Professor Yossi Makori was born in Netanya. After a year of education and psychology studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he began his medical studies at Tel Aviv University, where he graduated with honors in 1975.
After an internship in internal medicine at “Meir” hospital, which he also completed with honors, he participated in a 4-year training program focused on allergies and clinical immunology at the medical centers of Colorado and Harvard Universities in the USA. Upon his return to Israel, he established the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit at Meir Hospital. In 1990, he was appointed to run the Internal Medicine Department B at Meir Hospital, the department he “grew up” in as a student and intern. In 1993 he was invited to serve as a visiting scientist at the Allergic Diseases Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington, USA.
Prof. Makori has also served in a long series of professional and academic positions, including the president of the Israeli Association for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the head of the “Felsenstein” Institute for Medical Research at the Beilinson Campus at Petah Tikva, Chief Scientist of the General Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and a consultant to the Food Organization of the United Nations. In 1995 he was promoted to the rank of full professor of internal medicine at Tel Aviv University. In the years 2002-2006, Prof. Makori served as deputy dean at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Prof. Makori’s research focuses on the study of the mechanisms of allergic inflammation and the function of mast cells, and he is a member and active member of international organizations engaged in the study of allergic and immunological diseases. From 2006 to September 2014, Prof. Makori served as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He’s the first dean who is a graduate of the faculty.
In recent years, Prof. Makori was invited to serve as a visiting professor at the medical centers of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and Stanford University in California. In the years 2013-2014, Prof. Makori was the head of the Deans of Medicine Forum in Israel and was appointed to serve as the head of the Health Forum at the Higher Education Council.
In February 2015, Prof. Makori retired from his position as head of the department and since then has headed the Herbert Institute for the Study of Mast Cell Diseases at the “Meir” Medical Center and as the head of the Department of Allergic Diseases at Tel Aviv University. In October 2015, he began serving as president of Tel Hai Academic College.
In December 2021, Prof. Yossi Makori was appointed chairman of the CHE.

Mr. Itzik Devash is a social and business entrepreneur, with about 25 years of experience in the field of venture capital and private investments, and several years as an investment banker in the field of mergers and acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, London, and Tokyo. He is currently a partner in an investment fund in the field of life sciences called aMoon. Together with two partners, the Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Laureate Prof. Ruth Arnon, he started a biotechnology company engaged in the research and development of a universal vaccine against influenza.
On the social side, Mr. Devash has been promoting the “Atudot Le’ISRARL” project since 2000 with the aim of cultivating a critical mass of reserves to strengthen the public space in Israel in the central government, the local government and the NGO sector. He was a member of the Goshen Committee for Corporate Governance which promoted, among other things, the establishment of an economic “court” and he assisted in the planning and implementation of structural reforms in the capital market that resulted in increased capital and credit for the government, companies and households, while reducing systemic risk.
He founded and serves as chairman of the Israeli alumni clubs for both Harvard and Wharton business schools. In his military service, Mr. Devash served as an officer in the artillery corps during the Galilee Peace War. Mr. Devash graduated with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a degree in business administration from Harvard University.

Professor Iris Shagrir is a historian of the Middle Ages and the Crusader East. She researches the pilgrimage, the Christian ritual tradition, especially in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, while focusing on the relations between the religions. Her research has been published in leading journals in medieval studies and she has received extensive funding from the National Science Foundation. She serves as one of the editors of the magazine.

Professor Shosh Shahrabani is a full professor of economics, Chairman of the Research Authority, and a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics and Management at Emek Yizrael Academy. In addition, she serves as the Chairman of the Senate, a member of the College’s Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. Her public duties include membership in the advisory council to the Ministry of Science and Technology on the topic of promoting women in academia as well as on the topic of health and gender. In the past, she served as a member of the advisory committee for the State Commission, as well as a member of the board of the Kupat Holim Meuhedit, an HMO in Israel.
Her research interests are behavioral economics, decision making and health economics. Today she is a partner in a number of diverse research teams in Israel and around the world. In addition, she has been a lecturer for many years in the MBA programs at the Technion and the University of Haifa.

I was born in Cordoba, Argentina. I Immigrated to Israel, to Kibbutz Magal, with a Zionist movement in 1989. In 1994,  I earned a BSc in Chemistry and Biology at the Hebrew University, followed by a MSc in Biological Chemistry. I did my PhD in Developmental Biology at the Hadassah Medical School and did postdoctoral training at the NIH,  in the US. I joined the Weizmann Institute faculty in 2009

I live on the Weizmann campus. I’m the mother of three boys. In my free time I mostly read and exercise.

karina.yaniv@weizmann.ac.il