Mordechai Halperin

Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Halperin is a doctor, scientist, and author currently residing in Israel. He is Chief Officer of Medical Ethics for the Israeli Ministry of Health, director of The Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research, Jerusalem, Israel, and a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Biography
Born in Jerusalem, Halperin studied at the Ponevezh yeshiva. He received his rabbinical ordination in 1966. Halperin has taught at several rabbinical academies including the Rabbinical College of the Golan Heights, where he served as a Dean. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974. In 1987, he received a degree in medicine from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School. In 1986-2000, Halperin worked at various medical centers throughout Israel and served as director of the Jerusalem Medical Center for Impotence & Infertility, Dr. Halperin is one of the founding members of the Israeli medical ethics society and a member of many other ethics committees. He is the chief editor of Assia, the Hebrew quarterly review of medical ethics and Jewish law, and the chief editor of Assia-Jewish Medical Ethics, the English international journal. He is a member of the Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics, and has authored more than 200 articles.

Halperin served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Israeli army. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and six children