Giora Martinovich

Giora Martinovich was born in 1950 in Mishmar HaEmek

Giora Martinovich was born on September 1, 1950, in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek and grew up in Ramat Gan. His brother is the hematologist Uri Martinovich.

He studied medicine at Tel Aviv University through the IDF academic reserve, from 1968 to 1975. During his studies he trained as a medic and served in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He later specialized in neurology at Sheba Hospital and earned a master's degree in public administration at Harvard.

He returned to regular service in 1975 and was a battalion doctor in Golani, taking part in Operation Entebbe. He later served as a doctor with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, and fought in the Lebanon War. He became Southern Command medical chief, deputy Chief Medical Officer, and then Chief Medical Officer with the rank of brigadier general.

He led the Medical Corps delegation to Turkey after the 1999 earthquake and ran the trial of an anthrax vaccine among soldiers. He founded the journal Military Medicine and was its first editor. After leaving the IDF he served as an outside director at the companies Widemed and Synopsis. He is married to Zehava and they have 3 daughters.