengths – environmental Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva Some 8,083 books were added studies, Israel studies and Hebrew now share the same synchronous to the Library’s general collection language and literature. classrooms, using video conference from purchases and gifts, including rooms at both campuses. textbooks and electronic journals. In Computation conjunction with the Israeli Foreign A new comprehensive Employee Time The Division of Computing and Ministry, the Library is donating paper and Attendance system has been Information Systems continues to copies of journals that the University now subscribes to electronically to developing countries, primarily in Africa.

A mapping process was carried out to identify the needs of the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management and the Faculties of Natural and Engineering Sciences. The findings will be used as a basis for future growth.

A program based on improving service was implemented, expanding group study areas and work stations. Guidance services have been expanded, with an emphasis on Students on the Marcus Family Campus advertising and informing the public about library activities and news.

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61 Ben-Gur!on Society

New Ben-Gurion Society Members 2011 Ruth Elaine and Stan Flinkman, Santa Monica, CA Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. Fondation Flamme, Geneve, Suisse Martin and Rena Blackman, New York Albert and Patricia Frank, Chicago, IL Dr. Carl Gans, Austin, Texas Estelle S. Frankfurter, New York, NY Ned and Anita Goodman, Toronto, Canada Edy and Sol Freedman and Family, New York Intel Israel Lis Gaines, New York, NY Soref-Breslauer Texas Foundation Nathan Galston, Los Angeles, California Stan and Arlene Ginsburg, Philadelphia, PA Ben-Gurion Society Members Diane and Guilford Glazer, Beverly Hills, CA S. Daniel Abraham The Irving Goldman Foundation Inc., USA Chinita and Conrad Abrahams-Curiel, London Richard and Rhoda Goldman, San Francisco, CA Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany Stella and A. Goldstein-Goren Dr. and Mrs. Sam L. Agron, Montville, NJ Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Fdn., CA The Alon Family Foundation, Saratoga, CA Lawrence and Lillian Goodman, Chicago, IL I/m/o Rita H. Altura, Altura Family, Los Angeles, CA The Fraida Greenhill Fdn., United States Robert and Joan Arnow, United States Ruth and Maurice Grosman Isaac and Carol Auerbach Family Foundation, PA Monroe Guttmann Charitable Foundations, Pittsburgh, PA Milada Ayrton, Lausanne In memory of Parents Fira & Efim by Nahum Guzik, CA Dr. Beryl Bearint, Port St. Lucie, FL Bella and Yosef Guzick Dresner, Beer-Sheva Bengis Family, Cape Town/New York Ivan and Vilma Halaj, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Eric and Illeana Benhamou, Saratoga, CA The Thomas O. Hecht Family Hilda and Manasche Ben Shlomo Foundation Rosalind Henwood, Boca Raton, FL Famille Danièle et Maurice Bidermann, Paris, France In Memory of Benzion Sundel Hersch, Anne & Harry The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Zfira and Efraim Ilin, Israel Hannah and Norbert Blechner, New York, NY Eileen and Ira Ingerman Family Foundation, Penna. Fondation Bona Terra, Geneve, Suisse ISEF - International Sephardic Education Fdn. The Camelia E. Botnar Foundation, Switzerland The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Rhoda Boyko, New York City, USA The Kahanoff Foundation, Calgary/Tel Aviv The Brink Family, Belgium Kahn Family Fund for Humanitarian Support I/m/o Naftali & Anni Bronicki, Mordechai & Miriam Wander Richard and Edythe Kane, Sarasota, FL Dr. Hubert Burda, Munich, Germany Ilse Katz Liebholz, Geneva Rothermel L. Caplan, Lebanon, PA Leonard Litwin, Great Neck, NY The Chais Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Keren Moshe, Geneva, Switzerland Aron Chilewich Family, USA Koret Foundation, San Francisco, CA Sir John and Lady Cohen, Great Britain Harold Irving Korn, M.D. and May Elting Korn, NY The Sam Cohen (Windhoek) Scholarships Trust Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., UC Berkeley, CA Elizabeth and Sidney Corob, London, England Irene and Hyman Kreitman, Great Britain Crown Family, Chicago, Illinois Douglas and Judith Krupp, United States Dr. and Mrs. Heinz-Horst Deichmann George and Lisbeth Krupp, United States Helen Diller Family, California Philip and Bernice Krupp, United States Ing. Pedro Dondisch, Mexico Bernice and Morton Lerner, Salisbury, NC Doron Foundation for Education and Welfare Marjorie and Gustave Levey, Houston, TX, USA Harry T. and Shirley W. Dozor, Philadelphia, PA Velva G. and H. Fred Levine, Houston, TX Tamara and Ariel Elia Sophie and Stephen Lewar, Toronto, Canada M. Ernst, Paris Eng. Max and Dr. Gabriele Lichtenberg, Israel/FL George Evens Family, Antwerpen Regina and Simon Liebermann, New York, NY Dr. and Mrs. Paul Feher, Paris, France Bertie and Hilary Lubner and Family, South Africa

62 Jill and Peter Luck-Hille, London Alvin and Leanor Segal, Montreal, Canada Barbara and Morton Mandel, Cleveland, Ohio David and Fela Shapell Family, Beverly Hills, Calif. Mayer Mani and Family, France The Harry and Abe Sherman Foundation, London Dr. Howard W. & Lottie R. Marcus, Rancho Bernardo, CA Jacob Shochat, Mahwah, NJ Ralph S. Martin, Doris Springer Martin and Allen B. Rabin George Shrut, Lausanne / Boston The Mauerberger Foundation Fund, Solm Yach, z”l Judith and Murray H. Shusterman, Abington, PA Evelyn Metz Estate, New York, NY Caroline and Arnold Simon, Omer, Israel Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff, Baltimore, MD Skirball Foundation Famille Minkoff, Geneva Elaine, Irving and Sarah Sklar, New York Louise and Marco Mitrani / Mitrani Fdn., USA Frances Fohs Sohn and Fred Sohn The Moriah Fund Eta and Sass Somekh, Los Altos Hills, CA Alberto Nissim Moscona, Mexico Rudolf and Inger-Ma Sonneborn Dr. Morton and Toby Mower and children Robin and Mark Katja B. Goldman & Michael Sonnenfeldt, USA David and Inez Myers Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Samuel and Helene Soref Michel et Balbina Naftali Jack J. and Charlotte Spitzer, United States Belle and Murray Nathan, New York, NY Ruth and Robert St. John, Washington, D.C. Negev Foundation Harry Stern Family Foundation, Philadelphia State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Dr. Anne Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Oelbaum, Toronto, Canada Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada Abraham Ben David Ohayon, Geneva, Switzerland Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation Helga and Walter Oppenheimer, Los Angeles, CA Herbert A. and Vivian B. Thaler, Baltimore, MD Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies, San Francisco, CA Zoltan and Maria Toman Harold and Claire Oshry, United States Kenneth and Marsha Tucker, IL Markus and Sara Pajewski and Joseph Parker, USA Gerda Knopf Tworoger and John Tworoger, NY, USA Mary and Marvin Paul, Toronto, Canada Ed and Miriam Vickar, Winnipeg, Canada Jack Pearlstone Charitable Trust, Baltimore, MD Bernat and Ilona Wachs, Singapore Edgar D. de Picciotto, Geneva Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg, New York Ferdinand and Ursula Piëch The Weiler Family, New York, USA Richard and Jeanne Pratt, Melbourne, Australia Elsa Weinberg, Gaby Avron and Hillel Cherni, Israel Rashi Foundation - Rachi Fondation Henry and Anita Weiss and Family, Los Angeles, CA In memory of Howard Rauberger, New York Richard Weiss, Daytona Beach, FL Raphael Recanati Family Foundation, New York/Israel Aileen Epstein Whitman, Chester County, PA, USA Herbert Rosen, New York, NY Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, London Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt, Palm Beach, FL The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust Eric F. and Lore Ross, Palm Beach, FL Martin and Els Wyler, Clarens, Switzerland The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Yad Hanadiv, Jerusalem Foundation Solly Yellin and Family, South Africa and Israel Lisa and Michael Rubenstein, San Francisco, CA Ruta and Dr. Felix Zandman, Phila. and Tel Aviv In memory of Irma and William Rulf, London, UK Adelene Zlotowski, London Harry and Carol Saal Family Foundation, Palo Alto, CA Suzanne M. Zlotowski, Geneva Edmond and Lily Safra Roy and Barbara Zuckerberg Rubin Salant, Renee, Camille, Robin, and Grandchildren Milton E. and Frieda Salen, Brooklyn, NY Eric and Sheila Samson Ryoichi Sasakawa, Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Brian and Avrona Schachter, Toronto, Canada Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr., Villanova, PA

