Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin

Ben Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin was born in 1902 in Białystok

Heilprin was born in Białystok, Poland, in 1902. His father was Rabbi Shlomo, and he came from a family of Białystok rabbis. He received a traditional Jewish education.

After finishing a Russian gymnasium, he moved to Germany and studied medicine in Königsberg. He trained in Königsberg, Berlin and Zurich, in psychiatry, physiology, neurology and brain anatomy.

He immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1934 and founded a neurological and psychiatric society there in 1935. In 1938 he was called to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and he led its Neurology Department from 1941. From 1949 he was also medical director of the Ezrat Nashim psychiatric hospital.

He began lecturing at the Hebrew University in 1946 and became a full professor in 1952. That year he wrote the Hebrew physicians' oath for the first graduates of the Jerusalem medical school, and he later became dean of the medical faculty. In 1953 he received the first Israel Prize for medicine.

He died in 1968. President Zalman Shazar attended his funeral. A street in Beersheba is named after him.