It is not surprising that scientists in Israel were the first group to conduct research on the health benefits of pomegranates. One of the seven species mentioned in the Torah and indigenous to The Land of Israel, pomegranates are as heavily laden with Jewish symbolism and legend as they are with seeds. Tradition has it that a pomegranate has 613 seeds which represent the 613 commandments in the Torah. Pomegranates were also found carved into the lintels of the earliest synagogues and were woven into ancient fabrics and hammered silver and gold objects. The pomegranate is also mentioned in the "Song of Songs". It is the symbol of fertility, relating to the first commandment of the Torah, to be fruitful and multiply.
Tradition aside, the pomegranate has many health benefits.
So if you haven't eaten a pomegranate lately, perhaps you should...
Dr. Robert Bregman and Helen Franco organized the
AFRMC Florida chapter to sponsor a community forum in
Boca Raton, Florida, with Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon as
keynote speaker on February 24, 2005.
A new world-class hybrid catheterization suite, the most advanced of its kind and the first one in Israel, was recently inaugurated at the Interventional Cardiology Institute at Rabin Medical Center, directed by Prof. Ran Kornowski.
AFRMC board member Bilha Fish,
M.D., is the president of the
newly-created American Physician
Friends of Rabin Medical Center, an
exciting partnership between
American doctors and Israel's Rabin
Medical Center.