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Uzia Galil, a founding father of Israel s high tech industry (YouTube screenshot) Uzia Galil, one of the founding fathers of Israel’s tech ecosystem, has died at the age of 96. Galil, who received the Israel Prize, the nation’s highest accolade in 1997 for his contribution to the state with the development of its tech industry, was a founder of Elron Electronic Industries, the first high-tech multinational holding company based in Israel. Since 1962 the firm has helped set up, fund and develop some 30 technology-based companies in a variety of fields, including medical imaging, defense electronics, communications, machine vision and semiconductors. Galil served as CEO of Elron for 38 years until 1999 and was the chairman or director of most of the companies founded by Elron. Prior to founding Elron, he was the head of the Electronic Department of the Faculty of Physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1957-1962). He was also the head of electronic research in t

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