lowed to transmit digestive track pictures.
He also noted such defense and anti-terror-
ism devices as anthrax protection, robots
and drones (pilotless, ground-controlled
surveillance aircraft), land mine-clearing
instruments, development of anti-missile
devices, missile boats, tanks, search robots,
vehicle collision-avoiding devices and com-
puter science breakthroughs.
"Technion is like the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology of Israel," Jackier
said, "and it drives Israel's economy and
security'
Generation To Generation
Sitting in his office at Jackier Gould, his
40-year-old Bloomfield Hills law firm,
Larry Jackier enthusiastically described the
Technion accomplishments and his leader-
ship role in the organization. The office is
lined with photos, mementoes and honor
certificates, including a Technion honorary
doctorate and fellowship.
He has strived to preserve the legacy of
his father, the prominent attorney and phi-
lanthropist Joseph Jackier, who also served
on the Technion board of governors. His
mother, Edythe Jackier of West Bloomfield,
91, has carried out her late husband's phil-
and various Technion board committees to
anthropic efforts.
become chairman of the board of governors,
"My dad died on the golf course [at age
which has 400 members from 16 countries.
75 in 1987], five days after returning from
The full board meets each June, but is run
a Technion board of governors meeting;
by a 15-member Technion Council.
Jackier said. "That's how I
"Larry has the right stuff,"
got involved in Technion.
said Ben Sosewitz, a retired
During the last years of my
Chicago engineer and Jackier's
father's life, Technion was
predecessor as chairman.
his primary focus. After
"He's articulate and creative, a
his death, I thought, `OK,
sophisticated fundraiser and,
if it was important to him,
most of all, he loves Israel and
I'm going to find out more
believes strongly in Tethnion's
about it and get active:"
mission and vital importance
Raised in Detroit,
to the stat'
Jackier, 66, graduated from
Jo Strausz Rosen of West
Mumford High School, the
Bloomfield, director of the
University of Michigan and Jo Strausz Ro sen
Technion Society's Detroit
Yale University's law school.
office, added, "We in the
He honed his lay leadership skills as presi-
Detroit area are all proud that Larry has
dent for three years of the Jewish Federation achieved this international status. He's a
of Metropolitan Detroit and national chair-
devoted leader and a great champion of
man of the United Jewish Appears Young
Technion:'
Leadership Cabinet. He also has played
significant roles in many other national and
Looking Forward
local Jewish causes.
Jackier admits he and the board of gover-
Jackier then spent 10 years rising through nors face formidable challenges, including
the ranks of the American Technion Society a "budget crisis because the Israeli govern-
Celebrating
Zekelman Family Campus
Israel at 60
Invites the Community to its
24th Anniversary Dinner
The miracle of return must be accompanied
by the miracle of revival.'
Menachem Begin, on the eve
Join us on Sunday, September 14, 2008
as we celebrate our Twenty-Fourth
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This year's Anniversary Dinner will feature
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in the Weill-Brecht Opera, Rise and Fall of
the City of Mahagonny at Tanglewood.
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The government funds 85 percent of the
operating cost for its seven universities. He
said other challenges are faculty retirements,
competition for recruiting the best students,
updating the school's infrastructure and
fund-raising in general.
It didn't help matters when Technion's
teachers — whom Jackier agreed are
"underpaid" — joined the faculties of
Israel's other universities in a long strike for
higher pay this past year.
"Because of that, we lost an entire semes-
ter and had to cram two semesters into
one, including summer school, which was a
hardship for many students who work in the
summer to pay for their tuition:' he said.
Ironically, there were times in the 1930s
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