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Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 About Yad Hanadiv.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About Academic Excellence at Yad Hanadiv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About the Rothschild Fellowship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Programme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Colloquium Participants 2015. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Rothschild Fellows 2015. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Roundtable Session Leaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Dear Fellows, We are pleased to welcome you to the Second Rothschild Fellows Colloquium. The first Colloquium was held in 2013. The feedback we received reinforced our optimism about the potential benefits of fostering a community of young scholars that traverses disciplinary and institutional lines. Yad Hanadiv’s activity in academia stems from a conviction that supporting and nurturing international-calibre research in Israel, in particular through investments in young scholars and fields of distinction, plays an important role in this country’s future. The Rothschild Fellows selection committees are invariably impressed by the number of eminently qualified candidates vying for the awards. The ability to sustain top quality research in Israel depends first and foremost on the commitment of scholars such as yourselves. We encourage you to play an active role in sustaining this community and hope to continue to find ways of working together to advance the quality and reach of scientific inquiry in Israel’s universities.
Ariel Weiss Chief Executive Yad Hanadiv
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Asher Ragen Programme Director Academic Excellence
Dear Rothschild Fellows and Colleagues, I am honored to welcome you to the 2nd Rothschild Fellows Colloquium at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS). In this colloquium, we are hosting previous and current Rothschild Fellows who represent all universities in Israel. Most importantly, the Rothschild Fellows here today represent academic diversity in terms of gender and age, as well as in the research and scholarship they pursue in mathematics, history, brain science, literature, art, ecology and everything in between. Looking back at the list of Rothschild Fellows from the past, I see many of the leaders, not only of Israeli academia, but also Israeli leadership in general. Therefore, I feel that receiving this fellowship is not only a privilege, but a tremendous responsibility. As Director of the IIAS, I also feel this sense of responsibility. I hope the IIAS will serve as a partner who can help you realize your vision. With my very best wishes and warmest regards,
Michal Linial Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
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ABOUT YAD HANADIV Yad Hanadiv is dedicated to creating resources for advancing Israel as a healthy, vibrant, democratic society, committed to Jewish values and equal opportunity for the benefit of all its inhabitants. The Foundation acts in Israel on behalf of Rothschild family trusts that carry forward a 130-year tradition of philanthropy in Israel. Construction of Israel’s Knesset (1966) and Supreme Court (1992) buildings, the establishment of Educational Television (1966), the Centre for Educational Technology (1974), the Open University of Israel (2004), the Ramat Hanadiv Memorial Gardens and Nature Park and current efforts to renew the National Library of Israel, are among Yad Hanadiv’s best known projects. But it should be noted that Yad Hanadiv is reticent about advertising its activities. The Foundation’s core activity is organised in four programme areas: Academic Excellence, Education, Environment and Arab Community.
ABOUT ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE The Academic Excellence Programme encompasses Yad Hanadiv’s longstanding efforts in support of academic life in Israel – including the Rothschild Prizes and Fellowships and the Michael Bruno Memorial Awards, funding for the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and more recent efforts on behalf of the Humanities and of the Life Sciences in Israel. Our newest initiative is looking to advance excellence among Arab students in Science and Technology. In 2012 Yad Hanadiv inaugurated a framework to support the ability of local Life Sciences researchers to pursue cutting-edge work, by helping to narrow the gap in resources available to them as compared to Life Scientists
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abroad. Key activities include a partnership with the Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (INCPM) located at the Weizmann Institute; partnering with the Israel Science Foundation to provide researchers from across Israel with research funding to take advantage of national research facilities; and support for the Edmond Safra Bioinformatics programme at Tel Aviv University. Support of the Humanities has long been a cornerstone of Yad Hanadiv’s philanthropy. Maintaining a vibrant and diverse community of researchers working across multiple fields is of critical importance not only to Israeli academia but to Israeli society. As in other areas, promoting a national perspective of needs and inter-university collaborations is fundamental to our approach. Funding is provided through two key programmes: The Humanities Fund, established in 2008 (in partnership with the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education), and the more recently launched Rothschild Faculty Planning Initiative in the Humanities which fosters a strategic approach to faculty recruitment on the part of university leaders. The recently launched Arab Excellence strategy (developed in partnership with Yad Hanadiv’s Arab Community programme) seeks to increase the number and percentage of Arab university graduates who obtain faculty positions in the Sciences or high-level industry positions in Science and Technology. First steps are the launching of a new Science Education programme for outstanding students from leading high schools in the North, operated by the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute; and partnering with the Council for Higher Education to support Maof Fellowships for Arab faculty.
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ABOUT THE ROTHSCHILD FELLOWSHIP The Rothschild Fellowship programme was established to help young scholars of outstanding academic merit and potential to advance in their respective fields. The first group of Fellows was selected for the 1979-80 academic year. Nine fellowships were awarded in that first round. In 1997 the programme was divided into two categories, Rothschild Fellowships in the Natural, Exact and Life Sciences and Engineering and Rothschild Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Up to twelve Rothschild Fellowships are awarded each year in Sciences and Engineering and up to nine in Humanities and Social Sciences. The first Selection Committee was chaired by Sir Isaiah Berlin. Subsequent Committee Chairs have included Aryeh Dvoretzky (former head of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Hillel Furstenberg, David Kazhdan and David Shulman. The current Chairman of the Natural, Exact and Life Sciences and Engineering Committee is Professor Marcus Feldman (Stanford University); Professor Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University) chairs the Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Almost 560 Fellowships have been awarded to date. The majority of Fellows have pursued their academic careers in Israel, with many becoming leading figures in their fields. Numerous Fellows can be found in positions of academic leadership in Israel, including university presidents, vice presidents and rectors. (A complete list of past Fellows may be found on page 38.) In 2012 we initiated a tradition of Rothschild Fellows Colloquia. The Colloquium takes place every three years and brings together the most recent three cohorts of Rothschild Fellows, many of whom are still in the midst of their postdoctoral studies. It is an opportunity for Fellows to meet colleagues and present their work to committee members and senior academics in Israel. The 2015 Colloquium includes Fellows from 2011–2013.
