Dr Shaul Katzir is currently a Marie Curie senior research fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. He has held a number of research fellowships in Europe and Israel, among others at the joint project History and Foundations of Quantum Physics. His research focuses on the history of physics and technology and their interactions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
"The best indication for the holidays were chocolate 'Santa Clauses'"
L.I.S.A.: Dr Katzir, you live in Israel. How will you spend the coming Christmas days? Are these days quite normal for you or do they have any relevance in your personal or academic life?
Dr Katzir: The Christmas days are quite normal days here, with regular schedule at the university, schools and the business world. On the 26th, for example, I left the campus little earlier to participate in a meeting with a deputy mayor of my municipality on bike lane. I guess that if one does not follow the greetings of the officials to the Christian citizens (and one usually does not), the best indication for the holidays were chocolate "Santa Clauses" in some shops.