2025100 Years Since the Technion Opened its Doors to its First Group of Students - First Day Cover

100 years ago, in December 1924, the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology welcomed its first class of 17 students, consisting of 1 women and 16 men. Their studies, mainly focusing on architecture and construction engineering, took place in the now-historic Technion building in Haifa’s Hadar neighborhood. Most of the lecturers were Jewish professors who had recently immigrated from Europe and hardly knew Hebrew, and the teaching infrastructure was extremely limited. Nevertheless, one of the world’s top ten technological research universities evolved from those modest wooden benches of that first class.