Also, 7 new members were elected to the Academy, And they will join its ranks in a festive ceremony that will take place on Hanukkah
At the general assembly meeting of the Israel National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (Thursday in Tammuz Tashfa) the members of the Academy elected Prof. David Harel, A world-renowned scientist in the field of computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, to serve as the eleventh president of the academy. Prof. Harel will replace outgoing president Prof. Neely Cohen, who is finishing a six-year term. She was elected vice president Prof. Margalit Finkelberg, a world-renowned researcher from the Department of Classical Studies of Tel Aviv University, and she replaces Prof. Harel in this position.
Prof. Harel and Prof. Finkelberg will take up their positions in the year XNUMX.
The Israeli National Academy of Sciences, the highest body in the science community in Israel, was founded by law in 1961 with the aim of bringing together the best science personalities in Israel for the cultivation and promotion of science in the country. To fulfill its mission, it advises the government on actions related to research and scientific planning of national importance, publishes articles that promote science, and maintains active contact with the international scientific community. The Academy is divided into two divisions - the Natural Sciences Division and the Humanities Division. With the addition of the new members, the academy has 139 members.
Professor David Harel, a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science since 1980, served there as head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (1989-1995) and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science (1998-2004). Prof. Harel founded with partners the company I-Logix, which was later assimilated into IBM. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), worked for periods in the IBM research department in New York and did sabbaticals at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Edinburgh universities. He is a member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences since 2010.
The main areas of Prof. Harel's specialization in the past were in theoretical computer science (logic, computation, automata and database theory), and in recent decades he has focused mainly on software and systems engineering, studies on the modeling and reconstruction of smell and the modeling and analysis of biological systems.
Prof. Harel is the inventor of the Statecharts language and co-inventor of Live Script Diagrams (LSCs) as well as the Statemate, Rhapsody, Play-Engine and PlayGo tools.
In his books: "Algorithmics: Foundations of Computer Science" and "The Computer Is Not Omnipotent", which were written in English and translated, among other things, into Hebrew.
Awards and Honors: ACM Award for Master Educator (1992), Israel Award (2004), ACM Software Systems Award (2007) and A.M.T. (2010), as well as five honorary degrees. He is a fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS and EATCS, a member of the European Academy and the Israel National Academy of Sciences (since 2010), a non-member of the American National Academy of Sciences, the American National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the British Royal Society (FRS).
Prof. Margalit Finkelberg She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classical Studies at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences since 2005. She received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1986. Prof. Finkelberg is a researcher of the language, literature and culture of ancient Greece. Her research spans a wide range of topics: Greek literature, especially the poetry of Homer, Aegean prehistory, the theory of poetry, the ancient Greek language, mythological tradition, religion and morality in Greece and recently the writings of Plato.
In the library: The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greeks Heroic Tradition (2005), The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues (2019). Published more than a hundred research articles and edited The Homer Encyclopedia in three volumes (2011), a publication that won an award from the Library Association of the United States (RUSA). She also translated several dialogues of Plato into Hebrew.
Prof. Finkelberg served as a research fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, and managed (with G.G. Stromza) a research group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. She was also invited to give honorary lectures at the University of Michigan and Memorial University of Newfoundland and many guest lectures.
Prof. Finkelberg served as head of the department of classical studies at Tel Aviv University and president of the Association for the Advancement of Classical Studies in Israel. She was a member of the executive committee of Tel Aviv University and the executive committee of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, and participated in various academic committees.
Awards and honors: Prof. Finkelberg is the winner of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities for 2012. She won an award from the Rosa Ettinger Foundation (1994) for the translation from ancient Greek into Russian of the essay "The Wars of the Jews" by Josephus Flavius, published in Moscow. She won the Gildersleeve Award (1991) from the Johns Hopkins University Press for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology.
Also, the Academy's General Assembly elected 7 new members to the Academy, and they will join its ranks in a festive ceremony that will take place on Hanukkah. And these are:
- Prof. Yanon Ben-Naria, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Muhammad Haj-Yahia, School of Social Work, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Yeshayahu Talmon, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Prof. Nira Lieberman, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University
- Prof. Maren Nihoff, Department of Israel Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Sami Samuha, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa
- Prof. Sharit Kraus, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
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