| Ozer Schild | |
| Native Name: | עוזר שילד |
| Birth Name: | Erling Ozer Schild |
| Birth Date: | September 25, 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Death Date: | 2006 |
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| notable_works = | style = | height = | television = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Erling Ozer Schild (עוזר שילד; September 25, 1930 – 2006), a Danish-born Israeli academic, was president of the University of Haifa and president of the College of Judea and Samaria, known as "Ariel College".[1] [2]
Schild was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2] He identified as an Orthodox Jew before the Holocaust, and was not affiliated after the WWII.[3] During the Holocaust he went into hiding under a false identity in Copenhagen, and in Saunte, Denmark.[3]
He completed a master's degree in economics in the University of Copenhagen in 1957, and then made aliyah and immigrated to Israel that year.[2] [4] [5] In 1965, he received a doctorate in psychology and sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2] [5] After post-doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, he returned in 1968 to Israel to head the Psychology Department at Hebrew University.[2] [6]
Together with Daniel Kahneman, Schild volunteered to assist the Israel Air Force Flight Academy in improving its selection and training procedures.[2] In 1973, he moved to Be'er Sheva to serve as Dean of the Humanities Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.[2] In 1974, he was appointed Chief Scientist of the Israel Education Ministry.[2]
In 1976, Schild moved to the University of Haifa to head the School of Education.[2] In 1978 he was appointed rector of the university.[2]
Schild was appointed president of the University of Haifa in 1990.[2]
In October 1993, Schild, with another four-year term ahead of him, resigned from the University of Haifa presidency and moved from Haifa to Ariel.[2] [7] [8] [9] At the College of Judea and Samaria, known as "Ariel College," Schild taught statistics and research methods.[2] [8] [9] He later became president of the college there.[2] [10]
He and his wife had two children.[2]