Yacov Haimes: Marrying Risk Analysis and Systems Engineering

摘要

When Yacov Haimes was just 13 years old, the dissolution of the Jewish community in his native Baghdad was well underway. All the males in his family left or escaped illegally to the United States and Israel. He was smuggled with strangers across the border by night on donkeys to Iran, and then flew from Tehran to Israel. This experience introduced Yacov to risk in a most personal, stressful, and dangerous way, as Iraqi border patrol on horses discovered his group crossing the border. Although unaware of it at the time, he saw risk communication in action as the Iranian police were instructed by the Shah of Iran to protect the escapees and not to allow the Iraqis to take custody of them.