63 Negev Soc!ety

Tamar Arava

New Members 2011 New Members 2011 Neri J. Bloomfield, Montreal, Canada Charina Endowment Fund Sandy and Stephen Breslauer, Houston, TX Coby and Riki Dayan Family, Los Altos Hills, CA Aaron and Wally Fish, Montreal, Canada Patrick Getreide, Paris, France Sophie and Michael Kalina, NY, USA Manuel Grossman, Boca Raton, FL Famille Jacques Lewiner, Paris, France Bernard and Audrey Jaffe Family, Bellingham, WA Suzanne & Sheldon W. Nash, New York, NY Lorry I. Lokey, Atherton, CA Milton (Mickey) and Frimette Snow, Toronto, Canada Nahid and Mansour Parsi, Los Angeles, California Gerard and Michele Worms, Paris, France Mitchell Shewchun, Farmington Hills, MI Edith & Robert Zinn, Houston, TX Gerald B. Shreiber – Mullica Hill, New Jersey Elaine S. and Alvin W. Wene, Elkins Park, PA Tamar Members Nan Zinn Haar, Cambridge, MA Martin and Rena Blackman, New York Sarah Boniovka, Newton Lower Falls, MA Arava Members Dr. Monroe and Mrs. Marjorie F. Burk, Columbia, MD The Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation Jerry J. Cohen, Walnut Creek, CA Helen and Jack Bershad, Philadelphia, PA The EKARD Foundation Sylvia A. Brodsky & Family, Blue Bell, PA Max Ludwig Ephraimson, Jerusalem Frances Brody, Los Angeles, CA Gillian & Ellis Goodman & Family, Chicago, IL Jacqueline and Eric Charles, London Ned and Anita Goodman, Toronto, Canada Janet and Jake Farber, Los Angeles, CA D. E. Koshland Jr. Family Fund, San Francisco, CA Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Dr. Philip and Sima Needleman, St. Louis, Missouri Diane and Mark Goldman, Weston, MA Elizabeth and Arthur Roswell, Bridgewater, NJ, USA Arline and Ben Guefen, Houston, Texas Harriet Soffa, In memory of Albert Soffa, PA Miriam Jaffe, NY, USA Zehava and Yeheskel Vered, Tel-Aviv, Israel The Sam and Babette Kabak Charity Fund Sumner T. White, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Sophie and Michael Kalina, NY, USA The Leir Charitable Foundations & Trusts Mary Liss and Sidney Sysskind Liss, Tarzana, CA Sara Luhby Family, Bronx, NY Bernard Mohr, Weston, FL Helen Nichunsky, Los Angeles, CA Howard Shrut, Boston, MA Robert Sillins Family Foundation, New York Milton (Mickey) and Frimette Snow, Toronto, Canada Dr. Ingrid Tauber, CA and Dr. Alfred Tauber, MA Holly and Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford, CA

64 Eshkol

New Members 2011 Eshkol Members The Alliance For Global Good, Greensboro, NC Vera Barcza, Toronto, Canada Jacob Aron, Tel-Aviv, Israel Sandy and Steve Breslauer, Houston, Texas Dan and Regina Bublil Waldman Family, Tiburon, CA Jacob and Riki Dayan Family, Los Altos Hills, California Milda B. Cohen, Coral Springs, FL Dvora Ezralow and Family, Los Angeles, CA Benjamin and Elizabeth Goldstein, Sarasota, FL The Sidney E. Frank Foundation In memory of Dr. Harry Grabstald, Herta & family, NY Gertrude K. Franzl Estate, RI, USA Thomas Guggenheim, Geneva, Switzerland Dodi and Murray Fromson, Los Angeles, CA Fay and Bert Harbour Jean and Julian Goldberg, Houston, Texas David and Raquel Kaplan, Santiago/Los Angeles Carol Green, Truro, MA, USA Mildred Kirsh, Chicago, IL Dorothy and Harold Greenwald Foundation, New York, NY Evelyn & Edmond Klauber, Flossmoor, IL John Hagee Ministries, San Antonio, Texas Koor Industries Ltd. of IDB Group Alvin A. & Sylvia B. Hoffman Estate, Delray Beach, FL Claire (Geller) Lenoir, Montreal, Canada Israel Chemicals (ICL) Ronn & Catherine Marvin, Bern, Switzerland Bernard and Audrey Jaffe Family, Bellingham, WA Moshal Scholarship Program Hon. Billy Joel and Sandra Joel, Aventura, FL Jeremy and Sara Reitman, Montreal, Canada Sheldon and Margery London, Bethesda, MD, USA Adam (Abrashke) and Sara Rogowski, Tel-Aviv, Israel Makhteshim Agan Industries, Ltd Group Ilse Roth, Los Angeles, CA Margit Meissner, in memory of Frank Meissner Allan Tauber, M.D., Los Angeles, CA Joseph Melton, Boca Raton, FL Famille Warszawski, Paris and Jerusalem Takeji Otsuki Mizra Association, Beit Shalom, Japan Alexander Wincberg & Family, New York, USA Project Jacob by International Judea Foundation, CA Wayne Woodman and Lisa Scheller, Allentown, PA Goldyne Savad, Los Angeles, CA Elizabeth and Benjamin Schoenfeld Haskell and Janice Titchell, San Francisco, CA Edith and Robert Zinn, Houston, TX

65 New Founde®s 2011

The Alliance For Global Good, Greensboro, NC Elena and Simon Litsyn, Tel-Aviv, Israel Reba Azoff, Voorhees, NJ Ronn & Catherine Marvin, Bern, Switzerland The Alvin Blum Family, Baltimore, MD In memory of Jack Meltzer and Lee Rawls Charina Endowment Fund Moshal Scholarship Program Milda B. Cohen, Coral Springs, FL Ohr Torah Stone, Efrat, Israel Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA William Ostroff, Middlebury Edge, CT Barbara Epstein Sivan, Gulph Mills, PA Varda (Rosenblatt) Rabin and Irving Rabin, Tiburon, CA David Freeman, Vancouver, Canada In memory of my parents, Aziz and Nosrat Rasson Marjorie & Warren Fuerman, North Canton, OH Joel Reinstein, Boca Raton, Florida and Tel Aviv, Israel Benjamin and Elizabeth Goldstein, Sarasota, FL Family of Ruth & Theodore E. Rifkin, Boca Raton, FL In memory of Dr. Harry Grabstald, Herta & family, NY Lillian and Martin Rosen, Boca Raton, Florida Manuel Grossman, Boca Raton, FL Ilse Roth, Los Angeles, CA Fay and Bert Harbour Lyon (Lenny) Roth, Miami, FL Sylvia and Jerry Herman, Plainview, NY Dr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Sarnoff, Bethesda, MD Hermetic Trust Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel Steven and Sally Schroeder, Tiburon, CA Herta Hoffman, Tel-Aviv, Israel For our Israeli Family, Norton and Virginia Sharpe Isracard Group Mitchell Shewchun, Farmington Hills, MI David and Raquel Kaplan, Santiago/Los Angeles Vera Steiner, Joseph and Esther Starobinski, Switzerland Marilyn L. and Edward M. Kaplan, Boca Raton, Florida Bernard Stern, New York, New York P A Koshland, Sydney, Australia and Paris, France Allan Tauber, M.D., Los Angeles, CA Janet & Doron Krakow, Tenafly, NJ Ira and Marcia Wagner, Bethesda, MD Ardiste Ladin, Newport Beach, CA Armin Weiss, Delray Beach, FL Allen Lapporte, Skokie, IL Rachel and Moshe Yanai, Brookline, MA Claire (Geller) Lenoir, Montreal, Canada Nan Zinn Haar, Cambridge, MA Jill and Nat Levy, Houston, TX

66 Liv!ng Legacy Society

Roberta Abrams, New York, NY Shimon Erem, Los Angeles, CA Rita & Sam L. Agron, Montville, NJ Jack Feiner, Brooklyn, NY Mathilde Albers, Oakland, CA Amy Feldstein, Manassas, VA Joel & Barbara Alpert, Wayland, MA Matis Fermaglich, Tenafly, NJ Sylvia Arker, New York, NY Sandra & Steven Finkelman, Houston, TX Robert H. Arnow, Scarsdale, NY Norma & Harry Fishbein, Tamarac, FL Rose & Paul C. Astor, Bala Cynwyd, PA Carol & Herman Fleischer, Oceanside, CA Ellen Barnett, San Diego, CA Shirley & William Fleischer, New York, NY Selma & Stanley Batkin, New York, NY Mildred and Irving Flyer, Silver Spring, MD Howard & Dorothy Berger, Denver, CO Esther & Bert Foer, Washington, DC Bea Berkman, Los Angeles, CA Paul Fogelman, Los Angeles, CA Dava Berkman, Washington, DC Edy & Solomon Freedman, Fort Lee, NJ Kelly Bernard, Lantana, FL David Freeman, Vancouver, Canada Dr. Aron Bernstein, New York, NY Peggy Freeman, Brooklyn, NY Jack R. Bershad, Philadelphia, PA Gerda Frieberg, Toronto, Canada Joan & Philip Birnbaum, Bethesda, MD Jane & Stephen Friedman, Sugar Land, TX Miriam & Leonard Bisk, New York, NY Dodi & Murray Fromson, Los Angeles, CA Percy & Virginia Black, Barre, VT Lis Gaines, New York, NY Sandra Blank, Dallas, TX Stanley Ganer, Mount Vernon, NY Bertha & Reuben Blauner, Aventura, FL Stan & Arlene Ginsburg, Bala Cynwyd, PA Hal Bloomberg, Boynton Beach, FL Sheryl Gold, Miami Beach, FL/East Hampton, NY Eric H. Boehm, Santa Barbara, CA George Goldberg, Santa Monica, CA Marjorie & Irwin Breitman, Lake Worth, FL Jean Goldberg, Houston, TX Joseph & Dorothy Breskman, Bala Cynwyd, PA Ruth Goldberg, Auburndale, MA Sylvia A. Brodsky, Blue Bell, PA Dr. Estelle Gold-Kossman, Melrose Park, PA Winnie & Bernard Brownstein, Philadelphia, PA Anne E. Goldman, New York, NY Monroe Burk, Columbia, MD Melvin S. & Lolita E. Goldstein, New York, NY Hyman Cohen, Rego Park, NY Beverly Goodman, Northbrook, IL Ruth Cohen, Montreal, Canada Alex & Brooke Goren, New York, NY Rhoda & Seymour Cole, West Palm Beach, FL Ruth & Isaac Green, Laguna Hills, CA Miriam & Harold Commings, Aventura, FL Sylvia Greenberg, Boca Raton, FL Elaine Cooper, West Bloomfield, MI Allen Greenberger, Chicago, IL Mannie Corman & Frances M. Bell, Brooklyn, NY Jodi & Samuel Greenblatt, Philadelphia, PA Ellen Graff & Fred Cowan, Los Angeles, CA Leena & Erwin Groner, Potomac, MD Bruce J. Cutler, Drexel Hill, PA Sylvia Grossman, Great Neck, NY Harvey Daniels, New York, NY Arline & Ben Guefen, Houston, TX Marvin & Mildred Demchick, Lafayette Hill, PA Lee & William Hahn, Los Angeles, CA Ignatz Deutsch, Chinchilla, PA Marlene & Samuel Halperin, Washington, DC David Dickson, Skillman, NJ Edwin F. Hantman, New York, NY Charles A. Dinarello, Boulder, CO Ray Hardy, Jacksonville, FL Peter Dirnbach, Fullerton, CA Ellis & Ellen Harris, San Francisco, CA Harriett M. Eckstein, Lexington, MA Muriel Hartz, Salt Lake City, UT The Edelstein Family, San Francisco, CA Helen & Edson Hayes, Oak Ridge, TN Harold Eisenberg, Chicago, IL Frances Herbolsheimer, La Salle, IL Robert N. & Laurel Eisner, West Hartford, CT Anne Hildreth, Aiken, SC Mimi Enzel, Hallandale Beach, FL Audrey & Victor Hirsch, Boynton Beach, FL