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PROGRAMME Rothschild Fellows Colloquium 29–30 April 2015 The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies Givat Ram Campus, Jerusalem
Wednesday, 29 April 9:00-9:45
Coffee and Registration
9:45-10:00 Welcome Professor Michal Linial Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) Professor Marc Feldman Chair, Natural, Exact and Life Science and Engineering Committee Professor Peter Jelavich Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Committee 10:00-10:30
‘Speed-dating’ with Fellows and Committee Members
10:30-10:45
Introduction to the IIAS: Professor Michal Linial
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Panel with Professor Benny Geiger, Chair, Academic Board, Israel Science Foundation and Professor Hagit Messer-Yaron, Vice Chair, Council for Higher Education
Moderator: Professor Michal Linial 12:15-13:30
Plenary Session – Part One Presentations by Rothschild Fellows
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Yaara Yeshurun (Neurobiology) The Narratives We Live by: Exploring Brain Regions Involved in Narrative Interpretation Svetlana Natkovich (Hebrew Literature) The Portrait of Maskil as a Criminal: The Figure of the Criminal in the Literature of Russian-Jewish Authors, 1862–1884 Uri Roll (Biology) Linking Nature and Human Happiness across Scales Talya Sadeh (Psychology) How We Forget May Depend on How We Remember Katy Margulies-Goshen (Chemistry) Drug Nanoparticles for Inducing Therapeutic Angiogenesis Reshef Meir (Computer Sciences) Uncertainty, Strategy, and Voting 13:45-15:00 Lunch: Belgium House (Beit Belgia) with 2000 to 2010 Rothschild Fellows 15:30-16:45
Plenary Session – Part Two Presentations by Rothschild Fellows Omri Tal (Philosophy) A Framework for Deriving Multilocus Information Measures Ayala Arad (Economics) Colonel Blotto’s Top Secret Files: A Platform for Studying Strategic Thinking Benyamin Rosental (Immunology) Characterization of Botryllus Schlosseri Hematopoietic System Danny Neftin (Mathematics) Group Theory in Arithmetic Adi Sheinfeld (Electrical Engineering) Combining Optics and Ultrasound for Cellular Imaging
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Itamar Harel (Developmental Biology) Rapid Exploration of Aging and Disease-related Genes in a Naturally Short Lived Vertebrate 17:00-18:00
Roundtables: Building an Academic Career in Israel, with leading mid-career scholars
Life Sciences: Professor Yuval Dor, Dr Erez Levanon
Humanities: Professor Michal Biran, Professor Vered Noam
Social Sciences: Professor Leon Deouell, Professor Michael Karayanni
Exact Sciences: Professor Uri Banin, Professor Nir Friedman
Free time
19:30-21:30
Cocktails and Dinner, Modern, The Israel Museum Restaurant Joined by past Rothschild Prize recipients and newly-selected 2015 Rothschild Fellows
Speaker: Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson President of The Hebrew University and 1983 Rothschild Fellow
Thursday, 30 April
8:30-9:00
Gathering and Coffee
9:00-10:00 Presentation: Professor Amnon Shashua Professor of Computer Science, The Hebrew University and Co-founder, CTO and Chairman of Mobileye and OrCam Moderator: Professor Michal Linial 10:15-11:45
Visit to the National Library
12:00-13:00
Wrap-Up and Feedback at the IIAS
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CO L LO Q U I U M PA R T I C I PA N T S 2015
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Colloquium Participants 2015
Ayala Arad 2011/2012
Ori Bar-Nur 2012/2013
Danny Ben-Zvi 2012/2013
Current Affiliation: Tel Aviv University
Current Affiliation: Harvard University
Current Affiliation: Harvard University
Institution abroad: University of California, Berkeley
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2011
Main areas of research: Reprogramming somatic cells to a pluripotent state
Main areas of research: Physiology and metabolism: response to bariatric surgery; regulation of pancreatic endocrine mass
Main areas of research: Behavioural and experimental economics ayala.arad@gmail.com
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ori.bar-nur@mail.huji.ac.il barnur.ori@mgh.harvard.edu
benzvi@fas.harvard.edu
Colloquium Participants 2015
Oded Berger-Tal 2013/2014
Gal Binyamini 2012/2013
David (Dudu) Burstein 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles & Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global
Current Affiliation: University of Toronto
Current Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2013 Main areas of research: Conservation behaviour – using behavioural ecology principles to improve conservation and management oded.berger.tal@gmail.com
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PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2012 Main areas of research: The geometry of differential equations and applications to dynamics and number theory galbin@gmail.com
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2013 Main areas of research: Genomics of microbial communities in natural environments davidbur@berkeley.edu
Colloquium Participants 2015
Ronit Bustin-Drory 2013/2014
Guy Cohen 2012/2013
Emanuele Dalla Torre 2011/2012
Current Affiliation: Princeton University
Current Affiliation: Columbia University
Current Affiliation: Bar-Ilan University
PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2013
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2013
Institution abroad: Harvard University
Main areas of research: Information theory, estimation theory and their relationship, interference channels, physical layer security, fading channels
Main areas of research: Theory of strongly correlated many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium
rdrory@princeton.edu
guy.cohen@columbia.edu
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011 Main areas of research: Non-equilibrium many-body physics: ultracold atoms, quantum optics, solid state emanuele.dalla-torre@biu.ac.il
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Colloquium Participants 2015
Michael Ebstein 2011/2012
Ofer Firstenberg 2011/2012
Itamar Harel 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Martin Buber Fellow at The Hebrew University
Current Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science
Institution abroad: Freie Universität Berlin
Institution abroad: Harvard University
Current Affiliation: The Brunet Lab, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2010
Main areas of research: Medieval Islamic mysticism
Main areas of research: Extreme quantum limit of nonlinear optics, where individual photons interact strongly with one another and behave like matter particles
michael.ebstein@mail.huji.ac.il
ofer.firstenberg@weizmann.ac.il
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PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2012 Main areas of research: A platform for rapid exploration of aging and diseases in a naturally shortlived vertebrate – the African turquoise killifish itamarh@stanford.edu
Colloquium Participants 2015
Ido Kaminer 2013/2014
Michal Isaacson 2012/2013
Salomon Israel 2012/2013
Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AgeLab
Current Affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2014
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013
Institution abroad: Duke University
Main areas of research: The intersection of optics, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics; engineering the quantum wave function of electrons and their interaction with nanophotonic structures to create novel radiation sources
Main areas of research: The ways in which human behaviour both consume and create the environments in which we live
kaminer@mit.edu
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michali@mit.edu
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012 Main areas of research: Psychology, behavioural genetics, behavioural economics salomon.israel@mail.huji.ac.il
Colloquium Participants 2015
Leon Jacobowitz-Efron 2013/2014
Ori Katz 2012/2013
Rabei Khamisy 2003/2014
Current Affiliation: Achva College
Current Affiliation: Institut Lanvgevin, ESPCI ParisTech, Paris, France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale SupÊrieure, Paris, France
Current Affiliation: Cardiff University (SHARE)
Institution abroad: Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2010 Main areas of research: Medieval and early modern history; intellectual history; Dante studies; medieval sexuality; the art of memory leonje@hotmail.com
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PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011 Main areas of research: Physics (optics and acoustics): imaging and wave control in complex media orik@mail.huji.ac.il
PhD: University of Haifa, 2012 Main areas of research: History and archaeology of the Crusader period: Acre and Tyre regions rabeikham@walla.co.il r_gkh@yahoo.com KhamisyR@cardiff.ac.uk
Colloquium Participants 2015
Shachar Klaiman 2011/2012
Ofir Levy 2011/2012
Uri Livneh 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Theoretical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg
Current Affiliation: Arizona State University
Current Affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2010 Main areas of research: Molecular anions – binding mechanisms and reactions, many-body dynamics, and methods for estimating the lifetime of metastable species shachar.klaiman@ pci.uni-heidelberg.de
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PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2010 Main areas of research: Biophysical models, biological responses to climate change levyofi@gmail.com
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2012 Main areas of research: System neuroscience uriliv@gmail.com
Colloquium Participants 2015
Katy Margulies-Goshen 2013/2014
Ahmad Masarwa 2012/2013
Reshef Meir 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Stanford University
Current Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Current Affiliation: Harvard University
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013 Main areas of research: Analytical chemistry, nanotechnology, pharmaceutics katymargulis@stanford.edu
PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2013 Main areas of research: Chemical synthesis of bioactive scaffolds by applying C-C and C-H bond activation / cleavage and cascade reaction processes ahmadm@berkeley.edu masarwaa@gmail.com
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PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013 Main areas of research: Computational game theory, mechanism design, artificial intelligence, behavioural game theory reshef24@gmail.com
Colloquium Participants 2015
Khitam Muhsen 2011/2012
Svetlana Natkovich 2013/2014
Danny Neftin 2011/12
Current Affiliation: School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Current Affiliation: Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University
Current Affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Institution abroad: University of Maryland
PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2012
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2011 Main areas of research: Epidemiology of infectious diseases; helicobacter pylori infection and its impact on health and disease kmuhsen@post.tau.ac.il
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Main areas of research: Literature of the Jewish Enlightenment; Eastern European Jewish selffashioning; cultural history of Zionism svetlanatkovich@gmail.com
PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2011 Main areas of research: Algebra, number theory neftin@umich.edu
Colloquium Participants 2015
Liav Orgad 2012/2013
Ram Rivlin 2011/2012
Uri Roll 2012/2013
Current Affiliation: Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya; Marie Curie Fellow, Freie Universit채t Berlin
Current Affiliation: Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Current Affiliation: University of Oxford
Institution abroad: NYU and Freie Universit채t Berlin PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011 Main areas of research: Comparative constitutional law, comparative immigration law, citizenship theory, multiculturalism, law and religion lorgad@gmail.com 23
Institution abroad: NYU
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2012
Main areas of research: Family law, law and philosophy, law and neuroscience
Main areas of research: Conservation biology aiming to incorporate knowledge and expertise from biology, statistics, mathematics and socialsciences towards the better protection of the natural environment
ram.rivlin@mail.huji.ac.il
uri.roll@ouce.ox.ac.uk
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011
Colloquium Participants 2015
Benyamin Rosental 2012/2013
Jonathan Rubin 2012/2013
Talya Sadeh 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Stem Cell Institute, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Current Affiliation: The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University
Current Affiliation: Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre / University of Toronto
PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2013
Institution abroad: The Warburg Institute, London
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2013
Main areas of research: Study of the immune system of histocompatibility in a marine protochordate model for mammalian stem cell transplantation and pregnancy immunology
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
Main areas of research: The cognitive neuroscience of memory: principles of memory organisation and the causes of forgetting
benyamin@stanford.edu
Main areas of research: Cultural and intellectual history of the Latin East; the study of intercultural contacts and exchanges in the Latin East yonigali@gmail.com
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tsadeh@research.baycrest.org
Colloquium Participants 2015
Yoav Sagi 2011/2012
Efrat Sheffer 2012/2013
Adi Sheinfeld 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Physics Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Current Affiliation: The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Current Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Institution abroad: Princeton
Main areas of research: Combining optics and ultrasound for cell imaging, with a focus on molecular and mechanical characterization of cancer cells
Institution abroad: University of Colorado at Boulder PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011 Main areas of research: Experimental study of manybody physics in a strongly interacting ultracold Fermi gas yoav.sagi@physics.technion.ac.il
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PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012 Main areas of research: Ecology efrat.sheffer@mail.huji.ac.il
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2013
adishein@gmail.com
Colloquium Participants 2015
Orr Spiegel 2013/2014
Adi Stern 2011/2012
