Aharon Shulov

Aharon Shulov was born in 1908 in Kropyvnytskyi

Aharon Shulov was born in Yelisavetgrad in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine. His father Shlomo ran a farm. He led the regional Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and was jailed and exiled to Siberia for Zionist activity.

In 1926 he immigrated to the Land of Israel through the port of Jaffa and joined the Haganah. He was among the first students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and studied there until 1932. He then studied in Padua and Naples and earned a doctorate in entomology in 1935.

He joined the Hebrew University staff and became a full professor in 1970. From 1951 to 1976 he headed the department of entomology, studied venomous animals and locusts, and helped develop an antiserum for yellow scorpion stings. In 1940 he started a small zoo in central Jerusalem, which later became the Biblical Zoo, and he directed it for decades.

He retired as professor emeritus in 1976. He co-founded the Shulov Institute for Science, which studies drugs derived from snake venom. He was married to Yocheved Persman from 1930, had 2 children, and died in 1997.