Israel tech industry pioneer Uzia Galil dies at 96
Galil founded Elron, dubbed the first Hebrew startup, out of which Elbit, Orbotech and Given Imaging and many more companies grew.
Uzia Galil, one of the founding fathers of Israel s technology industry, died last night. He was 96.
Galil was born in Bucharest in 1925. He immigrated to Israel (then Palestine) at the age of 16, after his education in Romania was ended by the introduction of race laws against Jews. After reaching Israel, he completed his studies in electrical engineering at the Technion in 1947. When the State of Israel was declared he was drafted into the Israel Navy and served in it until 1957. He later headed the electronics department in the Physics Faculty at the Technion.
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