Ella Striem-Amit 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: University of California, Davis
Current Affiliation: Tel Aviv University
Current Affiliation: Harvard University
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014
Institution abroad: University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Francisco
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014
Main areas of research: Movement ecology and animal behaviour orr.spiegel@mail.huji.ac.il
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Main areas of research: Evolution and genomics of viruses
Main areas of research: Brain representation of abstract and non-embodied concepts (concepts not sensorily perceptible), as well as the effects of sensory-motor deprivation on brain organisation
sternadi@post.tau.ac.il
striemamit@fas.harvard.edu
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2010
Colloquium Participants 2015
Omri Tal 2012/2013
Omri Weisman 2013/2014
Judith Weiss 2013/2014
Current Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
Current Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine
Current Affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: Bar-Ilan University, 2013
Institution abroad: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes
Main areas of research: Chemoreception in autism: neural pathways to translation
PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2014
PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2012 Main areas of research: Information theoretical approach to the concept of population structure and the genotype-phenotype relation omrit1248@gmail.com
omri.weisman@yale.edu
Main areas of research: Medieval Kabbalah; Renaissance Christian Kabbalah; medieval and early-modern interreligious Jewish-Christian discourse yuditw@gmail.com
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Colloquium Participants 2015
Moran Yassour 2012/2013
Reuven Yeshurun 2012/2013
Yaara Yeshurun 2012/2013
Current Affiliation: The Broad Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Current Affiliation: University of Haifa
Current Affiliation: Princeton University
Institution abroad: Smithsonian Institution
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
PhD: University of Haifa, 2012
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011
Main areas of research: The human gut microbiome in health and disease – from the establishment of the microbial community in infants to its effect on inflammatory bowel disease patients moran@broadinstitute.org
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Main areas of research: Archaeology of the Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic periods in the Middle East; zooarchaeology and taphonomy ryeshuru@research.haifa.ac.il
Main areas of research: Neural correlates of human memory and theory of mind yaara@princeton.edu
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Anat Arzi
Ranen Aviner
Vadim Axelrod
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science
PhD: Tel Aviv University
PhD: Tel Aviv UniversityÂ
Main Field of Study: Cell biology
Main Field of Study: Cognitive neuroscience
Title of PhD: Deciphering the Mitotic Translatome
Title of PhD: The Representation of Faces in the Occipital-temporal Cortex
Main Field of Study: Neurobiology Title of PhD: Olfactory Processing, Learning and Memory of Consciously Unperceived Odours University Abroad: University of Cambridge anat.arzi@gmail.com
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University Abroad: Stanford University ranen.aviner@gmail.com
University Abroad: To be decided vadim.axelrod@gmail.com
Rothschild Fellows 2015
Avishai Bar Asher
Shahar Barbash
Yehonadav Bekenstein
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Main Field of Study: Jewish thought and philosophy
Main Field of Study: Molecular neuroscience
Main Field of Study: NanoScience (physics/chemistry)
Title of PhD: Concepts and Imageries of Paradise in 13th Century Jewish Esotericism
Title of PhD: RNA Metabolism and Regulation in Evolution and Disease States of the Human Brain
Title of PhD: Electrical Effects of Metallic Structuring and Doping in Cu2S Colloidal Quantum Dots
University Abroad: Rockefeller University, NY
University Abroad: University of California, Berkeley
University Abroad: Princeton University avishaiba@gmail.com
barbashshahar@gmail.com
bekenstein@gmail.com
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Assaf Breska
Amit Daniely
Boris Desiatov
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Main field of study: Psychology (cognitive neuroscience)
Main Field of Study: Computer science
Main Field of Study: Applied physics
Title of PhD: On the Theoretical Foundation of Machine Learning
Title of PhD: Silicon Platform for On-chip Light Confinement, Nanofocusing and Sensing Applications
Title of PhD: Automatic and Controlled Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Stimulus-driven and Memory-based Temporal Predictions University abroad: University of California, Berkeley a_breska@yahoo.com
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University Abroad: University of California, Berkeley and Google amit.daniely@mail.huji.ac.il
University Abroad: To be decided dboriska@gmail.com
Rothschild Fellows 2015
Raanan Eichler
Julie Fadlon
Ofer Fridman
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: Tel Aviv University
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Main Field of Study: Bible Title of PhD: The Ark and the Cherubim University abroad: Harvard University raanan.eichler@gmail.com
Main Field of Study: Psycholinguistics Title of PhD: The Psycholinguistics of Verbal Diathesis: The Transitive-Unaccusative Alternation University Abroad: Northwestern University jiljulit@gmail.com
Main Field of Study: System biology (biophysics) Title of PhD: Optimization of Lag Time Underlies Antibiotic Tolerance in Evolved Bacterial Populations University Abroad: to be decided oferfrid@gmail.com
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Rothschild Fellows 2015
Erez Freud
Or Hen
Livnat Jerby-Arnon
PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
PhD: Tel Aviv University
PhD: Tel Aviv University
Main Field of Study: Physics
Main Field of Study: Computational systems biology, bioinformatics
Main Field of Study: Cognitive neuroscience  Title of PhD: The Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms that Mediate Object 3D Perception University Abroad: Carnegie Mellon University; University of Western Ontario erezfreud@gmail.com
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Title of PhD: High-Momentum Nucleons in Nuclei University Abroad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology or.chen@mail.huji.ac.il
Title of PhD: Identifying Cancer-specific Vulnerabilities Based on Genome-scale Genetic and Metabolic Networks University Abroad: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard livnat.jerby@gmail.com
Rothschild Fellows 2015
Anatoly Khina
Michal Levo
Naama Mayseless
PhD: Tel Aviv University
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science
PhD: University of Haifa
Main Field of Study: Electrical engineering Title of PhD: New Matrix Decompositions for Gaussian Communication Networks University Abroad: California Institute of Technology anatoly.khina@gmail.com
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Main Field of Study: Computational biology
Main Field of Study: Social and cognitive neuroscience
Title of PhD: Behind the Scene of Transcriptional Control – How is Regulation Implemented at the Level of DNA Binding?
