Aharon Katzir in an Israeli commemorative stamp

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Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (Hebrew: אהרן קציר‎) (1914 – 30 May 1972) was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers. He was killed in the Lod Airport Massacre in 1972. Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There, he adopted his Hebrew surname Katzir. He was murdered in a terrorist attack at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972 in which 26 people were killed and 80 injured. [1] His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir, became the President of Israel in 1973.

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Size: 6023px × 4000px
Location: Italy
Photo credit: © Sergio Delle Vedove / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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