Igal Talmi, a Ukrainian-born Israeli nuclear physicist, died on February 4, 2026.
He was 101. Born in Kiev, then in the Soviet Union, on January 31, 1925, Talmi’s family immigrated to Mandate Palestine later that year and settled in Kfar Yehezkel.
He graduated from Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv in 1942, joined the Palmach, earned a master’s degree in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1947, received a doctorate from ETH Zurich in 1949, and was a research fellow at Princeton University from 1952 to 1954, where he worked with Eugene Wigner.
Igal Talmi (Hebrew: יגאל תלמי; 31 January 1925 – 4 February 2026) was an Israeli nuclear physicist.