President's Report 2016 VISION

COUNTING UP TO 50

President's Report 2016 Chairman’s Message 6 President’s Message 7 BGU by the Numbers 8 Senior Administration 12 Counting Up to 50 14 BGU’s Architectural Heritage 16 Home to the Future 22 New & Noteworthy 25 International Affairs 40 Community Outreach 43 Campus Life 48 Recognizing Our Friends 53 Board of Governors 85 Associates Organizations 88

My Corner on Campus BGU’s campuses are more than offices, labs and classrooms. They are a HOME, where we experience, reflect, grow and transform.

Bery Shvarts 24 Eli Saal 31 Prof. Moshe Kaspi 35 Brandon Payne and Darnell Jones 38 Eman Abu Aiada 42 Prof. Yoav Tsori 45 Dr. Maria (Masha) Vyazmensky 52

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6 President's Report 2016

From the Chairman

We are often reminded of David Ben-Gurion’s vision for change to which George brought his energy and wisdom the Negev and of the emphasis he put on its development to the benefit of BGU. for the future of the State of Israel. He understood the potential of an academic institution to drive progress and Lord Weidenfeld was one of the most decorated Jews transform the region. Located in the heart of the Negev, in Britain, a great Zionist, a unique intellect and a warm our University has played a pivotal role in translating his human being. His widow, Annabelle, remains a valued vision into reality. friend of BGU.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is now heading With an eye to the future, I am delighted to announce towards its 50th anniversary and we can reflect with great that Lloyd Goldman, currently President of the American pride on the achievements of the last half century whilst Associates, has agreed to serve as Deputy Chairman aiming for even greater heights in the next one. BGU of the Board of Governors. Lloyd and his family are an will continue to invest in people – students, researchers, integral part of the fabric of our University, and as head teachers and staff; in ideas, and in technologies that of the AABGU Board, he has been an exemplary leader. strengthen the weaker sections of society and help build Already a valued part of the University’s Chairman’s bridges with Israel’s neighbors, especially today when so Council of Country Associates, his wisdom and energy will many barriers exist. be invaluable to our continuing work and I thank him for agreeing to this extra responsibility. The establishment of new research institutes, centers and laboratories, along with the upgrading of existing My friends and fellow Governors around the world, units, has made a major contribution to interdisciplinary without your support we would not have achieved the research. Today, BGU is a globally recognized research success we celebrate now. You have laid the foundations university, and a new generation of young men and for the future and as we look ahead to the enormous women who are studying, debating and working together challenge of providing the new second stage of our at BGU play an important part in improving the lives of magnificent campus, referred to as North Campus, I people far beyond the borders of this small country. We am reminded of the saying in Pirkei Avot: ”You are not are privileged, all of us, to be part of this great and noble required to complete the task, yet you are not free to endeavor. withdraw from it.” We are all aware of how much there is still to do and I am confident that you will join me in Since 2006, Prof. Rivka Carmi has led BGU with wisdom embracing the challenges ahead. and energy and with a common sense approach that has allowed her to overcome many challenges from which lesser individuals would have run. As Chairman of the Board of Governors I enjoy our partnership, value her friendship and wish her continued success at the helm.

I wish to pay tribute to the man who headed our Board of Governors from 1996 until 2004, the late Lord George Weidenfeld. This was a period of tremendous growth and Alexander M. Goren Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 7

From the President

As we count up to our 50th anniversary, our jubilee will follow, features some of these accomplishments over celebration, we look back on our impressive the past fifty years. This issue highlights BGU’s unique accomplishments over the past half century in terms of architecture as it complements the Negev landscape. It is the groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from not by chance that most visitors comment on how lovely our labs and classrooms; the beauty of our campuses, the campus is, or that the students enthusiastically take which have grown exponentially; and our significant impact advantage of every aspect of it. It is a 'home away from on the Negev region and the entire world, all driven by home,' attentive, welcoming and warm for students, the remarkable people who make up our ranks. We take faculty and visitors. great pride in our success and have no doubt that we will continue to exceed every expectation. In that spirit of recognition, we are saddened by the loss of four dear friends this year. Lord George Weidenfeld Leveraging that success, we are now planning the served as Chairman of the Board of Governors and was University’s expansion into North Campus. The first instrumental for many years in connecting people to buildings on North Campus will be the Undergraduate BGU. Bertie Lubner, a dear friend of BGU for over 40 Village. Naturally, it is imperative that our students have years, was a staunch supporter of students both at BGU reasonably-priced, comfortable accommodations. BGU is and at home in South Africa. Magnanimous benefactors not a commuter school; our students come to Beer-Sheva Lottie Marcus, and Howard Marcus who passed away two to study and to live here for three years or longer and years ago wholeheartedly embraced the BGU vision and need a home on or near campus. their legacy will live on even as we miss their indomitable spirits. Edgar de Picciotto was the visionary and the As an emerging global city, Beer-Sheva is also in need of force behind the National Institute for Biotechnology in a suitable international conference center, a venue for the Negev, which despite the challenges, transformed a major academic conferences and other important events. dream into reality.

As you are all well aware, such a massive long-term We will miss their steadfast support and enthusiasm and undertaking is also a costly one. That is why we have honor them in the best way we know – by making BGU launched our jubilee campaign five years ahead. Already great! halfway to our goal, we are turning to you, my dear friends, because I know that you believe in the capacity Dear friends, in the coming five years, your support and and capability of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as enthusiasm will be needed more than ever before. I know much as I do. The need to expand is a natural outcome of that all I have to do is offer you the challenge and you will our years of consistent investment in research excellence rise to meet it. and infrastructure building. We now have many more assets and research strengths than in the past and we Thank you as ever for your friendship and support. fully intend to leverage them into ever more stellar research achievements and unique collaborations.

Even as we look ahead, we recognize what has come before. This annual publication, as well as the four that Prof. Rivka Carmi 8 President's Report 2016

BGU By the Numbers

BGU by the Numbers Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is evolving to meet the challenges of the global research environment, investing in new laboratories and young researchers, while planning the major expansion of the Marcus Family Campus to North Campus. With an emphasis on developing collaborative research with the world’s leading universities and international corporations, BGU is positioning itself to take a leading role in the 21st century.

BGU added 36 new junior and senior faculty members this year, bringing our total faculty on all campuses to 823. At a time when enrollment is decreasing at all higher education institutions throughout Israel, BGU has largely held steady. Numbers of students and research budgets did not change significantly from last year, which enables the University to continue its future planning without untoward surprises.

Distribution of Students by Faculty and Degrees 2014−2016 Humanities Natural Engineering Health Business and Desert Kreitman Ben- and Social Sciences Sciences Sciences Management Studies Graduate Gurion Sciences School Institute 2015-16 Bachelor’s 3,897 1,987 4,378 2,074 1,064 Master’s 1,385 237 821 545 1,230 107 25 Ph.D. 447 272 315 219 71 104 127 Post-Doc 53 98 56 30 4 36 2 Non- 147 69 229 21 30 4 Degree Teaching 300 Certificate Total 6,178 2,651 5,724 2,851 2,397 246 129 25 TOTAL 19,277 2014-15 Bachelor’s 3,987 1,935 4,487 2,006 1,115 Master’s 1,389 230 882 568 1,241 110 23 Ph.D. 457 270 305 220 60 114 132 Post-Doc 71 94 47 21 6 18 1 Non- 168 46 138 17 32 2 1 Degree Teaching 322 Certificate Total 6,338 2,569 5,797 2,796 2,454 239 133 24 TOTAL 19,475

Please note, the student numbers have been reorganized and currently include all students studying at BGU in Beer-Sheva, Sede Boqer and Eilat in both degree and non-degree programs. Not all totals add up because there are students enrolled in multiple faculties or pursing multiple degrees. The above figures refer to first semester only. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 9

TOTAL EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING TOTAL INVESTMENT IN RESEARCH ($US M) ($US M)

84.3 81.3 82.0 79.2 99.1 98.3 97.0 97.1 94.3 8.9 13.4 11.4 74.5 11.4 14.8 15.1 19.1 71.9 88.1 15.7 19.8 9.8 16.1 8.1 75.4 70.6 84.3 82.0 67.9 67.8 81.3 63.8 64.7 79.2 74.5 72.0

2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15

Grants and contracts Total external research funding Other sources BGU research funding

Percentage of Grants By Faculty 2014/15

Faculty of Engineering Sciences 42%

Faculty of Natural Sciences 21%

Faculty of Health Sciences 19%

Pinchas Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 10%

Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research 7%

Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management 1% 10 President's Report 2016

BGU By the Numbers

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Operating Budget

2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 NIS m $ m % NIS m $ m % NIS m $ m % % change INCOME Planning & Budgeting 851.7 230.2 72.3% 867.0 240.8 71.9% 882.5 226.3 72.2% 1.8% Committee Tuition and Dorms 195.0 52.7 16.5% 200.4 55.7 16.6% 204.1 52.3 16.7% 1.8% Contributions 13.0 3.5 1.1% 12.6 3.5 1.0% 13.7 3.5 1.1% 8.7% Endowment Funds 42.0 11.4 3.6% 50.0 13.9 4.1% 50.0 12.8 4.1% 0.0% Other Income 62.1 16.8 5.3% 60.9 16.9 5.1% 69.3 17.8 5.7% 13.8% Transfer from Funds 14.7 4.0 1.3% 14.8 4.1 1.2% 3.3 0.8 0.3% -77.9% TOTAL 1,178.5 318.5 100.0% 1,205.7 334.9 100.0% 1,222.9 313.6 100.0% 1.4%

EXPENDITURE Salaries 857.6 231.8 72.8% 888.4 246.8 73.7% 907.8 232.8 74.2% 2.2% Fellowships & Student 68.1 18.4 5.8% 70.4 19.5 5.8% 70.1 18.0 5.7% -0.4% Assistance Teaching & Research 43.4 11.7 3.7% 44.0 12.2 3.6% 43.7 11.2 3.6% -0.6% Expenses Institute & Research 45.9 12.4 3.9% 43.8 12.2 3.6% 39.2 10.1 3.2% -10.5% Centers Computer Expenses 11.3 3.1 1.0% 11.9 3.3 1.0% 13.4 3.4 1.1% 12.6% Library Expenses 25.8 7.0 2.2% 25.7 7.1 2.1% 28.3 7.3 2.3% 10.2% Administration 30.1 8.1 2.6% 28.2 7.8 2.3% 28.8 7.4 2.4% 2.3% Maintenance 87.6 23.7 7.4% 84.9 23.6 7.0% 83.7 21.5 6.8% -1.4% Financing 8.6 2.3 0.7% 8.5 2.4 0.7% 7.8 2.0 0.6% -8.2% TOTAL 1,178.5 318.5 100.0% 1,205.7 334.9 100.0% 1,222.9 313.6 100.0% 1.4%

NIS/$ exchange rate: 3.70 3.60 3.90 8.3% Higher education budgeting index 125 126.5 127.2

2015/16 Overall University Budget (NIS Thousands in Current Prices)

Operating Budget Research Budget Development Budget Special Programs Total Budget Expenditures 1,222,896 298,000 113,817 115,236 1,749,949 Income 1,222,896 304,755 113,817 120,176 1,761,644 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 11

BGN Technologies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s innovative spirit was recognized last year when BGU ranked among the top 100 worldwide universities granted US patents. BGN Technologies develops and manages the University’s ties with the business world, linking research with industry, creating joint research centers, patenting and licensing BGU's technologies and establishing new startup companies.

BGN Technologies BGN Technologies is taking a leading role in is taking a leading the creation of a vibrant hi-tech ecosystem role in the creation and fostering cooperation between more of a vibrant hi- than 40 companies at the Gav Yam Negev tech ecosystem Advanced Technologies Park (ATP) adjacent to the University. There are now over 1,400 and fostering hi-tech employees in Beer-Sheva, up from cooperation just 100 two years ago, and the plan is to between more than expand to some 7,000 over the next seven enabling digital health and education 40 companies at the years. There are currently two technology entrepreneurship. Another important Gav Yam Negev incubators in the Park, committed to the activity was the establishment of Inno- Advanced establishment of more than thirty startups Negev, a technology accelerator providing Technologies Park. in the next three years. unique support and tools.

The first and second buildings in the ATP This thriving hi-tech eco-system is the result are now fully occupied by a unique range of collaborative efforts by the University, of global and local companies, including Beer-Sheva Municipality, the government, startups. The third and fourth buildings are and the Israel Defense Forces. in the planning process and expected to be inaugurated in early 2018. Five startup companies were created based directly on BGU technologies, and six more Current focus areas at the ATP include startup companies were established in cloud computing, data analysis (Big Data) southern Israel by Capital Nature and JVP and cyber-security related technologies. Cyber Labs – two technology incubators Israel’s Computer Emergency Response partnering with BGN – specializing in Team (CERT) opens at the ATP in mid-2016. alternative energy and information technologies. In addition, BGN Technologies This year, BGN Technologies was has signed dozens of agreements with involved in the creation of the Center companies in Israel and abroad, in the fields for Digital Innovation (CDI), focusing on of clean-tech, bio-tech and hi-tech this year.

Our Worldwide Family of Associates at Work 2014/15 Year-End Figures

Total Contributions Received $50,312,501 Interest Income from Endowments $8,935,190  The Gav Yam Negev Endowment Fund Balance (as of 30/9/15) $225,239,372 Advanced Technologies Park Notes: Contribution figures are gross and do not reflect local fundraising charges | All figures are approximate due to fluctuating adjacent to the Marcus Family exchange and interest rates | 2014/15 interest income was calculated at approximately 3.0% | Figures do not reflect approximately Campus $48.6 million in endowment and trust funds held in the U.S. by and on behalf of AABGU (including outside managed trusts). 12 President's Report 2016

Senior Administration

Ben-Gurion Alexander M. Goren Roy J. Zuckerberg Robert H. Arnow University of the Chairman of the Chairman Emeritus Chairman Emeritus Negev deeply Board of Governors of the Board of of the Board of mourns the passing Governors Governors of Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Governors

Adv. Asher Heled Prof. Rivka Carmi Prof. Zvi HaCohen Chairman of the President Rector Executive Committee

Prof. Dan Blumberg David Bareket Prof. Steve Rosen Vice-President and Vice-President Vice-President for Dean for Research & and Director-General External Affairs Development Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 13

Prof. Amos Katz Prof. Jiwchar Ganor Prof. Joseph Kost Prof. David Newman Dean - Faculty of Dean - Faculty of Dean - Faculty of Dean - Pinchas Sapir Health Sciences Natural Sciences Engineering Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Prof. Oded Lowengart Prof. Boris Zaltzman Prof. Nadav Shashar Prof. Michal Shapira Dean - Guilford Glazer Director - Jacob Blaustein Academic Director Dean - Kreitman Faculty of Business and Institutes for Desert Eilat Campus School of Advanced Management Research Graduate Studies

Prof. Ohad Birk Prof. Yuval Golan Dr. Paula Kabalo Prof. Iris Shai Incoming Director - National Director - Ilse Katz Director - Ben-Gurion Presidential Adviser on Institute for Biotechnology Institute for Nanoscale Research Institute for the the Advancement of in the Negev Science and Technology Study of Israel & Zionism Women in Academia

Prof. Avishay Goldberg Prof. Gad Rabinovich Prof. Angel Porgador Prof. Moshe Kaspi Deputy-Rector Vice-Rector Deputy Vice-President Dean of Students and Dean for R&D 14 President's Report 2016

VISION

Counting Up to 50

Prof. Steve Rosen Vice-President for External Affairs

As we launch our 2020 Jubilee Campaign, leading up to the 50th anniversary of the founding of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, our present bridges an evolutionary past to a revolutionary future. The accelerating pace of growth at this wonderful university, the engine of development for Beer-Sheva and the entire Negev, and indeed a torchbearer for the State of Israel, proves every day that David Ben-Gurion’s dream that the desert would be the crucible for the renaissance of the Jewish People, was in fact no dream, but a reality.

From the metaphorical bridge of past- to-present-to-future, we may stand on the real bridges: the Double Helix Bridge tying Ben-Gurion University to the Gav Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park (ATP), Israel’s newest and most dynamic hi-tech park; the Mexico Bridge linking the University to Israel Railways and rapid transit to the rest of the country; and the Jim and Liz Breslauer Bridge connecting BGU to the Faculty of Health Sciences and to Soroka University Medical Center, providing vital services to Beer-Sheva and the Negev. BGU stands at the center of progress, integration and service. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 15

Our 2020 Campaign, And we’ve only just begun. We are poised We are growing. The acquisition of the begins NOW and to start a new era for the University, for North Campus doubles the area of the culminates with Beer-Sheva, and for the Negev as the University’s main campus, allowing for the 50th anniversary potential for advancement, growth and physical expansion, but more importantly, development begins to be realized. for expansion in terms of the services the jubilee celebrations University can provide. in 2020. Specialist units of the Israel Defense Forces are moving south, taking advantage Our 2020 Campaign, beginning NOW and of both the resources of the University culminating with the 50th anniversary and the spaces and services that Beer- jubilee celebrations in 2020, is the chance Sheva and the Negev can provide. Camp to literally get on board, to join the vision Ariel Sharon, a professional training base and to be a pioneer in building the State south of Beer-Sheva, is already up and of the future. The future of Israel lies in running; the IDF technology campus is the Negev, in the desert where the people being built next door to the University of Israel were first forged into an identity. and the ATP; and further intelligence It lies in education, vision and innovation. and computing units moving south will Ben-Gurion University offers the  Illustration of the future bring 40,000 additional IDF personnel to opportunity to become actively involved North Campus the region. We anticipate adding some in that true pioneering spirit, to take part 4,000 students, both undergraduate and in building the future of the State and the  The newly opened Double Helix Bridge linking the graduate, to our ranks within less than a people of Israel. University to the ATP decade. 16

BGU’s Architectural Heritage

BGU has long Ben-Gurion University's Marcus Family physical landmark and its most important been considered Campus has from the very beginning social and cultural institution. one of the most presented unique opportunities for important centers architectural experimentation and vision, In 1969, when the State of Israel decided of architectural and has long been considered one of the to found an institution of higher education most important centers of architectural in what was a dusty desert town, a group innovation in the innovation in the country. Indeed, the of young Israeli architects, led by Avraham country. University's architectural journey is Yaski, were tasked with laying out its design as extraordinary as the story of the principles and its master plan. The resulting University's growth and development into design was deeply inspired by Brutalism, a a major institution of international repute. highly influential architectural movement which sought to express the structure's Beer-Sheva, home to Ben-Gurion truth in its forms, to make visible its University of the Negev, is a city in the functions, materials and the movements desert, dominated by a hot and dry within it. This no-frills ethos provided climate and an intensely bright sun. It is a literal architectural translation of the a place of extremes, where shade and young and heroic aspirations of a nation, the smallest enclave of greenery are a city and a university in the making. Yaski cherished. The modern city is barely older received the Israel Prize in recognition of  The first master plan for than the University; both have grown and his design for the University in 1982. the BGU campus by Avraham transformed in the past decades, yet BGU Yaski, 1969 remains Beer-Sheva's crown jewel as a 17

True to the times, Yaski's master plan The campus grid radiates outwards from was simple and effective: a hierarchically Kreitman Plaza, a central meeting place ordered geometric grid, it envisioned spanning the axes connecting the various a succession of intimate courtyards, faculties. It is dominated by the Zalman public spaces where students and faculty Aranne Central Library, designed and could come together and share ideas. placed to stand out from the rest of the The desert climate was also a major campus buildings. The Library's thick consideration and the plans emphasized concrete walls are opaque, yet plentiful convenient movement between closely set light penetrates into its central spaces buildings and shaded passageways. through the iconic honeycombed roof, with multiple eyes facing north. The first buildings were built with deep exterior galleries stretching horizontally By the 1990s, the University had grown, Brutalism’s along their facades. These arcades cast gained recognition for its academic distinctive long and deep shadows, with light and achievements and needed a new identity iteration in the textures transforming throughout the and a new architectural language to desert is truly day along with the movement of the express its transformative role in the singular. sun. The material – concrete – readily region; and it certainly needed much available and inexpensive, has weathered more space to house its expanding the harsh climate well in the years since, faculty, students and research. A softening without losing its presence. revised master plan was prepared by These architectural elements became Ada Karmi-Melamede in 1995. The new the physical vocabulary of the campus plan respected BGU's Brutalist heritage and came to express its modest yet and allowed it to echo in the expanded pronounced pioneering spirit. Brutalism campus. Function continued to be may not be the easiest style to love, yet its reflected in the structure and exterior of distinctive iteration in the desert is truly buildings, but new materials were brought singular and has given the University and in: stainless steel and glass. These temper the city a unique identity. the moodiness of concrete by promoting 18 President's Report 2016

BGU’s Architectural Heritage

Ben-Gurion a sense of precision and delicacy that The new master plan also extended the University of the concrete cannot convey on its own. campus' main axis eastward toward Negev is now poised the railway station. Connected by the to break ground on Kreitman Plaza's redesign by Shlomo pedestrian Mexico Bridge, the railway Aronson in the mid-1990s also ventured station has become a new gateway to the North Campus beyond Brutalist minimalism yet remained campus, linking the University to the extension. inspired by the desert environment. At country at large. its center is an abstract of a desert oasis, with a water-feature representing a desert The master plan for the Marcus Family stream bordered by desert vegetation. The Campus was again updated in 2004 by abstract center is enclosed by an arcade Bracha Chyutin in an attempt to engage representing the order and conceptual more significantly with the city surrounding organization of the academic world. the University. The plan emphasized the main axis between the western entrance to campus on Rager Boulevard and the train station to the northeast and placed the community-oriented parts of the University close to the campus gates facing the city. Additional large open spaces, such as Deichmann Plaza, were incorporated into the campus plan, with the thought that such spaces should be preserved now that reserves for future construction across the train tracks had been acquired. In fact, the complex including the Spitzer- Salant Building for the Department of Social Work and the Deichmann Building for Community Action facing Deichmann Plaza has won acclaim and architectural  View from the Henwood- awards precisely for its innovative and Oshry Life Sciences Teaching thoughtful design in conversation with its Laboratory Building environment.  The Alon Building for Hi-Tech 19

 Light and shade under the Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics

 Weathered concrete at the Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Building for the Humanities and Social Sciences 20 President's Report 2016

BGU’s Architectural Heritage Onward to North Campus

At the heart of the In just under fifty years, the University has from the Marcus Family Campus, adding plan is an “Urban grown and developed and has accounted 200,000 m2 of floor space over the next 30 Forum,” a series of for just about every inch of the original years. linked plazas. grid; the campus is full and vibrant. The master plan, by Chyutin Architects, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is envisions the North Campus extending now poised to break ground on the North and integrating with both the existing Campus extension across the train tracks campus and the urban environment surrounding it.