67 Liv!ng Legacy Society (Cont.)

Steve & Sonny Hurst, Foster City, CA Estella & James Millicovsky, Brownsville, TX Miriam Jacobs, White Plains, NY Retta Mills, Salisbury, MD Evelyn Jacobsen, Lantana, FL Carol & Gerard Moss, Aventura, FL Miriam Jenks, Lexington, MA Dr. Alfred Munzer, Washington, DC Lillian Josephs, Wyncote, PA Joseph & Ann Nadel, Mill Valley, CA Dr. Barry & Marsha Kahan, Houston, TX Rose Nagler, Sunny Isles Beach, FL Leon S. Kaplan, Los Angeles, CA Suzanne & Sheldon W. Nash, New York, NY Jeanne Kaskey, Ventnor City, NJ Belle C. & Murray L. Nathan, New York, NY Ray Kathren, Southgate, CA Vera & Walter Obermeyer, San Francisco, CA Estelle & Joseph Katz, New York, NY Peter Ofner, Watertown, MA Sylvia Katzman, Delray Beach, FL Milton Orchin, Cincinnati, OH Carole & Barry Kaye, Boca Raton, FL Madeline & Eugene Pargh, Boca Raton, FL Hazel & Robert Keimowitz, Chevy Chase, MD Martin Patt, Malden, MA Anne Kelemen, New York, NY Judith Peretz, Mineola, NY Evelyn & Edmond Klauber, Flossmoor, IL Lana R. Pinkenson, Feasterville, PA Alan M. Kohn, New York, NY Edwin J. & Frieda Podell, Dresher, PA Janina Korall, Aventura, FL Hanna Posniak, Bal Harbour, FL Joseph Koreen, Greenlawn, NY Michael Pudlo, New York, NY Elizabeth & Monte Kromberg, Palm Coast, FL Manouchehr Rasson, Washington, DC Bernice Kruger, Hallandale, FL Esther & David Redding, Walnut Creek, CA Bernard Lee, Bel Air, CA Dyann Reilly, San Diego, CA Rita & Richard Lehr, Baltimore, MD Joel Reinstein, Boca Raton, FL Claire (Geller) Lenoir, Montreal, Canada Geraldine K. Reiter, Aventura, FL Gloria Lester, Delray Beach, FL Ruth & Theodore E. Rifkin, Boca Raton, FL Marjorie & Gustave Levey, Houston, TX Adam and Sara Rogowski, Tel-Aviv, Israel Donald Levin, Hicksville, NY Irwin Rosenman, Orange, CT Velva G. & H. Fred Levine, Houston, TX Carol & Harry Saal, Palo Alto, CA Shirley A. Levitt, Greensboro, NC Arnold L. & Lite Sabin, New York, NY Dorothy Levy, West Palm Beach, FL Edwin A. Salsitz, M.D., New York, NY Ethel Lena Levy, Los Angeles, CA Lili-Charlotte Sarnoff, Bethesda, MD Jill & Nat Levy, Bellaire, TX Roberta & Ernest Scheller, Jr., Villanova, PA Jan Abby Liff, Nashville, TN Muriel & Samuel Schwarzman, Voorhees, NJ Edith Litwin, Aventura, FL Jacob Scovronek, South Plainfield, NJ Lorry I. Lokey, Atherton, CA William Serog, Jamesville, NY Margery & Sheldon London, Bethesda, MD Lee & Moshe Shapiro, Carlsbad, CA Emanuel Luck, Roslindale, MA Inez & Leonard Shechtman, Sunny Isles Beach, FL Sara Luhby, Bronx, NY Louis Sheinman, Montreal, Canada Betty Malakoff, Brooklyn, NY Jacob Shochat, Mahwah, NJ Lottie & Howard Marcus, San Diego, CA Murray & Judith Shusterman, Bala Cynwyd, PA Ellen S. Marcus, Austin, TX Lois Sidney, West Hollywood, CA Frances & Elias Margolin, San Diego, CA Irene & Bernard Siegel, Baltimore, MD Elaine Marks, Chicago, IL Joanne & Frederick Siegmund, New York, NY Doris & Ralph Martin, Escondido, CA Eugene (Gene) Silver, Rydal, PA Dan Maydan, Los Altos Hills, CA Lenore & Bernard Simmons, Aventura, FL Ruth Merns, Delray Beach, FL Caroline and Arnold Simon, Omer, Israel Linda B. Miller, South Wellfleet, MA Suse Smetana, San Francisco, CA

68 Robert Snyder, Newtonville, MA Kenneth L. Tucker, Northbrook, IL Harriet Soffa, Wynnewood, PA Friedrich Turtel, Ashdod, Israel Ethel & David Sommer, Parkland, FL Vera Violeta Turtel, Ashdod, Israel Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, New York, NY Stefani & Lorin Twyford, Houston, TX Sara S. & Herbert Spencer, Highland Park, NJ Felix & Flory M. Van Beek, Newport Beach, CA Sylvia Sprecker, Delray Beach, FL Ann S. Waldman, Elkins Park, PA Ruth & Robert St. John, Durham, NC Dorothy & Leonard Wasserman, Bala Cynwyd, PA Sam D. & Ina R. Starobin, Brookline, MA Lewis H. Weinstein, Canton, MA Natalie & Leonard Stein, Evanston, IL Bessie Weintraub, Chicago, IL David & Estelle Steinberg, Lafayette Hill, PA Celia Weiss, Pacific Grove, CA Sally Stern, Winnipeg, Canada Guy M. & Eveline Weyl, Brookline, MA Evelyne Steward, Los Angeles, CA Sumner T. White, Fort Lauderdale, FL Arthur Strick, Newport Beach, CA Aileen E. Whitman, Malvern, PA Faye Sundell, West Palm Beach, FL George & Marilyn Winard, Sherman Oaks, CA Drs. Alton & Mona Sutnick, Philadelphia, PA Alexander Wincberg & Family, New York, NY Shirley R. Tauber, Jenkintown, PA Joyce L. Winfield, Ridge, NY Ursula & Egon Taus, Los Angeles, CA Carol & Stephen Winig, Boca Raton, FL Aurelia Thau, Hollywood, CA Michael Yudin, New York, NY Libby Tobin, Newport Beach, CA Rose Zarucki, New York, NY Florence Toledano, New York, NY Max Zelikovitz, Ottawa, Canada Hannah Traube, Rancho Santa Fe, CA Laikee Zelitch, Melrose Park, PA Erving A. Trunk, Plano, TX Edith & Robert Zinn, Houston, TX

69 Partners in Dєvelopment

Physical Facilities Philip and Bernice Krupp Building Marcus Family Campus Herbert H. Lehman Building David Bergman Campus Marjorie and Gustave Levey Dormitory Building David Tuviyahu Campus Foyer des Etudiants Fondation Simon et Jeanne (Hanna) Mani AABGU Student Dormitory Complex Mexico Bridge American Associates Village at Sede Boqer Minkoff Family Senate Court Zlotowski Dormitory Complex W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall Abraham Ben David Ohayon Behavioral Sciences Alon Building for Hi-Tech Complex Jacqueline Ann Ayrton Sports Hall David Posnack Biology Building Samuel and Milada Ayrton University Center Harold H. Poster Building Boyko Research Building Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics Caroline House – Health Sciences Student Center Spitzer-Salant Building for the Department of Social Work Gershon Cherni Classroom and Cultural Complex Harry and Abe Sherman Building Sir John and Lady Cohen Building George Shrut Dormitories Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Building Forest Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Building for Solar Energy Deichmann Building for Community Action and Environmental Physics Deichmann Building for Mathematics Samuel Soref School of Mechanical Engineering Building Ruth and Heinz-Horst Deichmann Building for Health Toman Family Department of Life Sciences Building Professions Oscar and Ray Warschaw Building Ruth and Heinz-Horst Deichmann Sciences Building Weiler-Arnow Medical Education Building Helen Diller Family Center Henry and Anita Weiss Family Building for Advanced Pedro Dondisch Building for the Ben-Gurion Heritage Research Institute and Research Center Zlotowski Building Raquel Dondisch Education Building Zlotowski Classroom Complex Edy's House – Ma'agan Beer-Sheva Community Center Zlotowski Student Administration Building Cancer Care Project Zlotowski Student Center Ariel Elia Medical Building George Evens Family Auditorium Stanley and Jeanne Abensur Molecular and Cell Biology Bâtiment de Recherche Clinique, Fondation “Flamme” Teaching Laboratory Diane and Guilford Glazer Building Abrahams-Curiel Auditorium David and Rosa Goldberger Building Samuel Ayrton Sports Pavilion Joyce Goldman Auditorium Avraham Baron Art Gallery Larry Goodman Family Administration Building for Benhamou Incubation Center Engineering Sciences Benhamou Technology Hall Ida (Babe) Goodstein Building Berelson Field Sam Gorovoy Building Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Lecture Halls Wing Grosman Building for Geology Simon Bond Physiology Wing Pesla Toman Gutman Building Frances Brody Laboratory Nahum and Anna Guzik Building Niusia and Aron Chilewich Square Guzik Family Auditorium Building Charlotte and Evelyn Cohen Floor Henwood-Oshry Life Sciences Teaching Laboratories Jerry J. Cohen Radiobiology Laboratory Building Sir John and Lady Cohen Swimming Pools Kreitman Building Corob Center for Medical Sciences Kreitman-Zlotowski Classroom Building Maxwell and Queenie Cummings Plaza

