Yoram Ben-Porat (also, Ben-Porath; Hebrew: יורם בן-פורת; born 1937; died October 18, 1992) was an Israeli academic and economist.
He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 until his death in 1992 in an automobile accident at the age of 55.
[1] He then obtained a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967, studying with Simon Kuznets.
[1] Ben-Porath was the president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 to 1992, following Amnon Pazy and succeeded by Hanoch Gutfreund.
[6] He died on October 18, 1992, in an automobile accident in Eilat, Israel, at the age of 55, along with his 42-year-old wife Dr. Yael Cohen Ben-Porath (a lecturer in logic in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Philosophy Department) and their five-year-old son, Yahali.