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Eyal Gur

Eyal Gur is an Israeli physician who heads the plastic surgery department at Tel Aviv Medical Center and competed for Israel in standing volleyball at the Paralympics.

Plastic surgery and microsurgeryParalympic standing volleyball silver medalService in the Shaldag Unit

Occupation: physician
Education: Tel Aviv University

The story of Eyal Gur's life

Eyal Gur was born in Holon in 1959. He spent 2 years as a cadet in the pilots' course before he was dropped from it.

He then served as a fighter in the Shaldag Unit and completed officers' course. In the First Lebanon War he was a company commander with the rank of captain. During a Shaldag operation he was hit by Syrian anti-aircraft fire and lost his leg.

As a disabled IDF veteran he joined Beit HaLochem. He played on the Israeli standing volleyball team at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics, where the team won silver, and at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics.

He studied medicine at Tel Aviv University from 1983 to 1990. Until 1997 he trained in plastic surgery, microsurgery and pediatric plastic surgery in Israel and Canada.

He joined the plastic surgery department at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in 1997, led its microsurgery unit from 1999, and became department head in 2009. He joined the Tel Aviv University medical faculty in 1992 and became a professor in 2013.

Eyal Gur's life in 7 milestones

1959
Born in Holon.
1983
Began medical studies at Tel Aviv University.
1988
Won a Paralympic silver medal in standing volleyball in Seoul.
1992
Competed at the Barcelona Paralympics and joined Tel Aviv University's medical faculty.
1999
Became head of the microsurgery unit at Tel Aviv Medical Center.
2009
Appointed head of the plastic surgery department.
2013
Became a professor at Tel Aviv University.

Eyal Gur served in Shaldag

He served as a fighter and officer in the Shaldag Unit and was a company commander with the rank of captain in the First Lebanon War. He lost his leg to Syrian anti-aircraft fire during a unit operation.

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