Title of PhD: The Neural Basis of Creativity and Originality: The Integrated Balanced Dual Process Model of Creativity
University Abroad: to be decided
University Abroad: To be decided
michal.levo@gmail.com
naama27@gmail.com
Rothschild Fellows 2015
Merav Parter
Sivan Refaely-Abramson
Yotam Soreq
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science
Main Field of Study: Computer science and applied mathematics
Main Field of Study: Computational materials science
Main Field of Study: Particle physics
Title of PhD: The Topology of Wireless Communication and Applications
Title of PhD: A Generalization of the Optimally-tuned Range-separated Hybrid Scheme to the Solid-state
University Abroad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology merav.parter@gmail.com
University Abroad: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California, Berkeley sivan.abramson@gmail.com
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Title of PhD: Higgs and Flavor at the LHC Era: From Precision Tests to New Physics? University Abroad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology soreqy@gmail.com
Rothschild Fellows 2015
Avishay Tal
Amit Tuby
Yaara Zisman-Ilani
PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science
PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD: University of Haifa
Main Field of Study: Computer science
Main Field of Study: Geography
Title of PhD: Analysis of Boolean Functions in Theoretical Computer Science
Title of PhD: Short-term and Long-term Responses and Adaptation to Climate Extremes
University Abroad: Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton
University Abroad: To be decided
avishay.tal@gmail.com
amit_tubi@hotmail.com
Main Field of Study: Psychology; health communication; applied health research Title of PhD: Developing, Implementing and Measuring the Impact of Shared Decision-Making intervention in Psychiatric Care University Abroad: Dartmouth yaaraz@windowslive.com
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Roundtable Session Leaders Life Sciences Professor Yuval Dor is Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research at the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University. He received his PhD from The Hebrew University in 2002 and carried out postdoctoral work at Harvard University. He received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2012. Dr Erez Levanon is a Senior Lecturer in the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University and did postdoctoral research at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 2006. Humanities Professor Michal Biran is the Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from The Hebrew University. She received a Rothschild Fellowship in 1995 and a Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2005 Professor Vered Noam is Professor of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University, where she is the head of the Programme of Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Kabbalah in the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies. She received her PhD from The Hebrew University in 1997. She received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2010. Social Sciences Professor Leon Deouell is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and heads the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at The Hebrew University. He received his MD in 1992 from the Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University, and his PhD in 2001 at the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 2000. 38
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Professor Michael Karayanni holds the Silver Chair in Civil Procedure at the Law Faculty of The Hebrew University and is the Director of the Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law. He received an LLD from The Hebrew University in 2000 and a Doctor of Judicial Science at the University from Pennsylvania Law School in 2003. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 2002 and a Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2007. Exact Sciences Professor Uri Banin is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew University. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from The Hebrew University in 1994. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 1994 and carried out postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2007. Professor Nir Friedman is a Professor at the Institute of Life Sciences and the School of Computer Sciences of The Hebrew University. He completed his PhD in Computer Sciences at Stanford and did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley in the field of Computational Biology. He received a Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2010.
Session Lecturer Professor Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs Chair in Computer Science at The Hebrew University. He headed the School of Engineering and Computer Science at The Hebrew University from 2003 to 2005. He received his PhD in Computational Neuroscience, working at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He is the founder of CogniTens Ltd, co-founder of MobilEye Vision Technologies and co-founder of OrCam. 39
Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014 1979
Arye Juhasz Mathematics
Amnon Schwartz Agriculture
Joseph Kostiner Middle Eastern History
Itzhak Shperling Electrical Engineering
Tsevi Mazeh Astronomy
Lester Shulman Biology
Ilana Nathan Medicine
Mina Teicher Mathematics
Yehuda Shiran Mechanical Engineering
Moshe Tur Electrical Engineering
Eitan Tadmor Mathematics
Marius Ungarish Computer Sciences
Eilon Vaadia Biomedical Engineering
Leah Yogev Biology
