The incipit of a piece from the Jerusalem Post:

Four senior scientists will be admitted on Tuesday to the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Humanities at a ceremony in Beit Hanassi. Over Hanukka, new members are inducted by the president of Israel, who formally appoints them.

The academy is the most senior body in Israeli science. Established in 1961, it serves as the government's science adviser and aims to promote scientific research and development in the natural and social sciences.

The new members are: Prof. Margalit Finkelberg, head of classical studies at Tel Aviv University. Born in Minsk in 1947, she came on aliya in 1975 and received her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University. She has an international reputation in the fields of literature and religion in ancient Greece.

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Lots of refs to MF on the web of course ... an interesting article by her She turns about in the same spot and watches for Orion': Ancient Criticism and Exegesis of Od. 5.274 = Il. 18.488
from GRBS 44 (2004).