Avraham Steinberg

Avraham Steinberg (Hebrew: אברהם שטינברג; born 25 August 1947) is an Israeli medical ethicist, pediatric neurologist, rabbi and editor of Talmudic literature.

In 1999 he won the Israel Prize for original Rabbinic literature for his 7-volume Encyclopedia Hilchatit Refuit in Hebrew - the most comprehensive text book ever compiled on this subject.

His father served as the rabbi of Kiryat Yam, and he spent a lot of time teaching his son Torah.

After graduating high school, Steinberg studied at the rabbinic academy Yeshivat Mercaz Harav Kook in Jerusalem.

Steinberg was the first director of the Dr. Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medico-Halakhic Research[4] at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, and the founder and first editor of their quarterly journal "Assia" [5] - A Journal of Jewish Ethics and Halacha, devoted to issues in Jewish medical ethics.