1981
1982
Joseph Almog Logic
Meir Bar-Asher Language & Literature
Lili Anglister Biochemistry
Itamar Barnea Psychology
Cila Blatt Biology
David Bensimon Physics
Zvi Elgat Engineering
Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk Electrical Engineering
Deborah Gera Classical Studies
Sammy Boussiba Biology
Alfred Bruckstein Computer Sciences
Avi Hasner Medicine
Moshe Deutsch Physics
Itzhak Glass Neuroscience
Yael Ilan Industrial Engineering
Yoram Erder History
Avishai Henik Psychology
Arnon Rolnick Psychology
Joshua Idar Education
Yael Ilan Industrial Engineering
Miri Rubin-Ungar History
Boaz Lazar Oceanography
Chaim Benjamini Environmental Sciences Richard Flantz Language & Literature Ehud Heyman Electrical Engineering Yonatan (Yoni) Malachi Electrical Engineering Amihai (Ami) Mazar Archaeology Ely Merzbach Mathematics Arye Nehorai Electrical Engineering Mordechai Perl Mechanical Engineering Aviezer Ravitzky Jewish Philosophy Ariel Rubinstein Economics 1980 Aaron Ben-Zeev Philosophy Ofer Binah Medicine
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
L. Maisels-Navon Sociology & Anthropology
Jeffrey Macy Political Science
Naphtali Rishe Computer Sciences
Abraham Nowersztern Language & Literature
Ronit Nativ Hydrology
Luis Roniger Sociology
Jacob Pe’er Medicine
Roman Pyrzak Agriculture
Adam Schneeweiss Medicine
Vladimir Privman Physics
Baruch Rinkevich Zoology
Moshe Szyf Biochemistry
Zvi Safra Economics
Moshe Sidi Electrical Engineering
Ram Yahalom Physics
Shaul Stampfer History
Amri Wandel Physics
Raz Yirmiya Psychobiology
Baruch Vainas Chemistry
Joseph Zeira Economics
Constantin Zuckerman History
1983
1984
1985
Amihood Amir Computer Sciences
Yuti Charnajovsky Biology
Reuven Amitai History
Doron Aurbach Chemistry
David Chitayat Medicine
E. Avraham Immunology
Reuven Avi-Yonah History
Zohar Eitan Musicology
Yair Be’ery Electrical Engineering
Menachem Ben-Sasson History
Yariv Ephraim Electrical Engineering
Jehoshua Bruck Electrical Engineering
Y. Cohen Philosophy
Haim Gamliel Medicine
Miriam Constantini-Souroujon Biochemistry
Yigal Elad Plant Sciences
Yoram Kapulnik Agriculture
Michal Ephratt Language & Literature
Aharon (Ronnie) Friedman Immunology
Aviad Kleinberg History
Dan Eshel Chemistry
Reuven Gepstein Medicine
Michael Lecker History
Marc Hirshman Jewish Philosophy and Thought
Dan Haran Mathematics
Emil Levy Chemistry
Joseph Holoshitz Medicine
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Ofer Lahav Physics Dan Levy Physics Israel Nur Agriculture Haim Omer Psychology David Satran Jewish Philosophy and Thought Yizhar Tal Law Anthony J. Weiss Electrical Engineering Arieh Wishkovsky Immunology 1986 Aharon Agranat Physics Gadi Algazi History Yehuda Assaraf Microbiology Arnon Avron Computer Sciences Michal Gadot Agriculture Tali Haran Chemistry Moshe Idan Aeronautical Engineering Miriam Leurer Physics Joseph Mali History Shulamit Manulis Plant Sciences 42
Yoram Reich Civil Engineering Zvi Ruder Chemical Engineering Mordechai Shohat Medicine Michael Silber History 1987 Shmuel Ben Zvi Economics Yonatan Elkind Agriculture Raisa Epstein Mathematics Alexander Feinstein Physics Yizhar Hirschfeld Archaeology Oscar Levin Desert Research Meir Lewkowicz Physics Ofer Lider Biology Yitzhak Nakash History Amos Nevo Mathematics Fania Oz History Yossef Raviv Biology Baruch Rosenstein Physics Dror Wahrman History
Haim Werner Biology Anat Zadok Biology 1988 Dekel Amir-Shapira Botany Boaz Avron Biology Hector Budman Mechanical Engineering Joseph Buxbaum Biology Itzchak Edrei Physics Ariel Halperin Economics Marwan Hassan Physical Geography Amnon Horovitz Biochemistry Israel Knohl Bible Ehud Landau Chemistry Meir Orenstein Chemistry Jaron Rabinovici Medicine Eli Salzberger Law Gabriel Schreiber Medicine Adam Seligman Sociology David Yogev Biology
Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
1989 Chaya Brodie Neurobiology Dale Frank Biochemistry Eitan Galun Medicine Zohar Goshen Law Eli Jerby Physics Anna Kissin Language & Literature Daphne Koller Computer Sciences Nadine Mandel Language & Literature Ronen Peretz Mathematics Rivka Riven-Kreitman Biochemistry Levi Schachter Electrical Engineering Aner Shalev Mathematics Dov Shiffman Biology Tamar Tennenbaum Pharmacology Shimon Weiss Electrical Engineering Elnathan Weissert History 1990 Reuven Amitai-Preiss History 43
Roza Azhari Biomedical Engineering Ronen Basri Computer Sciences Raanan Bavli Chemistry Yeshayahu Eisenberg Physics David Engelberg Biochemistry Lia Ettinger-Peach Biology Graham Feingold Physics Rafael Perl-Treves Biology Itai Shafrir Mathematics Nir Shavit Computer Sciences Ur Shlonsky Language & Literature Haim Weissman Physics Eran Yashiv Economics Eyal Zamir Law Ada Zohar Psychology 1991 Radel Ben-Av Physics David Golomb Physics Eitan Gross Physics
Shay Gueron Mathematics Abdullah Haj-Yehia Pharmacology Moshe Kol Chemistry Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker Chemistry Zlil Sela Mathematics Gad Shaulsky Biology Efrat Shimshoni Physics Haim Taitelbaum Physics Ofra Tirosh-Becker Language & Literature Alexander Vardy Electrical Engineering Dror Zeevi History Ilan Zisser Mathematics 1992 Shlomo Berger Materials Engineering Ilan Bloom Electrical Engineering Meir Buzaglo Philosophy Nir Davidson Physics Avital Deutsch Psychology Eyal Doron Physics
Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Dan Halperin Computer Sciences
Uri Peskin Chemistry
Ofer Mokady Zoology
Amos Lapidoth Electrical Engineering
Andrei Reznikov Mathematics
Benny Reznik Physics
Menashe Levy Pharmacology
Nava Rubin Biology
Dan Sadot Electrical Engineering
Anya Mali Comparative Religion
Eytan Ruppin Computer Sciences
Zvi Wiener Mathematics
