[Forwarded by Steve Medema and posted on behalf of Jacob Metzer and Ephraim Kleiman. HB] Haim Barkai 1925-2006 We regret having to inform you that Haim Barkai, Pinhas Sapir Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, passed away on May 26th, at the age of 80, after a brief illness. Haim graduated from the HU and wrote his Ph.D. thesis under Prof. Lionel (later Lord) Robbins at the LSE. While the history of economic thought remained his life-long interest, he also made lasting contributions in other spheres, the economic history of Israel and Socialist economies in particular. His book on the economics of the Kibbutz is a classic in its field. At the HU Haim Barkai served successively as Chair of the Economics Department and Dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, as well as chairman of the program committee for the rebuilding of the university's Mt. Scopus campus. Haim also chaired numerous public committees, especially on civil service pay, and in the early 1980s he was the chairman of the Advisory Committee and the Advisory Board of the Bank of Israel. After his retirement from the HU, Haim continued to lead an extremely productive and busy life. He established and headed the Economics and Business Administration faculty at the Academic College of Rishon-le-Zion, taught a course in history of economic thought at the Hebrew University, and had just handed in a monographic essay on the economic history of the pre-state Zionist enterprise and Israel, which he wrote for the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica. An English translation of the history of Israeli monetary policy, which he co-authored with Nissan Liviatan, is forthcoming shortly under the imprint of the Oxford University Press. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him. Jacob Metzer and Ephraim Kleiman