2009 Honorary Fellowship Recipients

Aharon Doron

Aharon Doron has spent most of his life in the service of Israel. Born in Germany, he immigrated to Israel in 1939 as part of the Youth Aliyah program and later became an instructor in the Haganah. With the birth of the State, Doron became an IDF officer, rising in the ranks to become Commander of the Nahal and later of the Golani Brigade, and head of the Manpower Branch at the IDF general headquarters. In 1966 he retired from the IDF with the rank of Major General, joined Tel Aviv University as its first director-general, and later served as TAU deputy president. Doron was virtually singlehandedly responsible for handling the University’s finances, drawing in its first benefactors, and advancing the physical infrastructure of the campus. Doron later worked for the Jewish Agency and the Diaspora Museum, and in 1992 he rejoined the IDF to serve as Ombudsman until his retirement in 1998.

Tom Mandel