Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has announced on Wednesday that he has chosen Prof. Chezy Levy, the head of Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center, as director-general of the ministry.
Levy, 64, is a surgeon who spent years in the IDF’s medical corps and built the fortified emergency room and protected surgery wards in the Ashkelon hospital amid rocket attacks from Gaza.
He will be replacing outgoing director general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov.