Mordechai Halperin

Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Halperin is a doctor, scientist, and author currently residing in Israel. He is Chief Officer of Medical Ethics for the Israeli Ministry of Health, director of the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research in Jerusalem, Israel,^[1] and a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[2]

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Biography

Born in Jerusalem, Halperin studied at the Ponevezh yeshiva. He received his rabbinical ordination in 1966.^[2] Halperin has taught at several rabbinical academies including the Rabbinical College of the Golan Heights, where he served as a Dean.^[2] He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974.^[2] In 1987, he received a degree in medicine from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School.^[2] In 1986-2000, Halperin worked at various medical centers throughout Israel and served as director of the Jerusalem Medical Center for Impotence & Infertility,^[1] Dr. Halperin is one of the founding members of the Israeli medical ethics society and a member of many other ethics committees.^[2] He is the chief editor of Assia, the Hebrew quarterly review of medical ethics and Jewish law,^[3] and the chief editor of Assia-Jewish Medical Ethics, the English international journal.^[4] He is a member of the Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics,^[5] and has authored more than 200 articles.^[1]

Halperin served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Israeli army.^[1] He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and six children^[2]

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