Category Archives: personal

After-Dinner Speech for Alex Lubotzky

Posted on November 7, 2017 by

An after-dinner speech given on November  9, 2016*, on Alex Lubotzky’s 60th birthday conference: 60 faces to Groups.   As we all realized waking up this morning, today is a historic day*. It is the dinner day for Alex 60th‘s … Continue reading →

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Edmund Landau and the Early Days of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Posted on February 2, 2017 by

Some personal/historical remarks in  first minutes of my lecture at 7ECM on July 2016… German-Jewish mathematicians in the early days of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Being invited to give a plenary lecture at the 7ECM was a great honor … Continue reading →

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Carmella Kalai (1926-2015)

Posted on August 2, 2015 by

My beloved mother Carmella Kalai passed away last week. With me, 1956 My father Hanoch Kalai, my mother Carmella, My sister Tamar (Tami) and me around 1957).

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Ilan and me

Posted on February 23, 2015 by

  With Ilan, my four month old grandson  

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