IEEE Israel Section currently has more than 1300 members, which are active in 15 professional groups (chapters). The section holds a highly respected biennial convention and many other conventions, conferences, courses, meetings and lectures. The Section holds an annual general meeting of all its members and holds elections once every two years.
IEEE Israel Section was established on October 5th, 1954 when the state was only 6 years old. Our section is the oldest section in Region 8, which covers Europe, Middle East and Africa.
In June 1954 several members of I.R.E. residing in Israel met in Haifa and discussed “the possibility of forming an I.R.E. section in conformity with I.R.E. regulations”. They formed a committee of 3 members and obtained 30 signatures of I.R.E. members who applied for the formation of the section. The establishment of the “first IRE section in the Eastern Hemisphere, the Israel Section” was approved by the IRE Board of Directors at its October 1954 meeting, and the official date of founding of the Israel Section is 5 October 1954.
In 1963, after the merger of IRE and AIEE, the Israel Section became part of IEEE Region 8 and is recognized as the first IEEE Section in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
1955-1956 | Franz Ollendorf |
1957-1958 | E. H. Frei |
1959 | I. Cederbaum |
1960 | J. Shekel |
1961 | R. R. Gamzon |
1962 | E. H. Frei |
1963 | A. Nathan |
1964 | A. Shani |
1965 | A. I. Nizan |
1966-1967 | |
1968-1969 | Yeshayahu Lavie |
1969-1971 | Gurion Meltzer |
1972-1974 | Israel Ben Arzi |
1975-1977 | Marc Weissenstern |
1978-1981 | Jacob Baal-Schem |
1982-1983 | Itzhak Ish-Hurvitz |
1984-1985 | David Biran |
1986-1988 | |
1989-1990 | Uzi Z. Padan |
1991-1992 | |
1993-1995 | |
1996-1998 | |
1999-2001 | |
2002-2005 | |
2006-2010 | |
2011-2015 | |
2016-2017 | Mark Shtaif |
2018-2019 | |
2020-2024 |
As of 2011, IEEE Israel Section counts 1178 members (including 90 Life Members) and has 18 active Chapters and 2 Affinity Groups (WIE and LM).
IEEE Israel Section is proud of its 56 IEEE Fellows and of several members who received IEEE Awards and Medals including Prof. Jacob Ziv and Prof. Abraham Lempel, as well as Prof. Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky.
All Chapters organize regular technical meetings and local and International workshops. The Life Members Group organizes since 2009 a series of 5 “Technical Friday” events per year with an audience of about 200.
Since 1971 the IEEE Israel Section holds a Technical Conference, every second year. For many years, this is the country’s major technical conference in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Towards the 1981 Conference, IEEE Israel Chair contacted EUREL and proposed to hold EUROCON in Tel-Aviv.
As the request was refused, IEEE Section proposed to Region 8 to initiate MELECON – the Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference. This proposal was accepted and the Israel Section organized the first MELECON in Tel-Aviv on May 1981, with an International attendance of 1200 participants, in presence of Israel President and the President of IEEE.
For Initiation of MELECON, Israel IEEE 1981 Section Chair, Jacob Baal-Schem, was awarded the Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award of 1987. He was awarded also with the IEEE Region 8 Volunteer Award for 2008. The section continues to hold a Technical Conference every second year, with up to 350 attendees.
In 1998 the Israel Section hosted again the MELECON Conference, in Tel-Aviv. The AP/MTT Chapter chaired by Shmuel Auster organized since 2003 yearly Symposia, which became since 2008 the IEEE International Conference Series (IEEE COMCAS, Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic Systems), founded and chaired by Shmuel Auster, with up to 1900 participants (in 2019) and a large Technical Exhibition (100 booths).
The Communications Chapter hosted “INFOCOM 2000” in Tel-Aviv. Israel IEEE members participate in many of the IEEE Technical Conferences worldwide and are very active in publishing papers in IEEE Journals.
IEEE Israel Section has sponsored the following IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing:
Lempel-Ziv Data Compression Algorithm
1977 – dedicated in September 2004
The Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm became a basis for enabling data transmission on the Internetin an efficient way. The plaque is placed at the Technion in Haifa, Israel
WEIZAC Computer
1955 – dedicated in December 2006.
The computer was built during 1954-1955 at the Weizmann Institute of Technology in Rehovot, Israel. It was based on drawings of the IAS computer of Princeton University and was the first digital electronic computer built in the Middle East. The plaque is placed at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
Israel IEEE members participate in many of the IEEE Technical Conferences worldwide and are very active in publishing papers in IEEE Journals.
