Eliahu Nissim (1933 – 22 February 2020) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer and academic who was the Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and a former president of the Open University of Israel.

from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol.

[1] He worked at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia from 1969 to 1970, and again from 1975 to 1976.

He was Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering from 1971-73, and from 1978-80, Technion's Vice President for Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President from 1983 to 1986, and its Sidney Goldstein Professor in Aeronautical Engineering from 1989 to 1998.

[9] In 1998, Nissim was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).