Why would an Arab woman in Lebanon, Qatar, or even Syria use the Internet to find an Israeli psychologist because her husband is running around with a ‘girlfriend’?
A quick Google search is enough to reveal that Dr. Rafael Richman is a psychologist based in the German Colony of Jerusalem. But many of his online patients would rather not know that.
Take, for example, the women from neighboring Arab countries who wait until the coast is clear to contact him over cyberspace and vent their frustrations about their husbands. Or the young Muslim men from around the region who have no one else nearby to confide in about their attraction to other members of the same sex.
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