Eliora Ron

Eliora Ron was born in 1939 in Tel Aviv

Eliora Ron was born in Tel Aviv in 1939. Her father, Zvi Zenziper, was a grain and fodder importer who came to Israel from Russia in 1926. Her mother, Zaida Zenziper, taught biology at the Levinsky Seminary.

She went to Balfour elementary school and Ironi A high school, then served in the army. She earned a master's degree in microbiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962. She completed a PhD at Harvard University in 1967 under Bernard Davis, studying the regulation of RNA synthesis in Escherichia coli.

She joined Tel Aviv University and helped set up its Faculty of Life Sciences, becoming a full professor in 1984. Her research covers how bacteria respond to environmental changes such as pollutants and temperature, and the use of bacteria to clean oil pollution with Eugene Rosenberg. She was Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences from 2000 to 2004.

She led the Israeli Society of Microbiology from 1995 to 1999 and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies from 2004 to 2007. She became scientific director of the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute. She is married to engineer Eliyahu Ron and has 3 children.