Yehezkel Dror
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Yehezkel Dror is a former professor of political science at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
to the Mandate Palestine with his family in 1938.
He was a member of the university's Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University from 1957 until his retirement, and was also head of its Public Administration division from 1964. He is a pioneering author in the fields of management, policy science, and public administration, with publications including Public Policy-making Re-examined, Design for Policy Sciences, and Ventures in Policy Sciences.
Dror holds a B.A. and Magister Juris
from Hebrew University, and LLM and STD qualifications from Harvard University
. Outside academia he served as a senior consultant on policy-making and planning for the Israel
i government, and founded the Jewish Agency for Israel
's Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. In the private sector he was from 1968-70 a senior staff member at the American Rand Corporation.
Biography
Dror was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, and emigratedAliyah
Aliyah is the immigration of Jews to the Land of Israel . It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology. The opposite action, emigration from Israel, is referred to as yerida . The return to the Holy Land has been a Jewish aspiration since the Babylonian exile...
to the Mandate Palestine with his family in 1938.
He was a member of the university's Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University from 1957 until his retirement, and was also head of its Public Administration division from 1964. He is a pioneering author in the fields of management, policy science, and public administration, with publications including Public Policy-making Re-examined, Design for Policy Sciences, and Ventures in Policy Sciences.
Dror holds a B.A. and Magister Juris
Magister Juris
Magister Juris is an academic degree in law awarded by some universities.- The Magister Juris at the University of Oxford :...
from Hebrew University, and LLM and STD qualifications from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Outside academia he served as a senior consultant on policy-making and planning for the Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i government, and founded the Jewish Agency for Israel
Jewish Agency for Israel
The Jewish Agency for Israel , also known as the Sochnut or JAFI, served as the organization in charge of immigration and absorption of Jews from the Diaspora into the state of Israel.-History:...
's Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. In the private sector he was from 1968-70 a senior staff member at the American Rand Corporation.
Awards
- In 1965, Dror received the Rosolio Prize.
- In 2005, he was awarded the Israel PrizeIsrael PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
, for management.