Moshe Kaveh

Moshe Kaveh was born in 1943 in Tashkent

Kaveh was born in 1943 in Tashkent, in the Soviet Union, where his family had fled from Poland during World War II. All 10 siblings of his father, Rabbi David Kaveh, were killed in the Holocaust. The family immigrated to Israel in 1950.

He served in the IDF in the Nahal. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at Bar-Ilan University.

As a physicist he published about 300 papers on solid state physics, disordered systems and chaos in matter. In 1971 he and Nathan Aviezer published a paper on electrical conductivity, and he later worked with Sir Nevill Mott of Cambridge on weak localization. Since 1992 he has been a visiting professor at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.

At Bar-Ilan he headed the Department of Physics and served as Rector, then as President from 1996 to 2013. In 1999 and 2000 he chaired the Committee of University Presidents in Israel. He retired in 2014 and is a professor emeritus.

He is married to Dorit and has 4 children.