Hillel Fromm received his undergraduate training (B.Sc.) at the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his graduate training (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel. After a 3 year postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA (Lab of Plant Molecular Biology) he established his own research group in the area of plant interactions with the environment with focus on molecular, cellular and genetic aspects of plant responses to abiotic stress.