Abraham Golik

Abraham Golik was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv

Golik was born on 12 April 1934 in Tel Aviv to Aryeh and Sarah Golik, who came from the Jewish community of Ostroh. The family moved to Jerusalem, where he attended the Tachkemoni school. Later the family moved to Rishon LeZion, and he finished school at the Realit Gymnasium.

In the IDF he completed an officers' course. In the reserves he commanded an anti-aircraft battery, including in the Yom Kippur War.

In 1960 he earned a master's degree in geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. That year he began work as a research assistant at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he earned a doctorate in oceanography in 1965. His dissertation dealt with the ecology of foraminifera and the Holocene history of the Gulf of Panama.

In 1967 he returned to Israel, settled in Haifa and joined the founding team of Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research as chief scientist. In the 1970s he studied tar pollution in the Mediterranean. In the 1980s he led a team that studied sand movement in the Nile Delta with Egyptian scientists.

He later directed the Laboratory of Marine Geology and retired in 2002. He died on 8 August 2025.