At the heart of the plan is an “Urban Forum,” a series of linked plazas which will integrate the two parts of the North Campus – the urban-residential and the academic – with commercial functions serving both.

The urban complex will contain faculty and student housing and merge with the residential neighborhoods to the north.

The academic section, containing teaching and research facilities, as well as venues for student activities, links to the Marcus Family Campus through pedestrian passageways.

As on the main campus, pedestrian movement is paramount, and buildings will be set fairly close together, with covered pathways and sheltered inner courtyards. Anchoring North Campus and serving as its landmark feature will be a large state-of-the-art international conference center.

 Rendering of North Campus by Chyutin Architects 21

Pioneering Bioclimatic Architecture in Sede Boqer

 Latticework shading the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands is borrowed from traditional Middle Eastern architecture

Photo: Wolfgang Motzafi-Haller

At the Sede Boqer Campus, smaller and School for Desert Studies, was designed more intimate than the Marcus Family by the Department and includes many Campus in Beer-Sheva, the dictates of the elements of the bioclimatic approach local desert have played an even greater which has since guided construction on role in the way the buildings housing the Sede Boqer Campus: shading, the the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert orientation of windows and doors to the Research, their students and staff were south and north, externally insulated walls designed and built. At a higher elevation, built of materials that absorb and store overlooking the Zin riverbed, winters heat during the day and radiate it inwards in Sede Boqer can be bitterly cold, and at night, and an evaporative cooling tower. differences between daytime and nighttime temperatures in the summer are extreme. In some campus buildings, the borrowing and adaptation of elements from The Sede Boqer Campus was established traditional Middle Eastern architecture, The Sede Boqer in the early 1960s, in direct response to such as latticed porticos and windows, Campus was David Ben-Gurion’s vision of founding is quite explicit. The French Associates established in the an educational institution deep in the Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology early 1960s, in direct Negev. It was later officially incorporated of Drylands, for example, is wrapped in response to David into BGU in 1978. The Desert Architecture a shading envelope of latticework, which and Urban Planning Unit of the Bona blocks direct sunlight and reduces heat Ben-Gurion’s vision. Terra Department of Man in the Desert absorption in the structure. Homes in the was directly involved in much of the new graduate student housing complex Sede Boqer campus’ construction, (American Associates Village) need no meaning that the campus is literally an air conditioning despite the extreme architectural laboratory; ideas and technical temperature variations. The secret here is advancements arising in the halls of the using specially designed and meticulously academy are scientifically tested in practice. placed windows that make use of passive heating and cooling. Residents proudly The first major building for the Institutes, refer to it as the best student housing in now housing the Albert Katz International the country. 22 President's Report 2016

Home to the Future

In today’s rapidly The new North Campus can be seen on We have signed an agreement for a DBOT changing world, a the horizon. At this stage we are working (design-build-operate-transfer, a form modern university’s on developing the basic infrastructure, of project financing) Graduate Student infrastructure starting with earthwork and preparing the Dormitories project, designed specifically land for construction. In today’s rapidly for graduate students with families. The platform changing world, a modern university’s project is expected to be completed must allow for infrastructure platform must allow for by October 2019 and will be located a constantly evolving constantly evolving technologies and five-minute walk from the Marcus Family technologies and malleable spaces that can be used and Campus. malleable spaces reconfigured as needs change. The new that can be used North Campus will do just that! BGU continues to thrive, while maintaining and reconfigured as its warm family atmosphere that needs change. The first projects to be constructed on encourages interaction and collaboration. North Campus will be the Undergraduate Our plan for the future is focused on the Village (student dormitories) and the human factor, while reaching for the stars. The new North International Conference Center. As part Campus will do just of the expansion process, we also plan to Completed this Year that! consolidate the academic units now based • Guzik Family Building for Biotechnology at the David Tuviyahu and Ernst David Engineering Bergmann campuses at the new North • Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Campus. Marandy Family Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory Building • Stephen and David Breslauer Archaeological Laboratory Building • American Associates Village at Sede Boqer – Phase 4 • Renovation of two sections of the Zlotowski Dormitory Complex

Under Construction • Jusidman Science Center for Youth at BGU, supported by the Rashi Foundation • Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute for Social Leadership Building • Carole and Marcus Weinstein Information Systems Engineering and Cyber Security Building • Lorry I. Lokey Chemistry Building 23

 The Double Helix Future Projects pedestrian bridge, linking BGU • A new building for the Ben-Gurion and the train station to the Research Institute for the Study of Advanced Technologies Park Israel and Zionism and a new home for  The Ruth Flinkman- the Ben-Gurion Archives Marandy and Ben Marandy • Brain and Cognitive Sciences Building Multidisciplinary Research • Sports and Recreation Center Laboratory Building expansions  The Guzik Family Building • A new plaza between the Lorry I. Lokey for Biotechnology Engineering Chemistry Building and the Guzik Family Building for Biotechnology Engineering • Homeland Security Institute (including the Dept. of Structural Engineering) • University Art Gallery • Library for Engineering and Natural Work to Begin Soon Sciences • Murray H. Shusterman Gate of • Health Sciences Research Laboratories Knowledge Building • Medical Simulation and Classroom • International Conference Center Building, to house the Field Family Foundation Medical Simulation Center The Advanced Technologies Park (ATP) • Graduate Student Dormitories • The Double Helix pedestrian bridge • Undergraduate Village on North between the ATP and the North/ Campus University Train Station was opened in • BGU-Soroka Joint Research Building January supported by the Adelis Foundation • The second building was completed and occupied • Construction will begin soon on the third and fourth buildings 24

My Corner on Campus

“I studied karate for many years, and took a course in first-aid as part of my training. I fell in love with the profession, and then when I went to the army I served as a medic. Now I love working with kids in the Children’s Ward at Soroka University Medical Center.”

Bery Shvarts

Bery Shvarts is a second- year nursing student at the Leon & Mathilde Recanati School for Community Health Professions. He also volunteers with children at a local women’s shelter. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 25

New and NoteworthyMile stones British Ambassador to Israel, H.E. Matthew Gould, bestowed an honorary Commander of the British Empire in the name of Queen Elizabeth II upon BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi. The award recognizes Prof. Carmi's leadership and contribution towards building scientific links between the UK and Israel through her work with the UK-Israel Life Sciences Council.

The Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation provided a magnanimous leadership gift in honor of BGU’s 50th anniversary campaign. A significant sum will allow for the construction of dormitories on the North Campus and for endowed faculty research at the Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School. Funds are also being provided to endow the medical school’s International Advisory Review Committee and provide student scholarships at the Medical School for International Health.

BGU moved up twelve places to 18th on the QS Top 50 Under 50 World University Ranking for 2015. The University also rose 33 ranks, to 259 in the overall QS World University Rankings. 26 President's Report 2016

New and Noteworthy

Mona's Garden at the Faculty of Health Sciences was dedicated in June to honor the life and memory of Dr. Mona Sutnick, in the presence of Dr. Alton Sutnick of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and their daughter, Amy Sutnick Plotch. The Sutnick family recently donated Alexander Calder’s painting, “Two Boomerangs, One Filled,” which greatly enhances BGU's art collection.

BGU dedicated the Robert H. Arnow Student Center for Bedouin Women with the generous support of Robert H. Arnow of New York, in the presence of his son, Josh Arnow. This special lounge provides a warm, friendly, designated space on the Marcus Family Campus where Bedouin women can study, relax, meet with peers, or talk to counselors about their particular needs and concerns.

BGU dedicated the Jim Breslauer Pavilion in the Center for Digital Innovation at the Advanced Technologies Park, which was made possible through the vision and generosity of The Breslauer-Soref Foundation under the direction of Liz and Jim Breslauer of Long Beach, California and their son, Frank Parlato.

 David, Jim, Liz and Physical Development The Stephen and David Breslauer Stephen Breslauer at the The final and fourth phase of the Archaeological Laboratory Building was dedication of the Jim and Liz American Associates Village at Sede dedicated thanks to the generosity of the Breslauer Bridge during last year’s Board Meeting Boqer was completed thanks to an Soref-Breslauer Texas Foundation under inspiring fundraising campaign led the direction of Stephen Breslauer and by American Associates, Ben-Gurion his son, David Breslauer, of Houston, University of the Negev. Texas. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 27

 (L-R) Prof. Philip BGU dedicated the Ruth Flinkman- Goodman Open Apartments Program in Needleman, Prof. Avishai Marandy and Ben Marandy honor of Dr. Paula Kabalo and Prof. Isaac Braverman, Prof. Raymond Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory (Sakis) Meir. Dwek, Prof. Rivka Carmi and Prof. Richard Ulevitch Building thanks to a generous gift from at the dedication ceremony Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben The Edgar de Picciotto Family National of the Edgar de Picciotto Marandy of Los Angeles, California. Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev Family National Institute for Building was officially dedicated in Biotechnology in the Negev The Malware Analysis Laboratory, part February. Building of BGU's Cyber Security Research Center, received generous support from the Four solar-powered charging stations for David and Janet Polak Foundation of Los cell phones were installed across BGU’s Angeles, California. Marcus Family Campus, together with 39 new recycling facilities. The project was The first cohort of AABGU’sZin Fellows led by BGU's Green Campus Initiative in Leadership Program dedicated an cooperation with Bank Hapoalim. apartment in the Lillian and Larry 28 President's Report 2016

 BGU President Prof. Rivka New Academic Collaborations Academic and Research Activities Carmi and JLU Executive Vice BGU and Jilin University, the largest The Israel Studies International Program Chairperson Prof. Li Cai sign university in China, signed an at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute an agreement to establish a joint innovation center during agreement to establish a joint center for the Study of Israel and Zionism was the Forum of Presidents of for entrepreneurship and innovation in named the Woodman-Scheller Israel Israel-China Higher Education March. The first activity staged by the new Studies International Program this Institutions, while Chinese center was the Global Entrepreneurship June thanks to the generous support Vice Premier Liu Yandong and Innovation Conference held in May of Lisa Scheller and Wayne Woodman and Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett look on 2016 at BGU. and Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr. of Pennsylvania. Photo: Council for Higher The Toby Mower Curriculum for the Education (CHE) Prevention and Treatment of Addiction The Aaron and Marion Gural Foundation signed a multi-pronged agreement with together with Leonard Litwin and the International Nurses Society on family of New York are continuing their Addictions. generous support of Alzheimer's research, specifically the efforts to develop an effective vaccine. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 29

New and Noteworthy

BGU and Technion researchers, led by Prof. David Katoshevski of the Department of Environmental Engineering, received major funding from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space - Infrastructure Program for two projects focused on water treatment.

New Academic Chairs The Aron Bernstein Chair in Jewish History was established thanks to the legacy gift of Dr. Aron Bernstein of Poland and the United States, a Holocaust survivor and the last surviving member of his family. The incumbent, Prof. Hanna Yablonka, is a member of the Department of Jewish History and is a Holocaust scholar.

 (L-R) Ben Marandy, Ruth The University launched a unique Data Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Flinkman-Marandy and the Mining and Business Intelligence Marandy of Los Angeles, California first incumbent of the Ruth Summer Program for International established the Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy Chair in Quantum Students this year. The program takes and Ben Marandy Chair in Quantum Physics and Nanotechnology, advantage of BGU's leadership in the Physics and Nanotechnology. The Prof. Ron Folman, from the field of cyber security and will be taught first incumbent,Prof. Ron Folman, is a Dept. of Physics by some of BGU's leading cyber security member of the Department of Physics. researchers. Another new program is the Innovation and Leadership Summer The Sumner T. White Professorial Chair Program, leveraging the experience of in Finance was established thanks to the the Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship generosity of the late Sumner T. White of and Innovation and the emerging start-up Fort Lauderdale, Florida. hotbed next door at the ATP. ​​ New Scholarship Funds The Albert Katz International School The Aron Bernstein Scholarship for Desert Studies at the Jacob Blaustein Endowment Fund was established thanks Institutes for Desert Research is offering to the extraordinary legacy gift of a new intensive summer program in Dr. Aron Bernstein of Poland and the Sustainable Agricultural Solutions. United States. 30 President's Report 2016

New and Noteworthy

The Rosenbojm-Komor Scholarship Fund for Community Medicine was established thanks to the generous support of the Rosenbojm-Komor Foundation of Boulder, Colorado. The Fund supports students who participate in the Faculty of Health Sciences’ cooperative program with community clinics in the Negev region.

Grace and Martin Rosman of Edgewater, Maryland established the Rosman Scholars Program, a student scholarship fund that provides tuition and living  H.E. José Ángel Gurría expenses to deserving students studying receives the Ben-Gurion science, technology, engineering or Leadership Award during mathematics. Ben-Gurion Day in November Honors Bestowed by BGU Dr. Robert Cohen of Tampa, Florida OECD Secretary-General, H.E. José Ángel established the Hannah Litvin Cohen Gurría, credited with Israel's inclusion Undergraduate Scholarship Endowment in the OECD, received the Ben-Gurion Fund in memory of his beloved late wife. Leadership Award.

The board of the Jewish Recovery Houses Excellence Recognized of Baltimore, Maryland established the Three BGU researchers (out of 291 Toby and Mort Mower Endowment Fund worldwide) were awarded the prestigious in Nursing in honor of Drs. Toby and Horizon 2020 European Research Council Mort Mower of Denver, Colorado. (ERC) Starting Grant: Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi of the Department Stuart and Evelyn Steinberg and their of Life Sciences and the National Institute children Jake and Paige of Encino, for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) California honored the memory of won the grant for a project on microbial their son and brother, Max, who fell communities living in association with in Operation Protective Edge, with the multicellular organisms; Dr. Eyal Arbely establishment of the Max Steinberg from the Department of Chemistry and Memorial Scholarship Endowment NIBN for a project to develop synthetic Fund. The fund is particularly earmarked methods for understanding the regulation for students who served in the IDF as of glucose metabolism in cancerous lone soldiers, and therefore lack a family and non-cancerous cells; and Dr. Natan support network in Israel. Rubin of the Department of Computer Science was awarded the grant for the project "The Combinatorial Aspects of Computational Geometry."

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My Corner on Campus

“I built the Blechner Center for Industrial Catalysis and Process Development lab from scratch. It took me six months. The researchers tell me what they need, and I make all the parts in my workshop. I am proud that my work could contribute to far- reaching change because we are making liquid fuels from renewable resources, such as

CO2 and water.”

Eli Saal

Eli Saal, head of the technical staff in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, joined BGU as a 16-year- old lathe operator and metal worker to support his family and worked here until 1979. He returned in 1998 as a fully trained technician. 32 President's Report 2016

New and Noteworthy

Prof. (Emer.) Jacob Bentolila, a renowned Prof. Richard Isralowitz, Director of the expert on Ladino (Jewish-Spanish) and Regional Alcohol & Drug Abuse Research Haketia (Jewish-Moroccan) and former Center at BGU's Charlotte B. and Jack chair of the Department of Hebrew J. Spitzer Department of Social Work, Language, was appointed to the Royal received an award from the National Spanish Academy in recognition of the Institute on Drug Abuse at the US National cultural and historical significance of Institutes of Health. Sephardic Jewry. Prof. Haim Kalman of the Department Prof. Nathan Cherny of the Faculty of of Mechanical Engineering, together with Health Sciences received the ESMO Award University of Florida researchers, was from the European Society for Medical awarded a BARD (United States-Israel Oncology. Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund) grant to improve the Dr. Haim Chertok of the Department of production of biogas through improving English as a Foreign Language received the capabilities of anaerobic digesters. his second Simon Rockower Award for an essay about a French village that sheltered Prof. Joseph Kost, Dean of the Faculty of hundreds of Jewish orphans during WW II. Engineering Sciences, was elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences Prof. Neve Gordon of the Department of and Humanities. Politics and Government, and Dr. Catherine Rottenberg of the Prof. Yoram Meital, chairperson of the Department of Foreign Literatures and Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Linguistics and the Gender Studies Studies and Diplomacy, was awarded Program, were awarded the prestigious the University of Massachusetts' Lowell EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions - Medal for Intercultural Understanding Research Fellowships. in recognition of “his extensive work in the area of peace and conflict studies Prof. Eduardo Guendelman of the and his continued efforts to promote Department of Physics was invited to understanding and creative thinking in become a member of the Foundational the context of the potential transition to Questions Institute, which focuses on democracy in the Middle East.” questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology. Prof. Taleb Mokari of the Department of Chemistry and the Ilse Katz Institute for Prof. Chaim Hames, head of the Center Nanoscale Science and Technology was for the Study of Conversion and Inter- awarded the Israel Chemical Society's Tenne Religious Encounters (I-CORE), was invited Family Prize for Nanoscale Sciences for his to join the Scientific Selection Committee discoveries of novel synthetic approaches to for the Norwegian Centres of Excellence in high quality semiconductor nano-crystals, the Social Sciences and Humanities. hybrid nanoparticles and nanowires. 33

 BGU’s student team Prof. Sharon Pardo, Chair of the National Prof. Abraham Zangen of the Department placed 2nd overall in the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence - of Life Sciences received a Juludan th prestigious 12 annual iGEM The Centre for the Study of European Research Prize from the Technion. Competition Politics and Society, was appointed to Photo: Justin Knight, iGEM the international advisory council of the DiaCardio, a medical technology start-up Foundation German Konrad Adenauer Foundation. based on research at BGU by Prof. Hugo Guterman of the Department of Electrical Prof. Iris Shai of the Department of and Computer Engineering, Michal Public Health was appointed as the sole Yaacobi and Dr. Noa Liel-Cohen of the academic representative of the sciences to Faculty of Health Sciences, came in first a new committee charged with compiling place in the Shengjing Global Innovation a national policy for regulating healthy Awards 2015. nutrition. The Mandel Social Leadership MBA Dr. Eran Viezel of the Department of Program at BGU's Guilford Glazer Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Faculty of Business and Management Eastern Studies won ACUM’s (The Society was the first Israeli MBA program to of Authors, Composers and Music receive EPAS accreditation from the Publishers in Israel) Aharon Ashman Prize European Foundation for Management for Creative Writing for his novel In Praise Development. of Loneliness. Student Achievements Dr. Esti Yeger-Lotem from the A BGU student team won the Best Health Department of Clinical Biochemistry and and Medicine Project category in the Pharmacology and the National Institute prestigious annual iGEM (International for Biotechnology in the Negev was Genetically Engineered Machine) awarded a fellowship at the Radcliffe competition in Boston with a biological Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard. cancer therapy called “Boomerang.” 34 President's Report 2016

New and Noteworthy

Five BGU PhD students, more than any other Israeli university, received Fulbright program postdoctoral fellowships in the United States: Lea David, who was also awarded Fulbright’s Rabin Fellowship for best student in the social sciences, Mor Ben-Tov, Noga Cohen, Shai Pilosof and Noam Weinbach.

Regional and International Impact Former NYC mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani visited the University and the adjacent ATP to learn about advances in cyber security, as the new global chairman of Greenberg Traurig’s Cybersecurity and Crisis Management Practice.

BGU is the academic partner of Cybertech 2016, a series of major global cyber  Former NYC mayor BGRacing, BGU's student race car team, security technologies events (in Tel Rudolph W. Giuliani met with broke into the top 10 at the Formula SAE Aviv, Singapore, Los Angeles and more), President Rivka Carmi during competition, the first Israeli team to do so, organized by Israel Defense and the Israeli his visit to BGU and placed 8th out of 48. government.

