Education
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
educationist physician politician
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Born towards the end of the Mandate era, Lass earned a doctorate in medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as a lecturer, and became Associate Dean of the Tel Aviv University Medical School. During the 1980s he presented the science-based television show Tatzpit with Yael Dan.
He later became Director General of the Health Ministry.
He chaired the Health Subcommittee. After leaving politics he returned to teaching at Tel Aviv University.
In 2011 founded North-UFiltration Limited, a company dedicated to recycling of hemodialisers for various industrial and agricultural usages, as well as for providing affordable drinking water. Lass is also involved in a philanthropic project in Africa, using his water filtration technology.
A member of the Labor Party, he was elected to the Knesset on its list in 1992.
