Mr. Dov Chevion

Dov Chevion was a giant among his fellow men and women. He was respected for his strength of leadership, for his commitment toward worthy goals, and as the spokesman in the computer field for Israel for over two decades. He was particularly concerned with education, an area in which he made major contributions. In 1972 and 1973, he was awarded the Kaplan Prize by the Israeli government for teaching the blind to work with computers. He always employed blind people in his computing center.