Ora Israel is Emeritus Professor of Imaging at the Rappaport School of Medicine, the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. In 2018 she retired from her 18-years long position as director of Nuclear Medicine at the Rambam Health Care Campus. Over more than four decades, her main scientific interests included multimodality imaging, in vivo radionuclide quantitation, and imaging of infection and inflammation. She has been involved in the development of hybrid imaging, SPECT/CT and PET/CT, since its beginnings in the late 1990s and in recent decades in developing guidelines for its clinical implementation. She is the author of four textbooks on Hybrid Imaging and over 220 scientific articles. A founding member of the Israeli Academy of Research in Medicine, elected in 2018 as Fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI -USA), the first non-North American to receive this honor and Honorary Member of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in 2020.