Gratitude to the Weizmann Institute of Science faculty.

Thank you for leading the Weizmann Institute as a working neuroscientist, and for founding Ogen to bring trauma care to Israeli children when the country needed it most, science in the direct service of healing.

Thank you for two stubborn decades of ribosome crystallography that most people said was impossible, and for turning those atomic structures into a foundation for the next generations of antibiotics.

Thank you for statecharts, the visual language engineers everywhere use to tame complex systems, and for serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities with the candor and care the role demands.

Thank you for the Human Phenotype Project and for showing that nutrition is personal, with tens of thousands of deeply measured volunteers turning guesswork about health into science people can act on.

Thank you for making the microbiome a serious, mechanistic science of health and disease, and for building bridges between Rehovot and Heidelberg so that discoveries travel as far as the patients who need them.

Thank you for inventing the robotic microscopy tools that gave forgotten genes their functions, and for a lab culture, celebrated by your own students, where talking science with young people is the highlight of the day.

Thank you for revealing the hidden immune systems of bacteria and showing that pieces of our own immunity began as microbial defenses against phages, a discovery that rewrote the family tree of immunity itself.

Thank you for breaking the dogma that the immune system has no business in the brain, and for the lifetime of evidence that immune cells are the brain's guardians, an idea now shaping how the world approaches dementia.

Thank you for coaxing stem cells into complete embryo models grown outside the womb, work of enormous scientific daring that gives medicine its first clear window into the earliest days of human development.

Thank you for the S in RSA and for half a century of cryptography that lets strangers trust each other across the internet, and for still probing the security of neural networks with the same playful, relentless mind.

Thank you for co-developing Copaxone and giving people with multiple sclerosis decades of a gentler disease, and for continuing, into your tenth decade, to chase a universal flu vaccine.