A team from the Jusidman Science Center The first sustainable farming initiative to for Youth won the Rockwell Collins reduce rice-crop water use began this Innovate Award at the Israeli competition spring at Conaway Ranch in Woodland, of FIRST Tech Challenge, a global robotics California. The project draws on the competition for young people. expertise of Prof. Eilon Adar, former director of the Zuckerberg Institute for President Reuven Rivlin awarded the Water Research at BIDR. Presidential Fellowship for Scientific Excellence and Innovation to two BGU graduate students this year: Yaara Rosner-Manor of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; and Avi-Ram Zoref of the Department of Jewish History. 35

My Corner on Campus

“I was sitting in the library and a young woman at the next table asked me to watch her things while she went out for a short while. That short while turned into most of the day, but I took my promise very seriously. I didn’t realize that I’d be watching my wife Bat El for the rest of my life.”

Moshe Kaspi

Prof. Moshe Kaspi is the Dean of Students and a professor of Industrial Engineering and Management. 36 President's Report 2016

New and Noteworthy

Three scientific discoveries from BGU are displayed in a new year-long exhibit, "Israeli Scientific Discoveries and Developments that Influenced the World," at Ben-Gurion International Airport: Prof. Smadar Cohen's injectable algae-based scaffold to repair damaged heart muscles; Prof. Shosh Arad's method for growing algae on an industrial scale; and Prof. Yossi Mizrahi's contribution to the development of cherry tomatoes.

Local Impact BGU's Unit for Employment Direction signed a collaboration agreement with the Lauder Employment Center and was renamed the Center for Career Development in Collaboration with the Lauder Employment Center.

Prof. Julie Cwikel’s Em l’Em (Mom to Mom) Program, providing at-home support to new mothers with inadequate social More than 200 international emergency networks, received the Mayor's Award for medicine experts attending the 4th Outstanding Volunteer Organization. International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response Twenty psychologists and social workers to Emergencies & Disasters (IPRED), from Hura received diplomas recently observed a large-scale regional toxicology after completing a workshop on parental drill held at BGU and Soroka University reflective functioning given by Dr. Naama Medical Center in January. Atzabia-Poria in the Department of Psychology. BGU and BGN Technologies inaugurated the Center for Digital Innovation (CDI), a Some 100 asylum seekers from the Holot non-profit research center to promote and Detention Center received certificates develop digital medicine, in partnership of completion from the Free Your Mind with a group of Israeli entrepreneurs. CDI, Project, an eight-week academic program located at the Advanced Technologies Park, organized by Prof. Vered Slonim-Nevo will also promote education technologies. and Dr. Maya Lavie-Ajayi of the Spitzer Department of Social Work and Moran The 3rd European Neighborhood Policy Mekamel from Ben-Gurion Students for Ph.D. Summer School was held at BGU, Refugees and Asylum-seekers. the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Jerusalem and Ramallah, and in Warsaw. 37

 An illustration of Prof. Smader Cohen’s scientific breakthrough at an exhibit in Ben-Gurion International Airport

 A major regional-scale toxicology drill was held at BGU and the Soroka University Medical Center in January

 Moran Mekamel of Students for Refugees and Asylum Seekers with some of the students from the Free Your Mind Project 38

My Corner on Campus

“We like to walk along the cliff overlooking the stark beauty of the Wilderness of Zin. It clears our minds. Studying here is so special because of this natural environment.”

Darnell Jones (R) of Chicago, Illinois applied to the Woodman-Scheller Israel Studies International Program after a chance encounter with the African Hebrew Israelite community in Dimona.

Brandon Payne (L) of Ada, Oklahoma lived in Israel previously, volunteering on a kibbutz in 2001. He applied to the Program at Sede Boqer after spending time teaching English in Vietnam. 39 40

year, and the 'veteran' programs, the German Summer University and Summer International Ulpan.

Affairs The OIAA continues to work relentlessly to advance BGU's international standing. Not only did the OIAA facilitate new agreements with other universities, it also built a firm infrastructure for student and faculty Home away The Office of International Academic exchange through bilateral agreements from home Affairs (OIAA) was recently recognized and Erasmus plus, the EU program which by the European Commission for the funds mobility of students and staff quality of the 'home away from home' it between universities within the EU. provides for international students and researchers: The European Commission It is imperative for us that every recognized the University for providing international student walking through the 'Human Resources Excellence in BGU gates feel welcome and taken care of. Research,' an acknowledgment of That is why we established International BGU’s adherence to the best practice Orientation Day. Moreover, we created a guidelines of the 'European Charter of pre-departure booklet that helps students Researchers' and the 'Code of Conduct for and researchers prepare for their stay at the Recruitment of Researchers.' BGU, and a welcome packet that includes important facts about the city and the area, and maps of the campus, the city and  International graduate The OIAA, through the Ginsberg-Ingerman students Yu JinJin, Simone Overseas Student Program, is launching main bus lines. We are also in the midst of Horst, David Kazdan, Thalia two new summer programs, one in a huge translation project including most Ortega and Elizabeth Sieck Innovation and Leadership, and the other units that deal directly with students. Our at the Ben-Gurion Research in Data Mining and Business intelligence main objective is that any information Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism for Cyber Security Applications. The two sent out in Hebrew for Israeli students new programs will join the Global Health will be sent out in English for international Photo: Wolfgang Motzafi-Haller Summer Program, running for the third students as well. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 41

 Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, Chair of the Department of Health Systems Management, with Dr. Sri Janani at the closing ceremony of the Global Health International Summer Program

A Global Health Ambassador Just a few months after returning home from the 2015 Global Health International Summer program, Sri Janani, a doctor from Chennai in southern India, was forced to put into practice what she had learned over the summer. Chennai experienced its worst flooding in over a century in November and by December 2nd the city was declared a national disaster area after several hospitals lost power.

“The city is flooded and people are dying due to the rains… the city is becoming a disaster. I remember the session we had where there was a shock room scenario. With the help of the mock session we had, I saved some lives by doing emergency preparedness over here,” Sri wrote to Dr. Inon Shenker, one of the program’s leaders.

“...If people are “Thanks a ton, Dr. Inon. If people are blessing me today blessing me today for saving them, the for saving them, the total credit definitely goes to you. Please total credit definitely pray for Chennai,” she continued. goes to you...“ “I did what I’m supposed to as a responsible citizen and as a student who received some great exposure at a place like BGU, so I am proud that I could contribute something to my city and my country,” she says. “There is no doubt that the Global Health Program has changed my perspective towards such social causes and given me the confidence to face challenges and health crises like the one which struck Chennai.” 42

My Corner on Campus

“Bedouin students, especially women, face so many challenges. I see this center [The Robert H. Arnow Student Center for Bedouin Women] as a new tool to help improve our experience. It’s a safe space for us to get together and seek advice.”

Eman Abu Aiada

Eman Abu Aiada just completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics and has received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US. Born in Kseife, she lives in Rahat with her husband and teaches English at the Abu Kaf Regional High School. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 43

Community Outreach

The Kidma program Community Action Department The Department also welcomes adults provides basic The Community Action Department who for various reasons never completed education in subjects (CAD) activities aim to reduce social high school: The Ad Halom Program such as English, gaps and increase the social awareness enables adults to earn a high school Hebrew, math of participants, while instilling the matriculation certificate and the Hamama BGU values of equality and mutual program allows soldiers to obtain the and computers for responsibility. Each year, over 5,000 adults certificate during the course of their adults. and children participate in a range of military service. programs and activities on and around the Marcus Family Campus. The Kidma program provides basic education in subjects such as English, 700 Jewish and Bedouin students Hebrew, math and computers for adults. participated in the Access to Higher The teachers are the remarkable students Education Program, which offers, for the from the Keren Moshe Leadership  Trainee guide dog and th student trainer taking a break first time this year, four university credits Training Program, celebrating its 20 in Niusia and Aron Chilewich to pupils who have participated in the anniversary this year, generously Square program for three years. supported by the Halpérin family from Switzerland. 300 adults from all walks of society – new and old immigrants, Jews and Bedouins, people with disabilities – all with a passion to study, participated this year.

In addition, 600 adults from disadvantaged populations participated in the Access for All Program, where they heard lectures from BGU students on topics such as psychology, business management and medicine. The Knowledge Trail Program for mentally challenged adults, launched last year, offered classes in basic medical education and in management and economics for 33 participants.

The Justice for You Program, operated in coordination with the Itach-Maaki organization by volunteer women lawyers, 44

provides women with legal knowledge This year, the OAP and Prof. Richard  Perach children and about their rights. It includes a support Isralowitz of the Charlotte B. and Jack mentors play in Deichmann group guided by two BGU students. J. Spitzer Department of Social Work Plaza hosted a group of students from SUNY The Lillian and Larry Goodman Open New Paltz on a week-long study tour of Apartments Program (OAP) promotes emergency preparedness and community communal responsibility in Beer-Sheva's involvement at BGU. The Lillian and Larry disadvantaged neighborhoods. A range of Goodman Open projects and activities are run through the The HaBarvaz Theater Group, a Apartments Program program, including 100 enrichment classes, community theater for youth funded by promotes communal the adoption of 100 families, a Purim party, the HaBarvaz Foundation, continued its responsibility in an unprecedented Passover house painting drama activities. Teens attended weekly Beer-Sheva’s older drive (where over a hundred homes of rehearsals at the University and presented the elderly and people with disabilities are the play 'Stage Door' to family and friends. neighborhoods. painted), summer activities and more. Since opening last year, over 4,000 people A multidisciplinary community theater from all sectors of society have participated project, led by social activist and artist in various programs at The Rothschild Zamira Ron and organized through Cube – Center for Effective Social Action. At the OAP, is run by Goodman Fellows the heart of the Cube is a 'social simulator,' in multiple locations. The project's a unique interactive experience that fosters end-of-the-year photo exhibition and effective social action and provides training performance attract hundreds of people in the values, skills and tools indispensable from the communities involved. to social activists. 45

My Corner on Campus

“I’ve seen gazelles, foxes, partridges and jackals. It’s like meditation when I ride alone; you’ve got a lot of time to reflect. I get my best ideas while riding to and from Lehavim. Then I refine them while showering in the Maintenance Building.”

Prof. Yoav Tsori

Prof. Yoav Tsori is a member of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He studies the thermodynamics of materials common in daily life. 46

Community Outreach

Perach A total of 1,740 BGU students were involved in Perach projects this academic year. The core of Perach activities remains individual and group mentorship of elementary and high school students. Most notably, Perach runs large-scale mentoring programs for high school students in which 721 students are involved. In addition, BGU launched two new programs in which students The Re’im Project assist their peers: The Re'im Project is an is an individual individual mentorship program providing mentorship program social and academic assistance to BGU providing social and students with disabilities (physical, academic assistance emotional and more); and an individual academic mentorship program within the to BGU students with BGU Engineering Preparatory Program undergraduate studies at the University. disabilities. is aimed at assisting those students who In addition, around 1,000 students take need additional individual help in order to refresher or prerequisite courses prior succeed in their studies. to commencing regular academic studies every year. A new online course for Perach mentors aims to provide tutors with specific The Path to Academia Program began as a tools to use with adolescents. The pilot program in the 2014-2015 academic course follows other online courses year and, as of February 2016, has already launched over the past two years, which gone through six cycles, each with 120- supply professional knowledge and 250 participants. The program is geared tools regarding group and individual toward candidates hoping to study at BGU, mentorship based on up-to-date research. who have a high school matriculation certificate, and offers a course where the Two BGU students (out of 12 nationwide) program grade serves as a substitute for a received Merit Scholarships in recognition psychometric exam score. of their outstanding dedication and contribution to the Perach project. Alumni The mission of the BGU Alumni Association The Center for is to develop and strengthen the Pre-Academic Studies relationships amongst alumni and between The Center runs a range of programs to the University and its graduates. The help students acclimate to university life: Association also works to strengthen ties Approximately 300 students study in and cooperation with business and industry, the preparatory tracks, and about 65% as well as with the Beer-Sheva Municipality, of them are subsequently accepted to with regional NGOs and associations and, 47

 An Osim Rechov (Street Makeover) volunteer from the Student Union and the Lillian and Larry Goodman Open Apartments Program helps beautify neighborhoods adjacent to the University

working with academic departments to  The social simulator at the establish departmental alumni groups. An Rothschild Cube – Center for important related activity is the Mentors Effective Social Action Project, where alumni mentor students  Perach volunteer and preparing to enter the job market. children at the Havayeda Teva Interactive Science Center Two employment fairs for BGU graduates were held, bringing together graduates and employers with a range of employment opportunities and also of course, with the University's departments included a performance by Shlufta, a and faculties. There are now about 120,000 comic improvisation group composed registered alumni. entirely of BGU alumni.

Alumni who hold key positions are In 2016, BGU initiated a process for invited to visit the University, where they recognizing alumni who have made meet with President Prof. Rivka Carmi unique and significant contributions to and representatives of the academic society, economy, culture or science in department in which they studied. The Israel and the world. The first Alumni idea is that these alumni can serve as Recognition Awards were conferred in BGU’s ambassadors. We have also begun May. 48 President's Report 2016

Campus Life

The Office of the Office of the Dean of Students Over the past year, the professional Dean of Students Following a long period during which the services offered by the Unit for awarded 942 Marcus Family Campus synagogue had no Psychological Services were expanded scholarships based Torah, a scroll donated in memory of and procedures revised to make them accessible to a greater number of on socio-economic Dr. Manuel Bronstein was dedicated in the summer. The scroll completion ceremony students and reduce waiting time. New criteria. Ninety was followed by a procession of faculty, group therapies were introduced, such percent of the students and guests of the donors to the as a support group for students in the students receiving accompaniment of a Klezmer group to program for dropout prevention. scholarships install the scroll in the synagogue. volunteered in The number of students with disabilities community outreach The Office of the Dean of Students requesting the assistance of the Student activities awarded 942 scholarships based on Support Center for students with special socio-economic criteria. Ninety percent needs has increased. Equipment and of the students receiving scholarships software adapted to their needs were volunteered in community outreach purchased, including additional laptops and activities. The number of Bedouin printers. An Accessibility Day was organized students receiving scholarships increased, jointly with the Student Union and, as of as did the amounts provided. Ariel Katz this year, all University-wide ceremonies are is the first BGU alumni to establish accessible to the hearing impaired. a scholarship fund. Thanks to an anonymous donor, 100 students in need The first workshop on Arab-Jewish were given food vouchers for Passover. dialogue was held with 30 participating students, half of whom were Arab and half Jewish. Also, the University dedicated The Robert H. Arnow Student Center for Bedouin Women, where they can rest, study, join activities and wait for their rides home.

We began collaborating with the Katzir Foundation’s Maskila Program, which provides financial assistance and social, academic and general support for single mother students.

A pilot software engineering preparatory program was launched with the aim of 49

 BGU’s student dance group, Pola, bid farewell to director Dedi Alofer

 Students celebrate Purim (and Holi) found employment in organizations located in the Negev with the assistance of the Lauder Center.

BGU's debate club continues with impressive achievements in tournaments. The English Cup Debating Championship was held at BGU this year, and a BGU representative was ranked third. The Red Sea Open was hosted at BGU's Eilat campus for the sixth year running. reducing dropout rates. The program includes special intensive coursework in Pola, the Ben-Gurion University Dance topics with high failure rates, workshops Group, bid farewell to Artistic Director on learning skills, tutoring in small groups Dedi Alofer, and welcomed the renowned and counseling. choreographer Neta Pulvermacher, who will direct the group together with two The Dean of Students Office continues to young choreographers, Ella Ben-Aharon organize employment fairs for graduating and Eran Abukassis. students, including a career week for humanities and social sciences students. Student Union An employment fair for structural The Student Union promoted a number of engineering graduates was held at the new projects endorsing physical activity, new Lauder Employment Center with ten including a student running group. The  Celebrations of a new southern companies and 70 students new aerobics and spinning studio has Torah scroll, donated in and graduates attending. Thirteen BGU expanded its activities to include yoga, memory of Dr. Manuel graduates took part in the "B for Bayit" Pilates, TRX, CrossFit and dance classes, Bronstein, for the Marcus Family Campus synagogue. Project, aimed at creating communities of allowing students and staff to work out on BGU graduates in the greater Beer-Sheva campus every weeknight in a state-of-the- Photo: Israel Belizovsky region. Five of the project's participants art studio. 50

Campus Life

 A BGU student practices environment was significantly enhanced: "slacklining" between classes a private cloud facility, based on VMWARE software, is available to researchers and  The University installed four solar-powered cell phone administrative departments. charging stations The Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies is implementing a new management system that is already simplifying the process of approving dissertation topics and judging for doctoral students.

Zalman Aranne Central Library Renovations of the library continued The library is We continue to promote interaction through 2015. Despite our apprehensions, now up-to-date, with city residents and integration into we were able to continue to provide attractive and the city’s neighborhoods. In our annual satisfactory services to researchers and students. The library is now up-to-date, inviting: there are Osim Rechov (Street Makeover) events, students and residents organized 'street attractive and inviting: there are both both quiet and non- festivals' with the purpose of improving quiet and non-quiet study areas, group quiet study areas, the appearance of their neighborhood. study rooms, a classroom and a computer group study rooms, classroom. a classroom and a A strong emphasis on promoting computer classroom. coexistence on campus continues: the We continue to streamline and make School for Peace in Neve Shalom has been more efficient our purchasing, periodicals coordinating the Bridging the Differences and databases. This economizing has Workshop, and events involving Jewish led to considerable savings, which will and Arab students were a great success. allow the development of the collection and the purchase of new databases, Computation scanned primary sources, e-book bundles The Division of Computing and and more. We have also constructed Information Systems continued to digital forms, thereby contributing to implement new applications and economizing on paper and to streamlining technologies to improve user services bureaucratic processes. and functionality for the entire University. A major change in handling usernames and passwords was designed and implemented. The Virtual Server Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 51

 Open Day for prospective students at the Marcus Family Campus

 Researchers in the field of autism, led by Dr. Ilan Dinstein, acknowledge the Light it Up Blue for World Autism Awareness Day at the Helen Diller Family Center

Green Campus BGU was ranked 38th out of 450 universities in the most recent (2015) UI GreenMetric World Ranking, which compares sustainability and environment- friendly management efforts of universities.

BGU offers around 500 courses with environmental components each year. Green Campus launched a new elective course, 'Issues in Environment, Sustainability and Conservation,' and continued to support other courses. It also hosted a lecture series on environment and sustainability. BGU offers around 500 courses with The University continued to support environmental the annual Social and Environmental components each Initiatives Competition, in which students year. and employees submit proposals and carry out socio-environmental initiatives. This year's winning submissions included the Department of Donor and Associates Affairs switch to a new environmentally friendly format of digital reports to scholarship donors.

Green Campus continues its involvement in five community gardens in Beer-Sheva, as well as one in Arad and one in Yeruham. 52

My Corner on Campus

“I made Aliya in 1989 and the first winter I spent in Beer-Sheva it snowed. It reminded me of Russia. Then I fell in love with the country. While there isn’t much of an autumn in Israel, this garden does change color in the fall and it symbolizes my transition from one life to another.”

