BGU&U | SPRING 2022

Campus visit by Elbit Systems senior management. Photo: Dani Machlis

Electra, BGU on the Effects of Extreme Heat on Health BGU hosted the world’s first conference on climate change and public health in September, aimed at increasing awareness of the implications of global warming for national health and emergency systems. The conference, which included opening remarks by Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was also attended by CEO of Electra Consumer Products Zvika Schwimmer. Elbit, BGU Partnerships Accelerate Defense Technologies Elbit Systems President and CEO Bezhalel Machlis and his colleagues came to BGU in December for a guided tour by Israeli BGU Board Member Rony Hizkiyahu. A4BGU Board Member Brings ESRA to Campus Vice President of A4BGU Joel Reinstein welcomed a group of South African and Canadian members of ESRA, Israel’s largest English-speaking community network, to BGU in November for a talk on the personal meaning of the University and a guided campus tour.

All in the Family Elie and Laurence Ohayon of Switzerland toured the Marcus Family Campus in March and visited the Abraham Ben David Ohayon Behavioral Sciences Complex named for their late father. Israeli-Polish Entrepreneur Gets to Know BGU Dr. Andre Gasiorowski, an Israeli-Polish entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist and the CEO and President of Network Intelligence, visited BGU in February to learn more about its efforts to create a more compassionate, inclusive and just society.

Laurence and Elie Ohayon. Photo: Shay Shmueli

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