Judge Dalia Dorner was crowned yesterday with the title of honorary doctor on behalf of the Weizmann Institute of Science, together with her will be crowned Yehuda Bronitsky, Sir Harry Janogli, and the scientists Prof. Yehoshua Dorner and Prof. Charles Dinarello
* Supreme Court Judge Dalia Dorner was known for her determined defense of human rights and her firm view that these rights should be firmly anchored in both legislation and judicial principles, just like the rights of the government and its agencies.
Judge Dorner was born in Turkey in 1934 and immigrated to Israel in 1944. In 1960 she completed her law studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and was immediately appointed a military judge. In 1974, she retired from her position as a judge of the Military Court of Appeals, and was released from the IDF with the rank of lieutenant colonel. After finishing her service in the IDF, she was called to the throne of justice in the district courts, first in Beer Sheva and then in Jerusalem. In 1994, she was appointed to a permanent position at the Supreme Court, from which she retired in 2004.
As a member of the Supreme Court, Judge Dorner was known for applying the basic laws of the State of Israel in a way that would contribute to the improvement of the life of the ordinary citizen. Dorner also wrote judgments that recognized the rights of homosexuals to non-discriminatory treatment by the law, and the right of women to serve as pilots in the Israeli Air Force. In 2003, she demanded from petitioners who appeared before her to define what the minimum wage is that allows a dignified life for various sectors of Israeli society, thus leading to the first quantification of the dimensions of poverty in Israel. In the Nahmani v. Nahmani case, which dealt with the medical possibility of giving birth through in vitro fertilization, Dorner ruled - and her ruling was for the sake of it - that a woman's right to motherhood outweighs her husband's right to refuse fatherhood.
Judge Dorner explained that the law must always place an unequivocal obligation on the part of the executive branch, the government. Her determination in this matter underpinned some of her more important rulings. An instructive example of this concept was given in a case in which the state was required to fully finance the implementation of the special education law, which states that children with special needs will be integrated into the regular education system. In doing so, she illustrated that judicial adherence to the law can strengthen the vital ties between the legislative and executive branches, in a way that will benefit all citizens of the country.
* Yehuda Brunitsky is a trailblazer in the high technology industry in Israel. He is perhaps best known for realizing, with resoluteness and determination, a personal vision of producing a clean, environmentally friendly energy source based on the correct and efficient utilization of natural phenomena.
Yehuda Brunitsky was born in Poland in 1934. He survived World War II, and after it ended, he began studying engineering and physics in France. In 1958 he immigrated to Israel, joined the National Physics Laboratory in Jerusalem, where he headed the team that developed solar turbines. In 1965, inspired by David Ben-Gurion, who was a great believer in the power of solar energy, Yehuda Bronitsky and his wife Yehudit, Dita, founded a company whose purpose is to manufacture turbines powered by solar energy and intended for export. "Ormat Turbinot" was established in Yavne. However, within a short time it became clear to the young entrepreneurs that the technology of those days would not be able to meet the test of economic viability. Instead of giving up on the dream, Yehuda Brunitsky decided to use the same technology to generate electricity, first in remote locations and later through the use of geothermal and other sources, all environmentally friendly. Today - four decades later and after overcoming many technological, financial and other obstacles - Ormat Group, which has expanded greatly in the meantime, offers power solutions that produce energy systems that are environmentally friendly and viable in terms of cost, and is one of the leading companies in the world in the field of energy based on the correct and efficient utilization of natural phenomena .
Yehuda Bronitsky, who has the development and progress of the State of Israel very close to his heart, has throughout the years shown great interest in education. This interest began already in the early years of the Ormat company, when Bronitsky opened a vocational school that allowed teenagers to work in the company while they were studying. As a result of his involvement in technological education, Yehuda Bronitsky was appointed a member of the board of directors of the global ORT network, a network of educational institutions for technological training. He was also elected to head the Israeli national committee of the World Energy Council, and began serving as a member of the executive board of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
Yehuda Brunitsky is a loyal friend and passionate supporter of the Weizmann Institute of Science and its scientists. He supported research at the institute through tireless support to departments that needed it. Since 1984, Yehuda Bronitsky has served on the institute's board of directors and its executive committee, a position he fulfills with endless responsibility and involvement.
* Sir Harry Janogli is a Knight of the British Empire (EBC), and in 1993 he was knighted (doohthgink). These honors are tokens of appreciation for his contribution to British industry and his work to improve the world - two areas in which Sir Harry has been active for many years.
Sir Harry Janogly was born in France in 1938. He began his career in the British textile industry in the business that his family managed - the "Nottingham Manufacturing Company" - and later became its director and chairman. In 1986, after a merger with another company, the clPstaoC company was established, and Sir Harry served as its chairman from 1999 to 2003. He led the company to its current position - the world's largest producer of sewing threads, zippers and items for sewing and knitting.
