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Yehudit & Yehuda Bronicki, founders of Ormat awarded Israel Prize for Industry

Yehudit and Yehuda Bronicki, founders of Ormat Technologies have been awarded the Israel Prize for Industry, the highest cultural honour of the State of Israel.

Reported yesterday in Israel, the Israel Prize for Industry will be awarded this year to Yehudit and Yehuda Bronicki, founders of the Ormat alternative and renewable energy-technology group.

Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett said, “It’s a story of Holocaust and rebirth, innovation, entrepreneurship and breakthroughs. They created the Ormat Group and made it a world leader in geothermal energy. They also contributed to technology education and advancement of women in Israel,” citing Yehudit as an example of female leadership.

It is exceptional that the prize is awarded jointly to two individuals, husband and wife Yehuda and Yehudit Bronicki, founded Ormat Industries, a leading company in the geothermal sector that has broke grounds for the utilisation of lower-temperature geothermal resources for power generation with its Organic Rankin Cycle solution for binary systems.

The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state’s highest cultural honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset (Israel’s legislature), and the Supreme Court President. The prize was established in 1953 at the initiative of the Minister of Education Ben-Zion Dinor.

Source: Times of Israel

Yehudit and Yehuda Bronicki, founders

The prize committee congratulated the

First Female Winner of 2018 Israel Prize Announced (The Jerusalem Post)

Yehudit and Yehuda Bronicki, the founders of Ormat Technologies, are to receive the Israel Prize in Industry.

Yehudit Bronicki (photo credit: ELI DASSA)

Yehuda and Yehudit Bronicki, founders of Ormat Technologies, a world leader in renewable (geothermal) energy, will be jointly awarded the Israel Prizefor Industry, Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced Sunday evening.

“Yehuda Bronicki, a visionary, an inventor, born in Poland who survived the Holocaust and together with his wife, Yehudit (Dita) Bronicki, one of the first businesswomen and female entrepreneurs in Israel, a pioneer in her field, jointly established the Ormat Group and made it a world leader in geothermal energy,” the prize committee wrote in its decision.

The Bronickis established Ormat in 1965, where they ran the company until they retired in 2014.

First female winner of 2018 Israel Prize announced

Yehudit and Yehuda Bronicki, the founders of Ormat Technologies, are to receive the Israel Prize in Industry.

By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZIUpdated: MARCH 6, 2018 02:10

Yehuda and Yehudit Bronicki, founders of Ormat Technologies, a world leader in renewable energy, will be jointly awarded the Israel Prize for Industry, Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday.“Yehuda Bronicki, a visionary, an inventor, born in Poland who survived the Holocaust and together with his wife, Dita Bronicki, one of the first businesswomen and female entrepreneurs in Israel – a pioneer in her field – jointly established the Ormat Group and made it a world leader in geothermal energy,” the prize committee wrote. “Their strength lies in the persistence, determination and breadth of their work, which includes partnership in setting up prominent technological companies such as Orbotech, Organics and others. They have succeeded in connecting vision and the ability to implement and execute in a complex and changing reality.”The committee added that the couple had left an “imprint” with regard to their “groundbreaking work in local and global industry” and in their “significant contribution to technological education, women’s advancement and innovation.”The Bronickis established Ormat in 1965, running it until they retired in 2014.Yehudit Bronicki is the first and only female winner of the 2018 Israel Prize among the 11 laureates announced so far, a fact that has drawn criticism.The Israel Women’s Network called the lack of female representation among the laureates a “disgrace.”“The excuse of the prize committee: women don’t nominate themselves. How will they nominate [themselves] when they have learned from the age of zero that only men can win?” the group wrote on Facebook.The Network called on the prize committee to

Co-Founders Of Renewable Energy Tech Provider Win Israel Prize In Industry

March 8, 2018 | Yehuda and Yehudit Bronicki, founders of Ormat Technologies, were announced as the recipients of the 2018 Israel Prize in industry. The husband and wife pair are the co-founders of the Israeli alternative and renewable energy technology provider. The prize committee congratulated the pair, writing, ““Yehuda Bronicki, a visionary, an inventor, born in Poland who survived the Holocaust and together with his wife, Dita Bronicki, one of the first businesswomen and female entrepreneurs in Israel – a pioneer in her field – jointly established the Ormat Group and made it a world leader in geothermal energy,” the Jerusalem Post reports. Founded in 1965 by the Bronickis, Ormat Technologies went public in 2004 and the Bronickis retired in 2014. The company provides renewable energy sources in the United States and around the world. The Israel Prize committee has faced some criticism for their choice of winners this year, as Yehudit Bronicki is the first and only female winner of the 2018 Israel Prize among the 11 winners that have been announced to date. The lack of female laureates have received disapproval from former MKs like Meirav Michaeli and Shelly Yechimovitch of the Zionist Union party. Two winners have yet to be announced.