His grandfather, Yosef Sapir, was born in Bessarabia. Dani Gur is part of a fa- mily of doctors in the fourth generation. Ilana Goor's brother. In 1955, he began studying medicine at the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After 1962, he made internship, Rambam Medical Center, specializing in cardiology. Later, he specialized ni heart pathology at Miller Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. He followed the specialization in surgery at the University of Minnesota and cardiac surgery at Cornell University, where he worked with Professor Clarence Walton Lailey, who is considered one of the world's greatest cardiac surgeons. In 1981, due to a severe shortage of nurses and units equipped with sophisticat- ed equipment in hospitals, Gore set up the Institute of Biotechnology, which trained medical technologists who, upon graduation, were placed in various intensive care units. Under Gur's leadership, the department performed, for the first time in the country, surgery to repair mitral valve and surgery without a cardiac lung machine. Gur's success in these surgeries was encouraged and they brought in specialists from abroad to pay for these surgeries. In the late 1970s, Gur was considered one of the pioneers introducing heart surgery in Israel.