Mordechai Halperin

Mordechai Halperin was born in 1946 in Jerusalem

Mordechai Halperin was born in Jerusalem in 1946. He studied at the Netiv Meir yeshiva high school and later at the Telz, Ponevezh and Mir yeshivas. He received rabbinical ordination in 1966.

He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the Hebrew University in 1974. He completed medical studies at the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School in 1987. In 2005 he earned a law degree from Ono Academic College.

He taught at the Golan yeshiva and later served as its head. In 1973 he founded Yeshivat Goshen with Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Meir. From 1986 to 2000 he worked at medical centers in Israel and directed the Jerusalem Medical Center for Impotence and Infertility.

From 2000 to 2001 he advised the health minister on medical ethics, and from 2001 to 2014 he was the ministry's chief officer of medical ethics. He directs the Schlesinger Institute and edits its journals Assia and Jewish Medical Ethics. He was a founding member of the Israeli Medical Ethics Society.

He was awarded the Rav Kook Prize for his book on medicine and Jewish law. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Michal and their 6 children.