Aliving Technion legend, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev was honored in October, with the inauguration of the Amos Horev Sports Arena.
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev served as president of the Technion from 1982-1973. During this tenure he contributed greatly to the development of the campus and invested considerably in the wellbeing of the students. To help students who fought in the Yom Kippur War he sent faculty members to outposts to deliver lectures on site and also arranged for recordings of lectures on campus. Horev established the psychological service at Technion and the audio-visual library at the Moshe and Paloma Carasso Center for Self-Study. He took care of the students at Technion by providing them with student jobs on campus, by building student residences, an Olympic-size pool, and the sports center. During his tenure, the campus doubled its built-up area to 260,000 square meters and the Rappaport Family Medical Science Building, home to the Medical Faculty, was built in Bat Galim.
WITHOUT EXCELLENCE, OUR SMALL COUNTRY WILL NOT ENDURE. FOR ME, THIS NEW STRUCTURE IS ALSO AN EXPRESSION OF EXCELLENCE.
– Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Horev
