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Creative Commons Professor Moshe Brawer, Israel Prize laureate, founder of the Department of Geography and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and considered by many to be the father of modern Israeli geography, passed away on Monday at the age of 101. Brawer’s life work was writing and editing the atlases used by generations of Israeli students and which were often called the Brawer Atlas. Brawer was born in Vienna in 1919 and immigrated with his family to Jerusalem when he was one-year-old. In 1938, he began his studies at the University of London. At the end...

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2 shares The Israel Prize-winning geographer and cartographer Moshe Brawer, who compiled dozens of atlases and helped delineate Israel’s border with Jordan, has died at 101. Brawer’s world atlas is widely used in Israeli schools. “He was involved in setting borders, and among other things was among those who determined the border with Jordan. He was a lecturer in university and people from around the world would call him to consult on these issues. He was a man of great stature,” Brawer’s daughter, Orit Brawer Ben David, tells the Ynet news site. Brawer is survived by his wife...

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