Elon Ganor

Elon Ganor was born in 1950 in Geneva

Elon Ganor was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1950 and grew up in Tel Aviv. His father, Nissim Rafael Ganor, was a pediatrician and amateur historian. His mother, Magda Ganor, was a Holocaust survivor born in Vienna and a painter.

He studied at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and earned his medical degree in 1975. He then served in the IDF as a physician until 1980.

In 1987 he founded Virovahl, a Swiss biotechnology company that developed an HIV test based on synthetic peptides. In 1990 he joined VocalTec, later becoming its chairman and CEO and shifting it to voice software. The company launched Internet Phone in 1995 and listed on Nasdaq in 1996.

In 1997 he helped create ITXC, a VoIP carrier in which VocalTec invested. In 2008 he founded Nucleix, a company developing forensic biomarkers and DNA authentication.

He left VocalTec in 2006 to study art at Beit Berl College and graduated in photography in 2008. His works are held by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum.