Founder of "Hillel" Jewish students' movement in Rio de Janeiro and its honorary president, Mr. George Lipstein and his wife, Dr. Joyce Lipstein, physicist, an international specialist on nuclear contamination issues , were invited to HIT as guests of Prof. Eduard Yakubov, President on HIT.
The visit, which was initiated by Mr. Joseph Givon, a long time honored guest of Holon Institute of Technology and was accompanied by Dr.
Refael Barkan, head of the R&D and External Affairs Authority, included visit to the SAR laboratory headed by Prof.
Motti Haridim and the Nano-Technology lab headed by Dr.
Alla Zak . The guests were also given a special tour of the "Connector" exhibition at the faculty of design, guided by The curator Ms.
Ira Rozhavsky.
Prof.
Eduard Yakubov reviewed before the guests HIT's future plans regarding the future buildings of the students' dormitories and further plans to expand the number of lecture rooms.