Avi Blizovsky
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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel, head of the security studies program at Tel Aviv University, was appointed chairman of the Israel Space Agency (ISA).
Prof. Ben Israel replaced Prof. Yuval Naaman from Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel, head of the security studies program at Tel Aviv University, was appointed chairman of the Israel Space Agency (ISA).
Ben Israel's appointment is a milestone in the short history of space activity in Israel. In his new role, Ben Israel replaces Professor Yuval Naman, who was the head of the Israel Space Agency until June of this year. With this, the Israeli Space Agency and the space community in Israel say goodbye to a loyal professor who in these days achieved heroism and who founded the space agency, headed it and accompanied it from the day of its foundation until these very days.
In July, the process of staffing the steering committee of the Israel Space Agency was completed and these days the staffing of the plenary is also completed.
The Space Agency in the Ministry of Science and Technology operates by virtue of a government decision from April 1983. According to this decision, space issues in the State of Israel are managed by the Israel Space Agency, which is a senior wing of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The Steering Committee and the Plenary are bodies that guide and review the aspects of the country's space policy and the ways to implement it.
Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Technology Ariel Sharon appointed Professor Major General (res.) Yitzhak Ben Israel as Chairman of the Israel Space Agency. The steering committee also includes the director general of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Mrs. Atalia (Tali) Rosenbaum, the director of the SLA Dr. Zvi Kaplan N. as well as senior scientists and industrialists with experience in the fields of science and industry related to space.
His home page on the Tel Aviv University website states that he retired from the IDF in 2002, and joined the Tel Aviv University faculty as a professor. During his service in the Air Force, Yitzhak Ben Israel held positions in the operations, intelligence and development system. Among other things, he was the head of the performance research branch in the Air Force, the head of the research department in Air Force Intelligence and the head of R&D (research and development) in the IDF and the Ministry of Defense (from the end of 1990 until September 1997). In January 98, he was promoted to the rank of Major General as head of the Ministry of Defense (research and development of weapons of war and technological infrastructure).
During his service, he received several awards, including twice the Israel Defense Award (in 1972 for the development of the Phantom bomb system, and in 2001 for a project that expresses an innovative concept of the future battlefield), and the Air Force Award in 1976 for the development of a computerized command and control system. In 2002 he received a certificate of merit from the Singaporean Minister of Defense for his contribution to the security relations between the two countries. Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel currently teaches at Tel Aviv University, and is the head of the security studies program at the School of Government, head of the Curiel Institute, and head of the Tel Aviv Workshop for Science, Technology and Security. In addition, he also teaches at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. Yitzhak Ben Israel was a member of the board of the Aerospace Industry (2000-2002), and is currently a member of the board of the Israel Society, the R&D committee of the "Teva" board of directors, the board of the Fisher Institute for Strategic Air and Space Research, the advisory board of the Na'im Institute for Advanced Research in Science and Technology (Technion ), the Scientific Committee of the Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting (Tel Aviv University), the Academic Council of the Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv, the Advisory Council for the Israel Space Agency (ISA), and the National Committee for Information Society Technology. In 2003 he founded the company Ray-Top (Technology Opportunities) which provides technological and strategic consulting for the defense industry in Israel and abroad.
Yitzhak Ben Israel wrote a large number of articles on military and security issues. His book Dialogues on Science and Intelligence (published by "Systems", 1989) won the Yitzhak-Sheda Prize for military literature. His book The Philosophy of Intelligence was published by the Broadcasting University (1999) and translated into French (2004).
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