Raphael "Rafi" Falk (Hebrew: רפאל "רפי" פאלק; July 14, 1929 – September 15, 2019)[1][2][3] was a German-born Israeli geneticist and historian of science.
He was professor emeritus of genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
[6] When he was aged 5, amid the rise of Nazism in Germany, his family left for Palestine.
[7] From the early 1980s, Falk increasingly turned his attention to the history and philosophy of biology, becoming "one of the leading practitioners of the field".
[7] He also began to look at the interactions between studies on the population genetics of Jews and Zionist agendas, and ultimately published his body of research on the subject first in Hebrew in 2006 and in English in 2017 as Zionism and the Biology of the Jews.