70 Deichmann Plaza Edith and Louis Reitman Sports Park Department of Mathematics Research Laboratories Wing Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt Dormitory Wing Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at BGU Eric F. and Lore Ross Atrium for Community Action and Michael Diller Teaching Pool Enrichment Raquel Dondisch Amphitheater for the Ben-Gurion Eric F. and Lore Ross Lecture Hall Heritage Institute and Research Center Vlasta Lampel Roubickova Visitors Lounge Harry T. and Shirley Dozor Medical Research Pavilion Rubenstein Family Laboratory Gerson Epstein Physiology Wing Harry and Carol Saal Auditorium M. Ernst Wing Barnett N. and Augusta Salen Family Wing Regina and Charles Fisher Gallery Brian and Avrona Schachter Family Student Dormitory Shirley and William R. Fleischer Foundation New Fruit Jane Schapiro Library Research Laboratory Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr. Family Surface Analysis Lab Stan Flinkman Foyer Tonia and Alvin Schmerbach Dorm Entrance Stan and Ruth Elaine Flinkman Microscopy Wing Hirsch and Rosa Schneider Auditorium French House Dormitories David and Fela Shapell Family Desalination Research Nathan Galston Floor Laboratory Dr. Carl Gans Herpetology Library Harry and Abe Sherman Foundation Guest House Fanny and Louis Goldman Dining Room George Shrut Conference Room Melvin Goldstein Laboratory for Environmental Hydrology Judith and Murray H. Shusterman Wing of the Medical Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Wing Library for Diabetes Research and Education Judith and Murray H. Shusterman Wing for Cancer Greenpark International Greenhouse Research Guzik Family Antiquities Pathway Herman Silver and Dr. Lee Winston Silver Laboratory Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics Francine and Abdallah Simon Foyer Carole and Barry Kaye Mall Sklar Family Optics Complex Israel Chatar and Lola Blum Kohen Dormitory Wing Elaine and Sarah Sklar Molecular and Cell Biology Prof. Daniel E. Koshland Jr. Promenade Teaching Laboratory Kreitman Fellows Common Room Sarah Sklar Molecular Opto-Electronics Laboratory Landau Family Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory Joya Claire Sonnenfeldt Auditorium Lewar Cardiology Research Laboratory Harry Stern Family Psychobiology Clinical Research Dr. Gabriele and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Floor Pavilion Regina and Simon Liebermann Dorm Entrance Ruth Sytner Auditorium David Lopatie General Reference Section of the Central Sara Tadmor Auditorium Library Thaler Undergraduate Laboratory in Life Sciences Mitrani Residences for Scientists Herbert and Vivian Thaler Laboratory for Stress Michel and Balbina Naftali Research Laboratory Wing Physiology of Plants Belle and Murray Nathan Library Reading Room and Hyman and Fanya Tower Dorm Entrance Archeological Gallery Gerda and John Tworoger Auditorium Ronald and Annette Oelbaum Laboratory in Life Sciences Gerda and John Tworoger Garden Yosef Ben David Ohayon Psychology and Behavioral Vickar Auditorium Sciences Auditorium Ed and Marion Vickar Visitors Center Markus and Sara Pajewski Laboratory for Plant Tissue Elsa Weinberg Maintenance Fund Culture Weiss Family Laboratory for Nanoscale Systems Ferdinand Porjes Student Dormitory Henry and Anita Weiss Family Floor David Posnack Biology Wing Zlotowski Neurosciences Wing Ilan Ramon Youth Physics Center Zlotowski Student Activities Area

71 Partners in Dєvelopment (Cont.)

Academic Units J.R. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sephardi Heritage Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Sciences Pinchas Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Moshe David Gaon Research Center for Ladino Culture Goldstein-Goren Center for Jewish Thought Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School Morris Goldstein - Benefactor of the Department of Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies Economics Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies Benzion Sundel Hersh Center of Community Health and Leon and Mathilde Recanati School Primary Care for Community Health Professions Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Hurst Family Center for Community Leadership Feher Institute for Public Policy and Management Development French Associates Institute for Drylands Agriculture Ira Center for Business, Technology and Society Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Social Ecology Isan Center for Comparative Medicine Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology Paul Ivanier Center for Research in Robotics and Dr. Louis Nathanson Radiological Institute Production Management National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Conrad and Chinita Abrahams-Curiel Department of Martin-Springer Center for Conflict Studies and Foreign Languages and Linguistics Negotiation Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought Marco and Louise Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Phillippe Monaster Center for Economic Research Biotechnology Engineering Newman Desertification Communication Center Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies May Elting Korn Department of Health in the Community Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education Harry and Abe Sherman Oncology Department Sidney R. and Esther Rabb Center for Holocaust and Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Redemption Studies Work Gershon Rivlin Computerized Information Center Els Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture Erna and Georg R. Rothstein Child Development Center Edmond J. Safra Center for the Design and Engineering S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and of Functional Biopolymers Nutrition Els Wyler Center for the Peaceful Utilization of Natural Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Resources Development Zandman Center for Microelectronic Thick Film Bengis Center for Desert Aquaculture Technology Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship and Hi-Tech Zlotowski Center for Neurosciences Management Doris and Bertie Black Center for Bioenergetics in Life Ginsburg-Ingerman Overseas Student Program Sciences Sol A. Leshin BGU-UCLA Joint Research Program Jacob Blaustein International Center for Desert Research Mandel Social Leadership MBA Program Blechner Center for Catalysis and Process Development Marc Rich Foundation Non-Profit Management M.R. Bloch Center for Research in Coal Technology Specialization Program Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communications Cashvan Equine Center Corob Center for Medical Sciences

72 Cha!rs

Professorial Chairs Samuel Ayrton Chair in Metallurgy - Chinita and Conrad Abrahams-Curiel Chair in Applied Prof. Nahum Frage Signal Processing - Sir Leon Bagrit Chair in Computer-Based Global Industry Prof. Stanley Y. Rotman and Scientific Development - S.Y. Agnon Chair in Contemporary Hebrew Literature Prof. Eran Sher Established by the German Associates - Graham Beck Chair in Experimental Physics - Prof. Amos Oz Prof. Grzegorz Jung Rita Altura Trust Chair in Computer Sciences - David Berg and Family Chair in Eastern European History - Prof. Shlomi Dolev Prof. Robert Liberles Joan and Robert Arnow Chair in Astrophysics - Stephen and Edith Berger Chair in Physical Metallurgy - Prof. David Eichler Prof. David Fuks Yaakov and Poriah Avnon Chair in Holocaust Studies - Martin and Rena Blackman Chair in Brain Research - Prof. Renée Poznanski Prof. Ed White Milada Ayrton Chair in Pediatrics - Blechner Chair in Jewish Tradition and Values - Prof. Matityahu Lifshitz Prof. Daniel Lasker

73 Cha!rs (Cont.)

Boyko Chair in Saline Water Irrigation - Irene Evens Chair in Inorganic Chemistry - Prof. Avigad Vonshak Pending incumbent Miles and Lillian Cahn Chair in Economic Botany in Arid Andre Feher Chair for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Zones - Diseases - Prof. Sammy Boussiba Prof. Reuben Ilia Canada Chair in Near-Eastern Archeology - Reuben and Frances Feinberg Chair in Electro-Optics - Prof. Steven A. Rosen Prof. Natan Kopeika Isaac and Elizabeth Carlin Chair in Public Health Lawrence W. and Marie Feldman Chair in Neurophysiology - and Epidemiology - Prof. Yoram Grossman Prof. Ilana Y. Shoham-Vardi Aaron Fish Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Chilewich Family Chair in Studies in Social Integration Fracture Mechanics - (in memory of Yonatan Netanyahu - Entebbe) - Prof. Mordechai Perl Prof. Julie M. Cwikel Fraida Foundation Chair in Diabetes Research - Dr. Lillian Chutick and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Chair in Prof. Nava Bashan Pediatric Medicine - Frankel Family Chair in Energy and Chemical Engineering - Prof. Asher Tal Prof. Moshe Gottlieb Israel Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering - Estelle S. Frankfurter Chair in Sephardic Studies - Prof. Moti Herskowitz Prof. Tamar Alexander Lady Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering Processes - Melvin Fusfeld Chair in Pathology - Prof. Eli Korin Prof. Daniel Ben-Arush Sir John and Lady Cohen Chair in Business Dr. Morrie M. Gelfand Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology - and Industrial Management - Prof. Eitan Lunenfeld Prof. Nachum Finger Hy Greenhill Chair in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics - Abraham Cutler Chair in Education - Prof. Reuven Segev Prof. Ismael Abu-Saad Werner J. and Charlotte A. Gunzburger Chair for the Lady Davis Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Study of Infectious Diseases - Prof. Tov Elperin Prof. Ron Dagan Deichmann-Lerner Chair in Gynecology - Samuel and Miriam L. Hamburger Chair in the Integration Prof. Moshe Mazor of Immigrant Communities - Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Chair for Distinguished Prof. Moshe Justman Visiting Professors in Business Ethics Jules Harris Chair in Oncology - Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann and Ruth Deichmann Chair Prof. Samuel Ariad in Surgery - Eugene Hecht Chair in Clinical Pharmacology - Prof. Isaac Levy Prof. Sofia Schreiber-Avissar Dr. James and Ahuva Desnick Chair in Ophthalmology - Sidonie Hecht Chair in Geriatrics - Prof. Tova Lifshitz Prof. Avram M. Clarfield Helen and Sanford Diller Family Chair in Chemical Physics - Benzion Sundel Hersch Chair in Community Health Prof. Ehud Pines and Primary Care - Jack Dreyfus Chair in Psychiatry (Unit for Phenytoin Prof. Aya Biderman Research) - Hoffer/Vickar Chair in Psychiatry (Unit for Orthomolecular Prof. Galila Agam Clinical Research) - Albert Einstein Chair in Theoretical Physics - Prof. Haim Belmaker Prof. Aharon Davidson Nat Holman Chair in Sport Research - Yosef Erteschick Chair in Nuclear Engineering - Prof. Michael Bar-Eli Prof. Zeev B. Alfassi Miriam Martha Hubert Chair in Jewish Law - Maks and Rochelle Etingin Chair in Desert Research - Prof. Gerald Blidstein Prof. Zvi Hacohen

