Metro

May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Dr. Richard Williams
Mrs. Carol Cooper

May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Alexander & Gabriella Karp

May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Marcia & Stanley Freedman

We wish our family & friends a very
healthy, happy and sweet New Year.

We wish our family & friends a very
healthy, happy and sweet New Year.

Marlene & Larry White
Elysa & Nathan White
Marjorie, Rob, Dayna & Illana Olson

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By The Numbers

Technion alumni help fuel
Israel's economy.

ne of five distinguished
Howard Luckoff, Billy Newman,
professors at the
Ken Nathan, Linden Nelson, Gary
Technion-Israel Institute
Ran, Todd Sachse, Eli Saulson,
of Technology talked entrepre-
Steve Schlafer and David Tukel.
neurial trends in Israel on a Sept.
Women's Task Force Members,
11 visit to Metro Detroit. Professor Lisa Lis and Shari Kaufman
Dan Shechtman of the Faculty of
attended with ATS Regional
Materials Engineering shared the
Director Matt Engelbert and
Technion's immense impact: 90
Detroit Chapter Director Jo Strausz
percent of Israel's largest 100 com- Rosen.
panies are managed by Technion
The same evening, Josh Linkner,
graduates, 80 percent of Israel's
CEO of Ferndale-based ePrize,
high-tech start-ups are launched
hosted 60 ATS supporters and
by Technion grads and three-quar- community members at ePrize
ters of Israel's engineers graduated headquarters. Members of the
from the Technion.
Jewish Entrepreneurs Network
He noted that two-thirds of
attended along with ATS board
Israeli high-tech companies traded and committee members and
on NASDAQ are managed by
Technion alumni. ❑
Technion grads. Staff at Intel,
Microsoft, Motorola, IBM,
Hewlett Packard, Ford and GM
operate research plants in Israel
— and are run wholly by
Technion alumni. Thirty percent
of Israel's gross domestic prod-
uct is generated by Technion
grads.
A breakfast on the professor's
behalf was hosted by Jim and
Sherri Ketai and co-chaired by
Mon Kaufman, Michael Curhan
and Hannan Lis. Other atten-
dees included: Jon Aaron (an
Jim Ketai, Professor Shechtman and
Sherri Ketai
American Society of
the Technion board
member), Danny
Aronovitz, Ricky
Blumenstein, (ATS past
president), Sheldon
Cohn, Jack Folbe, Nate
Forbes, Larry Garon,
Steve Grekin, Doug
Kahan, Ron Klein,
Barry Leshman,

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Eli Saulson, Matt
Engelbert and Jon Aaron

September 29 2005 jiti