Gratitude to the Technion faculty.

Thank you for leading the Technion with a physicist's clarity and a builder's steadiness, and for holding the campus to its mission of solving hard human problems through science even in the hardest of years.

Thank you for uncovering how cells decide which proteins to destroy, work that opened an entire field of medicine, and for decades of mentoring young physicians and scientists at the Technion with the same rigor you brought to the ubiquitin system.

Thank you for the patient, hands-at-the-bench biochemistry that revealed ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, and for still showing the world, decades on, that great science is done by staying close to the experiment.

Thank you for teaching machines to smell disease, turning nanomaterial sensors into non-invasive diagnostics for the people who need them most, and for mentoring more than a hundred researchers who now carry that mission worldwide.

Thank you for the NanoGhost vision of delivering cancer drugs precisely where they are needed, and for leading the Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center toward food that heals people and the planet at once.

Thank you for showing that engineered tissue can grow real blood vessels and knit itself into a living body, and for carrying that science from the lab bench into spinal cord repair and sustainable food.

Thank you for a career that moves fluently between world-class computer vision research and building real products used by millions, and for now opening the Technion's doors so industry and academia amplify each other.

Thank you for performing the first experiment where free electrons met quantum light and for opening the field of free-electron quantum optics, proof that curiosity about the very small can enlarge what physics itself can see.

Thank you for algorithms that quietly hold up the computing world, from data-race detection adopted by industry to a rewrite of the Java memory model, and for leading the Technion's AI center with the same systems-level care.

Thank you for asking how a living cell decides its own shape, and for answers, from crawling cells to regenerating Hydra, that make physics and biology feel like one subject again.

Thank you for trusting your electron microscope over the textbooks and giving the world quasicrystals, and for teaching generations of Technion students that entrepreneurship, like science, rewards those who look again.