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Uzia Galil, a founding father of Israel s high tech industry (YouTube screenshot)
Uzia Galil, one of the founding fathers of Israel’s tech ecosystem, has died at the age of 96.
Galil, who received the Israel Prize, the nation’s highest accolade in 1997 for his contribution to the state with the development of its tech industry, was a founder of Elron Electronic Industries, the first high-tech multinational holding company based in Israel.
Since 1962 the firm has helped set up, fund and develop some 30 technology-based companies in a variety of fields, including medical imaging, defense electronics, communications, machine vision and semiconductors.
Galil served as CEO of Elron for 38 years until 1999 and was the chairman or director of most of the companies founded by Elron. Prior to founding Elron, he was the head of the Electronic Department of the Faculty of Physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1957-1962). He was also the head of electronic research in t
The move gives states extra time to figure out how to use up excess supply of the single-dose vaccine. Local officials have struggled to use up stockpiles of the shot, which has lately faced sagging demand.
Pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya, Israel.Credit.Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
By Emily Anthes
June 10, 2021, 2:39 p.m. ET
New data from Israel, which had the fastest Covid-19 vaccine rollout in the world, provides real-world evidence that widespread vaccination against the coronavirus can also protect people who are unvaccinated.
The Israeli study, which was published in the journal Nature Medicine on Thursday, took advantage of the fact that until recently Israel was only vaccinating people 16 or older. For every 20 percentage point increase in the share of 16- to 50-year-olds who were vaccinated in a community, the researchers found, the share of unvaccinated under 16s who tested positive for the virus fell by half.