Dr. Maria (Masha) Vyazmensky

Dr. Maria (Masha) Vyazmensky has been a lab manager at BGU for 25 years. She now oversees Dr. Stas Engel’s Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology lab at the NIBN, where they focus on targeted Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) drug delivery. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 53

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev recognizes its friends and supporters

You make it possible for us to be Home to groundbreaking research Home to gifted students and scholars Home to the vision of Ben-Gurion Home to the future

Thank You

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information included here is accurate and reflects the wishes of individual donors. 54 President's Report 2016

President’s Pillars

NEW PRESIDENT'S PILLARS 2016 Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., United States Dr. Aron Bernstein, Poland and United States Irene and Hyman Kreitman, United Kingdom The Crown and Goodman Families, United States Lorry I. Lokey, United States Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, PRESIDENT'S PILLARS United States Fondation Adelis, Israel Dr. Howard W. and Lottie R. Marcus, United States Milada Ayrton, Switzerland Marco and Louise Mitrani, United States Arnold M. Bengis, United States and United Kingdom Keren Moshe, Switzerland Yoda Léon and Luna Benoziyo Negev Foundation Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, United States Edgar D. de Picciotto, Switzerland Norbert and Hannah Blechner, United States Richard and Jeanne Pratt, Australia Dr. and Mrs. Heinz-Horst Deichmann, Germany Rashi Foundation The Helen Diller Family Foundation, United States The Marc Rich Foundation, Switzerland Dr. and Mrs. Paul Feher, France Eric F. and Lore Ross, United States Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Behrouz Marandy, The Skirball Foundation, United States United States Samuel and Helene Soref Foundation, United States Guilford and Diane Glazer, United States Zoltan Toman, United States The Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation, Elsa Weinberg, Israel United States Carole and Marcus Weinstein, United States Goldstein – Goren Family, United States and Italy Anita and Henry Weiss, United States Lillian and Larry Goodman Foundations, United States Wolfson Family Charitable Trust and Wolfson Foundation, The Guzik Family Foundation, United States United Kingdom Helmsley Charitable Trust, United States Suzanne M. Zlotowski, United Kingdom The Kahn Foundation, Israel Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation Harold Irving Korn, M.D. and May Elting Korn, United States Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 55

Elizabeth and Sidney Corob, London, England Ben-Gurion Crown Family, Chicago, Illinois Riki and Coby Dayan Family, Los Altos Hills, CA, USA Dr. and Mrs. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Society Helen Diller Family, California Ing. Pedro Dondisch, Mexico Doron Foundation for Education and Welfare NEW MEMBERS 2016 Harry T. and Shirley W. Dozor, Philadelphia, PA Azrieli Foundation, Canada-Israel Tamara and Ariel Elia Rhoda and Jordan Baruch, Washington, D.C. M. Ernst, Paris Dr. Aron Bernstein, Poland and United States Maks and Rochelle Etingin, New York, NY Eris & Lawrence Field Family Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA Evens Family (Oliwenstein, Olivennes), Worldwide Dr. Philip and Sima Needleman, St. Louis, Missouri George Evens Family, Antwerpen Dora & Leonard Rosenzweig, Rosenzweig-Coopersmith Fdn Dr. and Mrs. Paul Feher, Paris, France Raphael and Shelley Rothstein, Palm Beach, FL Amy and Marc Feldstein, Washington, DC Flory and Felix Van Beek, Newport Beach, CA Fondation Flamme, Genève, Suisse Ruth Elaine and Stan Flinkman, Santa Monica, CA BEN-GURION SOCIETY MEMBERS Albert and Patricia Frank, Chicago, IL S. Daniel Abraham Estelle S. Frankfurter, New York, NY Chinita and Conrad Abrahams-Curiel, London Edy and Sol Freedman and Family, New York Fondation Adelis Rachel “Peggy” Freeman, Brooklyn, NY Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany Lis Gaines, New York, NY Kurt S. Adler, Los Angeles, CA Nathan Galston, Los Angeles, California Dr. and Mrs. Sam L. Agron, Montville, NJ Dr. Carl Gans, Austin, Texas The Alon Family Foundation, Saratoga, CA Stan and Arlene Ginsburg, Philadelphia, PA I/m/o Rita H. Altura, Altura Family, Los Angeles, CA Diane and Guilford Glazer, Beverly Hills, CA The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee The Irving Goldman Foundation Inc., USA Robert and Joan Arnow, United States Richard and Rhoda Goldman, San Francisco, CA Isaac and Carol Auerbach Family Foundation, PA The Goldstein-Goren Family Milada Ayrton, Lausanne Stella and A. Goldstein-Goren Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Fdn., CA Dr. Beryl Bearint, Port St. Lucie, FL Lawrence and Lillian Goodman, Chicago, IL Bengis Family, Cape Town/New York Ned and Anita Goodman, Toronto, Canada Eric and Illeana Benhamou, Saratoga, CA The Fraida Greenhill Fdn., United States Yoda Léon and Luna Benoziyo Ruth and Maurice Grosman Hilda and Manasche Ben Shlomo Foundation The Marion and Aaron Gural Foundation, New York Famille Danièle et Maurice Bidermann, Paris, France Monroe Guttmann Charitable Foundations, Pittsburgh, PA Martin and Rena Blackman, New York Bella and Yosef Guzick Dresner, Beer-Sheva The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation In memory of Parents Fira & Efim by Nahum Guzik, CA Hannah and Norbert Blechner, New York, NY Ivan and Vilma Halaj, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Fondation Bona Terra, Genève, Suisse Fay and Bert Harbour The Camelia E. Botnar Foundation, Switzerland The Thomas O. Hecht Family Rhoda Boyko, New York City, USA Helmsley Charitable Trust The Brink Family, Belgium Rosalind Henwood, Boca Raton, FL I/m/o Naftali & Anni Bronicki, Mordechai & Miriam Wander Frances Herbolsheimer, LaSalle, IL Dr. Hubert Burda, Munich, Germany In Memory of Benzion Sundel Hersch, Anne & Harry Rothermel L. Caplan, Lebanon, PA Zfira and Efraim Ilin, Israel The Chais Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Eileen and Ira Ingerman Family Foundation, Penna. Aron Chilewich Family, USA Intel Israel Fanny Cohen Kohn, Caracas, Venezuela ISEF - International Sephardic Education Fdn. Sir John and Lady Cohen, Great Britain Rachel and Max Javit, Boca Raton, FL The Sam Cohen (Windhoek) Scholarships Trust The Kahanoff Foundation, Calgary/Tel Aviv 56 President's Report 2016

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Kahn Family Fund for Humanitarian Support Richard and Edythe Kane, Sarasota, FL Ilse Katz Liebholz, Geneva Keren Moshe, Geneva, Switzerland Koret Foundation, San Francisco, CA Harold Irving Korn, M.D. and May Elting Korn, NY Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., UC Berkeley, CA Irene and Hyman Kreitman, Great Britain Douglas and Judith Krupp, United States George and Lizbeth Krupp, United States Philip and Bernice Krupp, United States Bernice and Morton Lerner, Salisbury, NC Marjorie and Gustave Levey, Houston, TX, USA Velva G. and H. Fred Levine, Houston, TX Sophie and Stephen Lewar, Toronto, Canada Eng. Max and Dr. Gabriele Lichtenberg, Israel/FL Regina and Simon Liebermann, New York, NY Leonard Litwin, Great Neck, NY Lorry I. Lokey, Atherton, CA Bertie and Hilary Lubner and Family, South Africa Jill and Peter Luck-Hille, London In memory of Samuel, Bertha, Louis and Henry Malakoff Harold and Claire Oshry, United States Barbara and Morton Mandel, Cleveland, Ohio Markus and Sara Pajewski and Joseph Parker, USA Mayer Mani and Family, France Nahid and Mansour Parsi, Los Angeles, CA Dr. Howard W. & Lottie R. Marcus, Rancho Bernardo, CA Mary and Marvin Paul, Toronto, Canada Elias and Frances Margolin, San Diego, CA Jack Pearlstone Charitable Trust, Baltimore, MD Ralph S. Martin, Doris Springer Martin and Allen B. Rabin Edgar D. de Picciotto, Geneva The Mauerberger Foundation Fund, Solm Yach, z”l Ferdinand and Ursula Piëch Evelyn Metz Estate, New York, NY Richard and Jeanne Pratt, Melbourne, Australia Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff, Baltimore, MD Rashi Foundation - Rachi Fondation Famille Minkoff, Geneva In memory of Howard Rauberger, New York Louise and Marco Mitrani/Mitrani Fdn., USA Raphael Recanati Family Foundation, New York/Israel The Moriah Fund Herbert Rosen, New York, NY Alberto Nissim Moscona, Mexico Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt, Palm Beach, FL Moshal Scholarship Program Eric F. and Lore Ross, Palm Beach, FL Dr. Morton and Toby Mower and children Robin and Mark The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation David and Inez Myers Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio Eric de Rothschild, in memory of Dr. Tamar Golan Michel et Balbina Naftali Lisa and Michael Rubenstein, San Francisco, CA Belle and Murray Nathan, New York, NY In memory of Irma and William Rulf, London, UK Negev Foundation Harry and Carol Saal Family Foundation, Palo Alto, CA State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Edmond and Lily Safra Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Oelbaum, Toronto, Canada Rubin Salant, Renee, Camille, Robin, and Grandchildren Abraham Ben David Ohayon, Geneva, Switzerland Milton E. and Frieda Salen, Brooklyn, NY Helga and Walter Oppenheimer, Los Angeles, CA Eric and Sheila Samson Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies, San Francisco, CA Ryoichi Sasakawa, Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 57

Brian and Avrona Schachter, Toronto, Canada Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr., Villanova, PA Herbert A. and Vivian B. Thaler, Baltimore, MD Alvin and Leanor Segal, Montreal, Canada Zoltan and Maria Toman David and Fela Shapell Family, Beverly Hills, Calif. Kenneth and Marsha Tucker, IL The Harry and Abe Sherman Foundation, London Gerda Knopf Tworoger and John Tworoger, NY, USA Jacob Shochat, Mahwah, NJ Ed and Miriam Vickar, Winnipeg, Canada George Shrut, Lausanne/Boston Bernat and Ilona Wachs, Singapore Judith and Murray H. Shusterman, Abington, PA Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg, New York Caroline and Arnold Simon, Omer, Israel The Weiler Family, New York, USA Skirball Foundation Elsa Weinberg, Gaby Avron and Hillel Cherni, Israel Elaine, Irving and Sarah Sklar, New York Carole and Marcus Weinstein, Richmond, VA Frances Fohs Sohn and Fred Sohn Henry and Anita Weiss and Family, Los Angeles, CA Eta and Sass Somekh, Los Altos Hills, CA Richard Weiss, Daytona Beach, FL Rudolf and Inger-Ma Sonneborn Aileen Epstein Whitman, Chester County, PA, USA Katja B. Goldman & Michael Sonnenfeldt, USA Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, London Samuel and Helene Soref The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust Soref-Breslauer Texas Foundation Martin and Els Wyler, Clarens, Switzerland Jack J. and Charlotte Spitzer, United States Yad Hanadiv, Jerusalem Ruth and Robert St. John, Washington, D.C. Solly Yellin and Family, South Africa and Israel Harry Stern Family Foundation, Philadelphia Ruta and Dr. Felix Zandman, Phila. and Tel Aviv Natan Adler Stier, I/M/O his mother Sara Moses Adelene Zlotowski, London George Swift, San Francisco, CA Suzanne M. Zlotowski, Geneva Dr. Anne Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada Roy and Barbara Zuckerberg Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada 58 President's Report 2016

Motorola Solutions Israel Negev Suzanne & Sheldon W. Nash, New York, NY Dr. Philip and Sima Needleman, St. Louis, Missouri Walter and Vera Obermeyer, San Francisco, CA Society Nahid and Mansour Parsi, Los Angeles, CA Dorothy and Moses Passer, Washington, DC Elizabeth and Arthur Roswell, Bridgewater, NJ, USA Tamar Raphael and Shelley Rothstein, Palm Beach, FL NEW MEMBERS 2016 Schulich Foundation, Toronto, Canada Jim & Liz Breslauer and Frank Parlato, Long Beach, CA Robert Sillins Family Foundation, New York Hannah Litvin Cohen and Robert Marc Cohen, Tampa, FL Milton (Mickey) and Frimette Snow, Toronto, Canada Harvey Gerry, West Hollywood, CA Harriet Soffa, In memory of Albert Soffa, PA Goldinger Trust, Jewish Federation of Delaware Dr. Gisela and Edward Stein Gross Matilda Goodman, Brooklyn, NY Holly and Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford, CA Bernard M. and Audrey Jaffe Foundation, Bellingham, WA Flory and Felix Van Beek, Newport Beach, CA Nina and Noah Liff Family, Nashville, TN Zehava and Yeheskel Vered, Tel Aviv, Israel Wayne Woodman and Lisa J. Scheller, Allentown, PA Odette et Salomon Warszawski, Paris-Jerusalem Toni Young and Family, DE Manfred Weiss, Brooklyn, NY Elaine S. & Alvin W. Wene, Elkins Park, PA TAMAR MEMBERS Sumner T. White, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Ted Arison Family Foundation Gerard and Michele Worms, Paris, France Rhoda and Jordan Baruch, Washington, D.C. Edith & Robert Zinn, Houston, TX Martin and Rena Blackman, New York Neri J. Bloomfield, Montreal, Canada Arava Sarah Boniovka, Newton Lower Falls, MA NEW MEMBERS 2016 Sandy and Stephen Breslauer, Houston, TX The Alvin Blum Family, Baltimore, MD Dr. Monroe and Mrs. Marjorie F. Burk, Columbia, MD Fran and Reuben Croll, Montreal, Canada Charina Endowment Fund Carl and Caroline Freeman, Anaheim, CA Israel Chemicals (ICL) The Donald S. Harmelin Family, Stamford, CT Jerry J. Cohen, Walnut Creek, CA Paul and Edwina Heller, Vancouver, BC, Canada Coby and Riki Dayan Family, Los Altos Hills, CA Leonard J. and Tobee W. Kaplan, Greensboro, NC The EKARD Foundation David & Janet Polak Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA Max Ludwig Ephraimson, Jerusalem The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation, Toronto Edward Fein, Incline Village, NV Rosenbojm-Komor Foundation, New York and Colorado Aaron and Wally Fish, Montreal, Canada Lite and Arnold L. Sabin, New York, NY Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Robin and Harold Vinegar, Houston, TX Patrick Getreide, Paris, France Melvin S. and Lolita E. Goldstein, New York, NY ARAVA MEMBERS Gillian & Ellis Goodman & Family, Chicago, IL Ted Arison Family Foundation Ned and Anita Goodman, Toronto, Canada Jacob Aron, Tel Aviv Jane Greenberg, New York, NY Barcza Family, Toronto, Canada Marlene and Samuel Halperin, Washington, D.C. The Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation Fay and Bert Harbour Jack and Florence Berlin, Laguna Hills, CA David and Barbara B. Hirschhorn Foundation Helen and Jack Bershad, Philadelphia, PA Rachel and Max Javit, Boca Raton, FL Sylvia A. Brodsky & Family, Blue Bell, PA Josefowitz Family Frances Brody, Los Angeles, CA Sophie and Michael Kalina, NY, USA Gladys M. Burger, Royal Oak, MI D. E. Koshland Jr. Family Fund, San Francisco, CA Hannah and Benjamin Cantor, Harrisburg, PA Laura and Robert Lench, Culver City, CA Charina Endowment Fund Famille Jacques Lewiner, Paris, France Jacqueline and Eric Charles, London Bernard & Barbara Schwartz Lee Lieberman, Bel Air, CA Milda B. Cohen, Coral Springs, FL Moshal Scholarship Program Mabel Danenberg, Coronado, CA Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 59

Coby and Riki Dayan Family, Los Altos Hills, CA Milton (Mickey) and Frimette Snow, Toronto, Canada Janet and Jake Farber, Los Angeles, CA Family E. Stibbe, Israel Gertrude and Louis Feil Family Dr. Ingrid Tauber, CA and Dr. Alfred Tauber, MA Sandra and Daniel Feldman, Palo Alto, CA Holly and Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford, CA Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Odette et Salomon Warszawski, Paris-Jerusalem Patrick Getreide, Paris, France Wartski Family, New York, NY Sidi & Peter Gluck, Tarzana, CA Carole and Marcus Weinstein, Richmond, VA Barbara and Joseph Goldenberg, Los Angeles, CA Manfred Weiss, Brooklyn, NY Ben Goldgur, Rohnert Park, CA Elaine S. and Alvin W. Wene, Elkins Park, PA Diane and Mark Goldman, Weston, MA Yaffa and Ezra Yerucham, Beer-Sheva, Israel Benjamin and Elizabeth Goldstein, Sarasota, FL Toni & Stuart B. Young, Wilmington, DE David and Melodie Graber, Alameda, CA The Zantker Charitable Foundation, Lexington, KY Manuel Grossman, Boca Raton, FL Nan Zinn Haar, Cambridge, MA Arline and Ben Guefen, Houston, Texas John Hagee Ministries, San Antonio, TX Eshkol Fay and Bert Harbour NEW MEMBERS 2016 Naomi, Ehud, Orly & Talia Houminer in memory of Sharon AABGU Zin Fellows – Cohort II Houminer Asper Foundation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Sonny and Steve Hurst, Foster City, CA Phyllis and George Brindis, Boca Raton, FL Israel Chemicals (ICL) Louis L. Colen, Los Angeles, CA Bernard and Audrey Jaffe Family, Bellingham, WA The Arthur E. Conn Trust, Miami, FL Miriam Jaffe, NY, USA Ruth and Victor David, Montreal, Canada Josefowitz Family Menachem and Miri Dor, nature lovers, Israel The Sam and Babette Kabak Charity Fund Dr. Dorit Padan Eisenstark (in her memory) Sophie and Michael Kalina, NY, USA Charles and Roslyn Epstein and Family, Malvern, PA The Leir Charitable Foundations & Trusts The Felzen Family, New York City Sol A. Leshin, Lancaster, CA The Lewis & Joan Lowenstein Foundation, Houston, TX Marlene and Fred Levinson, San Francisco, CA Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers Fdn, Newport Beach, CA Wolf and Berthe Levitan, Switzerland The Manfred and Hilda Namm Family, Larkspur, CA Robert A. and Shirley Levitt, Greensboro, NC In memory of my parents, Aziz and Nosrat Rasson Samuel H. Lipton, Boulder City, NV Joel Reinstein, Boca Raton, FL and Tel Aviv, Israel Mary Liss and Sidney Sysskind Liss, Tarzana, CA Barbara and Richard Rosenberg, San Francisco, CA Lorry I. Lokey, Atherton, CA Diana and Conrad Sandler, London, UK Sara Luhby Family, Bronx, NY Drs. Mona and Alton Sutnick, Philadelphia, PA David and Laura Merage, Engelwood, CO Jack & Helen Tramiel, Survivors of the Holocaust Bernard Mohr, Weston, FL John Woolf, Massapequa, NY Helen Nichunsky, Los Angeles, CA In memory of Clara and David Nightingale, Toronto, Canada ESHKOL MEMBERS Vera and Walter Obermeyer, San Francisco, CA AABGU Zin Fellows – Cohort I Milton Orchin, Cincinnati, OH The Alliance For Global Good, Greensboro, NC Nahid and Mansour Parsi, Los Angeles, California Jacob Aron, Tel Aviv, Israel Dorothy and Moses Passer, Washington, DC Vera Barcza, Toronto, Canada Thomas Pick, Northfield, IL Chomet Berger Family, London, in memory of our parents Renaud Presberg, Paris, France Marjorie and Morley Blankstein, Winnipeg, Canada Miriam Aaron Roland, Montreal, Canada The Alvin Blum Family, Baltimore, MD Agudat Sabah, Netanya, Israel Sandy and Steve Breslauer, Houston, Texas The Schulich Foundation, Toronto, Canada Paul and Pearl Caslow Foundation, Glenview, IL Louis Sheinman, Montreal, Canada Philip Chosky Charitable Educational Foundation, PA Mitchell Shewchun, Farmington Hills, MI Milda B. Cohen, Coral Springs, FL Gerald B. Shreiber – Mullica Hill, New Jersey Jacob and Riki Dayan Family, Los Altos Hills, California Howard Shrut, Boston, MA Arline and Morton Doblin, Winnetka, IL Robert Sillins Family Foundation, New York Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 60 President's Report 2016

Negev Society

Grandchildren of Debbie & Robert Dunn, Yardley, PA Ahuva and Frank Dye, Potomac, MD Dvora Ezralow and Family, Los Angeles, CA Families Fund of “Hayot HaNegev” Warriors (Palmach-Negev Brigade) Moses Feldman Family Foundation, Conshohocken, PA Ethel and Simon Flegg, Montreal, Canada The Sidney E. Frank Foundation Gertrude K. Franzl Estate, RI, USA Carl and Caroline Freeman, Anaheim, CA Dodi and Murray Fromson, Los Angeles, CA Edith V. Garrett, Brookline, MA Gazit-Globe Dr. Tamar Golan, founder of Africa Centre, Kibbutz Lahav, Israel Sandra Gold, Chicago, IL Jean and Julian Goldberg, Houston, Texas Goldinger Trust, Jewish Federation of DE/Fund for the Future Benjamin and Elizabeth Goldstein, Sarasota, FL Myron Goldware, Mission Viejo, CA In memory of Dr. Harry Grabstald, Herta & family, NY The Bernard F. Graham Charitable Foundations Carol Green, Truro, MA, USA Mildred Kirsh, Chicago, IL Dorothy and Harold Greenwald Foundation, Evelyn & Edmond Klauber, Flossmoor, IL New York, NY Alan Kohn, New York, NY Thomas Guggenheim, Geneva, Switzerland Koor Industries Ltd. of IDB Group John Hagee Ministries, San Antonio, Texas PA Koshland, Sydney, Australia and Paris, France Marlene and Samuel Halperin, Washington, DC Yvonne Cyr Koshland, Berkeley, CA Fay and Bert Harbour Alain and Patricia Kostenbaum, Switzerland Paul and Edwina Heller, Vancouver, BC, Canada Janet & Doron Krakow, Tenafly, NJ The Irwin Herberman Trust, North Hollywood, CA Karen and Gene Kroner, Weston, MA Hermetic Trust Services, Tel Aviv, Israel Joseph Lazard, Hallandale, FL Alvin A. & Sylvia B. Hoffman Estate, Delray Beach, FL Claire (Geller) Lenoir, Montreal, Canada In memory of Herta Hoffman, Tel Aviv, Israel Yuval Levy, Tivon, Israel Naomi and Ehud Houminer in memory of Galina and Lev Leytes – I-SAEF, Palo Alto, CA Sharon Houminer Jan Abby Liff, Nashville, Tennessee Dr. Jacob Isler Foundation, Tel Aviv The Lucius Littauer Foundation, New York Isracard Group Marianne Lockman & Tere White, Marina Del Rey, CA Israel Chemicals (ICL) Sheldon and Margery London, Bethesda, MD, USA Bernard and Audrey Jaffe Family, Bellingham, WA Makhteshim Agan Industries, Ltd Group Hon. Billy Joel and Sandra Joel, Aventura, FL Ronn & Catherine Marvin, Bern, Switzerland Josefowitz Family Margit Meissner, in memory of Frank Meissner David and Raquel Kaplan, Santiago/Los Angeles Joseph Melton, Boca Raton, FL O. Ben Kaplan, San Clemente, CA David Merage Foundation, Denver, CO and Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 61

