Meital Lehavi, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo for Transportation and Road Safety, serves as a city council member since 2003 and as the deputy mayor since 2009. She is the Chairwoman of Meretz faction in the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipal coalition and Chairwoman of the Meretz Municipal Forum in Israel. She is board member for Ahuzot HaHof, Kiryat Atidim and Habima Theatre. Meital leads the Tel Aviv-Yafo Urban program ״Hashinui_Baderech״, and promotes sustainable transportation and mobility as a service. She is the Chairwoman of the Forum for the Advancement of Transportation Solutions in Gush Dan, a forum for city council members in charge of transportation in Israel center metropolitan. Meital is the initiator of the ״Naim Bsofash״ project that provides urban transportation services during the weekends in 7 municipalities headed by Tel Aviv-Yafo. Meital is the Recipent of the 2016 Green Globe award for her life-long environmental activity
Emanuel Peled
Samson Prize Winner Emanuel Peled, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Tel-Aviv University, received his Ph.D. degree (Summa cum laude) in physical chemistry from the Hebrew