Aaron Valero (1913-2000) was an Israeli physician and educator who helped establish hospitals and medical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to the advancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of the 20th Century. Valero was born in Jerusalem to a distinguished Sephardi family which had settled in Palestine in the early 1800s and on his mother's side, in the late 1400s. His great-grandfather, Jaacov Valero, established the first bank in Palestine.