nThe board of directors of the Weizmann Institute of Science has elected Mandy Moros as chairman of the board, upon the end of Stewart Eisenstadt's term in this position
Mandy Moros thanks the members of the Board of Directors for electing him as Chairman of the Board, and outlines first courses of action
The Board of Directors of the Weizmann Institute of Science has elected Mandy Moros as Chairman of the Board of Directors, with the end of Stewart Eisenstadt's term in this position. The selection was made as part of the 57th annual meeting of the Board of Directors that took place Recently at the Institute. Mandy Moros was born in South Africa in 1931. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and then, in 1953, a master's degree (with honors) in business administration. from the Harvard Business School.
After graduating from Harvard, Moros joined Ai. si. Islands. in England. He then returned to South Africa and joined the company
The "Anglo-Transvaal" investments. In 1961, he joined the "Schlesinger" company in Johannesburg, where his business began to gain momentum and received a lot of attention. Moros served as chairman of the international "Schlesinger" group until 1974, when the group was sold to the Anglo-American Corporation of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is when he joined the Rand Selection Trust Fund,
which controls the Anglo-American Corporation. Today he runs his businesses in London and New York, and his business interests focus on financial services, and initiatives in the fields of energy, transportation and real estate.
As an enthusiastic and involved donor, Moros' ties to Israel are many and wide. He supported the archaeological excavations in the City of David, donated to the Israel Tennis Center and the Israel Museum, and founded the Haimi Moros Community Children's Center in Jerusalem. Since 1982 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and in 1998 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the institute. As part of his activities The branch for the Weizmann Institute of Science provided Mandy Moros with resources to acquire valuable related documents To Chaim Weizman, and to renovate his historical laboratory; he established the laboratory for vision and robotics named after Moros, and the professorial chair named after Dr. Heimi Moros. He was one of the initiators and founders of W-GEM, the organization that manages the permanent fund of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and serves as chairman of the investment committee within this framework. The highlight of his contribution to the institute, so far, is the establishment of the cancer research institute named after M. d. Moros, which serves as a major source of funding for cancer research at the Institute, and enables Weizmann Institute scientists to carry out advanced multidisciplinary research in cancer research.
The meeting of the board of directors opened, as every year, with the ceremony of awarding the research award named after Charles Claure, given to an outstanding senior (experimental) researcher who joins the institute this year. This year, the prize was awarded to Dr. Boris Ryvchinsky from the Department of Organic Chemistry. Dr. Ryvchinsky focuses, among other things, on the creation of artificial photosynthetic systems. On the importance of the photosynthesis process, and on deciphering the three-dimensional spatial structure of the chloroplast, in which the process takes place, see an article on page 12 of this issue.
Dame Vivian Clore Duffield, who presented the award to Dr. Rybczynski, also presented the fellowships for research in
Doctoral in the name of Charles Clore. The guest lecturer at the ceremony was Dalia Rabin. On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, his daughter spoke about his educational legacy, the importance he attached to education and scientific research, and the central place he attached to these two areas of activity in the life of the country and in ensuring its safety and well-being. After this ceremony, the opening ceremony of the echo-sphere was held in the name of Joe Weinstein and Major Max L. Shulman in the Klor Science Garden. On the echo count, see issue number 37 of the "Institute".
Five new professorial chairs were inaugurated in an impressive ceremony that took place in a huge tent erected on the lawns of Beit Weizmann. Prof. Rashef Tana is now the incumbent in the Chair of Nanotechnology Sciences on behalf of the Drake family; Prof. Ehud Shapira holds the chair named after Hari Weinrib; Prof. Yaron Zilberberg holds the Hari Weinrib Chair in Physics of Lasers; Prof. Raphael Malach holds the Barbara and Maurice Levinson Chair in Brain Research, and Prof. Irit Sagi holds the Maurizio Pontcorbo Chair.
In the inauguration ceremony of the cathedrals, impressive performances by artists from various fields were combined. Honorary doctorate degrees were awarded in another ceremony to Yehuda Bronitsky (Israel), to Judge Dalia Dorner (Israel), to Prof. Charles Dinarello (USA), to Prof. Yehoshua Yurtner (Israel) and to Sir Harry Genogli (England). About the recipients For the honorary doctorate see pages 27-26 of this issue.