74 Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Chair in Local Government - Kreitman Foundation Chair in Pediatric Genetics - Prof. Oren Yiftachel Prof. Rivka Carmi Dr. Lyonel Israels Chair in Haematology - Hyman Kreitman Chair in Bio-Energetics - Prof. Josef Kapelushnik Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz Paul Ivanier Chair in Management Economics - Solomon and Abraham Krok Chair in Entrepreneurial Prof. Avia Spivak Management - Albert Katz Chair in Cell-Differentiation and Malignant Prof. Ehud Menipaz Diseases - Gussie Krupp Chair in Internal Medicine - Prof. Yacob Weinstein Prof. Francis Schlaeffer Earl Katz Family Chair in Algebraic Systems Theory - Joseph H. Krupp Chair in Cancer Immunobiology - Prof. Daniel Alpay Prof. Noah Isakov Carole and Barry Kaye Chair in Applied Science - Kunin-Lunenfeld Chair in Behavioral Medical Sciences - Pending incumbent Prof. Sarah Carmel Dr. Herman Kessel Chair in Epidemiology - Dr. Sam and Edna Lemkin Chair in Rock Mechanics - Prof. Drora Fraser Prof. Yossef Hodara Hatzor Phyllis and Kurt Kilstock Chair in Environmental Physics Harry Levy Chair in Geography and Regional Planning - of Arid Zones - Prof. Yehuda Gradus Pending incumbent Sidney Liswood Chair in Health Management - Dr. Harold Korn Chair for Internal Medicine - Prof. Joseph Pliskin Prof. Dan Buskila

75 Cha!rs (Cont.)

David Lopatie Chair in Psychology - Ruth and Yuli Ofer Chair for the Study of Egypt and the Prof. Nachshon Meiran Mediterranean World Anne and Sam Lopin Chair in History - Claire and Harold Oshry Chair in Biotechnology - Prof. Yitzhak Hen Prof. Smadar Cohen Lubner Family Chair in Child Health and Development - Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut Chair in Manufacturing Engineering - Prof. Shaul Sofer Prof. Yael Edan Luck-Hille Chair in Electrical Engineering - Alain Poher Chair in Hydrogeology and Arid Zones - Prof. Dov Wulich Prof. Eilon Adar Mayman Chair in Family Medicine - Dr. Helena Rachmanska-Putzman (née Rancman) Prof. Pesach Shvartzman Chair in Neurology - Milken Family Foundation Chair in Mathematics - Prof. Itzhak Wirguin Pending incumbent Edward and Bertha Rose Chair in Desert Meteorology - Philip S. Morse Family Chair in Clinical Studies in Prof. Georgy Burde Rheumatology in memory of the Mushacki and Davide and Irene Sala Chair in Nuclear Engineering - Nachimowski Families - Prof. Alexander Galperin Pending incumbent Eric Samson Chair in Advanced Materials and Processing - Dr. Morton and Toby Mower Chair in Shock-Wave Studies - Prof. Dan Eliezer Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor Ernest Scheller, Jr. Chair in Innovative Management - Israel and Bernard Nichunsky Chair in Desert Agriculture - Prof. Amos Drory Prof. Dudy Bar-Zvi Benjamin Schwartz Chair in Agricultural Biology - Lily and Sidney Oelbaum Chair in Applied Biochemistry - Prof. Pedro Berliner Prof. Amir Sagi David and Dorothy Schwartzman Chair in Community Development - Prof. Vered Slonim-Nevo

76 Samuel Sebba Chair in Structural Geology - Research Chairs Prof. Shimon Feinstein Norman Bank Research Chair in Desert Architecture - Shane Family Chair in Education - Prof.Yair Etzion Prof. Shifra Sagy Evelyn Metz Memorial Research Chair in Art - George Shrut Chair in Human Performance Management - Prof. Katrin Kogman-Appel Prof. David Shinar Anna and Harry Singer Chair in Yiddish Studies - Career Development Chairs Pending incumbent Joan Baker Career Development Chair in Basic Medical Irving Isaac Sklar Chair in Endocrinology and Cancer - Research - Prof. Ron N. Apte Dr. Ayelet David Bennie Slome Chair for Applied Research in Animal Norbert Blechner and Friends Career Development Chair Breeding for Human Nutrition in Arid Lands - in East European Jewish Culture - Prof. Allan Degen Pending incumbent Milton (Mickey) and Frimette Snow Chair in Gerson Epstein Career Development Chair in Hospice Nanotechnology - and Palliative Care - Prof. Yehuda Band Dr. Sasson Menahem Robert St. John Chair in Objective Middle East Reporting Gerda Frieberg Career Development Chair in Agricultural Clara and Alejandro Stransky Chair in Nephrology - Water Management - Prof. Yoram Yagil Dr. Naftali Lazarovitch Benjamin Swig Chair in Chemical Processes - Gerda Frieberg Career Development Chair in Agricultural Prof. Mordechai Shacham Water Management - Anne Tanenbaum Chair in Engineering Thermodynamics - Dr. Osnat Gillor Prof. Eugene Zaretsky Ilse Katz Career Development Chair in Health Sciences Myles Thaler Chair in Plant Genetics - Research - Prof. Michal Shapira Dr. Eli C. Lewis Marsha and Kenneth Tucker Chair in Economic D.E. Koshland Jr. Family Career Development Chair in Development - Advanced Technologies in Electrical & Computer Prof. Jimmy Weinblatt Engineering – John A. Ungar Chair in Biotechnology - Dr. Rafi Shikler Prof. Shoshana Arad D.E. Koshland Jr. Family Career Development Chair in Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair in Advanced Desert Studies - Materials - Dr. Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder Prof. Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen Lapin-Garner Career Development Chair in Clinical George and Florence Wise Chair in Medical Education Surgery - Solly Yellin Chair in Lithuanian and East European Jewry - Dr. Eldad Silberstein Prof. Edward Fram Dr. Sam and Edna Lemkin Career Development Chair in Abraham and Bessie Zacks Chair in Desert Ecology - Middle East Studies - Prof. Zvika Abramsky Dr. Avi Rubin Abraham and Bessie Zacks Chair in Biomedical Engineering - Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development Prof. Joseph Kost Chair in Engineering Sciences - Zlotowski Chair in Cognitive Neuropsychology - Dr. Tal Oron-Gilad Prof. Avishai Henik Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development David and Helen Zlotowski Chair in Operator Theory Chair in Infectious Diseases - and Systems - Dr. Lisa Saidel-Odes Prof. Avraham Feintuch Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development Chair in Medicine - Dr. Yoram Etzion

77 Cha!rs (Cont.)

Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development Murray and Judith Shusterman Career Development Chair in Natural Sciences - Chair in Microbiology - Dr. Sigal Abramovitch Dr. Khalil Kashkush Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development Herman Silver Career Development Chair in Neonatology - Chair in Pediatric Medicine - Dr. Kyla-Anna Marks-Bergman Dr. Aviv Goldbart Sonnenfeldt-Goldman Career Development Chair Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development for Desert Research - Chair in Surgery - Dr. Shimon Rachmilevitch Dr. Boris Kirshtein Helen Ungar Career Development Chair in Desert Franklin Nassery Career Development Chair in Cardiology - Hydrogeology - Dr. Jean-Marc Weinstein Dr. Roni Kasher Belle and Murray Nathan Career Development Chair Zehava and Chezy Vered Career Development Chair in in Neurobiology - Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases - Pending incumbent Dr. Alon Monsonego Alice and Seymour Powers Career Development Chair in Harry Walsh, Q.C. Career Development Chair in Jewish Basic and Clinical Oncology - Law and Morality - Dr. Claude Brodski Dr. Oded Yisraeli Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies - Mendel Wasserman Career Development Chair in Dr. Anat Weisman Desert Studies - William and Jean S. Schwartz Career Development Chair Dr. Noemi Judith Tel-Zur in Community Health Professions - Elaine S. and Alvin W. Wene Career Development Chair in Dr. Abed N. Azab Biotechnology Engineering - Ralph Selig Career Development Chair in Information Theory - Dr. Lital Alfonta Dr. Ohad Ben-Shahar Joseph and May Winston Career Development Chair in Chemical Engineering - Dr. Yoav Tsori

