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The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, was set up in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between scholars from the science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
s and humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 in Israel, to advise the government on research projects of national importance, and to promote excellence. It comprises 84 of Israel's most distinguished scholars. The Academy's home is located next door to the official residence of the president of Israel
President of Israel

The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely a ceremonial Figurehead role, with executive real power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister of Israel....
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The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
, was set up in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between scholars from the science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
s and humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 in Israel, to advise the government on research projects of national importance, and to promote excellence. It comprises 84 of Israel's most distinguished scholars. The Academy's home is located next door to the official residence of the president of Israel
President of Israel

The President of the State of Israel is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely a ceremonial Figurehead role, with executive real power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister of Israel....
.

In the sciences, the Academy funds projects on the geology
Geology

Geology is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitute the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition, structural geology, physical properties, dynamics, and History of the Earth of Earth materials, and the processes by which they are formed, moved, and changed....
, flora, and fauna of Israel, and facilitates the participation of Israeli scientists in research at international projects, such as high-energy physics at CERN
CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , , is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the France-Switzerland border, established in 1954 in science....
) and synchrotron
Synchrotron

A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field and the electric field are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam....
 radiation at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is a joint research facility supported by 19 countries situated in Grenoble, France. The ESRF operates the most powerful synchrotron radiation source in Europe, and is generally considered to be a world leading research facility....
. Israel has the highest concentration of scientists and engineers in the world.).

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

The Tanakh is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew language Acronym and initialism formed from the initial Hebrew alphabet of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim - hence TaNaKh....
 and Talmud
Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
, Jewish history
Jewish history

Jewish history is the history of the Jewish people, Judaism, and Jewish culture. Since Jewish history encompasses nearly four thousand years and hundreds of different populations, any treatment can only be provided in broad strokes....
, Jewish philosophy
Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy refers to the conjunction between serious study of philosophy and Jewish theology. In a broad sense, it refers to all philosophical activity carried out by Jews or in relation to the religion of Judaism....
, Jewish art, and the Hebrew language
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
, as well as Hebrew prose and poetry
Hebrew and Jewish epic poetry

Though an abundance of historical reminiscence and legend lay in the storehouse of Jewish literature, none of it was built into epic poetrys until relatively recently....
.

The Academy administers the Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
 Fellowships fund, which is intended to foster relations between scientists from around the world and the Israeli academic community, the Israel Science Fund, with an annual budget of $53 million, and a number of research funds based on grants from the Adler Fund for Space Research, the Wolf Foundation, and the Fulks Fund for Medical Research. The Academy also runs the Israel Academic Center in Cairo
Cairo

Cairo , which means "the triumphant", is the Cairo and largest city of Egypt.It is the most populous metropolitan area in Egypt and is also one of the most populous in the world....
, which assists Israeli scholars with research into Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 and Egyptian culture, and facilitates cooperation with Egyptian academics.

The Academy has observer status at the European Science Foundation
European Science Foundation

The European Science Foundation is an association of 80 Member Organisations devoted to scientific research in 30 European countries. Since its inception in 1974, it has coordinated a wide range of pan-European scientific initiatives....
, and runs exchange programs with the British Royal Society
Royal Society

The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, or even the Royal, is a learned society for science that was founded in 1660 and is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence....
, the British Academy
British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars....
, the Swedish Academy
Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III of Sweden, is one of the Swedish Royal Academies of Sweden. Modelled after the Acad?mie fran?aise, it has 18 members....
, and the National Research Council of Singapore
Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
.

Members


  • Shraga Abramson, Talmud
  • Shaul Adler, Parasitology
  • Shmuel Agmon, Mathematics
  • Yakir Aharonov
    Yakir Aharonov

    Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the University of South Carolina in the United States since 1973....
    , Physics
  • Hanokh Albeck, Talmud
  • Shlomo Alexander, Physics
  • Noga Alon
    Noga Alon

    Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his prolific contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers....
    , Mathematics
  • Shimshon Amitsur
    Shimshon Amitsur

    Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1953 Israel Prize in exact sciences. He is best known for his work in ring theory, the area of abstract algebra....
    , Mathematics
  • Ruth Arnon
    Ruth Arnon

    Ruth Arnon is an Israeli biochemist and codeveloper of the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. She was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1998....
    , Immunology
  • David Asheri, Classical Studies
  • Robert Aumann
    Robert Aumann

