Giora Treister, professor of ophthalmology at Tel Aviv University (TAU) Medical School; Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF; Director of the Eye Department of Sheba “Tel HaShomer” Medical Center; founder and former president of the International Society of Ocular Trauma and the Maratier Institute for the Study of Blindness and Visual Disorders at Tel Aviv university; former Director of Assuta/Maccabi Eye Institute; and elected member of the “American Hall of Fame” in Ophthalmology, Retina Diseases Section.