Itzhak Bentov
| Itzhak "Ben" Bentov | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Itzhak Emery Bentov August 9, 1923 Humenné, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | May 25, 1979 (aged 55) Chicago, Illinois |
| Cause of death | Killed in crash of American Airlines Flight 191 |
| Nationality | American, Israeli |
| Occupation | scientist, inventor, author |
| Children | Sharona Ben-Tov Muir |
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov (also Ben-Tov) (Hebrew: יצחק בנטוב) (August 9, 1923 – May 25, 1979) was a Czech-born Israeli American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry. He was also an early exponent of what has come to be referred to as consciousness studies and authored several books on the subject.
Bentov was born in Humenné, Czechoslovakia, in 1923. During World War II, his parents were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
He narrowly escaped being sent to the camps and moved to British Palestine, first living on the Shoval kibbutz in the Negev.
Despite not having a university degree, Bentov joined the Israeli Science Corps, which David Ben-Gurion incorporated into the Israeli Defense Forces one month before Israel declared statehood in 1948. The Science Corps became a military branch known by the Hebrew acronym HEMED. Bentov designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence. HEMED was forced to make improvised weapons as there was a worldwide embargo on selling weapons to the Jewish state.
Bentov immigrated to the United States in 1954, and settled in Massachusetts. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1962.
Bentov began with a workshop in the basement of a Catholic church in Belmont, Massachusetts in the 1960s. In 1967, he built the steerable heart catheter and attracted the attention of businessman John Abele, with whom Bentov founded the Medi-Tech corporation in 1969.
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