Michael Asher (“Micky”) Weingarten was professor of family medicine at Tel Aviv University and a key founder of the new Bar-Ilan Faculty of Medicine in Safed in Galilee. Micky was born in 1947 in Golders Green, London to a family of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. He was educated at the City of London School; Jews’ College, London; Merton College, Oxford; and University College Hospital, London. He emigrated to Israel and began his training as a family doctor in 1973.