Binyamin Idelson.Russia 1911-1972 Israel
1948-1964 worked in partnership with the architect Arieh Sharon.
Selected projects include:
housing complexes in Nazeret Elite, where terraced building on a hillside was first implemented.
Beilinson hospital in Petach-Tikva, which immediately became a prototype for complex building compounds.
The Jewish Agency building on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv (Sharon-Idelson-Zippor architects).
1964-1972 entered into partnership with Gershon Zippor.
Well-known projects include the psychiatric hospital Ezrat Nashim in Jerusalem, plans for the Ponevezh hotel in Bnei-Brak (unbuilt), and a water tower on the Hebrew University in Jerusalem’s Mt. Scopus campus.
1968 recipient of the Israel Architecture Prize.

Gershon Zippor.1931
1944-1948 studied painting at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv.
1957 studied architecture at the Technion -Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Went on to study in The Hague, where he also worked as an urban planner at The Hague municipality.
1955-1959 worked for the Shag office in Haifa.
1959-1964 worked at the Binyamin Idelson and Arieh Sharon architecture firm.
1964-1972 entered into partnership with Binyamin Idelson until Idelson’s death in 1972.
1973 established his own practice.
1990 entered into partnership with his son, architect Barak Zippor.
1988 received the Rechter Architecture Prize for his design of the Be’er Sheva psychiatric hospital.
2005 received the Honorary Citizen of Tel Aviv Prize.
Additional prizes:
The Arieh El Hanani Prize; the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality Prize together with the Painters and Sculptors Association; President Herzog Prize.
Other projects include the Jewish Agency building (with Idelson’s office). the Reccanati building at Tel Aviv University. Pe’er Nave Towers in northern Tel Aviv. Shifa hospital in the Gaza strip. Eliya hospital in Hebron.
Urban planning: Kerem Hateymanim and Kikar Hashaon.
Served as the chairman of the Architects Association in Israel, and as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Engineers and Architects.