Moshe Kaveh (משה קוה; born 1943) is an Israeli

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and former President of

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academi ...

Biography

Kaveh was born in

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ...

Uzbek SSR Uzbekistan (, ) is the common English name for the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR; uz, Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси, Oʻzbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi, in Russian: Уз ...

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where his parents sought safety after fleeing from

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. All of his father (Rabbi David Kaveh)'s ten siblings perished in

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. The Kaveh family made aliyah to Israel in 1950. He is a Professor in the Department of Physics at

. He has published over 300 articles on physics. Kaveh was Chairman of the Department, Dean of the school's Faculty of Natural Sciences, and Rector of Bar-Ilan. He completed his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees at Bar-Ilan University. Kaveh was President of Bar-Ilan University from 1996 to 2013, succeeding

Shlomo Eckstein Shlomo Raber Eckstein (1 November 1929 – 12 January 2020) was an Israeli economist, and President of Bar-Ilan University. Biography Eckstein was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. His family emigrated from Germany before World War II to Mexico, which ...

and followed by Daniel Hershkowitz. In 2013 he resigned. Kaveh was chairman of Israel's Committee of University Presidents. In 2008, the Israel Council for Higher Education awarded Kaveh its Prize for Higher Education.

References

External links

"Bar-Ilan University in Israel's president Moshe Kaveh and women's rights,"
(video), January 6, 2010. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaveh, Moshe Israeli physicists Uzbekistani emigrants to Israel Presidents of universities in Israel Bar-Ilan University faculty 20th-century Israeli educators 21st-century Israeli educators 1963 births Soviet emigrants to Israel Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Living people