Microsoft Ruth Schultz-Rudof, Pauma Valley, CA Takeji Otsuki Mizra Association, Beit Shalom, Japan Marilyn & Jerome Senter, Hartsdale, NY Moshal Scholarship Program In memory of Soli Shaio, Beirut, Lebanon Ruth and David Musher, New York Stephan and Patti Sharf, Bloomfield Hills, MI Negev Funding Coalition of JFNA Louis Sheinman, Montreal, Canada Dagmar and Sam Nowak, Kelowna, BC, Canada Daniel Sternheimer, i/m/o Prof. Moshe Flato, Paris Carl & Virginia Pearlstein Family Foundation, CA Evelyn Steward, Los Angeles, CA Sassoon & Marjorie Peress Charity Fund, Harrison, NY Family E. Stibbe, Israel Renaud Presberg, Paris, France Allan Tauber, M.D., Los Angeles, CA Project Jacob by International Judea Foundation, CA Haskell and Janice Titchell, San Francisco, CA Jeremy and Sara Reitman, Montreal, Canada Robin and Harold Vinegar, Houston, Texas Adam (Abrashke) and Sara Rogowski, Tel Aviv, Israel Marcia and Ira Wagner, Bethesda, MD Grace and Martin Rosman, Edgewater, MD & Sarasota, FL Dan and Regina Bublil Waldman Family, Tiburon, CA Ilse Roth, Los Angeles, CA Famille Warszawski, Paris and Jerusalem Martine Rothblatt, Satellite Beach, FL Carole and Marcus Weinstein, Richmond, VA Raphael and Shelley Rothstein, Palm Beach, FL Lisa and Howard Wenger, Walnut Creek, CA Gabriel and Diana Rubanenko, Los Angeles, CA Alexander Wincberg & Family, New York, USA Agudat Sabah, Netanya, Israel Wayne Woodman and Lisa Scheller, Allentown, PA Goldyne Savad, Los Angeles, CA Toni & Stuart B. Young, DE Elizabeth and Benjamin Schoenfeld Edith and Robert Zinn, Houston, TX Seymour Schulich, Toronto, Canada Sidney Schulman, Long Beach, CA 62 President's Report 2016

Founders

NEW MEMBERS 2016 AABGU Zin Fellows – Cohort II Michele S. and Robert C. Levin, Bala Cynwyd, PA Hannah Litvin Cohen and Robert Marc Cohen, Tampa, FL Marv and Joan Lieberman, San Diego, CA Samuel Cohen, Bay Harbor Island, FL The Selma T. & Jacques H. Mitrani Fdn, Maplewood, NJ Menachem and Miri Dor, nature lovers, Israel Joanne Moore, Washington, DC Elno Family Foundation, Bethesda, MD Isidore C. and Penny W. Myers Fdn, Newport Beach, CA Beverly and Jack Fox, Boca Raton, FL Novartis Israel Ltd. Harvey Gerry, West Hollywood, CA David & Janet Polak Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA Matilda Goodman, Brooklyn, NY Dorothy Polayes, Delray Beach, FL Sylvia and Stanley Graber, Delray Beach, FL The Donald & Sylvia Robinson Family Foundation Elizabeth and David Grzebinski, Houston, Texas Rosenbojm-Komor Foundation, New York and Colorado Charles Haar, Cambridge, MA Shmuel, Ludia and pilot Yigal Stavy, Nurith Stavy, Jerusalem Sophie Halpérin, Paris, France Robin and Brad Stein, Houston, Texas The Donald S. Harmelin Family, Stamford, CT Ira W. Weiner, Los Angeles, CA IDE Technologies Ltd., Israel Dorothy Whitman, San Francisco, CA Sylvia and Donn Johnson, Atlanta, GA Winnipeg Jewish Orphanage Alumni, Winnipeg, Canada Lee and Martin Katz, Menlo Park, CA John Woolf, Massapequa, NY Ruth and Abe Leith, Montreal, Canada Silvia & Jorge Zeiguer, BGU Argentina volunteers Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 63

In memory of Prof. Elisheva Axelrad Goldstein Living Legacy Ellen Barnett, San Diego, CA Ruth and Charles Bartfeld, Bethesda, MD Selma & Stanley Batkin, New York, NY Society Inga Behr, Laguna Woods, CA Eric Benhamou, Atherton, CA Herb K. Bennett, Dallas, Texas NEW MEMBERS 2016 Howard & Dorothy Berger, Denver, CO Gerald L. Anchor, Paradise Valley, AZ Bea Berkman, Los Angeles, CA Dr. Ernest Baden, Pompano Beach, FL Dava Berkman, Washington, DC Roslyn W. Besdine, New York, NY Kelly Bernard, Lantana, FL Pearl and Harold Borten, Washington Township, NJ Dr. Aron Bernstein, New York, NY Rees E. Brisby, Lakewood, CA Lisel & Paul Bernstein, Beverly Hills, CA Lillian and Jay H. Broad, Jericho, NY Jack R. Bershad, Philadelphia, PA Jack M. Fine, Toronto, Canada James L. Bicksler, Montclair, New Jersey Beverly and Jack Fox, Boca Raton, FL Joan & Philip Birnbaum, Bethesda, MD Blanche Frank, Bluffton, SC Miriam & Leonard Bisk, New York, NY Rosa and Alan J. Goldman, Boynton Beach, FL Percy & Virginia Black, Barre, VT Xuemei He and Benjamin J. Golub, Pompano Beach, FL In memory of Fanny & David Blank Jerry and Carol Halpern, Great Neck, NY Marjorie and Morley Blankstein, Winnipeg, Canada The Donald S. Harmelin Family, Stamford, CT Bertha & Reuben Blauner, Aventura, FL Sophie Heymann, Closter, NJ Hal Bloomberg, Boynton Beach, FL Sherry and Eliezer Hyman, New York, NY Eric H. Boehm, Santa Barbara, CA Carol and H. Robert Koltnow, Plantation, FL Regina Boxer and family, Vancouver, BC, Canada Cynthia and Frank Koppelman, Port Washington, NY Marvin Boyd, Roseville, CA Drs. Tobia & Morton Mower, Denver, CO Marjorie & Irwin Breitman, Lake Worth, FL Ahrona and Milton Ohring, Teaneck, NJ Joseph & Dorothy Breskman, Bala Cynwyd, PA Dorothy Polayes, Delray Beach, FL Stephen Breslauer, Houston, Texas Ruth Shani, Eilat, Israel Elaine Brimer, Long Island, NY Esther M. Shelden, Playa Vista, CA George and Phyllis Brindis, Boca Raton, FL Frida Samban Skolkin, Chevy Chase, MD Sylvia A. Brodsky, Blue Bell, PA Shmuel, Ludia and pilot Yigal Stavy, Nurith Stavy, Jerusalem Winnie & Bernard Brownstein, Philadelphia, PA Rowena Swanson, Alexandria, VA Susan Buckler, New York, NY Eleanor Tannenholz Sobel, Long Beach, New York Monroe Burk, Columbia, MD Myra and Herman Treitel, Scottsdale, AZ Audrey & Alan Carlan, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Larry Velez, Salem, Oregon Sidney and Brenda Chelsky, Toronto, Canada Dorothy Whitman, San Francisco, CA Helen Chiang & Family, New York, USA John Woolf, Massapequa, NY Clarissa, Countess of Avon, United Kingdom Violet and Richard Zeitlin, Elkins Park, PA Franklin and Constance Cohen, Boca Raton, FL Hyman Cohen, Rego Park, NY LIVING LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS Ruth Cohen, Montreal, Canada Roberta Abrams, New York, NY Rhoda & Seymour Cole, West Palm Beach, FL Elsa Fernbach Aglow, Cherry Hill, NJ Miriam & Harold Commings, Aventura, FL Rita & Sam L. Agron, Montville, NJ Elaine Cooper, West Bloomfield, MI Mathilde Albers, Oakland, CA Leonard & Mary Cordes Family, West Palm Beach, FL Martha Alden, San Diego, CA Mannie Corman & Frances M. Bell, Brooklyn, NY Joel & Barbara Alpert, Wayland, MA Ellen Graff & Fred Cowan, Los Angeles, CA Gale and Paul Antell, Trumbull, CT Bruce J. Cutler, Drexel Hill, PA Sylvia Arker, New York, NY Harvey Daniels, New York, NY Robert H. Arnow, Scarsdale, NY Margaret and Hyman Danowitz, Ft. Walton Beach, FL Rose & Paul C. Astor, Bala Cynwyd, PA Victor David, Montreal, Canada Philip B. Auerbach, Alameda, CA Marvin & Mildred Demchick, Lafayette Hill, PA 64 President's Report 2016

Living Legacy Society

Ignatz Deutsch, Chinchilla, PA Jean Goldberg, Houston, TX David Dickson, Skillman, NJ Lucille Goldberg, Boynton Beach, FL Charles A. Dinarello, Boulder, CO Ruth Goldberg, Auburndale, MA Peter Dirnbach, Fullerton, CA Dr. Estelle Gold-Kossman, Melrose Park, PA Michael and Judith Dorf, Tucson, AZ Anne E. Goldman, New York, NY Ahuva and Frank Dye, Potomac, MD Melvin S. & Lolita E. Goldstein, New York, NY Harriett M. Eckstein, Lexington, MA Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Fdn., CA Jean and Melvin Edelman, Boynton Beach, FL Beverly Goodman, Northbrook, IL The Edelstein Family, San Francisco, CA Alex & Brooke Goren, New York, NY Harold Eisenberg, Chicago, IL Paul E. Grayson, Silver Spring, MD Robert N. & Laurel Eisner, West Hartford, CT Ruth & Isaac Green, Laguna Hills, CA Albert Engleman, Prescott, AZ Sylvia Greenberg, Boca Raton, FL Mimi Enzel, Hallandale Beach, FL Warren and Judith H. Greenberg, Kensington, MD Shimon Erem, Los Angeles, CA Allen Greenberger, Chicago, IL Janet & Jake Farber, Los Angeles, CA Jodi & Samuel Greenblatt, Philadelphia, PA Jack Feiner, Brooklyn, NY Vera and Fred K. Greenwood, Phoenix, AZ Amy Feldstein, Manassas, VA Leena & Erwin Groner, Potomac, MD Lionel Fendell, Boynton Beach, FL Sylvia Grossman, Great Neck, NY Matis Fermaglich, Tenafly, NJ Arline & Ben Guefen, Houston, TX Field Family Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA Nahum Guzik Larry E. Fink, Hollywood, FL Lee & William Hahn, Los Angeles, CA Sandra & Steven Finkelman, Houston, TX Marlene & Samuel Halperin, Washington, DC Norma & Harry Fishbein, Tamarac, FL Harold Hamer, New York, NY Carol & Herman Fleischer, Oceanside, CA Edwin F. Hantman, New York, NY Shirley & William Fleischer, New York, NY Ray Hardy, Jacksonville, FL Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy, California Ellis & Ellen Harris, San Francisco, CA Mildred and Irving Flyer, Silver Spring, MD Harriet & Mervin Hartman, Boynton Beach, FL Esther & Bert Foer, Washington, DC Muriel Hartz, Salt Lake City, UT Paul Fogelman, Los Angeles, CA Helen & Edson Hayes, Oak Ridge, TN Ronald and Florence J. Forfar, Davie, FL Harry Hecht, Pompano Beach, FL Andre Louis Fraysee, Ft. Walton Beach, FL Frances Herbolsheimer, La Salle, IL Edy & Solomon Freedman, Fort Lee, NJ Anne Hildreth, Aiken, SC David Freeman, Vancouver, Canada Audrey & Victor Hirsch, Boynton Beach, FL Peggy Freeman, Brooklyn, NY Lillian & Irving Hochberg, Pembroke Pines, FL Gerda Frieberg, Toronto, Canada Chava and Melach Holden, Melville, NY Jane & Stephen Friedman, Sugar Land, TX Shirley Hotto, Woodside, NY Susan L. and Stanley D. Friedman, Elmhurst, New York Marion R. House, Riverdale, NY Dodi & Murray Fromson, Los Angeles, CA Eva Hubschman, Phoenix, AZ Lis Gaines, New York, NY Melissa and David Hurst, Maine Stanley Ganer, Mount Vernon, NY Steve & Sonny Hurst, Foster City, CA Stan & Arlene Ginsburg, Bala Cynwyd, PA Eileen and Ira Ingerman, Narberth, PA Sidi & Peter Gluck, Tarzana, CA Dr. Lester & Celia R. Jacobs, Highland Beach, FL Marvin Glyder, Bay St. Louis, MS Miriam Jacobs, White Plains, NY Sheryl Gold, Miami Beach, FL/East Hampton, NY Evelyn Jacobsen, Lantana, FL George Goldberg, Santa Monica, CA Bernard Jaffe, Boca Raton, FL Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 65

Miriam & William Jencks, Lexington, MA Hon. Billy & Sandra Joel, Aventura, FL Donn & Sylvia Johnson, Atlanta, GA Lillian Josephs, Wyncote, PA Pauline Snyder Kabcenell, Sarasota, FL Dr. Barry & Marsha Kahan, Houston, TX Leon S. Kaplan, Los Angeles, CA Marilyn L. & Edward M. Kaplan, Boca Raton, FL Jeanne Kaskey, Ventnor City, NJ Richard Kastner, Montreal, Canada Ray Kathren, Southgate, CA Estelle & Joseph Katz, New York, NY Lee and Martin Katz, Menlo Park, CA Iris and Melvin Katzman, Boynton Beach, FL Sylvia Katzman, Delray Beach, FL Carole & Barry Kaye, Boca Raton, FL Hazel & Robert Keimowitz, Chevy Chase, MD Anne Kelemen, New York, NY Evelyn & Edmond Klauber, Flossmoor, IL Deborah and Steven Kleinman Alan M. Kohn, New York, NY Janina Korall, Aventura, FL Joseph Koreen, Greenlawn, NY A. James, Lauri-Jo, Michael and Robert Kotzen Judith Krinsky, Mineola, NY Elizabeth & Monte Kromberg, Palm Coast, FL Bernice Kruger, Hallandale, FL Allen Lapporte, Skokie, IL Bernard Lee, Bel Air, CA Rita & Richard Lehr, Baltimore, MD Edith and Murray Leibowitz, Charlottesville, VA Claire (Geller) Lenoir, Montreal, Canada Gloria Lester, Delray Beach, FL Marjorie & Gustave Levey, Houston, TX Donald Levin, Hicksville, NY Velva G. & H. Fred Levine, Houston, TX Robert & Shirley Levitt, NY & Greensboro Dorothy Levy, West Palm Beach, FL Ethel Lena Levy, Los Angeles, CA Jill & Nat Levy, Bellaire, TX Joan & Marv Lieberman, San Diego, CA Jan Abby Liff, Nashville, TN Greg Lipscomb, Austin, TX Samuel H. Lipton, Boulder City, NV Edith Litwin, Aventura, FL Marianne Lockman & Tere White, Marina Del Rey, CA Lorry I. Lokey, Atherton, CA Margery & Sheldon London, Bethesda, MD Emanuel Luck, Roslindale, MA Sara Luhby, Bronx, NY Betty Malakoff, Brooklyn, NY Ellen S. Marcus, Austin, TX 66 President's Report 2016

Living Legacy Society

Lottie & Howard Marcus, San Diego, CA Rubin Salant, Aventura, FL Frances & Elias Margolin, San Diego, CA Edwin A. Salsitz, M.D., New York, NY Elaine Marks, Chicago, IL Lili-Charlotte Sarnoff, Bethesda, MD Judith Marks, Chicago, IL Roberta & Ernest Scheller, Jr., Villanova, PA Doris & Ralph Martin, Escondido, CA Stanley Schmerken, Pensacola, FL Dan Maydan, Los Altos Hills, CA Muriel & Samuel Schwarzman, Voorhees, NJ Darlene Dvora McGuire, Davis, CA Jacob Scovronek, South Plainfield, NJ Ruth Merns, Delray Beach, FL Meredith & Bradley Segal, Houston, TX Janice & Owen Miller, Beverly Hills, CA Marilyn & Jerome Senter, Hartsdale, NY Linda B. Miller, South Wellfleet, MA William Serog, Jamesville, NY Estella & James Millicovsky, Brownsville, TX Lee & Moshe Shapiro, Carlsbad, CA Retta Mills, Salisbury, MD Lois Shapiro, Boynton Beach, FL Carol & Gerard Moss, Aventura, FL Stephan Sharf, Bloomfield Hills, MI Dr. Alfred Munzer, Washington, DC Inez & Leonard Shechtman, Sunny Isles Beach, FL Joseph & Ann Nadel, Mill Valley, CA Louis Sheinman, Montreal, Canada Rose Nagler, Sunny Isles Beach, FL Jacob Shochat, Mahwah, NJ The Manfred and Hilda Namm Family, Larkspur, CA The Joseph and Beverly Shore Foundation, Suzanne & Sheldon W. Nash, New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Belle C. & Murray L. Nathan, New York, NY Murray & Judith Shusterman, Bala Cynwyd, PA Phylis and Alan Newman, West Palm Beach, Florida Lois Sidney, West Hollywood, CA Vera & Walter Obermeyer, San Francisco, CA Irene & Bernard Siegel, Baltimore, MD Peter Ofner, Watertown, MA Shirley Adelson Siegel, New York, NY Milton Orchin, Cincinnati, OH Joanne & Frederick Siegmund, New York, NY Madeline & Eugene Pargh, Boca Raton, FL Eugene (Gene) Silver, Rydal, PA Martin Patt, Malden, MA Lenore & Bernard Simmons, Aventura, FL Gary Phillips Caroline and Arnold Simon, Omer, Israel Thomas Pick, Northfield, IL Suse Smetana, San Francisco, CA Lana R. Pinkenson, Feasterville, PA Robert Snyder, Newtonville, MA Edwin J. & Frieda Podell, Dresher, PA Harriet Soffa, Wynnewood, PA Hanna Posniak, Bal Harbour, FL Ethel & David Sommer, Parkland, FL Michael Pudlo, New York, NY Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, New York, NY Manouchehr Rasson, Washington, DC Sara S. & Herbert Spencer, Highland Park, NJ Esther & David Redding, Walnut Creek, CA Sylvia Sprecker, Delray Beach, FL Dyann Gottesfeld Reilly, San Diego, CA Ruth & Robert St. John, Durham, NC Joel Reinstein, Boca Raton, FL Sam D. & Ina R. Starobin, Brookline, MA Geraldine K. Reiter, Aventura, FL Natalie & Leonard Stein, Evanston, IL Ruth & Theodore E. Rifkin, Boca Raton, FL David & Estelle Steinberg, Lafayette Hill, PA Adam and Sara Rogowski, Tel Aviv, Israel Sally Stern, Winnipeg, Canada Betty and Max Rosenbaum, Madison, WI Daniel Sternheimer, Paris, France Irwin Rosenman, Orange, CT Evelyne Steward, Los Angeles, CA Harriet and Harold Ross, Hackensack, NJ Arthur Strick, Newport Beach, CA Raphael and Shelley Rothstein, Palm Beach, FL Catherine & Harry Sugarman, Boca Raton, FL Carol & Harry Saal, Palo Alto, CA Faye Sundell, West Palm Beach, FL Arnold L. & Lite Sabin, New York, NY Drs. Alton & Mona Sutnick, Philadelphia, PA Marian and Sheldon Sacks, Silver Spring, MD Aron Szulman, Pittsburgh, PA Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 67

Shirley R. Tauber, Jenkintown, PA Robert and Doris F. Weisberg, New York, NY Ursula & Egon Taus, Los Angeles, CA Celia Weiss, Pacific Grove, CA Aurelia Thau, Hollywood, CA Jerome H. Wenig, Boca Raton, FL Olga Schwartz Thein, San Rafael, CA Guy M. & Eveline Weyl, Brookline, MA Libby Tobin, Newport Beach, CA Sumner T. White, Fort Lauderdale, FL Florence Toledano, New York, NY Aileen Whitman, Malvern, PA Hannah Traube, Rancho Santa Fe, CA Alice & Rolf Wiklund, Vandoeuvres, Switzerland Erving A. Trunk, Plano, TX George & Marilyn Winard, Sherman Oaks, CA Kenneth L. Tucker, Northbrook, IL Alexander Wincberg & Family, New York, NY Friedrich Turtel, Ashdod, Israel Joyce L. Winfield, Ridge, NY Vera Violeta Turtel, Ashdod, Israel Carol & Stephen Winig, Boca Raton, FL Stefani & Loren Twyford, Houston, TX Shira & Daniel Yoshor, Houston, TX Susanne and Endre Vamos, New York, NY Toni Young, Wilmington, DE Felix & Flory M. Van Beek, Newport Beach, CA Michael Yudin, New York, NY Ann S. Waldman, Elkins Park, PA Rose Zarucki, New York, NY Dorothy & Leonard Wasserman, Bala Cynwyd, PA Mona Zeehandelaar, Haverford, PA Ira Weiner, Los Angeles, CA Max Zelikovitz, Ottawa, Canada Teddy Leo Weiner, Boca Raton, FL Laikee Zelitch, Melrose Park, PA Lewis H. Weinstein, Canton, MA Edith & Robert Zinn, Houston, TX Bessie Weintraub, Chicago, IL 68 President's Report 2016