78 Majo® Endowment Funds at BGU

Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Medical School Marco & Louise Mitrani Scholarship Endowment Fund - US Endowment Fund Mitrani / Tekoah Endowment Fund - US Zlotowski Endowment Fund Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Scholarship Endowment Fund Robert Arnow Endowment Fund Markus and Sara Pajewski Scholarship Endowment Fund Robert Arnow Endowment Fund - US - US Blaustein International Center for Desert Studies Fund Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies Jacob Blaustein Desert Research Institute Endowment Endowment Fund Fund Howard Rauberger Scholarship Endowment Fund Fund for the Graduate Center for Desert Studies at the William and Irma Rulf Endowment Fund - Centre for the Blaustein Institutes Study of European Politics and Society Blechner Center for Catalysis Endowment Fund Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Ben-Gurion Centennial Fund Jack H. Skirball Endowment Fund for Collaborative M.D. Crown Foundation Scholarship Endowment Fund for Program in International Medicine Graduate Students in Science, Math and Technology Eta and Sasson Somekh Scholarship Endowment Fund Estelle Frankfurter Endowment Funds President’s Fund for Excellence in Memory of Samuel and French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Helene Soref Biotechnology of Drylands Endowment Fund Helene K. Soref Endowment Fund Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management Gate of Aliya Endowment Fund in Memory of Yosef Tekoah Endowment Fund Zoltan Toman Equipment Endowment Fund Irving Goldman Scholarship Endowment Fund for Zoltan Toman Library Endowment Fund Doctoral Students Maria and Zoltan Toman Endowment Fund for Academic Goldstein-Goren Jewish Thought Department Excellence Endowment Fund Zoltan Toman Medical Research Fund Bella Guzick-Dresner Memorial Scholarship Endowment Zoltan Toman General Research Endowment Fund Fund Ilona and Bernat Wachs Endowment Fund Halaj Family Scholarship Endowment Fund Jack and Doris Weiler Endowment Fund for Bedouin Rosalind Henwood Scholarship Endowment Fund Studies - US Herzog Center Endowment Fund Elsa Weinberg Building Maintenance Fund Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics Research and Marion Wolcott Plotnick Scholarships for Training Family Production Management Endowment Fund Doctors Richard A. and Edythe Kane Scholarship Endowment Fund Wyler Fund for Extensive Dryland Agriculture Albert Katz Graduate Desert Study Fund Dr. Harold Korn Scholarship Endowment Fund - US Robert Arnow Scholarship Endowment Fund Prof. Daniel Koshland Fund for Research Isaac Auerbach Library Endowment Fund - US Kreitman Foundation Fellowship Endowment Fund Milada Ayrton Scholarship Endowment Fund Kreitman Family Foundation Endowment Fund Dr. Irving and Jeanette Benveniste Scholarship Fund Velva G. and H. Fred Levine BGU Kidumatica Scholarship M.R. Bloch Center for Research in Coal Technology Fund Endowment Fund Middle East Eye Research Institute (MEERI) Endowment Lady Sarah Cohen General Endowment Fund Fund Col. J. R. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sephardi Minerva Junior Research Group on Quantum-Atom Heritage Endowment Fund Optics Fund Marc and Amy Feldstein Graduate Student Scholarship Louise Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology Endowment Endowment Fund Fund - US Ira Lahat-Gerzberg Center for Business, Technology and Marco & Louise Mitrani Scholarship Endowment Fund Society Endowment Fund

79 Majo® Endowment Funds at BGU (Cont.)

Stanley Ginsburg Family Scholarship Fund Bedouin, Arab, Jewish Students Scholarship Endowment Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Biotechnology Fund Engineering Department Endowment Fund David Berg and Family Chair in Eastern European History Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Scholarship Endowment Fund Fund Benzion Zundel Hersch Center in Community Health & Graduate Students Program in Desert Studies Primary Care Endowment Fund David Hirschhorn Graduate Studies Fellowship Endowment Norbert Blechner Postgraduate Fellowships in Medical Fund Research Fund Prof. Ladislaus and Nelly Laszt Endowment Fund Dr. Lillian Chutick and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Scholarship Hans Heinz Levor Endowment Fund for Doctoral Endowment Fund Fellowships in Agriculture Research Lady Sarah Cohen General Endowment Fund Luck-Hille Scholarship Fund For Instrumentation Design Diabetes Research Program Fund Chair Dolfi and Lola Ebner Family Scholarship Endowment Fund Dr. Jacob Mantheim Scholarship Endowment Fund Mimi and Sig Feiger Perach Program Endowment Fund Joseph Meyerhoff Electrical Engineering Scholarship Fund Fohs Foundation Undergraduate and Graduate Monaster Center for Economic Research Endowment Fund Scholarship Fund Dr. and Mrs. Morton Mower Scholarship Endowment Fund Samuel Jacob Fox and Gertrude Alice Fox Scholarship David and Inez Myers Fndt. Recruitment and Retention Endowment Fund Endowment Fund for Young Scientists in the Life Sciences Fox Chase Cancer Center/BGU Collaborative Research One Vision Endowment Fund Endowment Fund - US Peace Endowment Fund Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Sciences Samuel and Helene Soref Graduate Scholarship Endowment Endowment Fund Fund Dr. Zeev and Shlomit Gilad Memorial Scholarship Fund Samuel and Helene Soref Library Development Fund Jean Goldsmith Ethiopian Jews Integration Endowment Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Fund Work Endowment Fund The Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Scholarship Endowment Fund Robert St. John Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salam Horace W. Goldsmith Fdtn. Endowed Graduate Endowment Fund for Educational Support Scholarship in Science, Math and Technology Anne Tanenbaum Scholarship Endowment Fund in the Jacob A. and Saralie Goodman Scholarship Endowment Engineering Faculty Fund Tauber Family Scholarship Fund in Memory of Dr. Z. Kohn, Goodman Family Endowment Fund for Graduate and S. Barna and Dr. J. and S. Pfeiffer Post Graduate Research at Albert Katz International Herbert and Vivian Thaler Visiting Scientists Endowment School for Desert Studies Fund Hochman Scholarships - Medical Endowment Fund - US Zoltan Toman Maintenance Endowment Fund Hurst Family Center for Community Leadership Jack D. Weiler Fellowships Endowment Fund Development Fund Bloom Zeitlin Scholarship Endowment Fund Ingerman Family Scholarship Endowment Fund Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics Fund Alfassa Foundation Scholarship Endowment Fund Kreitman Comparative Medicine Chair Endowment Fund Robert H. Arnow Endowment Fund for Bedouin Students Neil Kreitman Library Development Fund - US Philip Krupp Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Milada Ayrton Sports Endowment Fund Kunin-Lunenfeld Chair Endowment Fund Azrieli Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Lily S. and Herman M. Kurtz Scholarship Endowment Fund Dr. Sonia and Berthold Badler Endowment Fund for Charles and Rose LeVita Endowment Fund - US Architecture Prof. Jacques Lewiner Standing Chemistry Fund Ecology Research Fund in Memory of Seldon & Etan Lorry Lokey Endowment Fund - US Bard - US Mackoff Scholarship Endowment Fund - US

80 Werner Marienthal Scholarship Endowment Fund Leanor Segal Scholarship Endowment Fund Waldo Mayo Memorial Scholarship Fund George Shrut Scholarship Fund Prof. Dan Meyerstein Chemistry Research Endowment Fund Social Integration Endowment Fund Minerva Center Endowment Fund Jack J. & Charlotte Spitzer Endowment Fund for Social Gertrude and Bernard Mohr Scholarship Endowment Fund Work Masters Program Dr. Milton M. Paul Endowment Fund for Cardio-Vascular Robert St. John Chair in Objective Middle East Reporting Research i/h/o Shia, Mary & Marvin Politsky Endowment Fund Prywes Medical Library Endowment Fund Steg Family Scholarship Endowment Fund Racquela Prywes Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund Sergey and Maria Steuerman Scholarship Endowment S. Putzman Chair Fund Fund - US Sidney R. and Esther V. Rabb Center for Holocaust and Prof. J. Yannai Tabb Memorial Cancer Research Grants Redemption Studies Endowment Fund Fund Martin and Truus Rosenthal Freedom From Hunger Fund Herbert and Vivian Thaler Visiting Scientists Endowment Davide and Irene Sala Chair In Nuclear Engineering Fund Fund Eric and Sheila Samson Fellowship Endowment Fund Toronto Prize for Excellence in Research Saverino Technology Development Fund Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Scholarship Endowment Fund Schwartzman/Medvedi Fund for Research in Arid Zones Florence and George Wise Medical Education Chair Fund and Aquatic Biotechnology Sam Zuckerberg Scholarship Endowment Fund for the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research

81 Honorary Dәgrees

Lifetime Achievement Award 1981 1988 1996 Prof. John Beck Conrad Abrahams-Curiel Milada Ayrton Milada Ayrton Suzanne Zlotowski 1982 Sir Isaiah Berlin Judge Shlomo Elkayam Yeshayahu Dan 1997 General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Prof. Michael Feldman Ilse Katz Dr. Zoltan Toman Prof. Sidney Gelber George Shrut David Tuviyahu (posthumous) Moshe Nessim Prof. Elie Wiesel 1998 1983 Aharon Yadlin Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Roberta Abrams Prof. Sidney Gelber Prof. Michael Evenari 1989 Hyman Kreitman Senator Edward M. Kennedy Norbert Blechner Prof. Benjamin Mazar Avram Goldstein-Goren 1999 Prof. Cecil G. Sheps Prof. Zeev Hadari Norbert Blechner Prof. Roald Hoffmann 1984 Philip Krupp 2000 Arnold Forster Milton Petrie Robert H. Arnow Dr. Thomas O. Hecht Prof. Menahem E. Yaari Shimon Peres Shimon Peres Haim Zadok Isaac Bashevis Singer Suzanne Zlotowski 2001 Barbara Tuchman Edgar D. de Picciotto Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach 1990 Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Prof. Shimshon Amitsur 2003 Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Jack J. Spitzer 1985 Ronald Oelbaum Prof. Joshua Jortner Leonard Shane 2004 Teddy Kollek Nathan Sharansky Col. Ilan Ramon (posthumous) Dr. George Wise Prof. Solomon H. Snyder Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Maestro Isaac Stern 1986 2010 Justice Simon Agranat 1991 Prof. Avishay Braverman President Chaim Herzog Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Joseph Jacobson Uri Lubrani Doctor of Philosophy Dr. Paul Janssen Annemarie Renger Honoris Causa Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg Prof. Alexander E. Sheindlin 1979 Dr. Abram L. Sachar Jack J. Spitzer Aron Chilewich Maj. Gen. (res.) Israel Tal Prof. Haim Hanani 1987 Hyman Kreitman Lady Sarah Cohen 1992 Prof. Moshe Rachmilewitz Prof. Haim Harari Prof. Kenneth J. Arrow Paul Ivanier Abba Eban 1980 Abba Kovner Amb. Max Kampelman Lane Kirkland Bertram Lubner Ilse Katz Dr. Alec Lerner Prof. Moshe Prywes President François Mitterrand Prof. Leo Picard George Shrut Dr. Davide Sala Prof. Natan Rosen

