Mordehai Kikayon (, also transliterated as Mordechai Kikion) (1915–1993) was one of the founders of the computer industry of Israel, the organizer and first head of Mamram. Before and after Mamram he was with the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.Amira Shahar, בחזית המחשוב . ממר״ם, מורשת מרכז המחשבים בצה״ל , , 2002Mamram over the Years, a mamram archive
Mordechai Kikayon was born in Russian Empire and immigrated to the land of Israel in 1924.הקמת ממר"ם בעשור הראשון (Establishment of Mamram, First Decade) (retrieved May 3 2022) He was appointed to be the first commander of Mamram by head of Operations Directorate aluf Yitzhak Rabin on June 26, 1959. "Word of the Day / Madpeset: How IBM Invented the Modern Word for Printer", Haaretz, November 12, 2013 He was the first Israeli civilian to head a military unit.ממר"ם (Retrieved May 3, 2022)
He received the (a prize for increasing labor productivity) for the establishment of the computer center at Rafael after he left Mamram.
See also Kikoin, for a possible origin of the surname
References
Further reading "The WEIZAC Challenge: Building an Electronic Brain in Rehovot", published in: WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963) (behind the paywall)