Eli Putievsky

Eli Putievsky was born in Tel-Aviv, the son of Moshe Putievsky and Miriam Perevosnik. He attended high school in Afula and served in the Israeli army as a transport officer. In 1963 he married Gila shutan and they have three children and eight grandchildren. In 1973 he completed his doctoral studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His doctoral dissertation was under the direction of Professors Daniel Zohary and Joseph Katznelson. In 1973 he joined the staff at the Agricultural Research Station of Newe Ya’ar, and established a unit for research and cultivation of herbs, both fresh and medicinal. His research advanced the agricultural sector of growing fresh herbs in Israel, and his findings gave him an international reputation. During his years of research he was invited to hundreds of international conferences to present Israeli achievements in research and development in fresh herbal production. In 1993 he was appointed director of Newe Yaar research station, and was instrumental in transforming it from a local research station to the northern center of the ARO. He also taught biology at the agricultural school at Nahalal, and gave many lectures in his area of expertise in courses at a number of colleges and universities, including Ruppin, the Technion, and the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University. In 1999 Dr. Putievsky was appointed head of Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research (ARO), a position he held until 2007. He retired in 2009.

Eli Putievsky (1942–2017) (Hebrew: אלי פוטיבסקי) was a botanist, a distinguished Israeli scientist at the Volcani Institute of Agricultural Research (ARO) in the field of medicinal plants, and the head of ARO during 1999-2007.