Itzhak Arnon

Itzhak Arnon (1909 to 2005), born Isaac Aharonowitz, was an Israeli agronomist born in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied agronomy at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech and immigrated to Palestine in 1932. In 1933 he was appointed inspector of the Agricultural Experimental Station of the Mandatory Government in Acre, and in 1948 he established the agricultural station at Neve Yaar. He obtained his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1957, headed the Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research from 1958 to 1968, received the Israel Prize in agriculture in 1971, and from that year was a member of the Académie d'Agriculture. His publications include the book Crop production in dry regions, published in London in 1972.