His father, Moses Tenenbaum, was evacuated to Kyrgyzstan during World War Il in Bessarabia. Tenenbaum immigrated to Israel in 1989. He started his work at Sheba Medical Center. During the next twenty years he held several different jobs at this hospital. These included residency in cardiology at the Heart Institute. He was also responsible for the Echocardiography Laboratory at the Cardiac Rehabilitation Institute. In 2003 he was appointed Deputy Director of the institute. Currently he is a Scientific Director at the same institute. Tenenbaum is author or coauthor o fabout 200 scientific publications. Most of them are original research articles published in criti- cally peer-reviewed renowned medical journals. His research included several areas, including echocardiography,cardiac CT, heart failure, cardiac calcification and cardiac rehabilitation. Tenenbaum was especially involved in the research of various aspects of metabolic syndrome insulin resistance, obesity and the diabetes/cardiovascular interrelationship including residual risk concept. He worked for the advancement of the Israel Heart Society and international organizations of cardiologists. He was Governor of The International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Co-foun- der and Chairman of the Israeli Heart Society Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Drug Therapy and Co-founder and Secretary General of the Cardiovascular Diabetology Research Foundation.