Eliezer Rafaeli

- Born in Israel.
Tel Aviv, Yom Kippur 1926
- Palmakh.
1944 – 1948
- I.D.F. 1948 - 1951
- Kibbutz. 1946 - 1957
- Kibbutz Teachers’ College 1952 - 1953
- New School for Social
Research, New York
1957 - 1959
- Columbia University, New York 1959 - 1962
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PAST AND PRESENT ROLES:
- Invited to plan,
found and direct the establishment of Haifa University
1963
- First President of Haifa University..
1972 – 1978
- Now Chancellor ("Nagid")
- Participated, in the establishment of the
Jewish - Arab Center, The program of Bridging The Gap, the Kibbutz
Research Institute, etc., ,
amongst other units in the University 1966
- Participated in the
establishment of the Haifa Medical School.
1968
- Invited to plan and
set up "Project Renewal" (to
comprehensively rehabilitate the distressed towns and neighborhoods of Israel)
and served as its first Director General.
1978 - 1981
- First Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Golda Meir Association For Labor Education. 1981
- Visiting Professor, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1981 -2
- Exec. Vice President and Director General - NCLI. Member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
1982 - 1990
- Member of the Board of Governors, Haifa University
1082 - 1990
- Senior Consultant - The Abraham Fund. 1991 - 1993
- Member Board of
Directors, Haifa Museums. 1998 - 2005
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Jewish
- Arab Center at the University
of Haifa. 1966 –
1972
- 1990 – 1995 2001 - 2004
- Elected By The City Council of Haifa
"HAIFA AWARD OF MERIT"
("YAKIR HAIFA")
2002
- DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY HONORIS
CAUSA UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA 2003.

- etc.
- Returned to study:
Law, History, Demography.
Family
Was married to the late Dr. Devorah Rafaeli-Eshkol –
Now living with Ella
Grankin –
Children
Gitit & Zvika, Guy
& Rachel, Sheizaf & Anat, Dolev &
Dinah, Eshkol & Alexandra.
Grandchildren
Ad, Agam,
Arbel, Bar, Dotan and Robin, Hillel,
Lotem, Maayan, Miraz,
Niv, Ofek, Peleg,
Roni, Sela, Shaked, Shir
.
More to come...
Address:
95a Einstein St., Haifa 34601, Israel
Tel.: 972 4 8241304 *** Fax : 972 4
8344771 *** Mobile: 053 329320
E-MAIL : elieraf@gmail.com