Father of Israeli Hi-Tech, Efi Arazi, Dies at 76

Efraim "Efi" Arazi has died at the age of 76. Arazi founded digital printing firm Scitex, as well as Electronics for Imaging (EFI). Arazi began his career in the United States. While he was a student at MIT in 1969, he built the camera the Apollo 11 crew used to broadcast the first pictures of the moon.

After returning to Israel, he established the Scitex company, which introduced the first digital pre-press computer and CCD scanner to the world in 1979. In 1990, at the age of 54, he founded EFI (Electronics for Imaging).