Professor Yohanan Ratner, acting president of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and dean of the institute’s faculty of architecture and town planning, retired today after 36 years of service at Technion. He had reached the age of 70 last July.
Born in Russia and educated in Germany, Prof. Ratner came to Palestine in 1923; He headed the supreme command of Hagana, the Jewish self defense corps in Palestine, in 1938 and 1939, was attached to British General Headquarters from 1939 to 1942, headed the Hagana research department in 1946-47, and headed the planning section of the Israel Defense Forces during the War of Liberation in 1948-49.
In the latter year he served also as military attache in Israel’s Embassy at Moscow. He is a well-known author and authority in his field of architecture and town planning.
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