82 Eric Samson Simon Wiesenthal 2000 President Ezer Weizman Dr. Felix Zandman Zvi Alon Ing. Pedro Dondisch 1993 1997 Prof. Jacob Frenkel Yitzhak Ben-Aharon S. Daniel Abraham Haim Gouri Mendel Kaplan Amb. Asher Ben-Natan Sami Michael Siegfried Lenz Harry T. Dozor Prof. Sadako Ogata Naomi Shemer Ruth Dayan Prof. Michael Rabin Anne Tanenbaum Shlomo Hillel Prof. Meir Wilchek Prof. Pinhas Zusman Prof. Ora Kedem James D. Wolfensohn President Nelson Mandela Prof. Amnon Yariv 1994 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan Solly Yellin Robert H. Arnow President Yitzhak Navon David Hirschhorn Dr. Ferdinand Piëch 2001 Philip R. Lee Prof. Howard Raiffa Dr. Hubert Burda Yitzhak Rabin Dr. Edward Steinberg Abby Joseph Cohen Edgar D. de Picciotto Prof. Zvi Yavetz Prof. Raymond A. Dwek Zwi Zurr Lord Foster of Thames Bank 1995 Efraim Kishon Amb. Mohamed Abdel Aziz Bassiouny 1998 Gustave Leven Dr. Domingo Cavallo Yehiel Admoni Prof. Bracha Ramot Prof. Daniel Cohen Eric A. Benhamou Rabbi Dr. Alexandre Safran Ariel Elia Prof. Haim Doron Prof. Michael Sela Dr. Wolfgang Hasenclever Prof. Stanley Fisher Avraham Seroussi Prof. Jacob Katz President Roman Herzog Ariel Sharon Dr. Helmut Kohl Dr. Henry Kissinger Robert St. John Harold Oshry Mario Vargas Llosa Justice Meir Shamgar President Dr. Johannes Rau 2002 Avraham Shohat Yitzhak Shamir Prof. Baruch Blumberg Frederick Siegmund Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth Elie Elalouf Michael W. Sonnenfeldt Kenneth L. Tucker President Vicente Fox Quesada Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Ed Vickar Amb. Richard Holbrooke Martin Wyler Stef Wertheimer Eli Hurvitz Efraim Ilin 1996 1999 Prof. Philip Needleman Moshe Arens Yehuda Amichai Prof. Gershon Shaked Dr. Joseph Burg Roberto Benigni Prof. Dan Shechtman Arye Lova Eliav Prof. Yehudit Birk Friede Springer Dr. Paul Feher Yoel De Malach Elsa Weinberg Dr. Johannes Gerster Uzia Galil Prof. Ada Yonath Nadine Gordimer Prof. Sir Aaron Klug Rosalind Henwood Albert Memmi 2003 President Prof. Ephraim Katzir Prof. Klaus Schwab Prof. Haim Aviv Hubert Leven Murray H. Shusterman Arnold M. Bengis Prof. Bernard Lewis Barbara Walters Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. Harry Stern Prof. Joel L. Fleishman Prof. Joseph Stiglitz Prof. Hillel Furstenberg

83 Honorary Dәgrees (Cont.)

Dorian S. Goldman Stephen K. Breslauer Haim Yavin Lawrence Goodman Prof. Yossi Gorny Roy J. Zuckerberg Prof. Daniel Kahneman Yair Green Dr. Bernard Kouchner Morris S. Kahn 2010 Dr. Mathilde Krim Prof. Alexander Levitzki Rachel Elboim Dror Dr. Richard A. Lerner Maestro Shlomo Mintz Prof. Peter Fritz Dr. Paul A. Marks Orna Porat Yekutiel Gershoni Eliyahu Navi Prof. A. Michael Spence Gustave S. Levey Amram Mitzna 2004 2007 H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos Eliyahu Amir Prof. Aharon Appelfeld Toby Mower Nina Brink Prof. Ruth Arnon Abraham Ben David Ohayon Edgar M. Bronfman Robert Equey Eliora Ron Prof. Aaron J. Ciechanover Haim Israeli Eric F. Ross Prof. Beno Eckmann Ada Karmi-Melamede Dr. Martine Rothblatt Ida Fink Dr. Marie-Claire King H.E. Simone Veil Prof. Alain Finkielkraut Galia Maor A.B. Yehoshua Dr. Richard D. Klausner Channa Marron Benzion Landa Prof. Michael I. Posner Honorary Fellow Dr. Howard W. Marcus Marc Rich 1972 Lottie R. Marcus Leanor Segal Prof. Rudolf Bloch Amb. Thomas R. Pickering Prof. Hermona Soreq Seymour R. Powers 1974 Lt. Col. (res.) Arnold Simon 2008 Prof. Ernst David Bergmann Prof. Sasson Somekh Prof. Yehuda Bauer Frederick Durrenmatt The Rt. Hon. David Trimble MK Prof. Avishay Braverman Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1980 2005 Justice Dalia Dorner Erik Blumenfeld, MdB Yossi Banai Stanley D. Ginsburg Rear Admiral (ret.) Dr. Susan J. Dr. Ágnes Heller 1982 Blumenthal Prof. Amos Oz Col. J.R. Elyachar Lucien Y. Bronicki Tzipi Pines Proshan Ralph I. Goldman Baron David René James de Rothschild 1988 Dr. Leroy E. Hood Carol Saal Sueng Yune Yoo Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Rubin Salant Claude Lelouch Prof. Michal Schwartz Honorary Research Fellow Morton L. Mandel 1978 Richard J. Pratt AC 2009 Giuseppe Saverino Prof. Jehuda Reinharz Dr. Mohammed Al-Hadid Terry Meyerhoff Rubenstein Gila Almagor Ali Salem (in absentia) Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund Justice Jacob Türkel Dani Karavan Amb. Ronald S. Lauder 2006 Rina Schenfeld Shulamit Aloni Prof. Alice Shalvi André Azoulay Prof. Anita Shapira Justice Aharon Barak Prof. Dr. Bernhard Vogel

84 Board of Governo®s (As of April 2011)

Chairman Prof. Amir Sagi, Dean, Faculty of Judge Jacob Türkel, Israel Roy J. Zuckerberg, United States Natural Sciences Dr. Esther Luzzatto Prof. Shaul Sofer, Dean, Faculty of Honorary Chairman Health Sciences Members Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, United Prof. Ayala M. Pines, Dean, Guilford Alfredo Achar Tussie, Mexico Kingdom Glazer Faculty of Business and Brig. Gen. Udi Adam, Israel Management Nachum Admoni, Israel Chairman Emeritus Prof. Michal Shapira, Dean, Kreitman Yehiel Admoni, Israel Robert H. Arnow, United States School of Advanced Graduate Eliyahu Amir, Israel Studies Giora Amir, Israel Vice-Chairpersons Prof. Pedro Berliner, Director, Jacob Adiel Amorai, Israel Zvi Alon, United States Blaustein Institutes for Desert Dr. Micha Angel, Israel Eric A. Benhamou, United States Research Amb. Shimshon Arad, Israel Sir Ronald Cohen, United Kingdom Prof. Miriam Amit, Dean, Eilat Campus Moshe Arkin, Israel Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann, Germany Prof. Samuel Aroni, United States Dame Vivien Duffield, United Kingdom Honorary Members David Asch, Canada Bertram Lubner, Sou th Africa Prof. Dov Bahat, Israel Amb. Colette Avital, Israel Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, United States M.K. Prof. Avishay Braverman, Israel Meir Avital, Israel Dr. Felix Zandman, United States Prof. Chaim Elata, Israel Prof. Haim Aviv, Israel Suzanne Zlotowski, Switzerland Prof. Nachum Finger, Israel Danna Azrieli, Israel Nissim Gaon, Switzerland Avner Azulay, Israel Chairman of the Maj. Gen. (res) Shlomo Gazit, Israel Prof. Harold Baum, United Kingdom Executive Committee Martin Levine, Canada Prof. John Beck, United States Yair Green, Israel President Shimon Peres, Israel Maj. Gen. (res) Avihu Ben-Nun, Israel Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, UK Uri Ben Nun, Israel Vice-Chairpersons of the Dr. Eric Samson, South Africa Jacob Ben-Ezry, Israel Executive Committee Caroline Simon, Israel Amb. Asher Ben-Natan, Israel Dvora Tomer, Israel Prof. Avraham Tamir, Israel Shaul Ben-Simchon, Israel Aharon Yadlin, Israel Harry Walsh, Q.C., Canada Raya Strauss Bendror, Israel Prof. David Wolf, Israel Shmuel Bendror, Israel Ex-Officio Members Prof. Gilbert Benhayoun, France Prof. Rivka Carmi, President Founding Members Terry Bensimon, Israel Prof. Zvi Hacohen, Rector Prof. Chaim Doron, Israel Yechiel Bentov, Israel Prof. Moti Herskowitz, Vice-President Eliyahu Navi, Israel Pierre Besnainou, France and Dean for R&D Yehoshua Zimra, Israel Yitzhak Bezalel, Israel David Bareket, Vice-President and Danièle Bidermann, France Director-General Public Representatives Prof. Yehudith Birk, Israel Prof. Amos Drory, Vice-President for To the Executive Committee Martin Blackman, United States External Affairs Dr. Younis Abu-Rabia, Israel Prof. Baruch Blumberg, United States Prof. Yael Edan, Deputy-Rector Micha Dapht, Israel Dr. Josef Bollag, Switzerland Prof. Avishay Goldberg, Deputy-Rector Elie Elalouf, Israel Benjamin Breslauer, United States Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor, Dean , Faculty of Moshe Haba, Israel James Breslauer, United States Engineering Sciences Asher Heled, Israel Stephen Breslauer, United States Prof. David Newman, Dean, Pinchas Benjamin Machnes, Israel Jane Bressler, United States Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Moshe Olenik, Israel Igal Brightman, Israel Social Sciences Shay Talmon, Israel Bruce Bronfman, Canada Yitzhak Taub, Israel Lucien Y. Bronicki, Israel

