Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Director for the Center for RNA Biology, Lynne Maquat, Ph.D., has been
named a 2012 Batsheva de Rothschild Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-1999) was a
biologist, trained at the Sorbonne, Paris and at Columbia University, New York. She worked for a while at the Pasteur
Institute in Paris.
The Batsheva Fund was established as a private endowment fund, first in New York City and afterwards, in 1965, in
Israel. In 1993 she generously transferred the fund to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 1958 she
became the only one ever, from her legendary family, to settle in Israel and became active in public life. Science
and the arts were the two loves of this exceptional woman. In 1989 she was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for
her many contributions to Israeli society, among them the founding of Israel’s Batsheva and Bat Dor Dance Companies.
The Batsheva Fund's purpose is to further Science in Israel for the people of Israel.