Lubotsky (Lubotzky) Ioel Meyerovich (7 November 1940, Riga) — radiologist.

Ioel Lubotsky was born to Meyer Evseevich Lubotsky (1911, Dvinsk — 1982, Riga) and Sarra Isaakovna Flakser (Nakhimovskaia) (1923, Dvinsk). He was evacuated with his mother to Ulyanovsk. After returning to Latvia in 1945, he completed Riga Secondary School No. 15 (1957) and enrolled in the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute (1957). In 1959 he transferred to the Riga Medical Institute, graduating in 1963.

During his studies he worked as an orderly at the clinic of the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute (1958–1959) and at the Riga Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (1959–1960). He then worked as a male nurse at the Riga Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (1960–1961), the Republican Tuberculosis Sanatorium “Ogre” (1961), Riga 3rd City Hospital (1961–1962), again at the Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (1962), and Riga 6th United City Hospital (1962–1963).

He served as chief physician of the Rugāji District Hospital (1963, Balvi District); performed military service in the Soviet Army (1963–1965, Riga); was chief physician of the Rugāji Tuberculosis Hospital (1965–1967); and deputy chief physician of the Balvi Central District Hospital (1967–1970). He worked as a radiologist at Riga 2nd City Polyclinic (1970), as a methodological physician at the Republican Blood Transfusion Station (1970–1971), as a clinical resident at the Riga Medical Institute (1971–1973), and as a junior researcher at the Institute’s Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory (1973–1978). From 1978 to 1989 he was a radiologist at Riga 1st City Emergency Hospital.

In his marriage to Lidiia Nikolaevna Lubotskaia (nee Orlova) (1938, Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR — 1983, Riga), a son was born: Ilia Ioellevich Lubotsky (1968, Riga).

His second marriage to Liudmila Borisovna Lubotskaia (nee Shevel) (1953, Lida, Hrodna Region, Belarus) was childless; the marriage was dissolved.

In 1989 Ioel Lubotsky received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his mother Sarra Isaakovna Flakser (Nakhimovskaia) (1923) and his half-brother Israel Nokhumovich Flakser (1948, Riga) had been living since 1971.

Family:

Meyer Evseevich Lubotsky (1911–1982) — father
Sarra Isaakovna Flakser (Nakhimovskaia) (1923) — mother
Israel Nokhumovich Flakser (1948) — half-brother (maternal)
Lidiia Nikolaevna Lubotskaia (Orlova) (1938–1983) — first wife
Ilia Ioellevich Lubotsky (1968) — son from first marriage
Liudmila Borisovna Lubotskaia (Shevel’) (1953) — second wife