[2] He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa from the University of Haifa, 2024 Morris Kahn was born in March 1930[3] in Benoni, South Africa, to a Jewish family.

[8] In 1978 Kahn and Shmuel Meitar founded the Aurec Group,[9] an Israeli-based private equity firm which started with investments in the cable and telecom sectors.

[9] His first major success began with the establishment of the Golden Pages telephone directory in Israel in 1968,[11] which led to the co-founding of Amdocs in 1982,[12] together with Shmuel and Tzvi Meitar.

[10] Kahn supports the work of Save a Child's Heart (SACH), an organization that brings israeli doctors around the world to perform life-saving surgery and medical monitoring for children of all races, religions, nationalities, and economic status.

[20][21] The Morris Kahn Initiative is a $4 million program to help develop pioneering cancer research at Tel Aviv University.

Beresheet was the first Israeli mission in deep space, the spacecraft was launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Launcher[24] and it was aimed to land on the moon on 11 April 2019.

[8] In conjunction with the Weizman Institute, he founded the Kahn Family Research Center for Systems Biology of the Human Cell.

[28] Kahn was named honorary president of the 20th Maccabiah by Maccabi World Union Chairman Yair Hamburger in November 2016, and opened the Games in July, 2017 in Jerusalem.