Partners in Development

NAMED PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT Larry Goodman Family Administration Building for Campuses Engineering Sciences Marcus Family Campus Ida (Babe) Goodstein Building David Bergmann Campus Sam Gorovoy Building David Tuviyahu Campus Grosman Building for Geology Pesla Toman Gutman Building Dormitory complexes Guzik Family Auditorium Building AABGU Student Dormitory Complex Guzik Family Building for Biotechnology Engineering American Associates Village at Sede Boqer Nahum and Anna Guzik Building Zlotowski Dormitory Complex Henwood-Oshry Life Sciences Teaching Laboratories Building Jusidman Science Center for Youth Buildings Kreitman Building Alon Building for Hi-Tech Kreitman-Zlotowski Classroom Building Joan W. and Robert H. Arnow Building – AA Village Philip and Bernice Krupp Building Jacqueline Ann Ayrton Sports Hall Herbert H. Lehman Building Samuel and Milada Ayrton University Center Marjorie and Gustave Levey Dormitory Building Stephen and David Breslauer Archaeological Laboratory Lorry I. Lokey Chemistry Building Building Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute for Social Boyko Research Building Leadership Building Caroline House – Health Sciences Student Center Foyer des Etudiants Fondation Simon et Jeanne (Hanna) Mani Gershon Cherni Classroom and Cultural Complex Minkoff Family Senate Court Sir John and Lady Cohen Building W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Building Abraham Ben David Ohayon Behavioral Sciences Complex Deichmann Building for Community Action Edgar de Picciotto Family National Institute for Deichmann Building for Mathematics Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) Building Ruth and Heinz-Horst Deichmann Building for Health David Posnack Biology Building Professions Harold H. Poster Building Ruth and Heinz-Horst Deichmann Classroom and Sacta-Rashi Building for Physics Computer Lab Building Spitzer-Salant Building for the Department of Social Work Ruth and Heinz-Horst Deichmann Sciences Building Harry and Abe Sherman Building Helen Diller Family Center George Shrut Dormitories Pedro Dondisch Building for the Ben-Gurion Heritage Forest Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Building for Solar Energy Institute and Research Center and Environmental Physics Raquel Dondisch Education Building Samuel Soref School of Mechanical Engineering Building Edy’s House – Ma’agan Beer-Sheva Community Center Soref-Breslauer Texas Foundation Building – AA Village Cancer Care Project Toman Family Department of Life Sciences Building Ariel Elia Medical Building Oscar and Ray Warschaw Building George Evens Family Auditorium Weiler-Arnow Medical Education Building Beit Fanny – WIZO Day Care Center BGU Carole and Marcus Weinstein Information Systems Bâtiment de Recherche Clinique, Fondation “Flamme” Engineering and Cyber Security Building Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy Henry and Anita Weiss Family Building for Advanced Research Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory Building Edith & Robert Zinn and Nan Zinn Haar Building – AA Village Diane and Guilford Glazer Building Zlotowski Building David and Rosa Goldberger Building Zlotowski Classroom Complex Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 69

Zlotowski Student Administration Building Helmsley Charitable Trust Robotics Room Zlotowski Student Center Sharon Houminer Garden Rachel and Max Javit Satellite Ground-Receiving Station Facilities Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics Stanley and Jeanne Abensur Molecular and Cell Biology Carole and Barry Kaye Mall Teaching Laboratory Israel Chatar and Lola Blum Kohen Dormitory Wing Abrahams-Curiel Auditorium Prof. Daniel E. Koshland Jr. Promenade Adelis Garden Kreitman Fellows Common Room Robert H. Arnow Student Center for Bedouin Women Kreitman Plaza Samuel Ayrton Sports Pavilion Landau Family Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory Avraham Baron Art Gallery Robert A. & Shirley P. Levitt Field Laboratory for Solar Benhamou Incubation Center Energy Storage Benhamou Technology Hall Lewar Cardiology Research Laboratory Berelson Field Dr. Gabriele and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Floor Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Lecture Halls Wing Regina and Simon Liebermann Dorm Entrance Simon Bond Physiology Wing David Lopatie General Reference Section of the Central Library Jim Breslauer Pavilion Mexico Bridge Jim and Liz Breslauer Bridge Meyerhoff Courtyards – AA Village Frances Brody Laboratory Mitrani Residences for Scientists Niusia and Aron Chilewich Square Michel and Balbina Naftali Research Laboratory Wing Charlotte and Evelyn Cohen Floor Belle and Murray Nathan Library Reading Room and Jerry J. Cohen Radiobiology Laboratory Archeological Gallery Sir John and Lady Cohen Swimming Pools Walter and Vera Obermeyer Apartments – AA Village Corob Center for Medical Sciences Ronald and Annette Oelbaum Laboratory in Life Sciences Maxwell and Queenie Cummings Plaza Yosef Ben David Ohayon Psychology and Behavioral Deichmann Plaza Sciences Auditorium Department of Mathematics Research Laboratories Wing Markus and Sara Pajewski Laboratory for Plant Tissue Culture Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at BGU Ferdinand Porjes Student Dormitory Michael Diller Teaching Pool David Posnack Biology Wing Raquel Dondisch Amphitheater for the Ben-Gurion Ilan Ramon Youth Physics Center Heritage Institute and Research Center Edith and Louis Reitman Sports Park Harry T. and Shirley Dozor Medical Research Pavilion Claire and Emanuel G. Rosenblatt Dormitory Wing Gerson Epstein Physiology Wing Eric F. and Lore Ross Atrium for Community Action and M. Ernst Wing Enrichment Field Family Foundation Medical Simulation Center Eric F. and Lore Ross Lecture Hall Regina and Charles Fisher Gallery Rothschild Cube Shirley and William R. Fleischer Foundation New Fruit Vlasta Lampel Roubickova Visitors Lounge Research Laboratory Rubenstein Family Laboratory Stan Flinkman Foyer Harry and Carol Saal Auditorium Stan and Ruth Elaine Flinkman Microscopy Wing Barnett N. and Augusta Salen Family Wing French House Dormitories Brian and Avrona Schachter Family Student Dormitory Nathan Galston Floor Jane Schapiro Library Dr. Carl Gans Herpetology Library Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr. Family Foundation Sidi and Peter Gluck Water Flow and Transport Laboratory Entrance Plaza Barbara Goldenberg Apartments – AA Village Roberta and Ernest Scheller, Jr. Family Surface Analysis Lab Fanny and Louis Goldman Dining Room Tonia and Alvin Schmerbach Dorm Entrance Joyce Goldman Auditorium Hirsch and Rosa Schneider Auditorium Melvin Goldstein Laboratory for Environmental Hydrology David and Fela Shapell Family Desalination Research Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Wing for Diabetes Laboratory Research and Education Harry and Abe Sherman Foundation Guest House Greenpark International Greenhouse George Shrut Conference Room Guzik Family Antiquities Pathway Murray H. Shusterman Gate of Knowledge 70 President's Report 2016

Partners in Development

Judith and Murray H. Shusterman Wing of the Medical Library Dr. Louis Nathanson Radiological Institute Herman Silver and Dr. Lee Winston Silver Laboratory National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN) Francine and Abdallah Simon Foyer Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research Sklar Family Optics Complex Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research Elaine and Sarah Sklar Molecular and Cell Biology Teaching Laboratory Departments Sarah Sklar Molecular Opto-Electronics Laboratory Bona Terra Department of Man in the Desert Joya Claire Sonnenfeldt Auditorium Conrad and Chinita Abrahams-Curiel Department of Harry Stern Family Psychobiology Clinical Research Pavilion Foreign Languages and Linguistics Ruth Sytner Auditorium Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought Sara Tadmor Auditorium Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Thaler Undergraduate Laboratory in Life Sciences Biotechnology Engineering Herbert and Vivian Thaler Laboratory for Stress Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies Physiology of Plants May Elting Korn Department of Health in the Community Hyman and Fanya Tower Dorm Entrance Marco and Louise Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology Gerda and John Tworoger Auditorium Harry and Abe Sherman Oncology Department Gerda and John Tworoger Garden Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Department of Social Work Vickar Auditorium Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture Ed and Marion Vickar Visitors Center Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar Energy and Weiss Family Laboratory for Nanoscale Systems Environmental Physics Henry and Anita Weiss Family Floor Yaffa and Ezra Yerucham Cancer Research Laboratory Centers Zlotowski Neurosciences Wing S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Zlotowski Student Activities Area Nutrition Bengis Center for Desert Aquaculture NAMED ACADEMIC UNITS/PROGRAMS Bengis Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculties Doris and Bertie Black Center for Bioenergetics in Life Sciences Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation Pinchas Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Blechner Center for Catalysis and Process Development M.R. Bloch Center for Research in Coal Technology Schools Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communications Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School Cashvan Equine Center Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies Corob Center for Medical Sciences Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies J.R. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sephardi Heritage Leon and Mathilde Recanati School for Community Health Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Sciences Professions Moshe David Gaon Research Center for Ladino Culture Tamar Golan Africa Centre Institutes Goldstein-Goren Center for Jewish Thought Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Morris Goldstein – Benefactor of the Department of Feher Institute for Public Policy and Management Economics French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Benzion Sundel Hersh Center of Community Health and Biotechnology of Drylands Primary Care Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Social Ecology Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology Hurst Family Center for Community Leadership Development Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute for Social Leadership Isan Center for Comparative Medicine Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 71

Paul Ivanier Center for Research in Robotics and Production Management Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics Aaron Klug Integrated Centre for Biomolecular Structure Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Martin-Springer Center for Conflict Studies and Negotiation Phillippe Monaster Center for Economic Research Newman Desertification Communication Center Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education Sidney R. and Esther Rabb Center for Holocaust and Redemption Studies Gershon Rivlin Computerized Information Center Erna and Georg R. Rothstein Child Development Center Edmond J. Safra Center for the Design and Engineering of Functional Biopolymers Els Wyler Center for the Peaceful Utilization of Natural Resources Zandman Center for Microelectronic Thick Film Technology Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience

Programs Sylvia A. Brodsky Psychological Walk-In Service (Crisis Intervention Program) Ginsburg-Ingerman Overseas Student Program Lillian and Larry Goodman Open Apartments Program Keren Moshe Leadership Training Program Sol A. Leshin BGU-UCLA Joint Research Program Mandel Social Leadership MBA Program Toby Mower Curriculum for the Prevention and Treatment of Addiction Pratt Foundation Fellowships Woodman-Scheller Israel Studies International Program 72 President's Report 2016

Dr. Lillian Chutick and Dr. Rebecca Chutick Chair in Chairs Pediatric Medicine – Prof. David Greenberg Israel Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering – Prof. Moti Herskowitz Lady Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering Processes – Prof. Eli Korin Sir John and Lady Cohen Chair in Business and Industrial PROFESSORIAL CHAIRS Management – Chinita and Conrad Abrahams-Curiel Chair in Applied Prof. Zilla Sinuany-Stern Signal Processing – Abraham Cutler Chair in Education – Prof. Stanley R. Rotman Prof. Ismael Abu-Saad S.Y. Agnon Chair in Contemporary Hebrew Literature Lady Davis Chair in Mechanical Engineering – Established by the German Associates – Prof. Tov Elperin Prof. Amos Oz Deichmann-Lerner Chair in Gynecology – Rita Altura Trust Chair in Computer Sciences – Prof. Eyal Sheiner Prof. Shlomi Dolev Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Chair for Distinguished Joan and Robert Arnow Chair in Astrophysics – Visiting Professors in Business Ethics Prof. David Eichler Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann and Ruth Deichmann Chair Yaakov and Poriah Avnon Chair in Holocaust Studies – in Surgery – Prof. Renée Poznanski Prof. Gideon Sahar Milada Ayrton Chair in Pediatrics – Dr. James and Ahuva Desnick Chair in Ophthalmology – Prof. Matityahu Lifshitz Prof. Tova Lifshitz Samuel Ayrton Chair in Metallurgy – Helen and Sanford Diller Family Chair in Chemical Physics – Prof. Nachum Frage Prof. Ehud Pines Sir Leon Bagrit Chair in Computer-Based Global Industry Jack Dreyfus Chair in Psychiatry (Unit for Phenytoin and Scientific Development – Research) – Prof. Michael Mond Prof. Galila Agam Graham Beck Chair in Experimental Physics – Albert Einstein Chair in Theoretical Physics – Prof. Grzegorz Jung Prof. Aharon Davidson David Berg and Family Chair in European History – Yosef Erteschik Chair in Information Systems Engineering – Prof. Chaim (Harvey) Hames Prof. Yuval Shahar Stephen and Edith Berger Chair in Physical Metallurgy – Maks and Rochelle Etingin Chair in Desert Research – Prof. David Fuks Prof. Zvi HaCohen Aron Bernstein Chair in Jewish History – Irene Evens Chair in Inorganic Chemistry – Prof. Hanna Yablonka Prof. Ira A. Weinstock Martin and Rena Blackman Chair in Brain Research – Andre Feher Chair for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Prof. Michal Hershfinkel Diseases – Blechner Chair in Jewish Tradition and Values – Prof. Reuben Ilia Prof. Daniel Lasker Reuben and Frances Feinberg Chair in Electro-Optics – Boyko Chair in Saline Water Irrigation – Prof. Dan Sadot Prof. Avigad Vonshak Lawrence W. and Marie Feldman Chair in Physiology – Miles and Lillian Cahn Chair in Economic Botany Prof. Amos Katz in Arid Zones – Aaron Fish Chair in Mechanical Engineering – Fracture Prof. Sammy Boussiba Mechanics – Canada Chair in Near-Eastern Archeology – Prof. Haim Kalman Prof. Steven A. Rosen Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy Chair in Isaac and Elizabeth Carlin Chair in Public Health and Quantum Physics and Nanotechnology – Epidemiology – Prof. Ron Folman Prof. Michael Friger Fraida Foundation Chair in Diabetes Research – Chilewich Family Chair in Studies in Social Integration Prof. Assaf Rudich (in memory of Yonatan Netanyahu - Entebbe) – Prof. Julie M. Cwikel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 73

Frankel Family Chair in Energy and Chemical Engineering – Dr. Harold Korn Chair for Internal Medicine – Prof. Moshe Gottlieb Prof. Dan Buskila Estelle S. Frankfurter Chair in Sephardic Studies – Kreitman Foundation Chair in Pediatric Genetics – Prof. Haviva Pedaya Prof. Rivka Carmi Gerda Frieberg Chair in Agricultural Water Management – Hyman Kreitman Chair in Bio-Energetics – Prof. Moshe Sagi Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz Melvin Fusfeld Chair in Pathology – Solomon and Abraham Krok Chair in Entrepreneurial Pending incumbent Management – Dr. Morrie M. Gelfand Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology – Prof. Nava Pliskin Prof. Eitan Lunenfeld Gussie Krupp Chair in Internal Medicine – Hy Greenhill Chair in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics – Pending incumbent Prof. Reuven Segev Joseph H. Krupp Chair in Cancer Immunobiology – Werner J. and Charlotte A. Gunzburger Chair for the Study Prof. Noah Isakov of Infectious Diseases – Kunin-Lunenfeld Chair in Medical Sciences – Prof. Ron Dagan Prof. Doron Zahger Samuel and Miriam L. Hamburger Chair in the Integration Dr. Sam and Edna Lemkin Chair in Rock Mechanics – of Immigrant Communities – Prof. Yossef Hodara Hatzor Prof. Moshe Justman Harry Levy Chair in Geography and Regional Planning – Jules Harris Chair in Oncology – Prof. Shaul Krakover Prof. Samuel Ariad Sidney Liswood Chair in Health Management – Eugene Hecht Chair in Clinical Pharmacology – Prof. Avishai Goldberg Prof. Sofia Schreiber-Avissar David Lopatie Chair in Psychology – Sidonie Hecht Chair in Geriatrics – Prof. Nachshon Meiran Prof. A. Mark Clarfield Anna and Sam Lopin Chair in History – Benzion Sundel Hersch Chair in Community Health and Prof. Yitzhak Hen Primary Care – Lubner Family Chair in Child Health and Development – Prof. Aya Biderman Pending incumbent Hoffer/Vickar Chair in Psychiatry – Luck-Hille Chair in Electrical Engineering – Pending incumbent Prof. Dov Wulich Nat Holman Chair in Sport Research – Mayman Chair in Family Medicine – Prof. Michael Bar-Eli Prof. Pesach Shvartzman Miriam Martha Hubert Chair in Jewish Thought – Milken Family Foundation Chair in Mathematics – Prof. Haim (Howard) Kreisel Prof. Daniel Berend Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Chair in Urban Studies – Philip S. Morse Family Chair in Clinical Studies in Prof. Oren Yiftachel Rheumatology in memory of the Mushacki and Dr. Lyonel Israels Chair in Haematology – Nochimowski Families – Prof. Josef Kapelushnik Prof. Mahmoud Abu-Shakra Paul Ivanier Chair in Management Economics – Dr. Morton and Toby Mower Chair in Shock-Wave Studies – Prof. Avia Spivak Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor Albert Katz Chair in Cell-Differentiation and Malignant Israel and Bernard Nichunsky Chair in Desert Agriculture – Diseases – Prof. Dudy Bar-Zvi Prof. Angel Porgador Lily and Sidney Oelbaum Chair in Applied Biochemistry – Earl Katz Family Chair in Algebraic Systems Theory – Prof. Amir Sagi Prof. Daniel Alpay Claire and Harold Oshry Chair in Biotechnology – Carole and Barry Kaye Chair in Applied Science – Prof. Smadar Cohen Prof. Raz Jelinek Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut Chair in Manufacturing Engineering – Dr. Herman Kessel Chair in Epidemiology – Prof. Yael Edan Prof. Iris Shai Alain Poher Chair in Hydrogeology and Arid Zones – Phyllis and Kurt Kilstock Chair in Environmental Physics of Prof. Eilon Adar Arid Zones – Dr. Helena Rachmanska-Putzman (née Rancman) Chair in Prof. Isaak Rubinstein Neurology – Prof. Alon Friedman 74 President's Report 2016

Chairs

Edward and Bertha Rose Chair in Desert Meteorology – Milton (Mickey) and Frimette Snow Chair in Nanotechnology – Prof. Yosef Ashkenazy Prof. Amichai Vardi Davide and Irene Sala Chair in Homeland Security Research – Clara and Alejandro Stransky Chair in Nephrology – Prof. Yuval Elovici Prof. Yoram Yagil Eric Samson Chair in Advanced Materials and Processing – Benjamin Swig Chair in Optoelectrics – Prof. Yuval Golan Prof. Joseph Rosen Ernest Scheller, Jr. Chair in Innovative Management – Anne Tanenbaum Chair in Engineering Thermodynamics – Prof. Oded Lowengart Prof. Eugene B. Zaretsky Benjamin Schwartz Chair in Agricultural Biology – Myles Thaler Chair in Plant Genetics – Prof. Gideon Grafi Prof. Michal Shapira David and Dorothy Schwartzman Chair in Community Marsha and Kenneth Tucker Chair in Economic Development – Development – Prof. David Wettstein Prof. Vered Slonim-Nevo John A. Ungar Chair in Biotechnology – Samuel Sebba Chair in Geological Sciences – Pending incumbent Prof. Jiwchar Ganor Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair in Advanced Materials – Shane Family Chair in Education – Prof. Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen Prof. Avi Assor Sumner T. White Chair in Finance* – George Shrut Chair in Human Performance Management – Pending incumbent Prof. Edna Schechtman Solly Yellin Chair in Lithuanian and East European Jewry – Anna and Harry Singer Chair in Yiddish Studies – Prof. Edward Fram Prof. Jonatan Meir Abraham and Bessie Zacks Chair in Biomedical Engineering – Irving Isaac Sklar Chair in Endocrinology and Cancer – Prof. Joseph Kost Prof. Ron N. Apte Abraham and Bessie Zacks Chair in Neurobiology – Bennie Slome Chair for Wildlife Management and Prof. Fred Libersat Conservation – Zlotowski Chair in Cognitive Neuropsychology – Prof. Boris Krasnov Prof. Golan Shahar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 75

