The aims of the Israeli Society for Clay Research are to promote excellent scientific research in the field of clay science and clay-based technology, educate and train young researchers and to maintain a continuous and fruitful collaboration with the international scientific community.

The Israeli Clay Research Society was founded in 1964 following a request to host the international conference in Jerusalem. The main founders were  Prof. Yaakov Bentor, chief of the Geological Survey and chairman of the Department of Geology at the Hebrew University, Prof. Wolf Bodenheimer, of the Israel Geological Survey and Prof. Lisa Heller-Kallai of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They were later joined by Yoetz Deutsch who was the society’s treasurer for many years. The International clay conference was held two years later, in 1966, in Jerusalem and the proceedings were published in four languages- English, French, German and Russian. Since then the Israeli chapter has been dedicated to advancing the field of clay research in Israel, educating young researchers and maintaining a continuous and fruitful connection with the international scientific community.

The image is of a guide book for the field trip following the conference in 1966