Background
Lubotzky, Alexander was born on June 28, 1956 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Son of Iser and Rivka Lubocki.
Lubotzky, Alexander was born on June 28, 1956 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Son of Iser and Rivka Lubocki.
Lubotzky studied mathematics at Bar-Ilan University, gaining a BA and later on PhD at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 1979. He worked as a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University, becoming head of the department. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Chicago, with visits at Columbia, Yale, NYU and ETH Zurich.
*Professor mathematics Hebrew University, since 1982.
Lubotzky holds a Maurice and Clara Weil Chair in mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for contributions to geometric group theory, the study of lattices in Lie groups, representation theory of discrete groups and Kazhdan's property (T), the study of subgroup growth and applications of group theory to combinatorics and computer science (expander graphs) and error correcting codes.
in the years 1994-1996 Lubotzky was the chairman of Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
*Member Israeli Kneset, Jerusalem, 1996—1999.
* Captain Israeli Defense Forces, 1977-1982.
A founding member of The Third Way in March 1996, he chaired its secretariat and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in the May 1996 elections. He served as a member of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee; Constitution, Law and Justice Committee; Status of Women Committee and the Science and Technology Committee, and chaired the subcommittee on the Y2K Bug.
As an MK, Prof. Lubotzky was mainly known for his compromise proposals on religious issues and pluralism. He was actively involved in setting up a solution to the conversion bill crisis via the Ne'eman Commission, working to avoid a conflict between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Prof. Lubotzky also co-drafted a comprehensive proposal for a new covenant for religion-state affairs in Israel with MK Yossi Beilin.
Lubotzky was born in Israel to Holocaust survivors. His father, Iser Lubotzky was a Partisan, Irgun officer and the legal advisor of Herut. Alex Lubotzky served in the Israeli army as a captain officer in a special intelligence and communication unit.
He married Yardenna (daughter of prof. Murray Roston) August 28, 1980. The couple had six children: Asael, Boaz, Shakked, Carmel, Oren, Meitar. The oldest, Asael, was injured severely in the Battle of Bint Jbeil in Lebanon, while serving as an officer in the Israeli Army in the 2006 Lebanon war.