Events 2021

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The TECHNION institute is a prestigious research center.  Teachers and researchers who belong to the institute are themselves initiators of many discoveries and scientific breakthroughs in the fields of cosmology and sciences of the universe. Jean would have agreed to this choice especially since he visited this institute in the early sixties when he was completing an internship in Israël as a student of l'Ecole polytechnique. Since then, he kept regularly updated on their researches. This is why we are proud to acknowledge, through the TECHNION,  the man of Enlightenment that Jean Zeitoun was, with all the qualities of intelligence, curiosity and tenacity which inspired him in his personal life as well as in his works.

On November 20th 2021, the Jean Zeitoun Endowment Fund presents Professor Jacques Lewiner, TECHNION-France president with the 50 000€ scholarship to support the Institute research projects.

Pr Jacques LEWINER, a physician, Docteur Honoris Causa at Technion, chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2002, promoted to the rank of officier in January 2020, is himself the initiator of many scientific discoveries. He has taken part in the founding of several start-ups including Inventel (Livebox) and Withing (objects connected to health), Cynove (high performance cameras), Cytoo (cellular biology) and innovations in telecoms networks in particular (DECT norm, Bluetooth...). No doubt Jean would have shared Pr Lewiner's ambitions for enabling collaboration and synergy in research between France and Israël, free from the French academic world's rigidity that they both had been faced with.

On Saturday November 20th 2021, the date of Jean Zeitoun's birthday, the board of directors of the Endowment Fund allocates its first sponsorship to TECHNION and its astrophysics and quantum physics research centers by granting a scholarship. Its aim is to finance a research project initiated by a student who prepares a master in these fields.