As his professional career gained momentum, Sir Harry's interest in social issues also increased, a process that primarily benefited his own community, but also more distant countries, such as the State of Israel. Together with his wife Carol, he founded the Learning Resource Center at the University of Nottingham, the Nottingham Theater and the Municipal Academy named after Genogli. The resource center has inscribed on its banner the raising of the level
the education of 1,800 children from inner-city neighborhoods in Nottingham. In 1993, Trent University in Nottingham awarded Sir Harry an honorary doctorate in business administration, and in 1986 he received an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Nottingham.
Sir Harry is a well-known art lover, who has extended his patronage to notable cultural institutions in Britain, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal National Theatre, the Tate Britain Museum, the Hampstead Theatre, the Royal Ballet School, the National Gallery, and the Royal Academy of Arts.
The State of Israel also benefited from the generosity of the hearts of Sir Harry and his wife. The city of Jerusalem was awarded the Genogli Center for Visual Arts, which holds summer camps for Jewish and Arab children, with the aim of helping future generations find a common language in an atmosphere of creativity and research. In 1994, Sir Harry received the title of honorary fellow of the city of Jerusalem, in recognition of his contribution to the development of the city.
Sir Harry is a longtime friend and loyalist of the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is a member of one of the institute's founding families in Great Britain, served on the institute's board of directors for more than a decade, and in the last two decades established the scholarship fund named after Jacques and Simon Genogli, the professorial chair named after Jacques and Simon Genogli, And recently he actually established the start-up fund for young scientists.
* Professor Yehoshua Yurtner is one of the world's leading theorists in the field of chemical physics, and even played a decisive role in the formation of Israel's scientific policy, while carrying the standard of scientific research.
Prof. Yurtner was born in Poland in 1933, and has lived in Israel since 1940. He did his two advanced degrees at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After completing his studies he began a research career, first at his academic institute, and then at the University of Chicago. In 1964 he joined the scientific faculty of Tel Aviv University, where he founded the chemistry department where he still works today.
Prof. Yurtner's interests are broad. He focused mainly on the study of excitable single molecules and energy transition in content, molecular clusters and biophysical systems. Prof. Yurtner contributed greatly to the understanding of the dynamics of complex systems, starting with large molecules and ending with biomolecules, first through the development of the theory of non-radiative intramolecular transitions, and then through the theory of electron transfer.
In the years 1995-1986, Prof. Yurtner served as president of the Israel National Academy of Sciences. He was also the first chairman of the National Science Foundation in Israel, and promoted it to the status of the largest grant agency in the country. He served as a scientific adviser to three prime ministers in Israel and in the international arena served as president of the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Chemistry.
Prof. Yurtner is an honorary member of 14 academies of sciences in Europe, the United States and Asia, including the National Academy of Sciences in the United States and the Academy of Sciences in Russia. He won many awards and honors, including the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, the Rothschild Prize, the Israel Prize for Chemistry and the Medal of the Israel Chemistry Society.
* Prof. Charles Dinarello is a scientist who contributed a lot to the study of inflammation and immunology. He was born in Boston in 1943, studied medicine at Yale University, trained as a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and later worked as a physician and taught pediatrics at Tufts University, where he was appointed professor of general medicine and pediatrics. He currently serves as a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, in the city of Denver.
In 1971, at the same time as his work as a doctor, Prof. Dinarello began a bright career as a research scientist at the HIN National Institute of Health where he carried out an extremely important study on proteins that generate body heat, a study that made him one of the most cited scientists in the world. Prof. Dinarello continued to research in a field close to his heart - cytokines, a diverse group of proteins that moderate the inflammatory reactions in the immune system. He focused on the cytokine interleukin-1 and the role it plays in inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and cancer diseases such as multiple myeloma and various types of leukemia. In his research, Prof. Dinerlo expanded our knowledge and understanding of the properties and mode of action of various cytokines.
In 1998 Prof. Dinarello was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, and in 1993 he was awarded the Ernst Jung Award in Medicine. Prof. Dinarello donated the prize money to academic research in the United States and Israel, and in tribute to his supervisor, Sheldon M. The late Wolf established a professorial chair in his memory at Tufts University. In 2002 Dinarello won the prestigious International Kirona Prize, awarded to him by the Italian Academy of Medicine.
For the State of Israel, the Jewish people and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Charles Dinarello is a true friend and scientific partner. He worked a lot to promote understanding towards Israel both in Europe and the United States, and is a staunch and open supporter of the state. Prof. Dinarello plays an important and effective role in the fight against the attempts to boycott Israeli universities, and uses every opportunity to raise his profile. It has been many years that Charles Dinarello has maintained strong ties with the Weizmann Institute of Science, in 1999 he was appointed an active member of both the board of directors and the scientific academic advisory committee of the institute.
