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Medicine in Israel: A Model of Jewish-Arab Equality and Coexistence
(Ha'aretz) Ronny Linder-Ganz - Israel's public healthcare system is a model of genuine commonality between Arabs and Jews. Arabs fulfill 12.4% of jobs in the government healthcare system, 42% of nursing students are Arab, and 38% of druggists are Arab. In 2015, 16% of all medical students were Arab; at the Technion medical school, Arabs were 38% of students and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 31%. Prof. Ahmed Eid, head of general surgery at Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital and one of this year's Independence Day torch lighters, does not see a glass ceiling for Arab doctors and nurses. "Personally, what I wanted, I achieved," he says.