Building the Infrastructure for a New State

By 1932, the Technion’s 65 graduates were building and designing the roads, bridges, and tunnels in pre-state Israel. They were employed by the government’s Department of Public Works, constructing the port of Haifa, planning the Haifa-Baghdad Railway, and working for municipalities and private firms.

In 1948, the birth of the State of Israel presented the university with great challenges. Newly-trained architects designed neighbourhoods and buildings to house hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees.

The destiny of the nascent nation relied heavily on the skilled human resources the Technion produced to build its economy and military and to make the desert bloom.