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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...

; Chairman of the

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, and former President of

. He is also the former Chairman of the

Biography

When Elata was 13 years old and living in the

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, the

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invaded An invasion is a military offensive in which large numbers of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory owned by another such entity, generally with the objective of either: conquering; liberating or re-establishing con ...

. They took away his father and stepmother. Elata

immigrated Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...

to Palestine in the late 1940s and worked as a

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

truck driver. Elata graduated from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, receiving a master's degree in 1957, and a

in 1961.

Academic career

Elata is a professor emeritus of

, and former president of

. In 1961 he became an associate professor at the Technion. He then joined Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1974 as the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and the dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He left Ben-Gurion University for a short period of time in order to serve as the chief scientist for the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure. In 1984 he returned to Ben-Gurion University to serve as Rector. He was then elected president in 1985, following

Shlomo Gazit Shlomo Gazit ( he, שלמה גזית; 22 October 1926 – 8 October 2020) was an Israeli military officer and academic. A Major General in the Israel Defense Forces, he headed Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate. He later served as Presid ...

, serving until 1990 when he was succeeded by

Avishay Braverman Avishay Braverman ( he, אבישי ברוורמן, born 15 January 1948) is an economics professor, politician, and Israeli public figure. Having held senior positions as economist at the World Bank, he was later elected as fifth president of the ...

Public positions

Elata was the head of the

's administration from 1995 until 1996, and chairman of the authority from 1996 until 2001. He was the chief scientist of the Energy Ministry and founder of Hydronautics.When Israel Housed Top Scientists in a Transit Camp Deep in the Woods

Haaretz ''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner f ...

References

External links

*Michael Poreh, Chaim Elata (1965)
"An Analytical Derivation of Darcy Law,"
Volume 64, Tekhniyon - Makhon tekhnologi le-Yisra'el. ''ha-Fakultah le-handasah ezrahit'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Elata, Chaim Living people Technion – Israel Institute of Technology faculty Ben-Gurion University of the Negev faculty Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Dutch emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Dutch-Jewish descent Israeli mechanical engineers Presidents of universities in Israel 1929 births