|| Diaspora Doctors and Other Healthcare Providers Volunteer to Go to Israel in Time of War

Twelve thousand doctors, nurses, and paramedics from around the world have informed the Israeli Health Ministry that they are ready to hop on a plane to the Jewish state and volunteer their services during the ongoing war with the Hamas terror group. Of the 12,000, some 7,000 are doctors of all specialties. Half are from the United States, and others are from other countries including Sweden, Canada, Belgium, Brazil, Switzerland and New Zealand. So far [as of November 23, 2023], more than 150 of them have come to help out.
— Times of Israel
[Ed. note: It is unclear how many — if any — of those who are ready to volunteer non-Jews.]
 
Quotes: “Being Jewish, having a deep and lifelong bond with the Jewish people and Israel, and having a skill set that I could use immediately made me want to volunteer. The senior doctors [who are either on the front lines or busy planning for contingencies] are not able to do the typical didactic teaching on a daily basis, so that is where I am filling in those gaps. For instance, I am going to see patients with young doctors and also teaching them how to do bedside ultrasounds.” — Dr. Louis Profeta, emergency room physician from Indianapolis
 
“What was clear from our initial call with the hospital was its understanding that the time to come to Israel was now, while things were still under control and relatively quiet — not when all hell breaks loose and there is a war on two fronts and there are mass casualties up north.” — Dr. David Zeltsman, thoracic surgeon from New York
 
“I and a bunch of other anesthesiologists thought it was probably somewhat useful to at least just come, get oriented, and get some conditional licenses so that God forbid if we were needed, we could even come back again. We felt, why wait? Let’s just get this going.” — Prof. Suzanne Karan, anesthesiologist from Rochester, NY
— Times of Israel
 
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