Eliezer Shalev

Eliezer Shalev was born in 1948 in Afula

Eliezer Shalev was born in Afula on November 12, 1948, to Hana and Moshe Shadletsky. He finished high school in Afula in a biology track. In November 1966 he joined the Golani reconnaissance unit, where he did all his military service.

He began medical school in 1970 at the University of Bologna in Italy and earned his medical doctorate at the Technion in 1977. He trained in gynecology, obstetrics and fertility at HaEmek Medical Center and completed his residency in 1983. In 1982 he studied obstetric ultrasound in London.

Shalev was among the first doctors in Israel to use ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology. In 1981 he showed a new ultrasound method to identify fetal sex, and he performed procedures inside the womb on sick fetuses. From 1989 to 2016 he headed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at HaEmek Medical Center.

He founded a fertility research lab in 1994 and published more than 250 papers and book chapters. He served as Dean of the Technion Faculty of Medicine from 2011 to 2016. He later helped found Guangdong Technion in China and served as its Vice Chancellor from 2018 to 2021.

In 2022 he was elected President of Tel Hai Academic College. He lives in Binyamina, is married and has 5 children.