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Organization (ARO), the Volcani Institute. He served as Head, the Department of Virology,
Head, Institute of Plant Protection. Since 2016, he served as the Director of the Plant
Protection and Inspection Services (PPIS), The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development. He served as the Acting Director of the (ARO), Volcani Institute
(June-December, 2016), and the Acting Chief Scientist, The Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Development (2019-2021), Since 2000, Abed served as a Professor at the Faculty of
Agriculture, The Hebrew University and at the Department of Botany, (TU). He worked as an
Interviewer and scientific advisor of a TV program, the national Israeli TV.
Abed was a member of the professional committee for scientist's promotion in the ARO,
and a member of steering and evaluation committees, a board member of the Fund for the
Development of Technological Education in the Arab Sector in Israel, the R&D Regional
Center “Hamsholash”, and the Association for the Advancement of Equal Opportunity
“Sikuy”. Abed is the former President of the International Working Group of Virus Diseases
of Ornamental Crops. He was the Head of Multinational Agricultural Research and
Development (MARD) and Chairman of MARD Steering and Scientific Committees. He
served as the Secretary and President of the Israeli Society of Phytopathology, a board
member of several organizations. He is a member and the Chairperson of US-Israel
Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Fund Board of Directors.

Abed served as the head of the national committee for food security and safety. He was
the organizer and convener of ~ 50 national and international symposia and meetings, and
contributed ~100 presentations.
Aside from his fundamental contributions to the basic science, he has been instrumental in
the studying natural resistance mechanism against plant viruses, the development and
application of serological and molecular techniques for rapid diagnosis of plant virus and
phytoplasma diseases. He developed practices and
methodologies to obtain and produce high quality virus-free propagation material of
horticultural and floricultural crops.

Abed was nominated as the Acting Director of the (ARO), Volcani Institute since December,
2021