Tag Archive for Ziv Medical Center

Israeli drug saves 100% of severe COVID patients in phase II trial

BREAKTHROUGH: All 18 hospitalized individuals at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed that were administered Amor-18 from Amorphical, recovered in a phase II trial and were shortly discharged.

By ROSSELLA TERCATIN

 

All 18 COVID-19 patients hospitalized with moderate or severe symptoms who were administered the drug Amor-18 developed by Israeli biotech company Amorphical in a phase II clinical trial recovered and were discharged in a few days, the company announced Wednesday. Of the 19 individuals who were given a placebo, six had to be transferred to intensive care, and two died.

The trial was conducted at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed and led by the directors of the coronavirus department, Dr. Continue Reading »

40 ill Syrian mothers & children enter Israel for medical treatment

Unlike ‘Operation Good Neighbor’ where injured Syrians have been treated in Israel, the IDF begins ‘Operation Doctor’s Appointment’ with more than 40 sick mothers & children with chronic health problems cross the Golan Heights in pre-dawn hours for a day’s treatment in an Israeli hospital.
– Syrian patient, ‘We were afraid in the beginning to come because we regarded Israelis as Zionists and enemies. It’s the opposite.’

Reuters

 

Keeping a doctor’s appointment in Israel, Syrian children and their mothers stepped across a tense Golan Heights border in the dead of night under the watchful gaze of Israeli soldiers.

The patients, Israeli medical officials said, were not the walking wounded of the seven-year-old Syrian civil war but children with chronic health problems coming across the frontier for a day’s treatment in a hospital in northern Israel. Continue Reading »

Operation “Good Neighbor” – Israel supplies humanitarian aid to 200k Syrians in Golan Heights

While it’s no secret over 3,000 wounded Syrians, including hundreds of children, have been treated in Israeli hospitals, just a few are aware of Operation ‘Good Neighbor’ with the IDF distributing baby food, medicine, generators, school supplies to 200,000 civilians on Israel’s north-east border, in the Syrian Golan Heights.

By Adi Hashmonai

 

Four and a half years after Israel first gave aid to Syrians injured in the civil war ravaging the country, Ziv Medical Center in Safed Director Dr. Salman Zarka says the move is “a clear message to the world that Israelis are humane, extending a helping hand and successfully saving our enemies’ lives too.” Continue Reading »

Syrian missives express gratitude for Israel’s humanitarianism

Expressing their gratitude, Syrian civil war victims treated by Israeli field hospitals on the Golan Heights pen appreciation letters for the IDF’s medical care, saying it has strengthened their yearning for peace, undermined indoctrination of Israel as an enemy.
“To all Syrians who say Israel is the enemy, I say that you are liars….Israel is our friend.”

By Yoav Birenberg

 

Dozens of Syrian civilians have written letters of gratitude to Israel and the IDF for establishing field hospitals on its northern border which provided, and continue to provide, medical care to numerous victims wounded in the country’s ongoing violent civil war. Continue Reading »

Conan O’Brien: Israel Deserves Nobel Peace Prize For Its Treatment of Syrian Civilians

Amid plenty of laughs the popular TV host & comedian is in Israel filming for his documentary series, tweets the realities of Israel and the Middle East conflict.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Popular late night television host Conen O’Brien has been in Israel for the past week filming a segment of his documentary series “Conan Without Borders.”

While there have been a lot of laughs, Conan’s also made some very serious stops as he makes his way through the Holy Land. Continue Reading »

US envoy Jason Greenblatt: World should know Israel treats thousands of wounded Syrians

In a US Embassy statement, about 3,500 Syrian injured have sought and received treated in Israeli hospitals, including over 1,000 at Ziv Medical Center in Israel’s Galilee.

By HERB KEINON

 

The world should hear about Israel’s quality treatment of Syrian patients in its hospitals, US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt said on Tuesday after visiting Ziv Medical Center in Safed.

Map to the Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel – Google Maps

“These are the stories of Israel the world needs to hear, and stories like this show how peace in the region can be possible,” Greenblatt said after visiting the hospital, which has taken care of hundreds of Syrians wounded in their country’s civil war. Continue Reading »

Israeli Doctor honored by Buenos Aires Parliament for treating Syrian war victims

Dr. Alejandro Roisentul, who moved to Israel 28 years ago, is the head of the Maxillofacial Surgery Unit of Ziv Medical Center, in Safed, Israel, where “more than 1,500 Syrian have been treated for free.”

By JTA

 

BUENOS AIRES — An Argentinean-Israeli doctor was honored at the Buenos Aires city parliament as an “outstanding personality in the human rights field” for assisting victims of the Syrian civil war.

Dr. Alejandro Roisentul, who has lived in Israel for the last 28 years, received the kudos on Tuesday for his part in bringing Syrian patients to Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel. Continue Reading »

Syrian patient at Ziv Medical Center: ‘Israel is not the enemy. Bashar is the enemy.’

 

After 5 years of Syrian regime bombing of its own people, Syrian refugees treated by the IDF or in Israeli hospitals learn quickly that their Jewish neighbor is not their real foe.
– A Syrian patient treated in Safed says, ‘The future of Syria has no Bashar Assad…Israel is not the enemy. Bashar is the enemy.’

