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Eliezer Rabinovici

Eliezer Rabinovici is an Israeli theoretical physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who served as President of the CERN Council from 2022 to 2024.

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Born: 27 May 1946, Jerusalem
Occupation: physicist, university teacher

Eliezer Rabinovici was born in 1946 in Jerusalem

Eliezer Rabinovici was born in Jerusalem on May 27, 1946. He is married and has 3 children.

He earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 and a master's degree in 1971. He received his PhD in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1974, under Haim Harari. He then did postdoctoral work at Fermilab and at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California.

He joined the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University as a senior lecturer and became a full professor in 1985. He headed the Racah Institute and led the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies from 2005 to 2012. His research covers theoretical high-energy physics, mainly quantum field theory and string theory.

From 1997 he was among the leaders of the SESAME light source project in Jordan, and in 2019 he shared the AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy for this work. He became an Israeli delegate to the CERN Council in 2004, was its vice president from 2016 to 2018, and was elected its president in 2021.