Daniel Hershkowitz is an Israeli politician, mathematician and rabbi.
Education
Hershkowitz earned his Bachelor of Science in 1973, Master of Science in 1976, and Doctor of Science in 1982, all from the Technion. His yeshiva studies were conducted at Mercaz Harav. He received his Semikha (ordination) in 1995 from Rabbis She"ar Yashuv Cohen, Shlomo Chelouche and Nehemyah Roth, as well as an additional ordination "Rabbi of the City" from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (2001).
Career
He previously served as a professor of mathematics at the Technion and is also rabbi of the Ahuza neighborhood in Haifa. He was appointed president of Bar-Ilan University in 2013. Education Academia He has published over 80 mathematics articles in academic journals.
He was President of the International Linear Algebra Society (2002-2008), and was previously a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Political career He did not contest the 2013 elections and subsequently left the Knesset.
Politics
In 2009 he was elected to the Knesset as the leader of the Jewish Home, and was appointed Minister of Science and Technology after joining Benjamin Netanyahu"s government.