Itzhak Brook
American academic
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 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, where he completed an officer's course. He studied medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's 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 1967 and subsequently as a battalion physician during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, during which he held the rank of Lieutenant. After crossing the Suez Canal in his ambulance he was severely wounded by artillery fire.
In 1974, Brook moved to the United States with his family. He completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the National Children's Medical Center in Washington, D.C. After several years there, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served in the Medical Corps for 27 years, holding the rank of Commander and leading research on treatments for infectious diseases resulting from nuclear and biological warfare at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.
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