HIGHEST HONORS
The University of Haifa celebrates the academic successes of faculty and students for outstanding achievements in their respective fields.
Celebrated Israeli author Avraham B. Yehoshua is a professor of literature at the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature. He received the 2016 Emet Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry in recognition of “…his stories, plays and essays, which deal with Jewish existential meaning throughout the generations, and which serve as a unique, lucid and complex voice for all segments of Israeli society.”
A. B. Yehoshua has received numerous prestigious Israeli and international awards, including the 1995 Israel Prize for Literature, and has been conferred with honorary doctorates from universities in Israel and worldwide. His books have been translated into scores of languages and have been adapted for film, stage and opera.
“A great part of my most famous works were written here at the University,” notes Yehoshua, who also served as the University of Haifa’s first Dean of Students.
Prof. (Emeritus) Avraham B. Yehoshua 2016 Emet Prize Laureate
Prof. Ronit Matalon, who heads the MA Creative Writing Program at the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, is one of Israel’s foremost authors. She was awarded the 2016 Emet Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry in recognition of “…her literary achievements and for her unique and innovative contribution to the field of Hebrew writing and reading over the last decades.”
Prof. Matalon, an important Mizrachi feminist voice in contemporary Hebrew literature, has published numerous novels and several short stories. She has earned national and international recognition for her work and was a
Hebrew University of Jerusalem honorary doctorate recipient in 2010.
Prof. Ronit Matalon 2016 Emet Prize Laureate
Liran Markin is a Computer Science student enrolled in the University of Haifa’s prestigious computer science program for outstanding high school students named Etgar (Hebrew for ‘challenge’). Last summer, he won a bronze medal in the 2016 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) held in Russia. This is the second medal Liran has brought home from the Olympiad, after earning the first award at the 2015 competition.
IOI is an annual international computer programing competition for secondary school students. The University of Haifa applauds Liran for his impressive achievements and wishes him continued success in his future endeavors.
Liran MarkinBronze Medalist2016 InternationalOlympiad in Informatics