Moshe Yitzhak Gueron (; b. 20 March 1926 - 11 December 2017) was an Israeli physician and researcher, innovator, scientist, medical educator, Professor of Cardiology at the Medical School for International Health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a pioneer in the field of Cardiology. He founded and managed the Division of Cardiology in the Soroka Medical Center for 30 years. His research and clinical works gained broad international recognition. Gueron played a central role in developing global medicine, and he is mainly known for his work on the treatment of heart patients with cardiovascular manifestations of severe scorpion sting. Biography Gueron was born in Sofia, Bulgaria to Bechora (née Castro) and Yitzhak Gueron. He attended a Catholic French college, but was sent to a transit camp by the Nazis in 1943. The Bulgarian government refused to permit the deportation of Bulgarian Jews, and by 1944, Prof. Gueron returned to Sofia and entered medical school at The University of Sofia. After Israel won independence in 1948, he emigrated from Bulgaria to Israel and lived in Jaffa with his parents. In 1949 he joined the first medical school class of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There he met his future colleagues and past friends from Bulgaria: Prof. Pascal Tiberin, Prof. Menachem Hirsch, Prof. Isaac (Izzy) Djerassi, a Philadelphia-based medical researcher and clinician in the fields of hematology and oncology, and Prof. Joseph Rosenfeld. Gueron graduated summa cum laude in 1951. After his graduation, Gueron started his fellowship in internal medicine in Hadassah Hospital Tel Aviv and a few months later he already served as senior internal doctor. In 1956, shortly after his graduation in internal medicine, Gueron came to the conclusion that there is no future for him in internal medicine. Drawn by his conclusion he left internal medicine and in 1958 he turned to specialize in cardiology. He arrived to America to the school of medicine in University of Cincinnati at the invitation of Prof. Noble O. Fowler. Return to Israel One year after his return to Israel in 1961, Gueron indeed settled in Beersheba and received a job in Soroka Medical Center. Prof. Yosef Stern, Soroka's first director general supported Gueron's idea to establish a department of cardiology in the hospital. Two months after his arrival, Prof. Gueron has already started to perform heart catheterization in patients. Gueron is known for performing the first successful heart catheterization in Israel. Prof.