From MIT to the Technion

04/06/2013

30Student delegation from MIT’s School of Management visits the Technion

Fifty students from 12 countries, who are attending MIT’s MBA program, paid the Technion a special visit. The delegation, which includes five Israeli students, came to take a closer look at the scientific and technological achievements that have grown hundreds of technological enterprises and start-ups, and have made Israel into a high-tech superpower.

During their visit to Israel, the students learned about the country’s economy and culture. The visit included a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem and visits to Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial Museum, Massada, the Dead Sea, the Golan Height and the Kinneret, Ramon Air Force Base, and the Technion.

At the Technion, the students met Prof. Peretz Lavie, president of the Technion who welcomed them to Israel and said: “The Technion has changed the face of the country. In its one hundred years of activity, the Technion’s 70,000 graduates have contributed, headed and led major companies in the Israeli economy, and have helped the Israeli economy grow. An old adage says that ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’, and that is the essence of the Technion’s contribution to Israel. Its graduates have contributed to the building of the nation and have led the technological revolution”

“The foundations of the Israeli high-tech industry were laid at the Technion in the 1960s”, says Prof. Boaz Golani, the Tehnion’s Vice President for External Relations and Resource Development, “Advanced research centers were established here, and though engaged in areas that seemed then to be imaginary,  became, over the years, the spearhead of the Israeli high-tech industry.”

MIT president, Prof. Rafael Reif, thanked the Techinion’s president for his hospitality to the students and said: “Each year, dozens of students take place in our trip to Israel, and I hope this will foster and encourage MIT graduates’ business ties with Israel”.

Photo: Technion’s President Prof. Peretz Lavie with the MIT students. Photograph by Sithzu Photographers, Technion Spokesperson