85 Board of Governo®s (Cont.)

Eliezer Carmel, Israel Alexander Goren, United States Yossi Maiman, Israel Prof. Malcolm Chaikin, Australia Maurice Grosman, France Ellen Marcus, United States Eric Charles, United Kingdom Michael M. H. Gross, Israel Dr. Paul Marks, United States Jacqueline Charles, United Kingdom Daniel Guggenheim, Switzerland Ehud Marom, Israel Joseph Ciechanover, Israel Prof. Thomas Guggenheim, Francis C. Minkoff, Switzerland Jordan Cohen, Canada Switzerland Oren N. Most, Israel Prof. Moshe J. Cohen, United Yitzhak Gurevitch, Israel Dr. Mort Mower, United States Kingdom Esther Halperin, Switzerland Toby Mower, United States Esther Coopersmith, United States Michel Halperin, Switzerland Akiva Mozes, Israel Reuben Croll, Canada Micha Harish, Israel Suzanne Nash, United States Leslie L. Dan, Canada Dr. Thomas O. Hecht, Canada President Yitzhak Navon, Israel Ruvik Danilovich, Israel Prof. Adam Heller, United States Prof. Philip Needleman, United States Prof. Ute Deichmann, Germany Amb. Esther Herlitz, Israel Klaus Netter, Switzerland Helen Diller, United States Jakob Hirsch, Israel Meir Nissensohn, Israel Prof. Charles A. Dinarello, United Prof. Ehud Houminer, United States Annette Oelbaum, Canada States Alan Hurst, United States Leora Ofer, Israel Maj. Gen. (res) Aharon Doron, Israel Yoram Hurvitz, Israel Yuli Ofer, Israel Brig. Gen. (res.) Amira Dotan, Israel Miriam Hyams, United Kingdom Abraham B.D. Ohayon, Switzerland Rina Dotan, Israel Ahouva Ilan, Israel Yoram Oron, Israel Prof. Raymond A. Dwek FRS, United Haim Israeli, Israel Suzanne Oshry, United States Kingdom Irit Izakson, Israel Andrey Ozan, Israel Amos Eiran, Israel Paul Jacobs, Q.C., Canada Harold Paisner, United Kingdom Huguette Elhadad Charvit, Israel Elhanan A. Jaglom, Israel Judith Paisner, United Kingdom Ovadia Eli, Israel Dr. Josef Joffe, Germany Martin Paisner OBE, United Kingdom Ariel Elia, United States Prof. Joshua Jortner, Israel Michael Pappe, Israel Victor Elias, Canada Prof. Peter Kahn, United States Amb. Aviezer Pazner, Israel Robert Equey, Switzerland Obadia Kalai, Israel Daniel Peremen, Israel Dr. Halley S. Faust, United States Mathilde Kandiyoti, Belgium Nitza Drori Peremen, Israel Lawrence N. Field, United States Dalia Katzman-Prashker, Israel Judge Yehoshua Pilpel, Israel Gerald L. Feifer, Canada Arieh Kleinman, Israel Prof. Samuel Pohoryles, Israel Gary Fine, Canada Prof. Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS, United Dan Propper, Israel Aaron Fish, Canada Kingdom Prof. Yves Quere, France Aharon Fogel, Israel Doron Kofman, Israel Irith Rappaport, Israel Alain Fraiberger, Switzerland Alain Köstenbaum, Switzerland Shmuel Rifman, Israel Solomon Freedman, United States Prof. Mordecai Kurz, United States Jacob Rovner, Israel Prof. Jacob Frenkel, Israel Martin Landau, United Kingdom Barrie D. Rose, Canada Prof. Saul Friedlander, Israel Bruno Landesberg, Israel Haim Rosen, Israel Lis Gaines, United States Amb. Dr. Yehuda Lankri, Israel Amb. Dr. Meir Rosenne, Israel Dr. Elon Ganor, Israel Dr. Samuel S. Lawson, United Joseph Rosh, Israel Prof. Sidney Gelber, United States Kingdom Lyon Roth, United States Lic. Boris Gerson, Mexico Dalia Lev, Israel Maj. Gen. (res) Danny Rothschild, Eric Ghebali, France Gustave S. Levey, United States Israel Hasson Goldberg, Israel Ilan Leviteh, Israel Avi Ruimi, Israel Dorian S. Goldman, United States Yaacov Lifshitz, Israel Carol D. Saal, United States Lloyd Goldman, United States Barry Lipson, Canada Arnold L. Sabin, United States Prof. Richard Goldstein, United States Yitzhak Livni, Israel Rubin Salant, United States Lawrence Goodman, United States Ron Lubash, Israel

86 Maj. Gen. (res) Dr. Yom-Tov Samia, Dov Tadmor, Israel Mayer Zaga Galante, Mexico Israel Irona Taic, Israel Prof. Moshe Zakai, Israel Jean-Louis Sarbib, France Micha Talmon, Israel Dr. Mina Zemach, Israel Jane Krieger Schapiro, United States Omri Talmon, Israel Rubin Zimmerman, Israel Zeev Schoenberg, Israel Joey Tanenbaum, Canada Adelene Zlotowski, United Kingdom Lic. Osvaldo Schvartzer, Argentina Yitzhak Taub, Israel Gaby Sebbag, Israel Ruth Tekoah, Israel Representatives of the Senate Leanor Segal, Canada Ariela Terner, Israel Prof. Aharon Davidson Shlomo Segev, Israel Yaakov Terner, Israel Prof. Avishay Goldberg Ofer Sela, Israel MK Yoash Tsiddon (Chatto), Israel Prof. Haim Kreissel Arie Shachar, Israel Kenneth L. Tucker, United States Prof. David Shinar Moshe Shalit, Israel Benny Vaknin, Israel Prof. Naty Urieli Yair Shamir, Israel Zehava Vered, Israel Col. (res) Gideon Shani, Israel Zwi Waldman, Israel Representatives of the Students Dr. Nitza Shapira-Libai, Israel Alan Warshawsky, Israel Hai Piasetzki Prof. Dan Shechtman, Israel Elsa Weinberg, Switzerland Alon Dotan Eli Shefler, Israel Aileen Whitman, United States Uri Keidar Dr. Yaacov Sheinin, Israel Prof. Meir Wilchek, Israel Barak Hershkowitz Dan Sheinman, Israel Dr. Thomas E.J. de Witt, United Amb. Zalman Shoval, Israel States Liaison Officer to the Murray H. Shusterman, United States Martin Wolf OBE, United Kingdom Board of Governors Frederick Siegmund, United States Gerard Worms, France Anne Berkeley Arnold Simon, Israel Michael L. Wyler, The Netherlands Dr. Joel Sinnreich, Switzerland Michael S. Wynston, Canada Secretary to the Executive Harriet Soffa, United States Prof. Menahem Yaari, Israel Committee Amb. Dr. Ovadia Soffer, Israel Estelle Yach, South Africa Dalit Solomon-Kfir Ruth St. John, United States Zvi Yemini, Israel Prof. Daniel Sternheimer, France Meir Yitzhak-Halevy, Israel Prof. Dr. Heinrich Strotmann, Germany Shlomo G. Yonas, Israel

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SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL AND LONDON REGION MID-ATLANTIC REGION SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATES ORT House 261 Old York Road, Suite 417A OF BGU (SAABGU) 126 Albert Street P.O. Box 1128 Bertram Lubner, President London NW1 7NE Jenkintown, PA 19046 Herby Rosenberg, Vice President [email protected] [email protected] UNITED STATES Brenda Stern, Executive Director AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF BGU NORTHWEST REGION [email protected] (AABGU) 240 Tamal Vista Boulevard Alexander M. Goren, President Suite 260 NATIONAL OFFICE and Doron Krakow Corte Madera, CA 94925 JOHANNESBURG OFFICE Executive Vice President [email protected] P.O. Box 895 www.aabgu.org Saxonwold 2132 SOUTHWEST REGION NATIONAL OFFICE and 9911 West Pico Boulevard WESTERN CAPE CHAPTER GREATER NEW YORK and Suite 710 P.O. Box 2350 NEW ENGLAND REGIONS Los Angeles, CA 90035 Cape Town 8000 1430 Broadway, 8th Floor [email protected] New York, NY 10018 SWITZERLAND [email protected] 2611 Vista Way AMIS DE SUISSE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ Grand Junction, CO 81506 BEN-GOURION DU NEGUEV GREAT LAKES REGION [email protected] Michel Halpérin, President 250 Parkway Drive, Suite 150 Elise Donat, Representative Lincolnshire, IL 60069 WASHINGTON / BALTIMORE [email protected] [email protected] REGION 4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 200 5, avenue Léon-Gaud GREATER FLORIDA REGION Bethesda, MD 20814 CH-1206 Geneva 20283 State Road 7, Suite 200 [email protected] Boca Raton, FL 33498 UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION GREATER TEXAS REGION Harold Paisner, President 24 Greenway Plaza, Suite 550 Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Houston, TX 77046 Vice President [email protected] Suzanne Zlotowski, Vice President Natasha Shifrin, Executive Director [email protected]

89 BGU A Un!versity with Impact

90 BGU is realizing the dream of Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who understood the power and potential of an academic institution to transform the region.

Committed to excellence in teaching and research.

At the forefront of technological innovation and commercial development.

Advancing social justice through community outreach.

BGU is consistently voted #1 in student satisfaction for both its caring atmosphere and overall learning experience.

Learn more about how you can advance the pioneering research and educational opportunities that are flourishing in the Negev, but making an impact around the world. www.bgu.ac.il or [email protected] “Created to make the desert bloom, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has proven that local solutions can have a global impact.”

University President, Prof. Rivka Carmi

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