Zehev Tadmor (born February 6, 1937) is an Israeli scientist, a distinguished professor emeritus in the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Technion. He served as the president of the Technion for 8 years from 1990 to 1998. Tadmor was born in Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1950. Tadmor earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Technion, and then a doctorate from the Stevens Institute of Technology Center in New Jersey, United States. He is a retired research professor at the Technion and served as dean of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Technion. He was then elected to two terms as president of the Technion. Tadmor is the first president of the Technion to receive his bachelor’s degree there. Serving as chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion, starting in the 1990s, he led projects in computer science and other fields, in which cooperation was established between the Technion and high-tech companies in Israel. Among his doctoral students is Moshe Favelukis. Tadmor continues to lecture and teach in his many fields; he is invited to lectures especially in the United States and at the Technion. Awards: Tadmor is engaged in research in the field of polymers and plastic materials. He won the Society of Plastics Engineers of the United States Engineering Technology Award for his achievements in the field, as well as the Rotary Prize for outstanding contribution to higher education in Israel. He was elected as a member of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences in 1984 and is the recipient of the Emet Prize. In the social sphere, Tadmor was one of the drafters of the Kinneret Convention, which aims to create a common denominator for the various currents and camps in the Jewish public (right-left, religious-secular, and so on) and he signed it together with a number of public figures from the right and the left.