Mordechai Halperin (Hebrew: מרדכי הלפרין; born 1946) is an Israeli rabbi, physician and scientist.
He is the chief officer of medical ethics for the Israeli Ministry of Health and director of the Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research in Jerusalem.
He studied at the Ponevezh yeshiva and served as lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army.
[2] In 1987, he received a degree in medicine from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School.
[2] He is the chief editor of Assia, the Hebrew quarterly review of medical ethics and Jewish law,[3] and editor of Jewish Medical Ethics (JME), an international journal published in English[4] - journals published by the Shlesinger Institute.