Sex therapist, researcher Dr. Ruth given honorary doctorate by BGU – Born in Germany into a religious Jewish household in 1928, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was sent to Switzerland on the Kindertransport at age 10. Her parents were murdered in the Holocaust. | The Jerusalem Post

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) awarded Dr. Ruth Westheimer, famed sex researcher and therapist, an honorary doctorate this week.The honorary doctorate, the first awarded to Westheimer by an Israeli university, was awarded in recognition of her trailblazing research and therapy, her advancement of the field of human sexuality and its public discussion and her friendship for Israel, among other reasons.