Moshe Prywes (Hebrew: משה פריבס; January 3, 1914 - March 1998) was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator.

[1][3][2] After the outbreak of World War II and the German invasion of Poland, Prywes was drafted into the Polish army as a physician-officer in 1939.

[1] Next, he became a chief assistant in the department of surgery, University Hospital, Gdańsk, Poland.

[1] He emigrated to France and from 1947-51 was director of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) Jewish Health Organization in Paris.

[1][4] When Ben-Gurion University was founded in the Negev, he served as its first president from 1973 to 1975, succeeded by Yosef Tekoah.