Itzhak Brook
Itzhak Brook (1941 - January 10, 2025) was an Israeli-American physician and medical researcher. Early life and career Itzhak Brook was born in Afula in present-day Israel during the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate era and raised in Haifa. His parents, Bernard (Baruch) and Chaya Brook, were immigrants from Austria and Poland respectively. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a welder and professional soccer player for Hapoel Haifa F.C. He had a younger sister, Zipi, who he cared for after his parents' deaths. Brook graduated from the Hareali Haivri high school and was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1959 and completed an officer's course. He studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center, Hadassah School of Medicine, earning an MD in 1968 and subsequently completing his residency there, and obtained an MSc in pediatrics from Tel Aviv University in 1972. He served as a medic in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War in ...
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