Nissim Levy

Prof. Nissim Levy (1933-2018) was a physician, researcher, and historian of medicine in Israel. A graduate of the Hadassah–Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, he served as Clinical Associate Professor at the Technion Faculty of Medicine and founded and directed the Gastroenterology Institute at Bnai Zion Medical Center (1967–1999). He chaired the Israeli Society for the History of Medicine and headed the field’s academic program at the Technion for two decades. He authored dozens of scholarly articles and several foundational books on the history of medicine in the Land of Israel.