Victor Mor-Avi Physics
Guillermo Sapiro Electrical Engineering
Alexander Yakobson History
Michael Polyak Mathematics
Idit Shachar Biochemistry
Gil Yosipovitch Medicine
Yuval Rabani Mathematics
Orit Shaul Plant Genetics
Reuven Zeitak Physics
Yoram Reiter Immunology
Nathan Wasserman History
1995
Snait Tamir Biochemistry
Noam Ziv Biology
Oded Agam Physics
Daphna Vulcan Language & Literature
1994
Naama Barkai Physics
1993
Uri Banin Chemistry
Yair Bartal Computer Sciences
Shimshon Bar-Ad Physics
Hanoch Ben-Yami Philosophy
Michal Ben-Nun Chemistry
Joshua Feinberg Physics
Judith Frommer Electrical Engineering
Michal Biran Inner Asian History
Ruth Feldman Psychology
Dorit Hanein Biology
Ofer Blum Chemistry
Aviv Frommer Physics
Oded Heilbronner History
Ran Canetti Mathematics
Ron Karidi Mathematics
Wayne D. Kaplan Materials Engineering
Larisa Gheber Biochemistry
Lior Klein Physics
Menahem Kister Talmud
Chen Lichtenstein Law
Ariel Orda Electrical Engineering
Assaf Likhovski Law
Erez Petrank Computer Sciences
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Moshe Portnoy Chemistry
Yuri Pines Asian Studies
Ronit Ricci Indonesian Studies
Ziv Reich Chemistry
Eran Rabani Chemistry
Yehuda Sharf Physics
Lilach Shalev-Mevorach Psychology
Kobi Rosenblum Biology
Miriam Shefer History
Nadav Shnerb Physics
Bilha Segev Physics
Orly Shenker Philosophy
Nir Tessler Electrical Engineering
Elnathan Weissert Assyriology
Amnon Ta-Shma Computer Sciences
Aryeh Zaban Chemistry
1997
1998
1996
Rami Atar Electrical Engineering
Tomer Avidor-Reiss Biochemistry
Merav Ahissar Biology
Roy Bar-Ziv Physics
Andrea Berger Psychology
Uri Alon Physics
Joseph Berkovitz Philosophy
Yoram Betser Electrical Engineering
Gill Barequet Computer Sciences
Avraham Faust Archaeology
Eyal Buks Physics
Shoshana Eitan Biology
Shlomo Gelaki Mathematics
Steve Caplan Immunology
Eyal Goren Mathematics
Isaac Hollander Islamic Studies
Doron Cohen Physics
Yaron Hadari Biology
Eugene Kanzieper Physics
Rafael De-Picciotto Physics
Hanni Inbar Electrical Engineering
Michael Keidar Physics
Alon Efrat Computer Sciences
Alex Kamenev Physics
Noga Kronfeld Zoology
Dan Fuchs Physics
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir Law
Efrat Lev-Lehman Biochemistry
Ruth Gaunt Psychology
Mordechai Margalit Electrical Engineering
Daniel Lidar Physics
Yuval Harari History
Gil Markovich Chemistry
Yuval Oreg Physics
Idit Keidar Computer Sciences
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Dror Orgad Physics
Ran Spiegler Economics
Golan Shahar Psychology
Yehuda Shalom Mathematics
Benjamin (Benny) Sudakov Mathematics
Avital Shurki Chemistry
Nili Wazana Bible
Daniella Talmor-Heller Islamic Studies
Aharon Solomon Agriculture
Itzchak Weismann History
Guy Tomer Biochemistry
Vitali Tugarinov Physics
Ehud Weiss Archaeology
Amichay Vardi Chemistry
2001
Eduardo Zaborowski Physical Chemistry
Sima Yaron Food Technology
Amiram Ariel Chemistry
1999
2000
Gonen Ashkenasy Chemistry
Avital Bareket-Samish Biology
Yitzhak Benbaji Philosophy
Guy Haim Bar-Oz Zooarchaeology
Ehud Behar Physics
Yair Cohen Chemistry
Hagit Benbaji Philosophy
Yardena Bohbot-Raviv Physical Chemistry
Leon Deouell Psychology
Alex Braiman Biophysics
Haim Diamant Physics
Alexander Groisman Physics
Alon Chen Biology
Miriam Dishon-Berkovits Psychology
Tamar Juven-Gershon Biology
Lior Gepstein Medicine
Noam Eliaz Chemical Engineering
Gilmor Iris Keshet Biochemistry
Elinor Haddad-Saiegh Linguistics
Yuval Feldman Law
Gila Moalem Taylor Biology
Eran Halperin Computer Sciences
Oleg Gang Physics
Ziad Mussliman Mathematics
Daniel Harries Physical Chemistry
Eyal Ginio Islamic Studies
Andrea Rotstein Classical Studies
Gilad Hirschberger Psychology
Salit Kark Biology
Elad Schneidman Neurobiology
Tal Kenet Biology
Leeor Kronik Electrical Engineering
Galili Shahar History
Uriel Levy Electrical Engineering
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Chaim Noy Psychology
Roded Sharan Computer Sciences
Amos Morris-Reich Jewish Studies
Ronit Satchi-Fainaro Biology
Dahlia Sharon Neurobiology
Roee Ozeri Physics
Herve Seligmann Zoology
Rafi Shikler Electrical Engineering
Alon Rosen Computer Sciences
Daniel Johannes Stoekl Comparative Religion
Tsachy Weissman Electrical Engineering
Oren Tal Archaeology
Uzi Vishne Mathematics
Tzachi Zamir Philosophy
Vardit Tokatly Language & Literature
2002
Boaz Zissu Archaeology
Lior Wolf Computer Sciences
Aharon Blank Chemistry
2003
Gitai Yahel Ecology
Hagai Shmuel Eisenberg Physics
Omer Angel Mathematics
2004
Alexander Fantalkin Archaeology
Shirli Bar-David Zoology
Samer Banna Electrical Engineering
Yariv Kafri Physics
Tal Carmon Physics
Smadar Ben-Tabou de Leon Physics
Michael Karayanni Law
Cyrille Joseph Cohen Biotechnology
Julia Chuzhoy Computer Sciences
Vladlen Koltun Computer Sciences
Adi Erlich Archaeology
Oren Cohen Physics
Yaakov (Koby) Levy Chemistry
Mark Gandelman Chemistry
Yacov (Koby) Crammer Computer Sciences
Irit Maor Physics
Karni Ginzburg Social Work
Micha Drukker Genetics
Adia Mendelson-Maoz Literature & Philosophy
Shahal Ilani Physics
Nirit Dudovitch Physics
Ishay Rosen-Zvi Philosophy
Yosef Jabareen Geography
Ariel Gordon Electrical Engineering
Boris Rybtchinski Chemistry
Kinneret Keren Biophysics
Dorit Kerret Environmental Studies
Guy Shakhar Biology
Yonatan Loewenstein Neuroscience
Anna Kventsel Language & Literature
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Ruth Mayo Psychology
Nadav Katz Physics
Beena Kalisky Physics
Julia Rubanovich Language & Literature
Alon Keinan Computer Sciences
Gad Kimmel Computer Sciences
Michael Segal Bible
Uzi Leibner Archaeology
Erez Levanon Medicine
Ester Segal Chemical Engineering
Shahar Lifshitz Law
Noam Levin Geography
David Sprinzak Physics
Roy Luria Psychology
