Zehev Tadmor

Zehev Tadmor was born in 1937 in Kingdom of Romania

Zehev Tadmor was born in Romania on February 6, 1937. He immigrated to Israel in 1950.

He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering at the Technion. He then received a doctorate in chemical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

He worked as a senior research engineer at Western Electric and joined the Technion's chemical engineering faculty in 1968. He became a full professor in 1975, served as dean of the department from 1984 to 1988, and was named Distinguished Technion Professor in 1988. His research covers polymer and plastics engineering, and he has published 3 books and 75 papers.

He was president of the Technion from 1990 to 1998, the first president who had earned his first degree there. From the 1990s he led projects linking the Technion with Israeli high-tech companies. He later chaired the Technion and the Samuel Neaman Institute, a policy research center.

He helped draft the Kinneret Covenant, which sought common ground among groups in the Jewish public. He co-founded Bshaar, an association of academic faculty, and was its first chairman.