American Friends of Rabin Medical Center mourns the passing of our dear friend, Seymour Rosenthal, a dedicated executive board member, and extends its deepest sympathies to his wife Lillian, and her family. Seymour was a mentsch, a gentleman, and a true friend of Israel and Rabin Medical Center. May the Rosenthal family be comforted together with all the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Nechama Rivlin, the 73-year-old wife of Israel’s 10th President Reuven Rivlin, received a lung transplant at [Israel’s] Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv, following a serious decline in her condition due to chronic pulmonary fibrosis.
Despite the plethora of frightening headlines about crowding, lack of compassion and overburdened doctors and nurses in the public hospitals, a first-ever Health Ministry survey of 24 medical centers around the country showed relatively high satisfaction among patients.
A special interfaith
mission to Israel, of
Jews and Christians
from New Jersey and
across the USA, was
launched in November
2006 under the leadership
of Mr. William
Sutter, head of Friends
of Israel and Alan
Respler, head of the
Jewish Community
Relations Council of
Southern New Jersey.