The Chairman of the Institute's Executive Committee, Avraham Ben-Naftali, opened the meeting of the Executive Committee with words of congratulation and appreciation to the members and directors of the Institute's friend societies in Israel and abroad, who are engaged in raising resources that enable the Institute to continue operating at the forefront of science, while competing with the largest and most outstanding research centers in the world. The president of the Institute for Administration and Finance, Gad Kober, presented the institute's budget, which is characterized by a certain increase in items The income and expenditure together, despite the many difficulties, budget
The institute for the current year of activity is balanced, as it was in the past. "However," said the vice president for administration and finance, "we must carry out an efficiency plan that will result in considerable savings in the future."
Later, Prof. Haim Harari, chairman of the executive committee of the W-GEM Institute's permanent fund, reported on considerable successes in managing the fund's investments. Abraham Ben-Naftali announced the retirement of Ilana Eisen from the position of company secretary. Ilana, who has been working at the institute for more than 40 years Shana, will continue to serve the institute in her other positions, and in additional positions that will be assigned to her in the future. Avraham Ben-Naftali spoke In praise of Ilana, the members of the executive committee stood on their feet and applauded her for a long time. The secretary of the new company, Yael Goren-Wegman, who previously served as a guide at the visitors' center, will begin her duties on January 1, 2006.
The outgoing chairman of the board of directors, Stuart Eisenstadt, in his remarks before the board of directors, reviewed his long-standing ties with the institute, and thanked the president of the institute, Prof. Ilan Hat, for the fruitful cooperation in order to ensure the ability of the Weizmann Institute of Science to absorb outstanding young scientists who will shape the The future of the Institute; and in the renewal of the Rehovot Conference, as a national platform for formulating strategies and making decisions In the field of science and technology, he also described the struggle to curb and cancel the academic boycott imposed in England on Israeli research institutions, and thanked the chairman of the Friends of the Institute in this country, Lord Mitchell, and the chairman of the institute's academic advisory committee, Prof. Sir Alan Persht. for their help in the fight to cancel the boycott.
The president of the institute, Prof. Ilan Hat, reported to the members of the board of directors about the selection of the Weizmann Institute of Science as "the best place to work in academia", outside the borders of the USA, in a survey carried out by the magazine THE SCIENTIST. He also said that the scientists of the institute continue to achieve considerable achievements in receiving Research grants from various competitive funds. After long negotiations, the Planning and Budgeting Committee agreed to include a quality component in its funding formula, which manifested itself. In raising the government's allowance for the institute this year, after several years of continued reductions in the government's allowances, the president said, "it was a particularly successful year, thanks to our friends' committees around the world". Based on the inventions of the institute's scientists, 62 new patent applications were submitted this year. 192 previously submitted patent applications were approved. And three new start-up companies were established."
The elected chairman of the board of directors, Mandy Moros, said that the Weizmann Institute of Science represents the spirit of the Jewish people, which strives for excellence and a constant striving to acquire knowledge and a better understanding of the world in which we live. The basic research carried out by the institute's scientists is the clearest expression of striving to achieve knowledge and for revealing nature's secrets. "We will promote the concept of establishing research centers," Moros said, "that will focus on securing resources To carry out scientific research at the forefront of science." Moros also noted the importance of the Institute's activity in the field of education, something that deeply affects Israeli society and shapes its character for the future.
After a festive graduation evening, the members of the Board of Directors went on a two-day trip to the north of the country, which took place under the title "Exposure to the North", and included short lectures by the Institute's scientists, Prof. Eidit Shahar, Dr. Tal Alexander and Dr. Yuval Ashad. Among the many guests who visited the Institute as part of the meeting of the Board of Directors, one can name the President of the Supreme Court, Judge Aharon Barak, the former President of the Supreme Court, Judge Meir Shamgar, the British Ambassador to Israel, Simon McDoland, and the US Ambassador to Israel, Richard Jones, who congratulated Stuart Eisenstadt upon the end of his term as Chairman of the Board of Directors, noting his important and many years of contribution to the USA, Israel and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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