 She is survived by two children and six grandchildren.As the first female oceanographer in the recently founded state of Israel, she pioneered the study of oceanography in the country and helped set the foundations for the 1967 Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research center (IOLR).In 1993, fellow National Institute of Oceanography researcher Bella S. Galil discovered a new species of crustacean in the Mediterranean basin, named Levantocaris hornungae "for Ms. Hava Hornung, in appreciation of a lifetime of work on the Mediterranean fauna."