Prof. Arnon will replace the President Prof. Menachem Yaari, who is ending a 6-year term (2 terms) on Rosh Hashanah. Prof. Binyamin Ze'ev Kedar was elected vice-president
The general assembly of the members of the Israel National Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Ruth Arnon at its annual meeting (June 8.6.2010, 6) to be the ninth president of the academy. Prof. Arnon will replace the President Prof. Menachem Yaari, who is ending a 2-year term (XNUMX terms) on Rosh Hashanah. Prof. Binyamin Ze'ev Kedar was elected vice-president.
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. The members of the Academy number 100 researchers, of which 55 are from the natural sciences and 45 from the humanities and social sciences.
Prof. Ruth Arnon
Prof. Ruth Arnon from the Weizmann Institute of Science is a world-renowned immunologist (researcher of the immune system). Her research focuses on the development of advanced vaccines, as well as researching the processes involved in cancer, and diseases caused by parasites. She was a partner in the development of Copaxone - the first ethical Israeli drug, used to treat multiple sclerosis patients. Prof. Arnon is the vice president of the Israel Academy of Sciences, and was also elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO. In addition, she served as the president of the European Federation of Immunological Societies EFIS, and as the president of the Asian Association of Academies of Science. AASA
At the Weizmann Institute of Science she held several positions, including: Vice President, Dean of the Faculty of Biology, and Head of the Department of Chemical Immunology.
Prof. Arnon won many awards, including: Robert Koch Award for Medical Sciences, Spain Award in memory of Jimenez Díaz. Knight of Honor Award of France, Hadassah World Organization Award for Outstanding Women, Wolf Prize for Medicine, Rothschild Prize in Biology, Israel Prize, Honorary Doctor of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel-Hai College "Dear Tel-Hai" title. In 2009, Prof. Arnon was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Association.
Prof. Arnon is the scientific advisor to the President of the country, and holds the Paul Ehrlich Chair of Chemical Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Prof. BZ Kader
Prof. BZ Kader from the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of the leading historians in the study of the Crusades and the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, and is credited with discovering several key texts. His research on the attitudes of Catholic Europe towards the Islamic world revealed the interrelationships between the idea of the mission and the idea of the Crusade. Other works, which are marked by comparative history, deal with the mentality of Italian merchants in the Middle Ages, the place of deportation in world history, cultural continuity after a political collapse, and more. An innovation in another field is the creation of series of aerial photographs to be used as a historical source.
Prof. Kader served as the president of the International Association for the Study of the Crusades, as the chairman of the Authority for Research Students at the Hebrew University and as the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies. He also founded the School of History of the Hebrew University. He now serves as the Chairman of the Council of the Antiquities Authority, as the founding editor of the Crusades yearbook, and an editorial member of the Cambridge History of the World series.
Prof. Kader is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica ((MGH) and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Haifa..
Prof. Kader served as the chairman of the humanities division at the academy and in this framework chaired the committee to examine the future of the humanities in research universities in Israel (a report approved in November 2006) and an examination committee for the study of history in Israeli universities (the committee's report was approved in March 2007). He also initiated a series of critical editions of Hebrew essays written in Germany in the Middle Ages; This series is shared by the Academy and MGH.
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