David and Helen Zlotowski Chair in Operator Theory and Edgar de Picciotto Career Development Chair in Systems Systems – Immunology – Prof. Avraham Feintuch Dr. Tomer Hertz Chair in Geopolitics – Alice and Seymour Powers Career Development Chair in Prof. David Newman Basic and Clinical Oncology – Dr. Dan Levy RESEARCH CHAIRS Rosen Family Career Development Chair in Judaic Studies – Norman Bank Research Chair in Desert Architecture – Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal Pending incumbent William and Jean S. Schwartz Career Development Chair Evelyn Metz Memorial Research Chair in Art – in Community Health Professions – Prof. Katrin Kogman-Appel Dr. Ygal Plakht Ralph Selig Career Development Chair in Information Theory – CAREER DEVELOPMENT CHAIRS Dr. Natan Rubin Joan Baker Career Development Chair in Basic Medical Murray and Judith Shusterman Career Development Chair Research – in Microbiology – Dr. Neta Sal-Man Dr. Shimon Bershtein Norbert Blechner and Friends Career Development Chair Herman Silver Career Development Chair in Neonatology – in East European Jewish Culture – Pending incumbent Dr. Roy Greenwald Sonnenfeldt-Goldman Career Development Chair for Gerson Epstein Career Development Chair in Hospice and Desert Research – Palliative Care – Dr. Arye Gilboa Dr. Yan Press Helen Ungar Career Development Chair in Desert Ilse Katz Career Development Chair in Health Sciences Hydrogeology – Research – Dr. Shai Arnon Dr. Roi Gazit Zehava and Chezy Vered Career Development Chair in D.E. Koshland Jr. Family Career Development Chair in Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases – Advanced Technologies in Electrical & Computer Dr. Deborah Toiber Engineering – Harry Walsh, Q.C. Career Development Chair in Jewish Dr. Tamar Riklin-Raviv Law and Morality – D.E. Koshland Jr. Family Career Development Chair in Dr. Yair Furstenberg Desert Studies – Mendel Wasserman Career Development Chair in Desert Dr. Michal Segoli Studies – Lapin-Garner Career Development Chair in Clinical Surgery – Dr. Oded Berger-Tal Dr. Eldad Silberstein Elaine S. and Alvin W. Wene Career Development Chair in Dr. Sam and Edna Lemkin Career Development Chair in Biotechnology Engineering – Middle East Studies – Dr. Ronen Berkovich Dr. Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli Joseph and May Winston Career Development Chair in Dr. Gabi and Eng. Max Lichtenberg Career Development Chemical Engineering – Chair in Surgery – Dr. Ronit Bitton Dr. Boris Kirshtein Roy J. Zuckerberg Career Development Chair in Water Elias and Frances Margolin Career Development Chair in Research – Environmental Desert Studies and Research – Dr. Ido Bar-Zeev Dr. Nurit Agam Franklin Nassery Career Development Chair in Cardiology – PRESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CHAIRS Dr. Avraham Shimoni Toby Mower Presidential Development Chair in Addiction Belle and Murray Nathan Career Development Chair in Prevention and Treatment – Neurobiology – Dr. Orli Grinstein-Cohen Dr. Ramon Birnbaum Toby Mower Presidential Development Chair in Addiction Edgar de Picciotto Career Development Chair in Cancer Prevention and Treatment – Therapeutics and Imaging – Ms. Miriyam Farkash Dr. Niv Papo * Pending Senate approval 76 President's Report 2016

BGU Main Endowment Funds

AABGU General Fund Patricia Ross & Gayle Leventhal Scholarship Fund in AABGU Zin Fellows Open Apartments Fund Memory of William E. Berelson Stanley & Jeanne Abensur Scholarship Fund in Engineering William Berelson Fund for Peace in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin Carl & Rose Abrams Scholarship Fund for Students at the Bessie Berg Engineering Library Fund Eilat Campus David Berg & Family Chair in Eastern European History AHMSA Scholarship Fund Louis Berkowitz Scholarship Program Alfassa Foundation Scholarship Fund Rebecca and Bernard Bernard Scholarship Fund Otto & Miriam Altschuler Scholarship Fund Martin & Ada Berney Desert Food Production Fund Aaron & Fanny Amdursky Memorial Scholarship Fund Abraham & Helen Bernstein Scholarship Fund Marianne Amir Excellence Award for Research in Aron Bernstein Endowment Fund for Agriculture Students Behavioral Sciences and Desert Research Applied Research Institutes Fund Helen & Jack Bershad Graduate Scholarship Fund Allan Apter Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Marie Bienstock Solar Energy Fund Robert Arnow Fund Doris & Bertie Black Center for Bioenergetics Robert Arnow Fund (AABGU) Blaustein International Center for Desert Studies Fund Robert Arnow Scholarship Fund Fund for the Graduate Center for Desert Studies at the Robert H. Arnow Fund for Bedouin Students Blaustein Institutes Auerbach Family Library Development Fund Graduate Students Program in Desert Studies Milada Ayrton Scholarship Fund Jacob Blaustein Desert Research Institute Fund Milada Ayrton Sports Fund Blechner Center for Catalysis Fund Richard Ayrton Geology Research Fund Blechner Chair Activity Fund Azrieli Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Norbert Blechner Postgraduate Fellowships in Medical Dr. Sonia & Berthold Badler Fund Architecture Research James Baker Research Fund Harry & Dorothy Blumenthal Memorial Student Loan Fund Rachel Bannett-Sofer Memorial Scholarship Fund Sandy Breslauer Open Apartments Activity Center Fund Ecology Research Fund in Memory of Seldon & Etan Bard Sadie Bronfman Medical Education Center Fund Avraham Baron Art Gallery Judy Feld Carr Scholarship Fund Stuart & Gloria Bart Scholarship Fund Caspe Foundation Scholarship Fund Naomi Fisher Bartnoff Genetics Counseling Unit Fund Irwin Chafetz Graduate Scholarship Fund in Nanotechnology Dr. Jordan J. Baruch Scholarship Fund Dr. Stanley E. & Shirley Charm Doctoral Scholarship Fund Jordan Baruch Stem Cell Research Fund Minnie & William Chernin Scholarship Memorial Fund Water Resources Fund in Memory of Dr. Meyer L. Rosoff The Max and Dora Chinicz Scholarship Fund & Rev. Benzion Bauer Dr. Lillian Chutick & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Scholarship Fund Graham Beck Career Development Chair Charles Clore Fund for Bedouin Project Bedouin, Arab, Jewish Students Scholarship Fund David (z"l) & Malka Cohen Fund Paul Beer Scholarship Fund Hannah Litvin Cohen Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Howard & Lynn Behar Fund for the Social Work Dept. Judith Cohen Segal Memorial Scholarship Fund Belgium Open Apartments Fund Lady Sarah Cohen General Fund Moshe Ben Sira Scholarship Fund Maurice & Ses Cohen Scholarship Fund Yael Anna Ben-Aharon Fund for Behavioral Sciences Zane & Joan Cohen Fellowship Fund for Gastrointestinal Udi Ben-Amitai Aeronautical Research Fund Diseases Ben-Gurion Centennial Fund Sidney & Elizabeth Corob Medical Fellowship Fund Dianne & Aldo Bensadoun Family Fund Fran & Reuben Croll Montreal Scholarship Fund Dr. Irving & Jeanette Benveniste Scholarship Fund Crown Foundation Scholarship Fund for Graduate Students in Science, Math & Technology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 77

Joan & Ted Cutler Scholarship Fund Rachel Freeman Memorial Open Apartment Fund Michael Cyker Scholarship Fund French Associates Institute for Agriculture & Dr. Andre Danesh Scholarship Fund Biotechnology of Drylands Margaret J. & Hyman Danowitz Scholarship Fund Aron & Yehudit Friedman Scholarship Fund Prof. Moshe Dariel Research Fund Ernest & Anna Fuchs Memorial Scholarship Fund Jacob and Riki Dayan Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Erna H. Furst Memorial Scholarship Fund Diabetes Research Program Fund Gaines Graduate Scholarship Fund at AKIS Dickler Family Geography Library Development Fund Lis Gaines Scholarship Fund Richard (Buddy) Dinner Scholarship Fund Dr. Carl Gans Herpetology Library Fund Dozor Medical Laboratory Equipment Fund Nessim & Renee Gaon Sephardi Heritage & Literature Eileen & Louis Dubrovsky Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Cancer Library Fund Fellowship Fund Lola Gerder Scholarship Fund Anna Dunietz Memorial Scholarship Fund for Immigrant Lillian & Abraham Gezelter Scholarship Fund Students Eliahu & Rowhani Ghodsian Medical Student Tuition Dr. Leonard N. Ebin Memorial Scholarship Fund for Scholarship Fund Medical Students Dr. Zeev & Shlomit Gilad Memorial Scholarship Fund Dolfi & Lola Ebner Family Scholarship Fund Sid Gillman Competitive Sports Fund Abraham & Ida Echenberg Perpetual Scholarship/ Stanley Ginsburg Family Scholarship Fund Fellowship Fund Ginsburg-Ingerman Fund Batsheva & Joseph Eden Scholarship Fund – Milgat Eden David & Luba Glatt Prize Fund for Excellence in Teaching Prof. Shlomo Efrima Memorial Prize Fund David & Luba Glatt Scholarship Fund Julie (Judith) Eisner Nee Frolich Memorial Medical Guilford Glazer School of Business & Management Fund Scholarship Fund William N. Goldenberg Scholarship Fund Leah & Yitzhak Elam Scholarship Fund Sam Goldfarb Social Work Fund Prof. Chaim Elata Library Development Fund Goldman Medical School International Advisory Ada & Albert Elovic Memorial Scholarship Fund Committee Fund Col J. R. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sephardi Heritage Fund Irving Goldman Scholarship Fund for Doctoral Students Vital & Alice Epelbaum Scholarship Fund for Graduates in Joyce & Irving Goldman Family Medical School Fund Medicine & Bio-Technology Ralph I. Goldman Fellowship Fund at the Woodman- AABGU Ethiopian Student Scholarship Fund Scheller Israel Studies International Program Daniel Falkner Scholarship Fund for Students at the Albert Horace W. Goldsmith Fdtn. Graduate Scholarship Fund in Katz Intl. School Science, Math & Technology Jake & Janet Farber Scholarship Fund Jean Goldsmith Ethiopian Jews Integration Fund Feher Chair Fund John Goldsmith Mem. Prize Fund for Excellence in Mimi & Sig Feiger Perach Program Fund Occupational/Environmental Health Feil Family Foundation MD/PHD Fellowship Fund Avram & Stella Goldstein-Goren Biotechnology Sam & Fannie Feld Scholarship Fund Engineering Dept. Fund Marc & Amy Feldstein Graduate Student Scholarship Fund Cukier, Goldstein-Goren Scholarship Fund Henry and Ada Felzen Scholarship for Masters in Israel Studies Goldstein-Goren Jewish Thought Dept. Fund Isaac & Anna Fenster Scholarship Fund Joseph and Fannie Goldware Scholarship Fund Aaron Fish Scholarship Fund Goodman Family Fund for Graduate & Post Graduate Eric M. Flanders Fund in Palliative Medicine Research at Albert Katz International School Prof. Moshe Flato Memorial Mathematics Lectures Fund Jacob A. & Saralie Goodman Scholarship Fund Flegg Scholarship Funds in memory of Simon and Ethel Flegg Robert Goodman Open Apartments Fund Fohs Foundation Undergraduate & Graduate Scholarship Fund Lisa & Dunya Goodstein Scholarship Fund Julius Fohs Student Loan Fund Sylvia & Stanley Graber Undergraduate Scholarship Fund Samuel Jacob Fox & Gertrude Alice Fox Scholarship Fund Victor H. Graber Memorial Fund for Ethiopian Students Fox Chase Cancer Center/BGU Collaborative Research Fund Dr. Harry Grabstald Memorial Scholarship Fund Lynne & William Frankel Center for Computer Sciences Fund Gisela Stein Gross & Edward Gross Scholarship Fund for Estelle Frankfurter Columbia Program Fund Life Science Students Estelle Frankfurter Fund Michael M. H. Gross Fund Carl Freeman Family Trust Scholarship Fund Miriam & Aaron Gutwirth Scholarship Fund 78 President's Report 2016

BGU Main Endowment Funds

Bella Guzick-Dresner Memorial Scholarship Fund Philip & Tagora Katz Student Cultural Fund Haas Foundation Social Work Fund Sylvia & Morris Katzman Scholarship Fund Yaakov HaCohen Graduate Memorial Fellowship Fund Dalia Katzman-Prashker Fund Jaye Haddad Memorial Scholarship Fund Betty Ruth Kavanat Scholarship Fund Halaj Foundation Scholarship Fund Carole & Barry Kaye Scholarship Fund Dr. Irene Halmos Memorial Library in Behavioral Sciences Kerzner Coal Energy Fund Vladimir Halperin Memorial Scholarship Fund Aryeh Keshet Heart Disease Research Fund Shira Hanani Memorial Fund in Developmental Psychology Dr. Herman Kessel Applied Biology Fund Samuel and Charlotte Hankin Scholarship Fund Dr. Herman Kessel Medical Research Fund Manya Harwitt Scholarship Fund Friedle & Michael Kleiser Memorial Fund for Diabetes Hayot HaNegev Unit's Families Scholarship Fund Research Hecht Community Medicine Program in Yeruham Margaret Friedman Kohn Scholarship Fund for Female Rosalind Henwood Scholarship Fund Students Maurice & Herman Herbst Family Scholarship Fund Dr. Martin G. Kohn Memorial Scholarship Fund for Center for Arab/Bedouin/Jewish Understanding - Medical Students Herman Fund Post Doctoral Research Fund for Study of Vitamins & Benzion Sundel Hersch Fund for Community Health & Hormones i/m/o the Kopech Family Health Education May Elting Korn Scholarship Fund Herzog Center Fund Prof. Daniel Koshland Fund for Research Rosel Herzog & Erna Joseph Memorial Fellowships Program Kreith Fund for Biennial Lecture in Solar Energy David Hirschhorn Graduate Studies Fellowship Fund Kreitman Common Room Periodicals Fund Hochman Medical Scholarships Fund Kreitman Comparitive Medicine Chair Fund Leo & Doris Hodroff Scholarship Fund for Bedouin Women Kreitman Family Foundation Fund Holman Chair Fund Kreitman Foundation Fellowship Fund Hubert Humphrey Social Ecology Center Fund Neil Kreitman Library Development Fund US Freedom from Hunger Fund Toni Krieger Intensive Care Nursing Training Fund Hurst Family Center for Community Leadership Development Sonia, Zvi & Dr. Moshe Kroi Memorial Scholarship Fund Ingerman Family Scholarship Fund Ada Kruger Memorial Scholarship Fund for Medical Students Daniel Insler Memorial Fellowship Fund Fredrick Krupp Memorial Scholarship Fund Iranian Jewish Cultural Organization Scholarship Fund Philip Krupp Memorial Scholarship Fund Iranian Jews Cultural Scholarship Fund Kunin-Lunenfeld Chair Fund Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics Research & Production John & Rose Kurtz Memorial Scholarship Fund Management Fund Lily S. & Herman M. Kurtz Scholarship Fund Charles & Lillie Ivener Mental Health Library Fund Landau Family Microalgal Biotechnology Laboratory Fund Goldie D. Ivener (Daughter of Charles & Lillie Ivener) Prof. Ladislaus & Nelly Laszt Fund Scholarship Fund Eugenia Lauterbach Memorial Fund in Desert Research Theodore Jaffe Scholarship Fund Lauterbach-Landau Family Scholarship for Students of Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics Desert Research Sandra and Billy Joel Scholarship Fund Eda Edith Lavitt Scholarship Fund Kabak Fund for Agricultural Research Sarah Lehman Scholarship Fund for Soviet Students Kaiserman Fund for Ethiopian Student Support Adele Lehrer Memorial Cultural Series Sophie Kalina Scholarship Fund for Bedouin Students John & Claire Lenoir Scholarship Fund Richard A. & Edythe Kane Scholarship Fund Maribeth & Steven Lerner Family Scholarship Fund Stanley H. Kaplan Scholarship Fund Stephen O. Lesser Scholarship Fund Albert Katz Graduate Desert Study Fund Chaim Michel & Chaya Freyda Levine Scholarship Fund Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 79

Charles & Rose LeVita Fund David & Inez Myers Fndt. Life Sciences Recruitment & Hans Heinz Levor Fund for Doctoral Fellowships in Retention Fund Agriculture Research Minnie Nathanson Memorial Fund for the Medical Library Prof. Jacques Lewiner Standing Chemistry Fund Nathanson Family Student Loan Fund Nina and Noah Liff Family Scholarship Fund Jose Nemirovsky Computer Sciences Library Development Joseph Linsey Fellowship Fund Fund Joseph M. Linsey Sportsmanship Award Ruth & Arthur Ness Applied Research Fund Lipper Scholarship Fund Raquel H. Newman Scholarship Fund Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Scholarship Fund Oberlander Fund for Research at Negev Center for Lubner Family Annual Prize for Excellence in Innovation & Regional Development Research Fund Ronald Oelbaum Fund Luck-Hille Scholarship Fund For Instrumentation Design Chair Ronald Oelbaum Graduate Scholarship Fund Rachel Judith Lukinsky Memorial Scholarship Fund Ronald Oelbaum High Blood Pressure Laboratory Dr. Pavel Lukshon Memorial Fund for Psychiatric Research Ruth & Yuli Ofer Chair For Study of Egypt & the Mackoff Scholarship Fund Mediterranean World Fund Henry Malakoff Tuition Scholarship Fund Daniel Offer, MD, and Marjorie Kaiz Offer Adolescent Michel Mamon Student Loan Fund Research Fund Tuba & Yahya Manocherian Scholarship Fund One Vision Fund Dr. Jacob Mantheim Scholarship Fund Ruth & Milton Orchin Prize in Chemistry Elias and Frances Margolin Scholarship Fund Ruth & Milton Orchin Scholarship Fund Margolin Scholarship Fund in Memory of Lisa & David Prof. E. Oren Negev & Sinai Archaeological Research Fund Tuviyahu Maurice J. Oringer Agricultural Research Fund The Frances and Elias Margolin Memorial Lecture in Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Scholarship Fund Chemical Engineering Father Takeji Otsuki Fund for Graduate Fellowships in Werner Marienthal Scholarship Fund Bible Studies Hermine Weinberg & Frieda Maslin Scholarship Fund for Markus & Sara Pajewski Scholarship Fund Education, Teaching & Jewish History Mansour & Nahid Parsi Family Scholarship Fund Jean Matlow Scholarship Fund Mansour & Nahid Parsi Fund Morris Mauerberger Graduate Fellowship Fund Moses and Dorothy Passer Student Aid Fund Carmelo Mauro Scholarship Fund Dr. Milton M. Paul Fund for Cardio-Vascular Research Abe Mayman Family Medicine Research Fund i/h/o Shia, Mary & Marvin Politsky Waldo Mayo Memorial Scholarship Fund Rabbi Jordan Pearlson Continuing Education Fund Joseph & Ceil Mazer Fellowship Exchange Fund Rabbi Jordan Pearlson Scholarship Fund Middle East Eye Research Institute (MEERI) Fund Pearlstone Center for Aeronautical Engineering Studies Fund Prof. Mehrez Memorial Fund for Prizes of Excellence in Maurice & Ethel Pierce Medical Scholarship Fund Management Mary Miller Pilch Scholarship Fund David Mendell Scholarship Fund Plant Adaptation Research Fund Evelyn Metz Memorial Art Fund Marion Wolcott Plotnick Scholarships for Training Family Morris Metz Library Development Fund Doctors Reuben Menashe Meyer Fellowships for Medical Alain Poher Chair Fund Education Center Ted & Mildred Poland Scholarship Fund Joseph Meyerhoff Electrical Engineering Scholarship Fund Lea Polk, Grace Stern & Ruth S. Jacobs Female Medical Prof. Dan Meyerstein Chemistry Research Fund Student Scholarship Fund Louise Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology Fund Edith Porjes Memorial Scholarship Fund Marco & Louise Mitrani Scholarship Fund Alice & Seymour Powers Scholarship Fund Mitrani/Tekoah Fund Sidney Press Visiting Scientists Fund Gertrude & Bernard Mohr Scholarship Fund Prof. D. Priel Research Fund Monaster Center for Economic Research Fund Prywes Medical Library Fund Dr./Mrs. Morton Mower Scholarship Fund Racquela Prywes Memorial Nursing Scholarship Fund Toby and Mort Mower Fund in Nursing S. Putzman Chair Fund Toby Mower Addiction Prevention & Treatment Fund Sidney R. & Esther V. Rabb Center for Holocaust & Hadassah and Sidney Musher Science Award Fund Redemption Studies Fund 80 President's Report 2016

