Jacob Sadé

Jacob Sadé was born in 1925 in Berlin

Jacob Sadé was born in Berlin in 1925 to Naum Sadé-Sadowsky and Ronja Feinberg, both from Kaunas, Lithuania. His father was in Germany for medical studies. The family moved to Tel Aviv in 1930, where his father became an early ear, nose and throat doctor.

He finished the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in 1943 and studied biology at the Hebrew University from 1943 to 1945. He then studied medicine at the University of Geneva and graduated in 1951. He was a member of the Haganah for 6 years and later served in the IDF reserves.

He worked at Sheba Medical Center and trained in the United States, at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Washington University. He returned to Israel in 1959 and founded the ENT department at HaEmek Medical Center in Afula. In 1971 he became head of the ENT department at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.

He was the first in Israel to perform stapedectomy and worked in middle ear microsurgery. His research described the mucus and cilia system of the middle ear. He was a professor at Tel Aviv University, headed the Israeli ENT society from 1986 to 1990, and directed an ear research laboratory there.

In 2019 he published a book of memoirs titled Eight Stories. He was married to Ruth and had 4 children. He died in 2020 and was buried at Kibbutz Givat HaShlosha.