By The Associated Press

 

Seven wounded Syrians—two children, four women and a man—waited in pain for darkness to fall to cross into enemy territory. Under the faint moonlight, Israeli military medical corps quickly whisked the patients across the hostile frontier into armored ambulances headed to hospitals for intensive care. Continue Reading »

Thankful Syrian mother names Israel-born daughter, Sarah

 

Knowing the hospitals & clinics near her village have all been destroyed, a 29 yr-old pregnant Syrian woman makes way to the Israeli border where IDF soldiers transfer her to an Israeli hospital.
• “I’ll never forget what you did here,” she said.

By Danny Brenner

 

A 29-year-old Syrian woman gave birth to a healthy girl last weekend in Ziv Medical Center in Safed, and in gratitude to the State of Israel, named the baby Sarah.

The woman came from a village around which every hospital and clinic had been destroyed in the long civil war. Nearing the end of her pregnancy, she made the dangerous trek to the Israeli border, and was brought to the hospital by the Israel Defense Forces, where she gave birth by caesarian section. Continue Reading »

Israeli Medical Center raises post-treatment funds for Syria’s civil war victims

 

 

Israel’s northern hospital, the Ziv Medical Center that’s treated over 700 Syrian civilian victims, is aiming to send patients home with a ‘care package’ to assist in their recuperation for a better and more sustainable recovery.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

 

Ziv Medical Center, which has treated over 700 casualties of the Syrian civil war, including women and children is now working to raise funds for their treatment and return to Syria.

Location of the Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel - Google Maps

Location of the Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel – Google Maps/IsraelandStuff

The casualties all reach the border, by any means at their disposal. Among the injured are children and young adults who arrive on their own, unaccompanied by a family member, perhaps they have lost their families during the course of the war. Continue Reading »

WATCH: IDF & Israeli Medical Personnel Save the Life of Syrian Terrorist

Neither the IDF nor Israeli hospital personnel checked his nationality, political affiliation or his religion…only that he isn’t booby-trapped.

By Aviel Schneider

 

Israel’s commitment to human life knows no bounds. When soldiers guarding the northern border with Syria last week were asked to permit entry to a seriously wounded Syrian man, they did not hesitate, despite the fact that the patient was a member of the Al-Nusra Front, an offshoot of Al Qaeda.

Israeli military doctors received the wounded man at the border, and after a security check to make sure he was not wired with explosives, transported the patient to Ziv Medical Center in the Galilee town of Tsefat (Safed). Continue Reading »

2 wounded UN peacekeepers from errant mortar strike inside Syria treated in Israel

In apparent spillover from ongoing civil war, 2 wounded UNDOF peacekeepers stationed in Quneitra, a man & a woman from Nepal, were sent to an Israeli hospital for treatment.

By Danny Brenner, Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom Staff & Reuters

 

Two United Nations peacekeepers stationed on the Israel-Syria border in the Golan Heights were wounded on Monday when a mortar shell struck their position in Quneitra.

A wounded U.N. peacekeeper is treated at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Monday – Photo: Ziv Medical Center

It is believed the mortar fire was spillover from the ongoing civil war inside Syria.

The wounded peacekeepers, a man and a woman from Nepal, were transported to an Israeli hospital for medical treatment. Continue Reading »

Another 3 Syrian children in serious condition are treated in Israeli hospital

Three children hurt from exploding shell while playing were  sent to Ziv Medical Center in Safed for treatment.

Since the beginning of the Syrian war, Ziv hospital has treated 376 Syrian patients.

By Ahiya Raved

 

Three Syrian children wounded in the battles raging in their war-torn country were brought to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed on Saturday night to receive medical treatment. They were treated at the trauma unit and were expected to undergo surgery when their condition stabilizes.

A wounded Syrian boy being treated at Ziv Medical Center (Photo: Courtesy)

A wounded Syrian boy being treated at Ziv Medical Center – Photo: Courtesy

Two of the children were seriously wounded. Continue Reading »

Syria’s ‘Nelson Mandela’ praises Israel for treating his wounded countrymen

 

Prominent Syrian oppositionist, Dr. Kamal al-Labwani, “Israel treats wounded Syrians and saves their lives while Assad continues to massacre his people. All of Syria sees this and asks: Who is the real enemy?”, he said while visiting Syrian patients at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel.

By Danny Brenner

 

“Israel treats wounded Syrians and saves their lives while [Syrian President Bashar] Assad continues to massacre his people,” said Dr. Kamal al-Labwani, a prominent member of the Syrian opposition movement.

“All of Syria sees this and asks: Who is the real enemy?” Labwani said on Thursday while visiting Syrian patients at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, in northern Israel.

Continue Reading »

Israeli Hospital Determined to Restore Syrian Child’s Sight

 

The 12 yr-old boy is but one Syrian civil war victims of ten patients currently being treated at the Israeli hospital. He lost his sight from regime shelling. Another victim says, ‘We were taught that Israel is the enemy.’

By Reuters

 

Israeli medics were checking last week a 12-year-old Syrian boy who was brought to Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat (Safed), northern Israel.

An injured Syrian girl being treated at Israel’s Ziv Medical Center – Reuters

The hospital said that the boy was severely wounded, losing the sight in both eyes and suffering injuries to his arm and leg, when a shell exploded near his home in the outskirts of Damascus. Continue Reading »