Roy Zucker

Roy Zucker was born in 1982 in Kiryat Motzkin

Roy Zucker was born on February 10, 1982. His mother was a civilian employee of the IDF and his father worked in the fertilizer and chemicals industry. He grew up with his parents and sister in Kiryat Motzkin and finished high school at ORT Kiryat Motzkin.

He served in Unit 8200 and stayed on in career service. In reserve duty he is a medical officer in the Air Force.

In 2005 he began medical studies at the University of Debrecen in Hungary and graduated with highest honors in 2011. From 2013 to 2017 he trained in internal medicine at Rabin Medical Center and in infectious diseases at Ichilov. He later joined an LGBT medicine program at Mount Sinai in New York and completed an executive program in health system management there.

Since 2017 he has been a physician at the Gan Meir clinic, the first LGBT clinic in Israel. In March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he became medical director of Magen David Adom's coronavirus centers. In September 2021 he was named head of LGBT medicine at Clalit and Ichilov, and in 2023 he was elected chair of the Israeli Society for LGBT Medicine.

He publishes medical content on social media, including on drug harm reduction, which has drawn both debate and criticism. In 2025 he founded Party Keepers, a company that develops harm reduction tools for nightlife.