Technion

The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון - מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a university in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1924, it is the oldest university in Israel. While the Technion focuses on science and engineering, architecture and medicine are also taught.

Miscellaneous facts

• The Technion is often compared to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has contributed to a large number of successful Israeli technical exports and businesses.
• A group of Technion graduates have been maintaining PHP, open-source middleware technology that powers over half the Apache-based web servers in use worldwide, including the one serving the Wikipedia web site, since version 3. They also started Zend Technologies, a leading web infrastructure software company based in Israel.
• Beside academic studies and research, the Technion offers many after school and summer enrichment courses for interested youth. These courses range from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics.
• The Technion awarded the first PhD in the newly formed State of Israel to Eliezer Mishkin in electrical engineering. It was not however the first PhD awarded from the Technion.