Jeheskel Shoshani
Jeheskel "Hezy" Shoshani was an evolutionary biologist and an elephant specialist who studied the evolution of elephants for over 35 years.
Shoshani established the Elephant Research Foundation in 1977 and was the editor of its publication,Elephant. He published about 200 scientific articles and books on elephants and edited the publication Elephant. He taught at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, for approximately 25 years and at the University of Asmara in Eritrea starting in 1998. In 2007 he moved to Ethiopia to teach at the University of Addis Ababa. Hezy was a passionate advocate of elephant conservation.
Shoshani was among several people killed in a terrorism-linked explosion in a public minibus in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on May 20, 2008.