    Robert John Aumann is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
    , Mathematics, Nobel Prize (2005) in Economics
  • David Ayalon, History of Muslem People
  • Aharon Barak
    Aharon Barak

    Aharon Barak is a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in law at the Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law....
    , Law
  • Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer

    Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Holocaust Studies
  • Haim Beinart, Jewish Studies
  • Malachi Beit-Arie, Palaeography
  • Jacob Bekenstein
    Jacob Bekenstein

    Jacob David Bekenstein is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between physical information and gravitation....
    , Physics
  • Zvi Ben-Avraham, Geophysics
  • Zeev Ben-Hayyim, Hebrew Studies
  • Joseph Bernstein
    Joseph Bernstein

    File:Joseph Bernstein.jpgJoseph Bernstein is an Israelis mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, and he his known for his close relationships with students....
    , Mathematics
  • Yehudith Birk, Agricaltural Biochemistry
  • Joshua Blau, Arabic Language and Literature
  • Chaim Cedar, Biochemistry, Malecular Cell Biology, Malecular Genetics
  • Ilan Chet
    Ilan Chet

    Ilan Chet is an Israelis microbiologists and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot....
    , Agricultural Biotechnology
  • Aaron Ciechanover
    Aaron Ciechanover

    Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biology, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his discovery with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation....
    , Biochemistry, Nobel Prize (2004) in Chemistry
  • Nili Cohen, Law
  • Solly Cohen, Experimental Physics
  • Ariel Confino, Russian and Eastern-European History
  • Hillel Daleshi, English Literature
  • Amos De-Shalit, Physics
  • Benzion Dinur, Jewish Studies
  • Israel Dostrovsky, Physical Chemistry
  • Aryeh Dvoretzky
    Aryeh Dvoretzky

    Aryeh Dvoretzky was a Russian born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability....
    , Mathematics
  • Shmuel Eisenstadt
    Shmuel Eisenstadt

    Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt is an Israeli sociology. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem....
    , Sociology
  • Itzhak Englard, Law
  • Michael Feldman, Molecular Cell Biology
  • Ezra Fleisher, Hebrew Literature
  • David Flusser
    David Flusser

    David Flusser was a professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and received the Israel Prize in 1980 for his academic achievements....
    , Religious Studies
  • Abraham Fraenkel, Mathematics
  • Johanan Friedmann, Islamic Studies
  • Daniel Friedmann
    Daniel Friedmann

    Daniel Friedmann is the Minister of Justice of Israel. A professor of law, he was appointed by PM Ehud Olmert. He was sworn in on February 7, 2007, succeeding Tzipi Livni....
    , Law
  • Dov Frohman
    Dov Frohman

    Dov Frohman is an Israelis electrical engineering and management. A former vice president of Intel Corporation, he is the inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory and the founder and first general manager of Intel Israel, Intel?s extensive operations in Israel....
    , Applied physics
  • Hillel Furstenberg
    Hillel Furstenberg

    File:Harry Furstenberg.jpegHillel Furstenberg is an Israeli mathematician, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S....
    , Mathematics
  • Tedeschi Gaido, Civil Justice
  • David Ginsburg (Scientist), Chemistry
  • Gideaon Goldenberg, Linguistics and Semitic Languages
  • Jonas Greenfield, Linguistics and Semitic Languages
  • Amiram Grinvald, Neurobiology
  • Yoram Groner, Molecular biology
  • Abraham Grossman, Jewish Studies
  • Louis Guttman
    Louis Guttman

    Louis Guttman was founder and Scientific Director of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, later renamed the Guttman Institute, and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Sociology
  • Georg Haas
    Georg Haas

    George Haas a German medical doctor was born in N?rnberg, Germany. Haas performed the first human hemodialysis treatment. Haas studied medicine at the Universities of M?nchen and Freiburg....
    , Zoology
  • Don Handelman, Anhtropology, Sociology
  • Haim Haran, Bible
  • Haim Harari
    Haim Harari

    Haim Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields....
    , Natural sciences
  • Elhanan Helpman
    Elhanan Helpman

    Elhanan Helpman is an Israeli-United States economist who works in the field of international trade, political economy and economic growth....
    , Economics
  • Avram Hershko
    Avram Hershko

