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Delegation from Haifa’s Rambam hospital takes part in March of the Living for 1st time
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRenee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel.
A delegation from Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center is in Poland and will participate tomorrow in the March of the Living. This is the first time the hospital has sent a group to the annual international event at Auschwitz marking Israel’s national Holocaust memorial day.
The 48-strong contingent includes Jewish, Muslim and Christian doctors, nurses, administrators and maintenance staff.
Since arriving in Poland yesterday, the delegation has also visited other Holocaust-related sites, including the Treblinka and Majdanek death camps.
The group is led by Rambam’s director Prof. Michael Halbertal, who notes that “it has been emotionally trying for all the participants. The sights and the feelings they evoke are challenging, but also moving.”
“We, representatives of all religions together, and from all of the hospital’s departments, are getting an overview perspective of contemporary Israel — of the primacy of the sanctity of life, a common destiny, and the necessity for mutual responsibility,” he says.
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