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Foreign Doctors Come to Israel to Help amid War
(Times of Israel) Renee Ghert-Zand - Twelve thousand doctors, nurses and paramedics from around the world have informed Israel's Health Ministry that they are ready to hop on a plane to Israel and volunteer their services during the ongoing war with Hamas. The readiness of these physicians - most Jewish, but not all - to leave their busy practices abroad has been heartwarming for Israel's medical community. So far, more than 150 have come to help. More than 5,000 civilians, IDF soldiers and police officers were injured on Oct. 7 and in the ensuing war. "We are not recruiting volunteer doctors from abroad to serve with the IDF or on the frontlines. We need them on the home front, filling in for Israeli doctors who have been called up for military service," said Dr. Asher Salmon, head of the Health Ministry's international relations division. Dr. Avi Schlager, a pediatric surgeon from Florida volunteering at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, said, "We're going to look back on this time and ask ourselves whether we did everything we could to help in this critical moment."