Dr. Ram Ishai will resign as chairman of the Israel Medical Association at the end of this month to become the first Israeli to head the World Medical Association.
He was elected president of the international body at its annual meeting in Vienna a year ago.
Ishai, who headed the IMA for 18 years, was born in Tunisia and educated in France.
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