Yoram Lass

Yoram Lass was born in 1945 in Israel

Yoram Lass was born on 30 January 1945. His father, Dr. Natan Lass, was an allergy specialist who came from Vilnius in 1935, and his mother was a dentist.

He joined the IDF through the academic reserve program and studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He qualified as a physician in 1971. He served as a medical officer, reached the rank of major and was a doctor with the paratroopers in the Yom Kippur War.

In the early 1970s he joined the medical faculty of Tel Aviv University, later becoming a full professor of physiology and pharmacology and associate dean. In the 1980s he co-hosted the science television show Tatzpit with Yael Dan. From 1988 to 1989 he was Director-General of the Ministry of Health, a period that included a doctors' strike and a polio outbreak, and he resigned in May 1989.

He was elected to the Knesset for the Labor Party in 1992. He chaired several subcommittees, including the health subcommittee, and left the Knesset in 1996.

He then returned to teaching at Tel Aviv University. In 2011 he founded N-UFiltration, which recycles dialysis filters for water filtering. During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 he opposed the government's lockdown measures and began hosting a weekly radio show.