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‘Life is good’ reports ExScite Varouj

Our own ExScite Varouj Tilbian reported in from the field:

Most these picture taken from 2010 – 2013 the grey haired lady is my beloved wife of 45 years now.  The baby is our grandson a gift from our daughter and spouse. Life is good I am healthy not as old as Victor Robel my friend or not even as old as Efi wienrib. I am sure I am misspelling the names but they were just a few of my mentors that I cherish.  My son his wife and our daughter and her family live near us five miles and life could not be any better.  I am very active in work and in the new world of technology. Never old to learn.

All the best. Will send more photos old times and new later on.

Scitex veteran get together

The Scitex veteran get together occurred on June 6th and was attended by some 300 ExScitenicks.

It was an evening of pure nostalgia and was enjoyed by all.

The rich program included sketches, a movie produced for the event, personal testimonials and a lot of schmoozing.

 

Pictures courtesy of Eva Duvdevany

 

See complete picture gallery below:

 

Grand old imager

Courtesy of Greg Goldman via Facebook

Came across a circa 1983 photo of the grand old Imager (before the COM Furniture). This may have been at the print show in Chicago. Ah..those were the days.

Efi Arazi. No longer with us.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Efi Arazi.

Efi Arazi passed away today at the age of 76. Exactly on his birthday.

Efi was the founder of Scitex and the father of Israeli hi-tech. He had a profound influence on many of us and touched us all on a professional as well as a personal level.

For many of us he was an inspiration as a creative thinker and a magnetic personality.

He will be sorely missed. The world is a poorer place without him.

The funeral will be held on Monday 13:30 at  Kibutz Horashim in Israel

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The ExScite Yair Shamir, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development

(Likud Yisrael Beitenu)

Yair_Shamir09Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development

Yair Shamir was born in Ramat Gan in 1945, son of the late former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He served in the Israeli Air Force as a pilot and commander between the years 1963-1988 and retired with the rank of Colonel. He holds a BA in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Technion (1974)

Shamir has served as Director General and Deputy President of Scitex (1988-1994), Director General of Elite (1994-1995), President and Director General and Chairman of Vicon Telecommunications (1997-2002), Chairman and Partner of Catalyst (1999), and Chairman of Shamir Optics Industries Ltd. He also served as Chairman of the EL-AL Board of Directors (2004-2005), Chairman of Israel Aircraft Industries (2005-2011), and Chairman of Israel National Roads Company (2012).

 

Yair Shamir was elected to the Knesset on the Likud Yisrael Beitenu list in January 2013 and in March 2013 was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 

He is married and the father of three.

Pre Drupa 1986 product shots

A collection of pictures of Scitex products as they were being prepared for Drupa 1986

 

The ExScite Yair Shamir to the Kneset

The ExScite Yair Shamir, the 67-year-old son of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, will serve in the next Knesset and will stridently oppose pressure from the Obama administration.

So where does all this leave Yair Shamir?

If Lieberman is forced from the Knesset, Shamir will in all likelihood become the Yisrael Beiteinu party’s leader. He was fourth on the joint Yisrael Beiteinu/Likud list. Shamir is a former colonel who rose to prominence for his success in business. He had a series of high-level executive roles in some of Israel’s top-performing corporations and was a top player in Israel’s hi-tech scene. For six years he was chairman of Israel Aerospace Industries.

 

Yair Shamir clearly has the gravitas to lead Yisrael Beiteinu. But what is more interesting is that he may have the skills needed to keep Bibi Netanyahu from allowing the Obama administration to set the agenda for Israel’s future.

 

Shamir’s father was a commander of Israel’s LEHI (Stern Group) pre-state militia and Likud leader. Landau’s father, Chaim, was a leading member of the Irgun, the other rightist pre-state militia and a founder of the Herut party, the forerunner of the Likud. Chaim Landau was a Knesset member from 1949 to 1977 and served as a cabinet minister with Yitzhak Shamir under Menachem Begin. At 69 and having been in Knesset since 1984, Uzi Landau may provide Yair Shamir all the help he needs to keep Netanyahu loyal to the ideas that all of their fathers shared.

 

“True leadership understands that saying no and standing up against pressure is vital to attain strategic goals while surrender and acquiescence only leads to abandonment of these goals,” wrote Yair Shamir in September 2009. The article was titled “Say ‘no’ to Obama.”

 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/the_other_big_israeli_election_story_the_other_yair.html#ixzz2J0JHV2lC

 

Israel 21c Recognizes Efi Arazi

logo-211A recent ISRAEL21c issue takes a look at Israel’s top 10 high-tech pioneers.

 

Needless to say- Efi Arazi, Scitex founder is among the ten.

 

Effi Arazi founded and led Scitex Corporation in 1968. The company, later sold to Hewlett Packard and Kodak, develops and manufactures hardware and software technologies, and equipment for the printing and publishing industries. This was Israel’s first high-tech firm and at its peak employed 4,000 people. Since then, Arazi has gone on to found additional graphics and printing companies.

See more here:

http://israel21c.org/people/the-top-10-icons-of-israeli-high-tech-the-pioneers/?utm_source=Newsletter+5%2F23%2F2012&utm_campaign=May+23+2012+&utm_medium=email

 

Kodak (owner of the Scitex Graphic Arts)- in Chapter 11

On January 19, 2012,

Eastman Kodak Company and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 business reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

The business reorganization will enable Kodak to bolster liquidity in the U.S. and abroad, monetize non-strategic intellectual property, fairly resolve legacy liabilities, and enable the Company to focus on its most valuable business lines.
See formal press realease here: http://www.kodaktransforms.com

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