Freddy Ben-Arroyo
Freddy Ben-Arroyo (born Abraham Freddy Ben-Arroyo (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Авраам Фреди Бен-Аройо; Hebrew אברהם פרדי בן-ארויו, March 21, 1924, Sofia, Bulgaria; died July 6, 2025, Haifa, Israel), structural engineer, professor of engineering at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, and practicing structural engineer contributing to buildings in Israel and New York City. Following a study of Zen, about 1990 he took up composition of Japanese-style verse, and his haiku, senryu, haibun, and haiga in English were published internationally and translated into Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian, and Chinese. His book, Jazz Trio, was published in 2014. Last resided in Haifa, Israel.