Jonathan Halevy

Jonathan Halevy was born in 1948 in Tel Aviv

Jonathan Halevy was born on 22 June 1948. He is the oldest of four siblings, and his father managed a factory in Kiryat Gat. He attended Zeitlin High School in Tel Aviv.

He joined the Atuda program and studied in the first class of the Tel Aviv University medical school, graduating in 1973. He trained in internal medicine at Beilinson Hospital, now Rabin Medical Center. From 1983 to 1985 he did research on liver and digestive diseases at Yale University.

He served as a medical officer in the IDF from 1973 to 1977.

In 1988 he became Director General of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. During his tenure the hospital opened a cardiac center in 1994 and an emergency department in 2004, and in 2017 it received JCI accreditation. He also chaired the national committee updating the basket of health services and served as chairman of the National Transplant Center from 2000 to 2006.

In 2019 he left the post of Director General and became the hospital's president. He lives in Jerusalem, and his brother, Rabbi Micha Halevy, is the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Petah Tikva.