THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 10, 1973-31
Detroit Oleh Seeks Added Facilities for Hospital in Safed
Aliya as an ideal, which
has drawn a number of
Michigan Jews as settlers
assisting in Israel's upbuild-
ing, now counts in its ranks
a highly respected Detroit
orthopedist who has become
a permanent member of the
medical staff of the govern-
ment hospital in Safed.
Dr. Louis Shifrin, his wife,
the former Ruth Jacoby, and
their three children, Amy,
12, Mark, 10, and Jenny, 6,
came to Israel a year ago,
went through preparatory
stages of acclimating to their
new environment in the ab-
sorption center near Jeru-
salem, and then selected
Safed as the center for Dr.
Shifrin's services for their
'opted country.
graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, Dr. Shifrin,
after internship and army
service was on the medical
staff of Ford Hospital here
for six years and gained
wide recognition as an or-
thopedist.
Convinced that American
participation in Israel's up-
building is vital not only for
the Jewish people but for
America's role in the Middle
East, Dr. Shifrin joined the
Aliya movement and resign-
ed from his Ford Hospital
staff membership to render
that service.
He selected Safed, the
famous city of mysticism, be-
cause he was convinced that
the northern Israeli areas
needed guarantees for the
advancement of health con-
ditions, and for expansion of
services to the Jewish settle-
ments in the Galil.
*****__********* He joined the staff of Gen-
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Originally, the General
Hospital Zefat was estab-
lished by Baron Edmond de
Rothschild, in Palestine, in
1911. Baron Rothschild—who
became known as the Nadiv
Hayeduah—the noted philan-
thropist — was in Rosh Pina
at that time. He was ap-
proached by a delegation
representing the then 12,000-
member Jewish community
of Safed with a request for
much-needed hospital serv-
ice. Then. the Baron estab-
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name of "The Baroness de
Rothschild Hospital." It
served then, as its successor,
the government hospital,
does now, the Arabs and
Christians as well as Jews.
As an emphasis on the
ion-sectarian character of
the hospital, Dr. Shifrin said
that many on the hospital
staff are non-Jews, including
Arabs, and Arabs flock there
for services.
As an indication of the
interest shown in the general
character of the hospital, Dr.
Shifrin pointed to the fact
that the head of the Safed
hospital's physiotherapy de-
partment is a Mormon. She
had visited Israel, became
enchanted with the country,
decided to remain there and
joined the Safed hospital
staff.
In the interest of the Re-
becca Sieff Government Hos-
pital, Dr. Shifrin, visiting
here for his vacation, de-
scribed a dire need for addi-
tional support to provide the
hospital with equipment that
is unavailable unless supple-
mentary funds are provided.
He pointed to a shortage
of medical instruments, the
need for scholarships for
students in the practical
nurses school, educational
funds for research and the
training of underprivileged
youngsters in the area in
medical disciplines.
"Our hospital is financed
by the government," Dr.
Shifrin said, "but the vitally
needed equipment and re-
search and training funds
are not available under the
dire conditions of current fi-
nancial stress. We have
therefore formed the Society
of Friends of the Safed
(Zefat) Rebecca Sieff Gov-
ernment Hospital and we
hope that interested Ameri-
can Jews will assist us in
our efforts in a vital Israel
community."
The new hospital that is
now ready for operation, Dr.
Shifrin stated, has been built
"in response to urgent medi-
cal needs to serve Upper
Galilee and the Golan
Heights."
"The continuing settlemnnt
of Galilee and the Golan
Heights requires that first
class modern medical serv-
ices be provided and the
civilian population and the
'Israel defense army who are
jointly pioneering and de-
fending the area," he added.
While the Society of
Friends of the Safed Medical
Center has already been or-
ganized in Israel, the hopes
are that American branches
will be created for the stated
purposes, Dr. Shifrin said.
He indicated that enroll-
ments have already been
made in New England areas
and he urged similar enroll-
ments here.
The Shifrins visited here
for a month with Dr. Shif-
rin's uncle, Dr. Peter G.
Shifrin and Mrs. Shifrin.
They are returning to Israel
this week to resume resi-
dence in Safed.
The Shifrin children have
been absorbed wholesomely
into the Israel environment
and have already mastered
Hebrew.
Mrs. Shifrin said they and
the children have found en-
couraging social and com-
munal contacts in their new
environment. She pointed to
a good relationship with all
olim — new settlers — as
well as the natives; that the
children and the sabras have
become very responsive. Ad-
mittedly there are problems,
she said, with the Russians
and the sabras, yet the re-
lationships have been so
wholesome that the olim
from Detroit speak with
satisfaction of the links they
have established with fellow-
Jews as well as non-Jews —
Christian and Moslem Arabs
— in their newly-acquired
home.
Brochure Lists Shmita Laws
NEW YORK — Observant
Jews who travel to Israel, or
who purchase Israeli-grown
products in the U.S. will be
able to observe the laws of
shmita, the sabbatical year
when the land lies fallow, as
these religious regulations
have been published for the
first time in an English-lan-
guage brochure by Agudath
Israel of America.
The current year 5733 is
the year of shmita, when all
farming activities ceases in
religious settlements which
do not want to utilize a spe-
cial legal arrangement- of the
chief rabbinate. In such set-
tlements as the Agudath Is-
rael - sponsored Kommemiut
in the Negev, all agricultural
work came to a halt during
the current year.
Large numbers of observ-
ant Orthodox Jews through-
out the world will not eat any
produce grown in Israel dur-
ing the current year from
Ikrit Ex-Villagers
Need Visit Permit
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gen.
Itzhak Choffi, military com-
mander of the Galilee area,
said that former residents of
Baram and Ikrit would from
now on need permits to visit
the church and cemetery in
the area of the two villages.
His order came after sev-
eral of the former villagers
were arrested for staying
overnight at the church in
violation of the law. Those
arrested were later released
on bail.
Archbishop Joseph Raya,
spiritual leader of the Maro-
nites in the Galilee, visited
the detainees at the Nahariya
police station and told them
he would protest to the au-
thorities about the violation
of religious rights, since the
people were arrested at the
church.
__Former residents of Ikrit
and Baram who were evicted
from the area when it was
declared a security zone in
1948 have been trying to get
permission from the Israeli
government to return to the
two villages.
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