
L-R: Dr. Abeer Massarwa and Prof. Marek Glazerman, Director of the Women's Hospital at Rabin Medical Center
The 5th International Conference in Gender Medicine was recently held in Tel Aviv, bringing more than five hundred participants from nineteen countries around the world.
The Israeli National Health Insurance Bill enacted in 1995 entitles every Israeli citizen to a basic medical care package, yet many of the medical clinics among poverty stricken Israeli-Arab communities remain unable to offer any but the most basic treatments.
My father, Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, died from
colon cancer in 1964. He was forty-four.
I was six. Three years later, my mother,
Hadassah Yanich Plaut, uprooted our
family from Great Neck, Long Island to
Jerusalem, Israel to start a new life.