Jonathan Halevy
Jonathan Halevy is an Israeli public healthcare expert and physician. He served as the Director General of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center from 1988 until 2019 and currently serves as the hospital’s President.Biography
Jonathan Halevy was born in 1948 in Tel Aviv and is the oldest of four siblings. His father managed a steel materials factory in Kiryat Gat. He attended Zeitlin High School in Tel Aviv.
At age 18 Halevy was accepted into the Atuda program as a medical student. For this program he took part in the first cohort of the Tel Aviv University’s medical school. In 1973 he graduated medical school and started his residency at Rabin Medical Center, in Petah Tikva. He also served as a Medical Officer in the Israeli Military between 1973 and 1977 assuming the rank of Deputy Medical Commander of the Central Command. In between 1983 and 1985, he was a research and clinical fellow at Yale University where he was dedicated to research of diseases of the liver and intestinal tract.
In 1988, he was appointed as Director-General of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, a role he held until 2019 when he assumed the position of president of the medical center. Between 2013-2015 and 2017 Halevy served as Chairman of the National Committee updating the National Basket of Health Services.
Following the earthquake which devastated Kathmandu, Nepal in April 2015, Halevy participated in the IDF medical mission to the region.
In 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Yeshiva University and in 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Touro University
