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Israel. newspapers as well as Grisha, by then panic hundreds of groceries, butcher stricken, looked for someone who shops, cafes, book stores and oth- could explain both his condition er enterprises catering to new- and his chances of survival. So he comers from what was once the turned to Dr. Igor Zamiru, a 64- USSR. year-old urologist from Tashkent This is not to say that the im- who had worked for a while at an migrants don't shop at "Israeli gro- Israeli hospital but, lacking a per- ceries" or buy meat from "Israeli manent position, had decided to butchers," but many of them still join one of the "Russian medical feel more at home among those services." who speak their own language in Dr. Zamiru slowly and careful- more ways than one. ly explained what was revealed It is this same factor that has by the tests and then pointed out also led to the development of a that the cancer had only affected "Russian school system." It was one kidney. When that had been created some years ago when par- removed, he added, a normal life ents from the former Soviet Union would still be possible thanks to discovered that their children the remaining kidney. Grisha left were not receiving the kind of feeling a lot better. nose-to-the-grindstone education Physicians with the "Russian provided by elite schools in medical service," be they general Moscow and Kiev. practitioners or specialists, are A number ofRussian-language, much more willing than other Is- after-hours educational institu- raeli doctors to make home calls, tions were opened, places which and for a nominal fee. teach in Russian and emphasize In the Tel Aviv area alone, Russian culture, but are mainly 13,000 immigrants are registered devoted to physics, mathematics with this special medical service and chemistry. to which they pay $10 to $20 a More recently, several "Russ- month, depending on the size of ian medical services" have been their families, plus a small fee for set up, for two main reasons: every visit to a doctor. many immigrant doctors can't ob- So far, these "Russian services" tain permanent positions in Israel are only supplementary; members and many immigrant patients still must belong to regular med- find it difficult to communicate ical insurance funds for some ser- with local physicians. vices and for hospitalization. What happened recently to Gr- But if the services succeed, isha, a newcomer from the they might follow in the footsteps Ukraine, is a case in point. When ofthe Gesher Theater. It was es- he felt extreme pain, he went to tablished some years ago to pro- his medical insurance fund doc- vide employment for Russian tor who, in turn, sent him for a se- actors and directors who could ries of tests. He never understood only work in their own language. exactly what was happening to Today, Gesher performs in He- him because the doctors general- brew and attracts large audi- ly didn't bother to explain what ences of native-born and other Israelis. Indeed, some critics now Nechemia Meyers writes from consider it the best theater in Is- Rehovot, Israel. rael. ❑ ..„,ausimempoommitmismismoismommigip.