Amnon Yogev

Amnon Yogev was born in 1936 in Givat Hen

Amnon Yogev was born on December 22, 1936, in the moshav Givat Hen. He went to Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv.

He earned a master's degree in chemistry and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1961. In 1964 he completed a doctorate at the Weizmann Institute on photochemical processes. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Zurich in 1965 and 1966.

As an artillery officer he fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. After the Yom Kippur War he founded Battalion 443 and joined the research and development branch of the artillery and armored corps as a colonel. He later advised a Knesset subcommittee on Israel's security doctrine.

From 1967 to 2003 he was a senior researcher and associate professor at the Weizmann Institute, working on lasers and laser isotope separation. He initiated the Solar Tower there and led research on sun-pumped lasers. In 1995 he founded the Consolar consortium for concentrated solar energy and headed it until 2000.

After retiring in 2003 he co-founded the startup Engineuity with Eli Gamzon, which developed on-board hydrogen production for vehicles. He died on March 15, 2025.