Meier Schwarz
1926–2022 (age 96)
Biography
Meier Schwarz (Hebrew: מאיר שוורץ; 28 January 1926 – 12 January 2022) was an Israeli plant physiologist. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and escaped from the Nazi regime on a Kindertransport to Jerusalem. In Israel, he was a lecturer and scholar and was appointed head of the Hydroponics department at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research in Beersheba.