Ariel Munitz Pharmacology
Daniel Strasser Physics
Shai Ronen Chemistry
Ophir MĂźnz-Manor Hebrew Literature
Iris Visoly- Fisher Chemistry
Orly Rubinsten Psychology
Yair Shokef (Srebo) Physics
Sharon Zuckerman Archaeology
Anelia Somekh-Baruch Electrical Engineering
Eran Tromer Computer Sciences
2005
Amos Tanay Computer Sciences
Assaf Yasur-Landau Archaeology
David Abookasis Electrical Engineering
2006
2007
Sheba Bergman Chemistry
Eran Almagor Classical Studies
Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder Education
Alberto Bilenca Electrical Engineering
Guy Bartal Physics
Roey Jacob Amir Chemistry
Barak Dayan Physics
Roi Cohen Kadosh Neuropsychology
Elizabeta Amir (Golan) Chemistry
Micha Fridman Chemistry
Orr Dunkelman Computer Sciences
Lilac Amirav Physical Chemistry
Inna Gaisler-Salomon Psychology
Ofer Fainaru Medicine
Benny Applebaum Computer Sciences
Khalid Ghanayim Law
Ran Friedman Biochemistry
Avner (Avi) Fleischer Chemistry
Amir Globerson Brain Science
Badi Hasisi Sociology
Roi Gazit Immunology
Oded Hod Chemistry
Roi Alfred Holzman Marine Biology
Liat Goldfarb Psychology
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Yohai Hakak Anthropology
Yehoshua Granat Hebrew Literature
Nadav Kashtan Molecular Biology
Emma Maayan Fanar Art History
Orr Karrassin Environmental Law
Netanel Hanan Lindner Physics
Dvora Namdar Archaeology
Tally Kritzman Law
Naphtali S. Meshel Bible
Orit Peleg Barkat Archaeology
Yaron Lipman Mathematics
Yana Nec Mathematics
Adi Salomon Chemistry
Noam Mizrahi Bible
Ariel Procaccia Computer Sciences
Ilia (Eli) Sloutskin Physics
Izhar Neder Physics
Guy Ron Physics
Elly Teman Anthropology
Asya Rolls Neurobiology
Shmuel M. Rubinstein Physics
Neta Wexler Sal-Man Biochemistry
Tal Schwartz Physics
Inon Scharf Zoology
Avinoam Zadok Engineering
Eran Stark Neurobiology
Gal Sheppes Psychology
2008
Yaniv Ziv Neurobiology
Ron Shimelmitz Archaeology
Oded Abt Asian Studies
2009
Tzahi Weiss Jewish Philosophy and Thought
Yael Artzy-Randrup Zoology
Alexey Amunts Biochemistry
2010
Jonathan Belmaker Ecology
Omri Barak Neurobiology
Yael Abadi-Reiss Archaeology
Yuval Birnboim Astrophysics
Amir Fink Archaeology
Avraham Aizenbud Mathematics
Liraz Chai Chemistry
Ophira Gamliel Indian Philosophy
Michael Assaf Physics
Alexander Fantalkin Archaeology
Dmitry Gourevitch Mathematics
Galit Aviman Japanese Studies
Eyal Feigenbaum Electrical Engineering
Shlomit Greenberg Cognitive Science
Olena Bagno Political Science
Inbal Goshen Psychobiology
Vered Halamish Psychology
Haim Belinson Neurobiology
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Nissim Cohen Public Policy
Michael Ebstein Islamic Studies
Roy Ziblat Biochemistry
Chen Davidovich Structural Biology
Ayelet Even-Ezra History
2012
Shai Dothan Law
Ofer Firstenberg (withdrew) Physics
Ori Bar-Nur (withdrew) Genetics
Orit Gazit International Relations
Alex Hayat (withdrew) Electrical Engineering
Danny Ben-Zvi Systems Biology
Pavel Ginzburg Electrical Engineering
Amir Ingber Electrical Engineering
Jonathan Berant Computer Sciences
Alexander Gumennik Physics
Boaz Keren-Zur (withdrew) Physics
Gal Binyamini Mathematics
Alon Herschhorn Medicine
Shachar Klaiman Chemistry
Guy Cohen Chemical Physics
Ayelet Lesman Biomedical Engineering
Ofir Levy Ecology
Yaniv Fox History
Guy Polsky Medicine
Nimrod Marom Archaeology
Danny Horesh Psychology
Neta Regev-Rudzki Biochemistry
Or Meir Computer Sciences
Michal Isaacson Geography
Nir Sapir Ecology
Khitam Muhsen Epidemiology
Salomon Israel Psychology
Tomer Shechner Psychology
Danny Neftin Mathematics
Ori Katz Physics
2011
Mical Raz History
Ahmad Masarwa Chemistry
Amitai Abramovitch Psychology
Ram Rivlin Law
Liav Orgad Law
Ayala Arad Economics
Yoav Sagi Physics
Uri Roll Biology
Amir Ariel (withdrew) Physics
Schraga Schwartz Biology
Benyamin Rosental Immunology
Emanuele Dalla Torre Physics
Adi Stern Biology
Jonathan Rubin History
Merav Dolev Physics
Hadas Velan Psycholinguistics
Efrat Sheffer Ecology
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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014
Omri Tal Philosophy of Biology
Reshef Meir Computer Sciences
Dmitry Faifman Mathematics
Itay Tirosh Computational Biology
Bilha Moor Art History & Islamic Studies
Michael Gilead Psychology
Moran Yassour Computational Biology
Svetlana Natkovich Hebrew Literature
David Golan Statistics
Reuven Yeshurun Archaeology
Anat Perry Psychology
Or Hasson Literature
Yaara Yeshurun Neurobiology
Talya Sadeh Psychology
Eyal Kalanthroff Neuropsychology
Yakov (Koby) Yosef (withdrew) Islamic History
Adi Sheinfeld Electrical Engineering
Sheera Lerman-Zohar Psychology
2013
Noam Shemesh (withdrew) Chemistry & MRI
Oded Berger-Tal Behavioural Ecology
Orr Spiegel Ecology
David (Dudu) Burstein Life Sciences
Ella Striem-Amit Neurobiology
Ronit Bustin-Drory Information Theory
Omri Weisman Psychology
Shoham Choshen-Hillel Psychology
Judith Weiss Jewish Thought
Itamar Harel Developmental Biology
2014
Yonit Hochberg Particle Physics
Shahar Alon Neuroscience
Leon Jacobowitz-Efron History
Ido Barth Physics
Noga Ron-Zewi Computer Sciences
Ido Kaminer Physics
Uri Ben-David Biology
Ori Rottenstreich Computer Networks
Rabie Khamisy Archaeology
Nir Bitansky Computer Sciences
Hadas Soifer Physics
Uri Livneh Neurobiology
Uri Davidovich Archaeology
Michal Weitman (withdrew) Chemistry
Katy Margulis-Goshen Chemistry
Tali Dekel Electrical Engineering
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Ronit Levine-Schnur Law Lyle Lustigman Linguistics Firas Mawase Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience Elad Noor (withdrew) Systems Biology Yakir Paz Talmud and Classical Studies Hannah Pollin-Galay Holocaust Studies Doron Puder Mathematics