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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

medical clowns

Dream Doctors medical clowns peform a pretend wedding for a nurse and her fiancé, who had to cancel their real wedding because of the Israel-Hamas war. Sheba Medical Center, October 2023. (Dream Doctors)
October 26, 2023, 9:04 am
For Israel’s medical clowns, getting a giggle has never been a tougher sell
With the whole country traumatized — including themselves — ‘Dream Doctors’ do their best to therapeutically raise the spirits of the war wounded and displaced
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A clothing and equipment drive on King David Blvd in Tel Aviv for residents in the south and soldiers, on October 8, 2023. (Lizzy Shaanan/Courtesy)
October 8, 2023, 7:22 pm
After shock Gaza attack, Israelis step up to provide aid. Here’s how you can, too
Protest organizers, private citizens and many others seek to lend a hand to southern residents affected by the conflict. Here are links to grassroots efforts
By Gavriel Fiske
The Dome of the Rock Mosque is reflected in rainwater as worshippers gather for Friday prayers on a cold, rainy day at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 6, 2023. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
January 18, 2023, 1:04 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 18: What’s the status of the status quo on the Temple Mount?
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on a fracas with Jordan over an awkward ambassadorial visit; health reporter Nathan Jeffay on cancer-stopping peptides and serious silliness
By ToI Staff
A medical clown from Dream Doctors, an Israeli nonprofit that was observed in new peer-reviewed research on medical clowning (courtesy of Dream Doctors)
January 17, 2023, 5:41 pm
Science of silliness: Israeli study deconstructs medical clowning so MDs use it more
Research is first to empirically map clowns’ skills, authors say, claiming it will help doctors understand their work and better integrate it into treatment
By Nathan Jeffay
Shemesh (Smadar Harpak), who works at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, jokes with a Ukrainian refugee child at a camp established at the International Exhibition Centre MoldExpo in Chisinau, Moldova, March 9, 2022. (Hila Pe'er)
March 20, 2022, 2:45 pm
Israeli medical clowns bring smiles, relieve stress for Ukraine refugees in Moldova
Dream Doctors cheer the weary; one refugee cites Ukraine’s Holocaust history: ‘I don’t believe that after all that we did to your people during the war, you’re now helping us’
By Sue Surkes
Medical clown Nimrod Eisenberg performing at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center (courtesy)
April 17, 2020, 12:01 pm
Reinventing the red nose: Clowns join the frontlines of the coronavirus fight
‘We’re keeping the system sane,’ says clown chief, as his 100-strong team prescribes laughter as best medicine at 30 hospitals across Israel
By Nathan Jeffay
A group of Yazidis from Iraq (with their backs to the camera) together with Israeli trainers who gave them a course on medical clowning, June 2018. (Israel's Foreign Ministry)
July 1, 2018, 1:10 pm
Iraqi Yazidis take medical clowning course in Israel
Foreign Ministry, British charity facilitate arrival of group from persecuted community; hope it will help them put smiles on faces of traumatized kids
By Michael Bachner
This undated photo shows Syrian social worker Anas al-Basha, 24, dressed as a clown, while posing for a photograph in Aleppo, Syria. (Courtesy of Ahmad al-Khatib, via AP)
December 1, 2016, 5:58 pm
Aleppo clown who comforted Syrian children killed in airstrike
While his family fled, social worker Anas al-Basha, 24, chose to stay in war-ravaged city to cheer up youngsters
By PHILIP ISSA
Medic Daniel Klughaupt dons his clown costume when treating an Israeli boy who was hit by a minibus in central Israel, on Thursday August 11 2016. (Courtesy United Hatzalah)
August 12, 2016, 8:55 pm
Medic dons clown costume to treat Israeli boy hit by bus
‘It is a cliché, but laughter really is best medicine,’ says US-born Daniel Klughaupt, who used his alter ego to calm injured 5-year-old
By AFP
Adele Raemer
April 17, 2016, 2:21 pm
Adele Raemer
It’s all about the nose
The hospital is a great equalizer: everyone smiles at a clown who brings respite from worry, fear, tears and pain
33-year-old Palestinian clown doctor Alaa Miqdad, left, entertains 3-year-old patient Yaqin Shawaf, who suffers from dialysis, in the department of kidney diseases at Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City, March 17, 2016. (AP/Adel Hana)
March 23, 2016, 11:41 am
Palestinian clowns offer kids relief in Gaza hospitals
Without any formal clown training, Majed Kaloub and Alaa Miqdad began performing antics during 2014 war before taking show to children with chronic illnesses
By Fares Akram
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