Architect and city planner. M. Sc., Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Chairman, The Israel-Japan Friendship Society, since 2008.
Laureate of the Order of the Rising Sun, Fall 2016.
President of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies, since 2024.
Architect and city planner. M. Sc., Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Chairman, The Israel-Japan Friendship Society, since 2008.
Laureate of the Order of the Rising Sun, Fall 2016.
President of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies, since 2024.
General Manager of the the Israel-Japan Chamber of Commerce and Friendship Society, as of March, 2023.
An experienced accountant with 5 years of experience in BIG 4/ Banking industry. Later on, was also involved in production including project management, budget etc.
in 2014, Moran relocated with her family to Japan and had been living there for 8 years. While in Japan, she volunteered as a treasurer for a non-profit organization, contributed as a writer for a well-established magazine and eventually in 2018 founded her own travel company in order to share her passion for Japanese culture with Israeli travelers and has worked in the Japan-oriented tourism industry since then.
Founder and manager of The Origami Center in Israel.
Founder of “Folding Together” organization which promote transcultural relations through Origami and Japanese culture.
Creator of “Origametry”, an educational program for kids combining origami and Geometry studies.
From IJFS founders who served as chairman for many years.
Japan studies professor at “Technion” Israel Institute of Technology.
IJFS member for 30 years, and an enthusiastic fan of Japanese culture.
Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy professor.
Starting as a chemistry fellowship student at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan I was attracted to the Japanese culture and the Chinese-Japanese characters, kanji. Since 2010 I research the history of chemistry as a visiting scholar and during visits at Nichibunken, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto.
A chronological line of the Japanese scholars I studied, published and presented at International Conferences includes: nineteenth century’s Udagawa Youan, Kawamoto Kōmin, Kume Kunitake, Roscoe’s Primer Chemistry book; then in the twentieth century: Matsui Naokichi and others accepting the periodic table, Kuroda Chika, and my teacher Sato Shin who continued publications in the twenty first century.
I translated Japanese prose and poems, e.g., Natsume Sōseki’s Kusa Makura, in Hebrew Kar HaDeshe.
I feel privileged to have had the chance to know and write about these stimulating and challenging topics.
