The Academy's General Assembly elected Professor Cohen as the next President and Professor David Harel as the Vice President. Also, 9 new members were elected to the Academy
The General Assembly of the members of the Israel National Academy of Sciences elected at its annual meeting (on the 9nd of Sivan 2015 / June XNUMX, XNUMX) Prof. Neely Cohen, a jurist from Tel Aviv University, to be the Academy's tenth president.
Prof. Cohen will take up her position on Rosh Hashanah XNUMX and will replace the outgoing president Prof. Ruth Arnon, who is finishing her five-year term. Prof. David Harel from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science was elected Vice President, and he replaces the outgoing Vice President Prof. BZ Keder.
The Academy, the highest body in the scientific community, was founded by law in 1961 with the aim of bringing together the best scientific personalities in Israel in order to foster and promote scientific activity in the country. As part of her role, she advises the Israeli government on activities related to research and scientific planning of national importance.
With the addition of the new members, the members of the Academy currently number 120 researchers from the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Neely Cohen is a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, served as rector of the university (from 1997-2001), and is a member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences (from 2004/XNUMX). Her research and teaching areas are private law, the interrelationship between private and public law, comparative law and law and literature.
Prof. Cohen is the author of many influential books and publications in the field in Israel and around the world. In her library: "Interference in contractual relations", "Breach of contract", and she is the joint author of the four volumes of "Contracts". She recently published an article dealing with the wills of Kafka and Brod. She was the co-founding editor of the Faculty of Law's Bitown "Legal Studies" while she was an undergraduate student at Tel Aviv University.
In recent years, Prof. Cohen coordinates the "Law and Book Club" series within the framework of the Tel Aviv University Lawyers Training Institute. Her books and articles are often cited in Israeli courts.
Prof. Cohen is the recipient of the Dochan Award, the Sussman Awards (in 1984 and 1992), the Zeltner Award, the Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Minkoff Award for Excellence in Law. She is in charge of the chair of comparative contract law named after his son Gitter and director of the Beverly and Raymond Sackler Foundation for Human Rights in Private Law. She is a member of the American Law Institute and served as a member of the committee for the codification of Israeli law.
Professor David Harel, a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science since 1980, served as head of department (1989-1995) and dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science (1998-2004). Prof. Harel founded with partners the company I-Logix, which is now part of IBM. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and worked for periods in the IBM research department in New York, and did sabbaticals at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Edinburgh universities.
The main areas of his specialization in the past were in theoretical computer science (logic, computation, automata and database theory), and in recent decades Prof. Harel has focused mainly on software and systems engineering and modeling of biological systems.
Prof. David Harel is the inventor of the Statecharts language and a co-inventor of the Live Script Diagrams (LSCs) as well as the tools Statemate, Rhapsody, Play-Engine, and PlayGo.
In his books (written in English and translated, among other things, into Hebrew): "Algorithmics: Foundations of Computer Science" and "The computer is not omnipotent". Among his awards and honors: the ACM Master Educator Award (1992), the Israel Award (2004), the ACM Software Systems Award (2007), the A.M.T. (2010) as well as five honorary degrees. He is a fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS, a member of the European Academy and the Israel National Academy of Sciences (since 2010) and a non-member of the American National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Also, last night the general assembly of the academy chose 9 new members to the academy, who will join its ranks in a festive ceremony on Hanukkah (* after which the rest of the details will be published) - and these are:
- Prof. Yoram Billo - Psychology and Anthropology, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Yoav Binyamini - Mathematics and Statistics, from Tel Aviv University
- Prof. Ruth Gavizon - Law, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Shafi Goldwasser - Computer Science, from the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Prof. Avner Holtzman - Hebrew literature, from Tel Aviv University
- Prof. Israel Finkelstein - Archaeology, from Tel Aviv University
- Prof. Yosef Kost - Chemical Engineering, from Ben-Gurion University
- Prof. Adi Kimchi - molecular genetics, from the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Prof. Eli Keshet - Biology, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Congratulations and success to Professor Nili Cohen, and Professor David Harel:
To this day, I remember David's charming riddles, wise sayings, "a little for a lot and a lot for a little", "many dwarves on the shoulders of a few giants" and converting Hamlet's sentence into a logical verse (always true)