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(Ph.D.) , occupation = economist , years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , known_for = President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , notable_works = , style = , height = , television = , title =William Haber Professor of Economics , term = , predecessor = , successor =

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, party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , spouse = Dr. Yael Cohen Ben-Porath , partner = , children = 1 , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Yoram Ben-Porat (also, Ben-Porath; Hebrew: יורם בן-פורת; born 1937; died October 18, 1992) was an Israeli academic and economist. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 until his death in 1992 in an automobile accident at the age of 55.

Biography

Ben-Porat was born in

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, Israel. He was an economist. Ben-Porat specialized in the problems of the Israeli economy. Ben-Porat obtained both a bachelor's degree and a master's degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then obtained a Ph.D. at

in 1967, studying with Simon Kuznets. He became a member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Economics faculty in 1967, where he was the William Haber Professor of Economics. In 1987, Ben-Porat became Rector of the university. Ben-Porat was the president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 to 1992, following

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and succeeded by

. He was also President of the Israel Economic Association, Director of the Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel from 1979–84, and a consultant to the Rand Corporation. He died on October 18, 1992, in an automobile accident in Eilat, Israel, at the age of 55, along with his 42-year-old wife Dr. Yael Cohen Ben-Porath (a lecturer in logic in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Philosophy Department) and their five-year-old son, Yahali."IN ISRAEL, ROADS ARE DEADLY, BUT IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION?"
''The Washington Post'', October 31, 1992. They were buried at the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem. He was succeeded as President of the university by

References

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