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What Israel Is Giving Me: The Voice of an Arab Doctor

(Times of Israel) Gheula Canarutto Nemni - Faiza is the head of the intensive care unit at a major private hospital in Israel. She lives in Shuafat, an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem where there are frequent disturbances. She comes from a family of eleven, most of them graduates of Israeli universities. "I love my life. I love living in Israel. I thank Allah every day for having given me the opportunity to grow up here," she says. "I know that if it was not for this country, I would never be what I am." "Here you can choose," she says. She turns her head toward the Arab doctors and nurses. "Israel gives you the opportunity to express your human potential." In all Israeli universities there are guaranteed places for Arab-Israeli citizens. "Have you seen how Israeli soldiers are helping Syrians? Have you seen how they are putting their own lives in danger crossing the border in order to take the wounded Syrians to Israeli hospitals?"
2016-03-04 00:00:00
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