Nir Giladi

Nir Giladi was born in 1955 in shuaffat

Nir Giladi was born on December 24, 1955, and grew up on Kibbutz Mizra. His father, Moshe Giladi, was an educator who headed Oranim College. He attended high school at Mosad Amakim, ran middle distance races and played on Israel's youth basketball team.

He finished school in 1974 and joined Sayeret Matkal as a combat medic. After his discharge he studied medicine at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In the reserves he served as a doctor in the Shaldag unit and was wounded in the First Lebanon War.

From 1984 he worked as a family doctor in Beit She'an and Kibbutz Beit Keshet, then trained in neurology at Carmel Hospital in Haifa. In 1989 he went to Columbia University in New York to study movement disorders. Back in Israel in 1991, he ran the movement disorders clinic at Carmel and in 1993 founded the Israeli Parkinson Association with patients and families.

In 1996 he set up the movement disorders unit at Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv, and in 2007 he became head of its neurology department. He became a full professor at Tel Aviv University in 2011. His research covered gait problems and falls, the genetics of Parkinson's among Ashkenazi Jews, and the disease's patterns in Israel.

He joined the National Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020 and became deputy dean at Ichilov in 2021. His last post was public complaints commissioner for the medical professions at the Ministry of Health. He was married to Dr. Mira Giladi, had 4 children, and died on December 11, 2024.