Prof. Chaim Ben Shahar, a 40-year-old sabra, was today elected president of Tel Aviv University by its Board of Governors to head an institution he had served for the last three years as dean of its social sciences faculty. Prof. Ben Shahar replaced Prof. Yuval Ne’eman, a nuclear physicist, who resigned from the presidency to become chief scientist of Israel’s defense establishment and senior advisor to the Defense Minister.
Prof. Ben Shahar was a popular choice. He has become well known to Israelis in recent weeks as chairman of a special committee on tax reform appointed last year by the Finance Minister. Among the recommendations submitted by that committee last week was a sharp reduction in the income tax rate which will affect every Israeli wage-earner.
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