Yehuda Danon

Yehuda Danon was born in 1940 in Bulgaria

Yehuda Danon was born in Bulgaria on September 9, 1940, and moved to Israel in 1948. His family had a tradition of working in medicine. He grew up in Kibbutz Afikim.

He finished medical school at the Hebrew University and Hadassah in 1967. He specialized in pediatrics at Beilinson Hospital and in immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

He served in the Medical Corps and treated casualties of the destroyer INS Eilat. As medical commander of the Northern Command he set up the Good Fence clinics. He later served as Chief Medical Officer of the IDF.

He directed Beilinson Hospital and in 1991 initiated the founding of Schneider Children's Medical Center, which he directed until 1997. He chairs the Health Ministry's National Council for Children's Health and Pediatrics and was a professor at Tel Aviv University until 2012. He published over 250 articles and books.

In 2012 he became President of Ariel University. In 2021 he received the Jerusalem Prize for higher education. He is married to Ruth Strauss and they have 3 children.