{"id":84967,"date":"2022-08-03T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/lily-safras-legacy\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:12:32","slug":"lily-safras-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/lily-safras-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Safra\u2019s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, one of Israel\u2019s most prestigious and poignant educational programs, the Israel Scholarship Education Foundation (ISEF) mark 45 years since its establishment, unfortunately coinciding with the passing of Lily Safra, one of its key founders and the former Honorary Chair of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation.<\/p>\n

The ISEF Foundation was founded in 1977 by Edmond J. Safra z\u201dl and his wife Lily Safra, together with Nina Weiner, cofounder and Chairwoman Emerita of the philanthropic organization. Madame Safra, a renowned philanthropist for educational, cultural, and social causes in Israel and aboard, unfortunately passed away recently.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Lily Safra Z”L. [Photo by Erez Lichtfeld].<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>Lily Safra received an honorary doctorate degree from the Technion in 2018 for significant charitable donations to important causes, and specifically for her support of the ISEF program that has helped hundreds of students from the Technion, as well as for her generous donations to support the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 2019, Weiner also received a Technion honorary doctorate degree.<\/p>\n