Ben-Sira, Moshe-Yerachmiel, Dr.

Son of Jacob and Chaya. He was born on October 7, 1927 in Tel Aviv. He completed his studies at the Hebrew Gymnasium “Herzliya”. In 1945, he volunteered for the Palmach and stayed with his company in Ginegar, Ein Harod and Sarid, where he began his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in February 1947. But in 1954 he was awarded the title of Master of Physics He worked as an assistant at the Hebrew University of Haifa in 1960. He was awarded a doctorate in science from the Technion two years earlier and later published scientific papers in international scientific journals and even participated in several international conferences. He served as the dean of the Faculty of Physics and was a member of the Senate. It was hardly an important event for about a year The years in which the faculty was established (such as the establishment of the laboratory for semiconductors and the establishment of laboratories for students), which he did not participate in. He loved teaching and his role as a teacher, , Music, technology, and medicine), and in the social-public sphere he had a great deal of involvement in the absorption of new immigrants, and his circle of friends was diverse, including scientists, engineers, intellectuals, and people of action. His gentleness. Firmly, though not impatiently and with a sense of humor, he coordinated the physics program with the various faculties. However, in the middle of his work, a few days after Independence Day 5727 (May 1967), he was called to reserve duty – and on the day of the 26th of Iyar 5727 (June 6, 1967), he fell in the line of duty and left a wife and three children. In the library of the Faculty of Physics, which will include both the books in his library and the professional books in his field, and the semiconductor lab in the Faculty, which he was the driving force behind , Was named after him, and on the initiative of the family and friends who cherish his name, a fund was established, in which the Technion also participates. The main fellowship was announced at a symposium on the topic “Semiconductors” which the Physics Faculty decided to dedicate to the memory of Dr. Y. son of, a graduate of the Technion Institute of Technology, – Boat on the first anniversary of his death. His friends and relatives also established a scholarship fund in his name at the Hebrew Gymnasia Herzliya in order to award the outstanding student of Jewish scholarship. The Faculty of Physics at the Hebrew University of Haifa holds a symposium on semiconductors in memory every year and in 1969 the faculty published an English booklet containing the lectures of the symposium of the previous year. In “Science” published by the Weizmann Institute for publications in the natural sciences and technology was brought an article on him commemorating his name. In Volume 4 of “Goily Ash”, the Yalkut of the estate of the sons who fell in Israel’s wars, a scientific article was brought from his estate. The story of his life and death was presented in the book “Nizkor” published by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Student Union, edited and edited by Yehuda the civilian.