Son of-Eliezer and Shoshana. He was born in Tel Aviv on July 18, 1934. He studied at the school for the children of workers and completed his studies as an excellent student in all fields of study, after which he continued his studies at the “New High School” in Tel Aviv. He had a special fondness for the knowledge of the country, and was eager to go on tours and excursions throughout the country, and he was also a member of the United Movement and from 1944 until his induction into the Nahal Brigade in her. He is considered one of the oldest and best instructors. Oded was drafted into the IDF in early August 1952 and served in the Nahal Brigade. After graduating from regular army service, he moved to Kibbutz Nahal Oz with the founding group, where he spent four years in the kibbutz facing the academic world, graduating with honors from the Faculty of Engineering at the Hebrew Technion in 1961. In 1965 he participated in the Leningrad Congress. And in 1966 he was awarded a doctorate at the Technion, where he was awarded the Arnan Prize by the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel for his doctoral dissertation on optimal utilization of water resources, and joined the Industrial Engineering and Management Research Group of the Hebrew Technion in the fall of 1967. Participated in research work at the University He served in the Armored Corps, and was deeply involved in the battles of the brigade in the Jenin area and the Dotan Valley, and was invited to join a professional unit, At the beginning of June 1969, he was called up to active reserve duty, and on 26 June 1969 he fell while serving in the Golan Heights, leaving a wife and two children to rest in the military cemetery in Haifa. During the “thirties” of his downfall, a memorial ceremony was held at the Hebrew Technion to encourage his friends. His commander also spoke, praising the mutual relations between Oded and the unit. “We knew the role he plays and I have to say, with all that it seems simple to me, that such a person also knew how to be humble and to relate to all kinds of people, without wanting to transcend, or “It’s not a doctor’s test, it’s a test of a person, and I think that in this test Dede was admirably admiring – – – I take that attitude very seriously and it proves that he has very serious values.” Among the speakers at the memorial was a member of the unit who spoke about Oded, who was self-confident, and said that this self-confidence was a cover for Oded with professional knowledge and confidence. Later on, he also spoke about Oded’s relations with his friends and said that there were never any barriers between him and them and that he liked him. At the end of his speech, he said that Dede did not like the army, but nevertheless went to do what he had to do with the rest of his friends and did not take advantage of any chance or escape from carrying the burden together with his comrades in the field. The advisor at the memorial ceremony said that Oded was a guy with thoughts and principles and was not inclined to compromise. “In science,” he said, “we are talking about intellectual honesty, that science should be objective, it’s true about science, but it’s not true of scientists.” He talked about the possibility of working with Oded and the inexplicable satisfaction of working with a man of extraordinary intellectual ability. Professor Benjamin Avi-Yitzhak, the dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Hebrew Technion, wrote in an article published in Haaretz about three months after Oded fell: “Oded was one of the scientistsWho have warned us and in his research, has broken new ground and his work has earned him a reputation among the scientific community around the world. He devoted himself especially to research in mathematical programming and optimization methods. However, he had an in-depth knowledge of most areas of performance research. Over the past year he has devoted much of his time as chairman of the program committee to preparing and organizing a program for the Israeli-American Conference on Performance Research, optimism, faith in man, and love of the land and its landscapes, Adam devoted himself to the subjects in which he engaged in enthusiasm and recognition, sought perfection in all his actions and expected his students and colleagues to meet the requirements he demanded of himself. ” On the first anniversary of his death, a study room was dedicated to his memory in the building of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion. In July 1970, a grove was planted in the Carmel Mountains by members of the family and friends; The Israel Association for the Study of Performance has named a prize for scientific works in the sciences of science in honor of his name. The date of award distribution – every two years; His name is commemorated on the memorial tablets in “Yad Lebanim” and at the New High School in Tel Aviv; His name is also mentioned in the memorial booklet for the fallen soldiers of the brigade in which he served; In 1969, the publishing house published a booklet (edited by M. son of-Bassat), based on Oded’s lectures from 1968-1969, entitled “Introduction to Performance Research and Game Theory”; The Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion issued its own Selected Works and Operations in 1970 entitled “Selected works in Operations Research and Hydraulics” in memory of Oded, who chaired the Program Committee of the Conference on Performance Research held in Tel Aviv in July 1969. The book was published in London in 1971, edited by B. Avi-Yitzhak, and is a collection of selected works submitted to this conference; The work of the Master of Yitzhak Uriel, which was partly guided by Oded, was also devoted to his memory; A fund was established in his name at the Technion as part of “funds for the memory of fallen Technion students and teachers and workers who fell in Israel’s systems.” This scholarship is awarded annually; A grant for agricultural education was given annually in his memory, within the framework of the Seedland Fund for Agricultural Education; Amitzur’s doctoral dissertation Ze’ev Barak was dedicated to Oded’s memory and also published a booklet on his life history, by the family.
