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Mor Toledano (professionally known as Mor Shapiro) is an Israeli-born physician best known as the wife of American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. Born in Herzliya, Israel, she immigrated to Sacramento, California, at approximately age 12 (around 2000), later moving within the state and obtaining U.S. citizenship. She pursued a career in medicine, earning her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her M.D. from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on 2016-06-17. During her medical training, she founded the annual DGSOM UCLA Ethics Symposium, organizing case-based discussions on healthcare ethics with a focus on bioethics and women's health. Her earlier research at UCLA involved developmental neuroscience, using fMRI to study the effects of early-life adversity on children's brain development. She completed residency training in family medicine at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills (2016-2019), though she also trained at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana, California. As a board-certified family medicine physician, she holds an active Florida medical license (ME148677, clear/active through 2027-01-31) and is associated with a family medicine practice in the Boca Raton area of South Florida following the family's 2020 relocation from California. She has taught Hebrew and Judaica in a Sunday school setting in Los Angeles. Despite her husband's high public profile, she maintains an exceptionally private professional life with minimal online presence and avoids the political spotlight. No legal issues, scandals, allegations, or personal controversies involving her are documented in public records. She married Ben Shapiro in 2008 in a traditional Jewish ceremony held in Acre, Israel. The couple practices Orthodox Judaism and has four children together; their eldest, daughter Leeya Eliana Shapiro (born 2014), underwent successful infant surgery to repair a congenital atrial septal defect in her heart, while details of their three younger children remain private.