David Adler

David Adler was born in 1945

David Adler was born in 1945 and grew up in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem. He finished the Ma'ale school in Jerusalem in 1963, in the math and physics track.

After his army service in the Artillery Corps, he worked at the Romema factories in Jerusalem to pay for his studies. He earned a degree in electronics from the Technion in 1971 and edited its student paper. He later received a master's degree in physiology in 1976 and a doctorate in 1985 from the Hebrew University, and did heart research in Canada and as a Fulbright fellow in New York.

He joined the medical engineering department at Hadassah in 1971 and led it from 1982 to 1997. From 1997 to 2006 he headed the division for instrumentation, medical engineering and communications. His research, published in about 50 papers, focused on models of heart function and medical devices, and he won the Ben-Gurion Prize.

He began publishing poems in 2009. His first book won the Ramat Gan Prize for a debut poetry book, and his second appeared in 2017. He also writes literary criticism and essays on politics and society.