Menahem Yaari

Menahem Yaari
מנחם יערי
Menahem Yaari (2012)
Born	Menahem E. Yaari April 26, 1935 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality	Israeli
Education	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA) Stanford University (PhD)
Title	S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem President of the Open University of Israel (1992-1997) President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 2004)
Awards	Israel Prize (1987) Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences (1994) EMET Prize in the Social Sciences (2012)

Menahem E. Yaari (מנחם יערי; born April 26, 1935) is an Israeli economist who has been the S.A. Schonbrunn Professor of Mathematical Economics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was the President of the Open University of Israel from 1992 to 1997. ^[1] He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1987, the Rothschild Prize in the Social Sciences in 1994, and the EMET Prize in the Social Sciences in 2012.