BGU Main Endowment Funds

Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Scholarship Fund George & Beatrice F. Schwartzman Fund for Desert Research Rabinovitch Family Scholarship Fund Schwartzman/Medvedi Fund for Research in Arid Zones & Raya & Dr. Eliyahu Rabinovitch Memorial Scholarship Fund Aquatic Biotechnology Bracha Ramot Memorial Prize in Medicine Leanor Segal Scholarship Fund Louis Rasminsky Program for Social & Cultural Integration I. Meier Segals Scholarship Fund Howard Rauberger Scholarship Fund Jerome Senter Endowed Scholarship Fund for IDF Veterans Leon & Mathilde Recanati Fund Leonard Shane General Fund Dr. Richard Ribner Scholarship Fund Charles & M. R. Shapiro Scholarship Fund Philip & Rose Robinson Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund for Students from Ofakim Adam & Sarah Rogowsky Scholarship Funds Harry & Abe Sherman Foundation Education Fund Dr. Samuel I. Roland Memorial Scholarship Fund in Family Harry & Abe Sherman Teaching & Research Equipment Fund Medicine Nathan Shreiber Scholarship Fund Jaqueline & Sigmund A. Rolat Graduate Fellowships Fund George Shrut Scholarship Fund Merrill S. & Selma R. Rosenberg Memorial Scholarship Fund Zvi Shulman Cancer Scholarship Fund Rosenbojm-Komor Scholarship Fund for Community Medicine Robert J. Shusterman Travel Fund Martin & Truus Rosenthal Freedom From Hunger Fund Dr. Lee Winston Silver Memorial Equipment Fund Dr. Leonard & Dora C. Rosenzweig Agricultural Research Anna & Harry Singer Chair in Yiddish Studies Fund Fellowship Fund Jack H. Skirball Fund for Collaborative M.D. Program in Rotem Foundation Scholarship Fund International Medicine Erna & Georg R. Rothstein Child Development Center – Fund Harry B. & Bertha A. Sklar Scholarship Fund William & Irma Rulf Fund – Centre for the Study of Sklar Scholarship Fund in Memory of Samuel & Golde Sklar European Politics & Society Charles B. Sloane Scholarship Fund M. Judith Ruth Scholarship Fund Harriet & Stanley L. Sloane Yitzhak HaLevi Scholarship Fund The Alex Sailor Memorial Scholarship Fund Stanley Laurie Sloane Memorial Graduate Scholarship Fund Davide & Irene Sala Chair In Nuclear Engineering Fund Irene & Joseph Smelkinson Scholarship Fund Dr. David Salmon Memorial Scholarship Fund Sobkowska (Jadzia Schachter) Scholarship Fund Leibush & Felicia Salsitz Scholarship Fund Jonathan Sofer Scholarship Fund Eric & Sheila Samson Fellowship Fund Albert & Harriet Soffa Graduate Scholarship Fund Yoel & Rina Saraf Scholarship Fund Solow Scholarship Fund Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Eta & Sasson Somekh Scholarship Fund Maurice Saval Memorial Scholarship Fund Helene K. Soref Fund Saverino Technology Development Fund President's Fund for Excellence in Memory of Samuel & Martha & Solomon Scharf Fund for Prize in Excellence in Helene Soref Computer Sciences Samuel & Helene Soref Graduate Scholarship Fund Rae & Judah Schaverien Scholarship Fund Samuel & Helene Soref Library Development Fund Max and Marjorie Schechner Scholarship Fund I/H/O J. Louis & Shirley Spero Scholarship Fund George Shrut Charlotte B. & Jack J. Spitzer Dept. of Social Work Fund Rita & Joseph B. Scheller Scholarship Fund Jack J. & Charlotte Spitzer Fund for Social Work Masters Alexander M. Schoenfeld Scholarship Fund in Botany Program Ann Schoenfeld Scholarship Fund Robert St. John Chair in Objective Middle East Reporting Fund David Schreiber & Clara Vinocur Schreiber Memorial Trust Robert St. John Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salam Fund for Sidney Schulman Fund for the Homeland Security Institute Educational Support Dan Schusterman Geology Research Fund Robert St. John Scholarship Fund Benjamin Schwartz Scholarship Fund Dr. Tom Staple & Mrs. Shirley Staple Scholarship Fund William & Jean S. Schwartz Scholarship Fund Yigal Stavy Memorial Scholarship Fund Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 81

Steg Family Scholarship Fund Mendel Wasserman Career Development Chair in Desert Ruth Steinbach Scholarship Fund Studies Fund Lionel Steinberg Memorial Scholarship Fund for Female Stanley D. & Nikki Waxberg Scholarship Fund Bedouin Students David Waxman Scholarship Fund in Memory of Nissan, Max Steinberg Memorial Scholarship Fund Sara & David Waxman Bandy Steiner Family Counselling Research Center Lorne Webster Desert Hydrology Fund Albert & Bertha Stern Scholarship Fund Jack & Doris Weiler Fund for Bedouin Studies Harry Stern Schizophrenia Research Fund Jack D. Weiler Fellowships Fund Ida & Solomon Stern Psychiatric Research Unit Elsa Weinberg Building Maintenance Fund Milton Stern Mechanical Engineering Student Loan Fund Josephine & David Weinberg Scholarship Fund Sergey & Maria Steuerman Scholarship Fund Lee Weinstock Memorial Scholarship Fund David Isaac Stolmack Scholarship Fund Philip Weiss Cancer Research Fund Karen Sundell Memorial Scholarship Fund Rudolph Weiss Scholarship Fund Alton & Mona Sutnick, Stanley & Shirley Tauber Fund for Louis & Anna Werfel Memorial Scholarship Fund Prywes Center for Medical Education Sumner White Fund for MD PhD Program Sutnick/Zipkin Travel Fund for Fox Chase/Drexel University Alice & Rolf Wiklund-Schneider "RandA" Scholarship Fund Yehudit & Herman Swartz Scholarship Fund for Medical Gary Winig Ophthalmology Fellowship Fund School in International Health Florence & George Wise Medical Education Chair Fund Swig-Pearlstein Fund for Desert Research Martin W. & Carol S. Witte Electrical & Computer Prof. J. Yannai Tabb Memorial Cancer Research Grants Fund Engineering Scholarship Fund Sarah & Dov Tadmor Scholarship Fund Wyler Fund for Extensive Dryland Agriculture Anne Tanenbaum Scholarship Fund in the Engineering Faculty Zvi & Zvia Yemini Graduate Scholarship Fund Tauber Family Scholarship Fund in Memory of Dov Yitzhaky Memorial Scholarship Fund for the Study of Dr. Z. Kohn, S. Barna & Dr. J. & S. Pfeiffer Israel & Zionism Egon & Ursula Taus Scholarship Fund Eyal Yoel Prize Fund for Outstanding Ecological Research Gate of Aliya Fund in Memory of Yosef Tekoah Maurice & Sylvia Young Memorial Scholarship Fund Terry Family Cancer Fellowships Fund Brian Yule Water Resources Fund Herbert & Vivian Thaler Visiting Scientists Fund David Zeehandelaar Memorial Scholarship Fund for the Center for Arab/Bedouin/Jewish Understanding – Overseas Student Program Tobin Fund Michael Zeiger Annual Wine Lecture Fund Maria & Zoltan Toman Fund for Academic Excellence Bloom Zeitlin Scholarship Fund Zoltan Toman Equipment Fund Max & Pauline Zimmer Family Scholarship Fund Zoltan Toman General Research Fund Zlotnik Scholarship Fund for Outstanding Women in the Zoltan Toman Library Fund School of Management Zoltan Toman Maintenance Fund Zlotowski Fund Zoltan Toman Medical Research Fund Sam Zuckerberg Scholarship Fund for the Zuckerberg Toronto Prize for Excellence in Research Institute for Water Research Drs. Helen & Frank Trager Scholarship Fund in History or Goverment & Politics Moises & Chana Trottner Scholarship Fund Marsha & Kenneth Tucker Scholarship Fund Tuviyahu Archives Fund Ullman Fund for the Center for Women's Health Studies & Promotion Ungar Foundation Educational Counselling Fund Irving Usen Library Development Fund Ed Vickar Social Work Library Fund Albert & Elaine Viton Scholarship Fund Irene Walsh & H. Volder Scholarships Fund Ilona & Bernat Wachs Fund Wagner Wurtzel Family Scholarship Fund 82 President's Report 2016

1985 1991 Honorary Prof. Joshua Jortner Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Teddy Kollek Uri Lubrani Dr. George Wise Annemarie Renger Degrees Prof. Alexander E. Sheindlin 1986 Jack J. Spitzer Justice Simon Agranat Maj. Gen. (res.) Israel Tal President Chaim Herzog Lifetime Doctor of Philosophy Joseph Jacobson 1992 Achievement Award Honoris Causa Dr. Paul Janssen Prof. Kenneth J. Arrow 1996 1979 Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg Abba Eban Milada Ayrton Aron Chilewich Dr. Abram L. Sachar Amb. Max Kampelman Suzanne Zlotowski Prof. Haim Hanani Ilse Katz Hyman Kreitman 1987 President François 1997 Prof. Moshe Rachmilewitz Lady Sarah Cohen Mitterrand Ilse Katz Prof. Haim Harari Dr. Davide Sala George Shrut 1980 Paul Ivanier Eric Samson Lane Kirkland Abba Kovner President Ezer Weizman 1998 Dr. Alec Lerner Bertram Lubner Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Prof. Leo Picard Prof. Moshe Prywes 1993 Prof. Sidney Gelber Prof. Natan Rosen George Shrut Yitzhak Ben-Aharon Hyman Kreitman Mendel Kaplan 1981 1988 Siegfried Lenz 1999 Prof. John Beck Conrad Abrahams-Curiel Naomi Shemer Norbert Blechner Milada Ayrton Anne Tanenbaum 1982 Sir Isaiah Berlin Prof. Pinhas Zusman 2000 Judge Shlomo Elkayam Yeshayahu Dan Robert H. Arnow General Alexander Prof. Michael Feldman 1994 Shimon Peres M. Haig, Jr. Prof. Sidney Gelber Robert H. Arnow Dr. Zoltan Toman Moshe Nessim David Hirschhorn 2001 David Tuviyahu Prof. Elie Wiesel Philip R. Lee Edgar D. de Picciotto (posthumous) Aharon Yadlin Yitzhak Rabin Edgar D. de Picciotto 2003 1983 1989 Jack J. Spitzer Roberta Abrams Norbert Blechner 1995 Prof. Michael Evenari Avram Goldstein-Goren Amb. Mohamed Abdel Aziz 2004 Senator Edward M. Prof. Zeev Hadari Bassiouny Col. Ilan Ramon Kennedy Prof. Roald Hoffmann Dr. Domingo Cavallo (posthumous) Prof. Benjamin Mazar Philip Krupp Prof. Daniel Cohen Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Prof. Cecil G. Sheps Milton Petrie Ariel Elia Prof. Menahem E. Yaari Dr. Wolfgang Hasenclever 2010 1984 Haim Zadok Prof. Jacob Katz Prof. Avishay Braverman Arnold Forster Suzanne Zlotowski Dr. Helmut Kohl Dr. Thomas O. Hecht Harold Oshry 2013 Shimon Peres 1990 Justice Meir Shamgar Bertram Lubner Isaac Bashevis Singer Prof. Shimshon Amitsur Avraham Shohat Barbara Tuchman Dr. Heinz-Horst Deichmann Frederick Siegmund Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Ronald Oelbaum Michael W. Sonnenfeldt Urbach Leonard Shane Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Nathan Sharansky Martin Wyler Prof. Solomon H. Snyder Maestro Isaac Stern Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 83

1996 Prof. Yehudit Birk 2003 Justice Aharon Barak Moshe Arens Yoel De Malach Prof. Haim Aviv Stephen K. Breslauer Dr. Joseph Burg Uzia Galil Arnold M. Bengis Prof. Yossi Gorny Arye Lova Eliav Prof. Sir Aaron Klug Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr. Adv. Yair Green Dr. Paul Feher Albert Memmi Prof. Joel L. Fleishman Morris S. Kahn Dr. Johannes Gerster Prof. Klaus Schwab Prof. Hillel Furstenberg Prof. Alexander Levitzki Nadine Gordimer Murray H. Shusterman Dorian S. Goldman Maestro Shlomo Mintz Rosalind Henwood Barbara Walters Lawrence Goodman Orna Porat President Prof. Ephraim Prof. Daniel Kahneman Prof. A. Michael Spence Katzir 2000 Dr. Bernard Kouchner Henry A. Weiss Hubert Leven Zvi Alon Dr. Mathilde Krim Prof. Bernard Lewis Ing. Pedro Dondisch Dr. Richard A. Lerner 2007 Harry Stern Prof. Jacob Frenkel Dr. Paul A. Marks Prof. Aharon Appelfeld Prof. Joseph Stiglitz Haim Gouri Eliyahu Navi Prof. Ruth Arnon Simon Wiesenthal Sami Michael Robert Equey Dr. Felix Zandman Prof. Sadako Ogata 2004 Haim Israeli Prof. Michael Rabin Eliyahu Amir Ada Karmi-Melamede 1997 Prof. Meir Wilchek Nina Brink Dr. Marie-Claire King S. Daniel Abraham James D. Wolfensohn Edgar M. Bronfman Galia Maor Amb. Asher Ben-Natan Prof. Amnon Yariv Prof. Aaron J. Ciechanover Channa Marron Harry T. Dozor Solly Yellin Prof. Beno Eckmann Prof. Michael I. Posner Ruth Dayan Ida Fink Marc Rich Shlomo Hillel 2001 Prof. Alain Finkielkraut Leanor Segal Prof. Ora Kedem Dr. Hubert Burda Dr. Richard D. Klausner Prof. Hermona Soreq President Nelson Mandela Abby Joseph Cohen Benzion Landa Senator Daniel Patrick Prof. Raymond A. Dwek Dr. Howard W. Marcus 2008 Moynihan Lord Foster of Thames Bank Lottie R. Marcus Prof. Yehuda Bauer President Yitzhak Navon Efraim Kishon Amb. Thomas R. Pickering Prof. Avishay Braverman Dr. Ferdinand Piëch Gustave Leven Seymour R. Powers Prof. Claude Cohen- Prof. Howard Raiffa Prof. Bracha Ramot Lt. Col. (res.) Arnold Simon Tannoudji Dr. Edward Steinberg Rabbi Dr. Alexandre Safran Prof. Sasson Somekh Justice Dalia Dorner Prof. Zvi Yavetz Prof. Michael Sela The Rt. Hon. David Trimble Stanley D. Ginsburg Zvi Zurr Avraham Seroussi Dr. Ágnes Heller Ariel Sharon 2005 Prof. Amos Oz 1998 Robert St. John Yossi Banai Tzipi Pines Proshan Yehiel Admoni Rear Admiral (ret.) Baron David René James Eric A. Benhamou 2002 Dr. Susan J. Blumenthal de Rothschild Prof. Haim Doron Prof. Baruch Blumberg Lucien Y. Bronicki Carol Saal Prof. Stanley Fisher Elie Elalouf Ralph I. Goldman Rubin Salant President Roman Herzog President Vicente Fox Dr. Leroy E. Hood Prof. Michal Schwartz Dr. Henry Kissinger Quesada Prof. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. Mario Vargas Llosa Amb. Richard Holbrooke Claude Lelouch 2009 President Dr. Johannes Rau Eli Hurvitz Morton L. Mandel Dr. Mohammed Al-Hadid Yitzhak Shamir Efraim Ilin Richard J. Pratt AC Gila Almagor Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth Prof. Philip Needleman Prof. Jehuda Reinharz Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund Kenneth L. Tucker Prof. Gershon Shaked Terry Meyerhoff Rubenstein Dani Karavan Ed Vickar Prof. Dan Shechtman Ali Salem (in absentia) Amb. Ronald S. Lauder Stef Wertheimer Friede Springer Justice Jacob Türkel Rina Schenfeld Elsa Weinberg Prof. Alice Shalvi 1999 Prof. Ada Yonath 2006 Prof. Anita Shapira Yehuda Amichai Shulamit Aloni Prof. Dr. Bernhard Vogel Roberto Benigni André Azoulay Haim Yavin Roy J. Zuckerberg 84 President's Report 2016

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Degrees 1974 2009 Prof. Ernst David Bergmann Dr. Yoram Singer Frederick Durrenmatt 2010 2013 2010 Rachel Elboim Dror Prof. Patrick Aebischer 1980 Yehudit Mayer Prof. Peter Fritz Prof. Ofer Bar-Yosef Erik Blumenfeld, MdB Prof. Yekutiel Gershoni Cherie Blair CBE 2011 Gustave S. Levey Prof. Joshua Blau 1982 Nissim Alcheh Maj. Gen. (res.) Amram Prof. Mario R. Cappechi Col. J.R. Elyachar Mitzna Maxine Fassberg 2012 H.E. Miguel Ángel Moratinos Ruth Flinkman-Marandy 1988 Dr. Orna Berry Toby Mower Lea Koenig Stolper Sueng Yune Yoo Abraham Ben David Ohayon Prof. Robert Langer 2013 Prof. Eliora Ron Prof. Raphael Mechoulam Honorary Alona Barkat Eric F. Ross David Tartakover Research Fellow Dr. Martine Rothblatt 1978 2014 H.E. Simone Veil 2014 Giuseppe Saverino Shoshana Agagani A.B. Yehoshua Shlomo Bar Dr. Linda S. Birnbaum Ben-Gurion 2015 2011 James M. Breslauer Negev Award Dodik Shoshani Azaria Alon Prof. Saul Friedländer 1995 Raya Strauss Bendror Nahum Guzik Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth Ben-Gurion Prof. France A. Córdova Prof. Andrew D. Hamilton Leadership Award Bob Geldof KBE Evgeny Kissin 2001 2012 Sir Martin Gilbert Baroness Ariane de Amb. Martin S. Indyk André Deloro Yehudit Hendel Rothschild René Obermann Rivka Michaeli Dr. Cheryl Saban 2003 Prof. Donna E. Shalala Prof. Yaakov Sussmann Prof. Erich Hecker 2014 Karen Tal Dr. Yossi Vardi Dr. Chaim Huber President Shimon Peres Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Prof. Shulamit Volkov Sara Tadmor Prof. Daniel Weihs Miriam Zohar Herbert A. Thaler 2016 H.E. José Ángel Gurría 2012 2015 2004 Prof. Yakir Aharonov Prof. Yisrael Aumann Moshe Olenik Adina Bar Shalom Prof. Jill Banfield Dr. Viola Török Justice Dorit Beinisch Erez Biton Prof. Howard (Haim) Cedar Prof. Adele Diamond 2005 The Baroness Deech DBE Prof. Carol Gilligan Eliyahu Levant Matthew Gould MBE Prof. Anne Glover Menachem Perlmutter Prof. Deborah Lipstadt Alexander M. Goren Jean-Pierre Raffarin Prof. Jacques Lewiner 2006 Prof. Jesse Roth Yitzhak Livni The Dalai Lama of Tibet Meir Shalev Lorry I. Lokey Kai-Uwe Ricke Berta Yampolsky Michal Rovner Dr. Debrework Zewdie Judy Siegel-Itzkovich 2007 Judith Yovel Recanati Shmuel M. Rifman Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Home to the Future 85

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CHAIRMAN Prof. David Newman, Dean, Pinchas MEMBERS Alexander M. Goren, United States Sapir Faculty of Humanities and Sylvain Abitbol, Canada Social Sciences Nachum Admoni, Israel DEPUTY CHAIRMAN Prof. Jiwchar Ganor, Dean, Faculty of Yehiel Admoni, Israel Lloyd Goldman, United States Natural Sciences Zvi Alon, United States Prof. Amos Katz, Dean, Faculty of Eliyahu Amir, Israel CHAIRMAN EMERITUS Health Sciences Giora Amir, Israel Robert H. Arnow, United States Prof. Oded Lowengart, Dean, Guilford Dr. Micha Angel, Israel Roy J. Zuckerberg, United States Glazer Faculty of Business and Amb. Shimshon Arad, Israel Management Moshe Arkin, Israel VICE-CHAIRPERSONS Prof. Michal Shapira, Dean, Kreitman Amb. Colette Avital, Israel Stephen Breslauer, United States School of Advanced Graduate Meir Avital, Israel Arnold Bengis, United States, Studies Prof. Haim Aviv, Israel United Kingdom Prof. Boris Zaltzman, Director, Jacob Avner Azulay, Israel Sir Ronald Cohen, United Kingdom Blaustein Institutes for Desert Eytan Barak, Israel Dame Vivien Duffield, Research Dr. Rhoda Baruch, United States United Kingdom Prof. Harold Baum, United Kingdom Ellen Marcus, United States HONORARY MEMBERS Jacob Ben-Ezry, Israel Carol Saal, United States Prof. Dov Bahat, Israel Alon Ben-Gurion, United States Suzanne Zlotowski, Switzerland M.K. Prof. Avishay Braverman, Israel Shaul Ben-Simchon, Israel Prof. Chaim Elata, Israel Raya Strauss Bendror, Israel CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE Prof. Nachum Finger, Israel Shmuel Bendror, Israel COMMITTEE Nissim Gaon, Switzerland Eric Benhamou, United States Asher Heled, Israel Maj. Gen. (res) Shlomo Gazit, Israel Prof. Gilbert Benhayoun, France Prof. Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS, Terry Bensimon, Israel VICE-CHAIRPERSONS OF THE United Kingdom Yechiel Bentov, Israel EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Shimon Peres, Israel Pierre Besnainou, France Dvora Tomer, Israel Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Yitzhak Bezalel, Israel Aharon Yadlin, Israel United Kingdom Danièle Bidermann, France Dr. Eric Samson, South Africa Martin Blackman, United States EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Caroline Simon, Israel Dr. Josef Bollag, Switzerland Prof. Rivka Carmi, President Prof. Avraham Tamir, Israel Benjamin Breslauer, United States Prof. Zvi HaCohen, Rector Prof. Jimmy Weinblatt, Israel David Breslauer, United States Prof. Dan Blumberg, Vice-President Prof. David Wolf, Israel James Breslauer, United States and Dean for R&D David Brodet, Israel David Bareket, Vice-President and FOUNDING MEMBERS Bruce Bronfman, Canada Director-General Prof. Chaim Doron, Israel Lucien Y. Bronicki, Israel Prof. Steve Rosen, Vice-President for Yehoshua Zimra, Israel Eliezer Carmel, Israel External Affairs Eric Charles, United Kingdom Prof. Avishay Goldberg, PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES TO THE Jacqueline Charles, United Kingdom Deputy-Rector EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Joseph Ciechanover, Israel Prof. Gad Rabinowitz, Vice-Rector Dr. Younis Abu-Rabia, Israel Jordan Cohen, Canada Prof. Joseph Kost, Dean, Faculty of Micha Dapht, Israel Esther Coopersmith, United States Engineering Sciences Elie Elalouf, Israel Reuben Croll, Canada Moshe Haba, Israel Leslie L. Dan, Canada 86 President's Report 2016

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