The IEEE Israel Section is the main Technical organization in Israel in Electronics. Its membership is largely recognized in Academia and in High-Tech Industry.
IEEE Israel Section is incorporated as a Non for Profit (NPO) Association (Amuta) and is required to submit an annual financial report to IEEE and to the local government authorities.
Members of IEEE Israel Section serve in many positions in IEEE Committees and Societies. One of its members – Elya B. Joffe – was 2008/9 President of EMC Society and is 2011 President of PSES.
Members of the Section have served as officers of IEEE Region 8 Committees, members of Corporate and Societies Committees and have participated in Conferences’ Committees.
IEEE Israel Section continues to be the leading learned organization in Electronics in Israel and develops activities in advanced and emerging technologies, as nanotechnology and bio-engineering. It strives continuously to nurture a strong cooperation between academy and industry.
Section Name | IEEE Current Grade Description | Count of Members |
Israel Section | Affiliate | 21 |
Associate Member | 46 | |
Fellow | 25 | |
Graduate Student Member | 105 | |
Life Fellow | 24 | |
Life Member | 35 | |
Life Senior | 49 | |
Member | 228 | |
Senior Member | 132 | |
Student Member | 8 |
| CHAPTERS & AFFINITY GROUPS: | CODE: | AD HOC COMMITTEE MEMBERS: |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace and Electronics Systems | AES | Prof. Stanley Rotman Ben Gurion University srotman@bgu.ac.il |
| Antennas & Propagation Microwave theory & Techniques | AP/MTT | Mr. Shmuel Auster IAI Elta Systems auster@ieee.org |
| Circuits and Systems | CS/CAS | Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky Technion, Israel Institute of Technology shahar@ee.technion.ac.il |
| Communications | COM | Mr. Itai Dabran Technion, Israel Institute of Technology idabran@cs.technion.ac.il |
| Computers | C | Prof. Avi Mendelson Technion, Israel institute of Technology mendlson@technion.ac.il |
| Electromagnetic compatibility | EMC | Mr. Avi Cohen avi.avrahac@gmail.com |
| Electron Devices | ED | Prof. Gady Golan Ariel University gadygolan@gmail.com |
| Engineering in Medicine, Biology | EMB | Prof. Nathan Shaked Tel Aviv University nshaked@tau.ac.il |
| Industrial Electronics Industry Applications | IE+IA | Prof. Irad Bengal, Tel Aviv University bengal@eng.tau.ac.il |
| Information Theory | IT | Dr. Anatoly Khina Tel Aviv University anatolyk@tauex.tau.ac.il |
| Life Member | LM | Mr. Shmuel Auster auster@ieee.org |
| Photonics | PHO | Prof. Dan Marom, Hebrew University, Jerusalem danmarom@mail.huji.ac.il |
| Computational Intelligence Society | CIS | Dr. Amir Ivry Technion & Microsoft amirivry@gmail.com |
| Power Engineering | PE | Dr. Yoash Levron Technion, Israel Institute of Technology yoashlevron@gmail.com |
| Product Safety Engineering | PSES | Mr. Steli Loznen I.T.L (Product Testing) Ltd. sloznen@ieee.org |
| Robotics and Automation | RAS | Prof. Hugo Guterman Ben Gurion University hugo@ee.bgu.ac.il |
| Signal Processing | SP | Prof. Arie Yeredor Tel Aviv University arie@eng.tau.ac.il |
| Solid State Circuits | SSCS | Dr. Solon Spiegel CEO, Rio Systems solon.spiegel@ieee.org |
| Vehicular Technology | VT | Prof. Igal Bilik Ben Gurion University bilik@bgu.ac.il |
| Women in Engineering | WIE | Dr. Alina Karabchevsky Ben-Gurion University alinak@bgu.ac.il |
| Systems Engineering | SYS | Dr. Yaniv Mordecai Motorola Solutions & MIT ymordecai@gmail.com |
| Electronics Packaging | EP | Mr. Aviv Ronen Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. Aviv76@gmail.com |
| Young Professionals Affinity Group | YP | Mr. Erez Zolkov Technion, Israel Institute of Technology zoerez@campus.technion.ac.il |
| Chair, Students Affinity Group | SAG | Mr. Nadav Cohen University of Haifa nadavco93@gmail.com |
IEEE Israel Section was established on October 5th , 1954 when the state was only 6 years old. Our section is the oldest section in Region 8, which covers Europe, Middle East and Africa.
IEEE Israel Section IEEE Israel Section currently has more than 1300 members, which are active in 15 professional groups (chapters). The section holds a highly respected biennial convention and many other
