Yesterday, the Council of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) unanimously reelected Israeli Professor Eliezer RABINOVICI as Vice-President of the organization’s supreme decision-making authority.

Eliezer RABINOVICI, who is Professor of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, also heads the National Committee for High Energy of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.

Ambassador Aviva Raz Shechter, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva, noted that “this vote is another proof of Israel’s excellence in advanced scientific research areas, and of its positive contribution to CERN.” She expressed her “profound respect for Professor Rabinovici, who has been doing an outstanding work at CERN over the past many years.”

Israeli scientists have and are making major contributions to the experimental and theoretical programs at CERN. In recent years, they have played a key role in building the detectors and the analysis which had led to the historical discovery of the Higgs scalar.

Israel became member of CERN in September 2014, where two other of its nationals serve as members of key Committees.

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