DAVID J. AZRIELI, C.M., C.Q, M.ARCH. was born in Poland in 1922, came to Canada in the 1950s, and fought with distinction in the Israel War of Independence. He has extended his considerable business acumen from Canada to Israel, and had a major impact in both countries through his philanthropic work. He is responsible for the New School of Architecture Building at the Technion in Haifa; Yeshiva University in New York City established the David J. Azrieli Graduate Institute of Jewish Education and Administration; and he endowed Concordia University’s David J. Azrieli Graduate Fellowship and Holocaust and Resistance Library. He lives with his wife in Montreal, Quebec.