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Faculty members who passed away within the past decade

 

Israel Nir

Prof. Israel Nir

In Memoriam
Animal Science

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Israel Nir

1928-2011

 

Hillel Oppenheimer

Prof. Hillel Oppenheimer

In Memoriam
Plant Science and Genetics

IN MEMORY OF

Prof Hillel Oppenheimer

1899 - 1971

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Hillel Oppenheimerm, born and educated in Germany,  became the keeper of the Aaron Aaronsohn Herbarium in Zichron Yaacov in 1926. He joined Hebrew University as a botanist and plant physiologist, and  established the horticultural, physiological, and genetics station at the Jewish Agency's Agricultural Experiment Station at Reḥovot, which later became the Faculty of Agriculture. He founded The Palestine Journal of Botany. His was an authority on citrus crops. In 1959 he received the Israel Prize in Agriculture.

 

 

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Prof. Uri Orgad

Veterinary Medicine

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Uri Orgad

1936 - 2024

Director of the School of Veterinary Medicine from 1992 to 1996

Guni Orshan

Dr. Guni Orshan

In Memoriam
Environmental Economics and Management

IN MEMORY OF

Dr. Guni Orshan

Passed in 2022

Game theory and its applications

Kalman Perk

Prof. Kalman Perk

In Memoriam
Veterinary Medicine

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Kalman Perk

1930-2019

Animal physiology; veterinary virology and viral-oncology: ovine lung cancer, murine leukemia and sarcomas. 

Yakir Plessner

Prof. Yakir Plessner

In Memoriam
Environmental Economics and Management

IN MEMORY OF
Yakir Plessner
1935 - 2014

Water recycling, monetary policy, capital markets, banking system.

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Prof. Ilan Sela

In Memoriam
Entomology

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Ilan Sela

1936 - 2017

Virus-based vectors for expressing/silencing in plants

Arieh Singer

Prof. Arieh Singer

In Memoriam
Soil and Water Sciences

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Arieh Singer

1934 - 2010

Clay mineralogy, clay mineral formation in the context of soil formation, soil distribution and weathering phenomena; ecological effects on soil mineralogy; interrelationships between clay mineralogy and soil properties; the origin of clay minerals in non-edaphic environments: sediments and marine/lacustrine deposits.

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Prof. Isaac Wahl

In Memoriam
Plant Pathology

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Isaac Wahl

1915 - 2004

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 Wahl started to teach at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, where he developed Plant Pathology as one of the important disciplines. He later moved to Tel Aviv University where he established the Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement. He looked at  host-pathogen interaction in its wider ecological concept, including the weed progenitors of the cultivated crop species.  Wahl's research on the cultivated and wild progenitors of barley, oats and wheat, and on their pathogens led not only to new sources of resistance but also to a better understanding of the wild ecosystem.  Prof. Wahl and his students found many new sources of disease resistance, which they characterized and made available freely to crop improvement teams worldwide. Wahl was honored with the prestigious Rothschild Prize (1964) and the Harvey Prize (1978), and with the Bruno Kreisky Award for Service to Humanity (Vienna, Austria, 1985). The President of Israel presented him in 1992 with the prestigious Israel Prize in the Life Sciences for his work in pathology and mycology.

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Josef  Yahav

Prof. Josef Yahav

In Memoriam
Environmental Economics and Management

IN MEMORY OF
Josef (Yossi) Yahav
1935 - 2016

Mathematical statistics, dynamic programming, risk and insurance.

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Prof. Uri Zehavi

In Memoriam
Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Uri Zehavi

1936 - 2014

Carbohydrate chemistry

 

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Dr. Gila Zur

In Memoriam
Veterinary Medicine

IN MEMORY OF

Dr. Gila Zur

1958 - 2017

Dermatology and clinical nutrition

Students and teachers of the Faculty of Agriculture who gave their lives in Israel's wars, hostilities and the performance of their duties

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