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Source: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=1332541
Bringing "Economic Peace" to Palestine
(Chico (Cal.) News and Review) Robert Speer - While working on a doctorate in government and international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, Rafi Frankel, 32, served as a teaching assistant to Israeli scholar and current ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren. While he was still teaching, Oren had been approached by officials of the Georgetown University Medical Center to help with a feasibility study and laying the groundwork for a teaching hospital on the West Bank. When they asked him to recommend someone to coordinate the project, he nominated Frankel. There is no teaching hospital in the Palestinian health-care system. "The best students go abroad and don't come home," Frankel said, because there is no training for specialists. His job, he said, "is getting all the people together who can bring this about." The project is strongly supported by the Israeli government, but "the challenge is getting a support and logistical staff on the ground."