11 Facts About Rivka Carmi

Rivka Carmi is an Israeli pediatrician and geneticist.

Rivka Carmi served as President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from May 2006 until December 2018.

Rivka Carmi's father, Menachem, was an accountant, a painter and an amateur archaeologist who died when Carmi was 14 years old.

Rivka Carmi was an officer in the Israeli Defence Forces, and served as the commander of academics officers' training school.

Rivka Carmi is a graduate of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadassah Medical School.

Rivka Carmi completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatology at the Soroka University Medical Center and an additional fellowship in medical genetics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University Medical School.

Rivka Carmi's research focused mainly on the delineation of the clinical manifestations and molecular basis of genetic diseases in the Negev Arab-Bedouin population.

Rivka Carmi was involved with the establishment of biotechnology initiatives at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and served as the Acting Director of the nascent National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev.

Rivka Carmi succeeded Avishay Braverman, and was followed by Daniel Chamovitz.

Rivka Carmi is a member of the Advisory Board of the Genesis Prize Foundation.

In May 2014 Rivka Carmi was appointed to the Locker Committee which examined Israel's national defense budget.