Uziel Beller

Uziel Beller was born in 1949 in Jerusalem

Uziel Beller was born in Jerusalem in 1949 and grew up in the Talbiya neighborhood. His father, Aharon Beller, was a professor of neurosurgery. He graduated from the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia in 1967 and was active in the Jerusalem Scouts.

After school he joined the reconnaissance unit of the 7th Armored Brigade, serving as a soldier and an officer. From 1970 to 1977 he studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Hadassah and in gynecologic oncology at New York University Medical Center.

He was a senior physician at Hadassah from 1983 to 1985 and at New York University Medical Center from 1985 to 1990. In 1990 he returned to Israel and founded the gynecologic oncology surgery department at Shaare Zedek, which he headed until 2016. He also directed the Women's Health Center of Clalit from 1995 to 2017 and the women's division at Shaare Zedek from 2002 to 2017.

He was a professor at the Hebrew University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 2008 to 2018 he was editor in chief of the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, and he served as president of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology. He was the first Israeli physician to receive the Austrian Ernst Wertheim award.

After retiring from Shaare Zedek he joined Maayanei Hayeshua and Assuta Ashdod as a senior physician. Since 2023 he has written Hebrew fiction. He lives in Tel Aviv.