Felix Dothan

He won the award of the Israeli Chief of Staff for a lifetime contribution to technology in 2001, especially for founding the Talpiot program.

[1] He was the first-born son to Sandor Deutsch, a merchant of building materials, and Lilli, the daughter of Marcus Steiner.

After the war, four years in which he was not permitted to study, Deutsch was allowed by the Yugoslavian ministry of education to finish high-school and the matriculation exams, which he passed summa cum laude.

Among other things, he designed an experimental device for the production of Ether, a centrifuge for the separation of heavy water and vacuum pumps.

In Spring 1957, Deutsch left with his family to Switzerland where he worked for two and a half years as a research engineer in the high voltage laboratory.

Among other things, he studied electro-negative gases, built an innovative measuring device (Deutsch bridge) and calculated using advanced mathematical methods the electric field of complicated constructions.

After finishing his PhD, he was accepted as a visiting scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, where he stayed for two years.

These youngsters will first study intensively to reach the cutting edge of current science and technology and later will invent, design, and build advanced weapons.

When he got back to Israel he wrote, together with his colleague Professor Shaul Yatziv a proposal for the creation of an institute for developing new weapons that listed the core of the idea.

In 1975, a group of lecturers at the Hebrew University was organized following the initiative of professor Shaul Patay to help the IDF by various inventions and improving procedures.

In the last years of his life, he published four books designed to encourage within the educated public, especially young readers, a greater interest in science.

At the end of the interview, he expressed a clear warning about the danger to Israel posed by an Iranian armament with nuclear weapons.