Ron Krongold was a TAU Governor and a past President of the TAU Friends Association in Australia, Victoria Chapter. He was an active member of the Melbourne Jewish community, serving as joint President of JNF (Victoria) from 1995 to 2001 and as Chairman of the JNF Jubilee Foundation. As a young man he joined the UIA Young Adults and was co-leader of the first Keren Hayesod Young Adults mission to Israel. Krongold graduated in applied chemistry from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1968 and worked as a chemist in the plastics industry. The Krongold family has a long tradition of giving to community causes through the establishment of the Krongold Centre for Exceptional Children at Monash University and the Krongold Binah Program at Mount Scopus Memorial College. Ron's father established the Henry and Dinah Krongold Chair in Microelectronics at Tel Aviv University, and Ron and his wife, Susan, continued this tradition by supporting immigrant doctoral students in microelectronics at TAU.

Aharon Doron has spent most of his life in the service of Israel. Born in Germany, he immigrated to Israel in 1939 as part of the Youth Aliyah program and later became an instructor in the Haganah. With the birth of the State, Doron became an IDF officer, rising in the ranks to become Commander of the Nahal and later of the Golani Brigade, and head of the Manpower Branch at the IDF general headquarters. In 1966 he retired from the IDF with the rank of Major General, and joined Tel Aviv University as deputy president. During the next decade, Doron was virtually singlehandedly responsible for handling the University’s finances, drawing in its first benefactors, and advancing campus growth. Doron later worked for the Jewish Agency and the Diaspora Museum, and in 1992 he rejoined the IDF to serve as Ombudsman until his retirement in 1998.