Dr. Kahane is active in both the academic and business areas. He is a professor of insurance and finance at Tel Aviv University. He founded and served as first dean for the Israel Academic School of Insurance. He served as Director of the Erhard Insurance Center, directed the Actuarial studies program, and coordinated the Executives Development Programs of Tel-Aviv University. He has founded, and directed the Chartered Life Underwriters CLU (Israel) Program. Dr. Kahane is a life and non-life actuary. He has served on the Israeli Insurance Council and on several government committees on a variety of insurance related topics.
Dr. Kahane is among the most prolific researchers in insurance. He served as an associate editor of the leading journals on risk and insurance. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of the Negev, the Universityof Florida, the University of Toronto, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he presented a large number of courses around the world.
Prof Kahane has also a rich entrepreneurial experience. He is a co-initiator of the concept of "new" balanced pension funds, and co-founded the first fund in Israel (Teshura). He is a co-founder and director in Ituran Location and Control, traded on both Nasdaq (ITRN) and the major list of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. He owns the Weizman High Tech Technological Incubator, and is a partner of Capital Point that owns two other technological incubators. In addition he is involved in many voluntary activities and non profit organizations (e.g., Chairman of the Association of Blind People in Sharon District, Or Yarok - an association for prevention of traffic accident victims, The Assoc. for Delaying Age Related Processes, etc.).
He is married to Rivka (maiden name: Trieber), has 3 children and 3 (great) grandchildren.