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Prof. Hagai Ron, a member of the Institute of Earth Sciences, was a leading scientist in Israel in the field of paleomagnetism and the study of the Earth's magnetic properties in the geological past.
Prof. Yaakov Ben Tor was born in 1910 in Germany. Following the rise of the Nazis to power, he immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and was a co-founder of the Department of Geology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, together with Prof. Leo Pickard.