Dr. Baruch Shmuel (boris) Levin

Biography

Baruch Levine was born in Russia. In 1906 he moved with his father, the Zionist leader Shmaryahu Levin, to Germany, where he grew up and was educated. In his youth, Baruch Levin was active in the Blau-Weiss movement (blue and white), which trained its members in agricultural work and encouraged them to immigrate to Israel. Baruch Levine immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1924 and was already prominent in his long-term innovation and vision, when he set up a chicken coop in Nahalat Yitzhak with a hatchery - a farm that was considered a major innovation in those days. In 1930 he went to study in bacteriology in France and returned to Israel in 1937. Dr. Levine was one of the pioneers of the manufacture of penicillin in the world and one of the first pharmaceutical companies in Israel, and as a young researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he developed vaccines for cattle diseases, and then began developing vaccines for humans and developed tiny amounts of antibiotics: penicillin and tyrotricin. During the War of Independence, Dr. Levin's lab was part of the Hebrew University and produced vaccines for IDF soldiers. In 1948, Dr. Levine began producing antibiotics for export, and a year later he founded Rafa Laboratories, a pioneer in research, production and marketing of penicillin, tirotrine and streptomycin, some of which have been used to date. In addition, Ophir

Research Interest

 bacteriology