Shachar Carmeli was born in Mitzpe Abirim in the western Galilee. He began his undergraduate studies at 16 at the Open University of Israel, during high school. After high school he postponed his military service to volunteer for a year with the youth movement Bnei Hamoshvim. Shachar finished his BSc in mathematics at Tel-Aviv University […]

Or Yair was born in 1988 and grew up in Givat-Ela in Emek Yizrael. In 2011, following five years of service in the IDF, he began studying electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He received his BSc summa cum laude in 2015 and is now studying for his PhD at the Technion. […]

Raised in Haifa, Ofer has always been fascinated with the physical sciences. Following the completion of his army service as a tank commander, his passion for science led him to a dual-degree undergraduate program in physics and material science at the Technion. His interest in research and theory began with a project during his BSc […]

Leon Anavy was born and raised in Neot Hakikar, a small agricultural village just south of the Dead Sea. From a young age, he was fascinated by the miraculous technology in use on his father’s farm, which turned the barren Negev desert into fertile land that yielded exceptional produce. After three years of army service […]

Inbal was born in Haifa, Israel, and spent three years in France during her elementary school years. She completed her BA in chemistry at Tel-Aviv University, in the Research Program for Outstanding Students. As an undergraduate, Inbal worked on diverse research projects, experimental as well as theoretical, in the fields of classical physical chemistry, quantum […]

Born in Irkutsk (Siberia), Russia, Evgeniy Boyko immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of 12. From a young age, he was attracted to the world of science and engineering, leading him to pursue physics and mathematics in high school. During his military service in the IDF, Evgeniy served as a combat soldier […]

Bracha Laufer Goldshtein had always been fascinated by science, technology, mathematics and physics, and she therefore chose the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering for her academic studies. She won the Rector’s and Dean’s prizes for outstanding undergraduate students at Bar-Ilan University in every year of her BSc studies and graduated summa cum laude, first in […]

Jerusalemite Amitai Yuval was attracted to the beauty of pure mathematics from a young age. While still in high school he started his BSc studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and graduated at the age of 20, after his military service. After the intensity of these years, he felt a need to explore other […]

Alexander Shleyfman was born in Ukraine (the former Soviet Union) and came to Israel as a child with the rest of his family. Despite  the difficulties of studying in a new country in a foreign language, Alex discovered early on that he was attracted to the language of mathematics. During his school days, he took […]

Asael Roichman was born in Jerusalem and later moved to the village of Kochav-Hashachar. Science was his hobby from an early age, and he studied biology as a major in high school. After a period of yeshiva studies and then military service in the prestigious 13th battalion of the Golani brigade, he began his undergraduate […]