    Avram Hershko is an Israeli biology and Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his discovery with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation....
    , Biochemistry, medicine, Nobel Prize (2005) in Chemistry
  • Yoseph Imry
    Yoseph Imry

    Yoseph Imry, is a Israel physics. He is best known for foundling Mesoscopic PhysicsThis is a relatively new branch of condensed matter physics....
    , Physics
  • Benjamin Isaac, History
  • Joshua Jortner
    Joshua Jortner

    Joshua Jortner is an Israelis physical chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel....
    , Chemistry
  • Yosef Kaplan, Jewish Studies, History
  • Aaron Katzir, Physical Chemistry
  • Ephraim Katzir
    Ephraim Katzir

    Ephraim Katzir is an Israeli biophysics and former Israeli Labor Party politics. He served as the President of Israel for a five-year term, from 1973 until 1978....
    , Biophysics
  • Yehezkel Kaufman, Bible
  • Benjamin Kedar, History
  • Abraham Kogan, Aeronautics
  • Eitan Kohlberg, Asian and African Studies
  • Asher Koriat, Psychology
  • Dorothea Krook-Gilead, American Literature, English Literature
  • Raphael Levine, Chemistry
  • Alexander Levitzki
    Alexander Levitzki

    Alexander Levitzki is an Israelis biochemist who is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Biological chemistry
  • Jacob Licht, Bible
  • Saul Lieberman
    Saul Lieberman

    Saul Lieberman , also known as Rabbi Shaul Lieberman or The Gra"sh , was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over 40 years, and was for many years, head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research....
    , Talmud
  • Schneior Lifson, Physical Chemistry
  • Yoram Lindenstrauss, Mathematics
  • Hans Lindner, Physiology
  • Zvi Lipkin, Physics
  • Benjamin Mazar
    Benjamin Mazar

    Benjamin Mazar was a pioneering Israelis archaeologist who shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's Bible links....
    , Archeology, Jewish Studies
  • Raphael Mechoulam
    Raphael Mechoulam

    Raphael Mechoulam is an Israelis professor for Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
    , Chemistry
  • Isaak Michaelson, Ophthalmology
  • Shlomo Morag, Hebrew Language
  • Yosef Naveh, Epigraphy, Palaeography
  • David Navon, Psychology
  • Yuval Ne'eman
    Yuval Ne'eman

    Yuval Ne'eman , was an Israeli soldier, Physics and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was a self-declared atheist....
    , Astrophysics, physics
  • Henry Neufeld, Cardiology
  • Ruth Nevo, English Literature
  • Franz Ollendorf, Electronics, Electrical Research
  • Don Patinkin
    Don Patinkin

    Don Patinkin was an important American economist.Trained at University of Chicago under the tutelage of Oskar Lange and half-participating in the goings-on at the Cowles Commission next door, Don Patinkin emerged as one of the foremost authorities on monetary theory in the post-war years....
    , Economics
  • Haim Pekeris, Applied Mathematics
  • Ilya Piatetsky-Shapiro, Mathematics
  • Yehuda Picard, Geology
  • Shlomo Pines
    Shlomo Pines

    Shlomo Pines was a scholar of Jewish philosophy and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English language translation of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed....
    , Philosophy
  • Amir Pnueli
    Amir Pnueli

    Amir Pnueli is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification....
    , Applied mathematics
  • Hans Jakob Polotsky
    Hans Jakob Polotsky

    Hans Jakob Polotsky was an orientalist, linguist, and professor for Semitic languages and Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Linguistics
  • Joshua Prawer
    Joshua Prawer

    Joshua Prawer was a notable Israelis historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem.His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European Colonialism expansion....
    , History
  • Michael O. Rabin
    Michael O. Rabin

    Michael Oser Rabin is an Israelis computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award....
    , Mathematics
  • Gulio Racah, Physics
  • Markus Reiner
    Markus Reiner

    Markus Reiner was not only a major figure in rheology, he along with Eugene C. Bingham coined the term and founded a society for its study.He was born on 5 January 1886 in Czernowitz, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna....
    , Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (deceased 1976)
  • Haiim B. Rosén, Linguistics
  • Nathan Rosen
    Nathan Rosen

    Nathan Rosen Born into a Jewish family was an Israeli physicist.Nathan Rosen attended MIT. In 1935 he became Albert Einstein's assistant at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and continued in that position until 1945....
    , Physics
  • Nathan Rosenstreich, Philosophy
  • Ariel Rubinstein
    Ariel Rubinstein

    Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1979, in both mathematics and economics....
    , Economics
  • Leo Sachs
    Leo Sachs

    Leo Sachs is a Germany-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he Emigrated to England in 1933, and to Israel in 1952....
    , Biology
  • Dov Sadan, Yiddish Language and Literature
  • Jefim Schirmann, Hebrew Literature
  • Gershon Scholem, Jewish Mysticism
  • Moshe Segal, Bible
  • Michael Sela
    Michael Sela

    Michael Sela is an Israelis immunologist of Poland origin. He is W. Garfield Weston Professor of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot....
    , Immunology
  • Uri Seligson, Hematology isr
  • Gershon Shaked
    Gershon Shaked

    Gershon Shaked was an Israeli scholar and critic of Hebrew literature....
    , Hebrew Literature
  • Shaul Shaked, Iranian Studies, Religious Studies
  • Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir

    Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptography. He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm , one of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science....
    , Applied mathematics
  • Nathan Sharon, Molecular Biology
  • Dan Shechtman
    Dan Shechtman

    Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University....
    , Materials Engineering
  • Saharon Shelah
    Saharon Shelah

    Saharon Shelah is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States....
    , Mathematics
  • Ariel Shisha-Halevy, Linguistics
  • Chone Shmeruk, Yiddish Literature
  • Shmuel Shtrikman, Applied Physics
  • Yechezkel Stein, Medicine
  • Izchak Steinberg, Physical Chemistry
  • Menachem Strern, Jewish Studies
  • Zehev Tadmor, Chemical Engineering polymers
  • Hayim Tadmor
    Hayim Tadmor

    Hayim Tadmor was a leading Israeli Assyriology, and a profound influence on many students and scholars of the Ancient Near East throughout the world....
    , Assyriology, History of the Ancient Near East
  • Igal Talmi
    Igal Talmi

    Igal Talmi is an Israeli nuclear physicist, mainly known for his work on the theory of nuclear structure....
    , Particle Physics
  • Jacob Talmon
    Jacob Talmon

    Jacob Leib Talmon was an Orthodox Jewish Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been categorised as a 'Cold War liberal' because of his devout anti-Marxism which permeates his main works....
    , Modern History
  • Yoram Tsafrir, Archeology
  • Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
    Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai

    Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai was a Bible scholar, an author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language....
    , Hebrew Language
  • Efraim Urbach, Talmud
  • Haim Werthheimer, Phathologic Physiology
  • Meir Wilchek
    Meir Wilchek

    Meir Wilchek is an Israeli biochemist.He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 1987, he won the Wolf Prize in Medicine along with Pedro Cuatrecasas "for the invention and development of affinity chromatography and its applications to biomedical sciences." ...
    , Biophysics
  • Itamar Wilner, Chemistry
  • Chaim Wirzubski, Classical Studies
  • Menahem Yaari, Economy
  • Israel Yeivin
    Israel Yeivin

    Israel Yeivin was an Israeli linguist, scholar of Masorah and the Hebrew language. He received the Israel Prize for his contribution to the research of the Hebrew Language....
    , Hebrew Language
  • Ada Yonath
    Ada Yonath

    Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallography best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A....
    , Structural Biology
  • Moshe Zakai
    Moshe Zakai

    File:Professor Moshe Zakai.jpgMoshe Zakai is Distinguished Professor at the Technion, Israel in Electrical Engineering, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Rothschild Prize winner....
    , Electrical Engineering
  • Jacob Ziv
    Jacob Ziv

    Jacob Ziv is an Israel computer science who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the lossless LZ77 compression algorithm.Ziv was born in Tiberias, British-ruled British Mandate of Palestine, on November 27, 1931....
    , Electrical Engineering
  • Michael Zohary
    Michael Zohary

    Michael Zohary was a pioneering Israeli botanist who published the monumental Geobotanical Foundations of the Middle East. He was responsible for introduction of the important principle of antiteleochory which adumbrated that seed germination of the desert plant is ensured by dispersal near the parent plant....
    , Natural Sciences Botany
  • Bernhard Zondek
    Bernhard Zondek

    Bernhard Zondek was a German-Jewish gynecologist who developed the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928....
    , Natural Sciences Obstetrics


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