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Sharing Her View

Hadassah-Israel exec travels U.S.
to bring good news about Israel.

Ruthan Brodsky
Special
to the Jewish News
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sraeli emergency medical experts
were a major reason that first
responders were so well prepared
following the bombings at the Boston
Marathon!' said Barbara Goldstein,
deputy executive director of Hadassah
Israel.
"A few years earlier, four Israeli
doctors and a staff of nurses trav-
eled to Boston to spend several days
at Massachusetts General Hospital to
help upgrade the hospital's disaster
response plan. They taught the staff
the methods pioneered in Israel based
on the physicians' experience in treat-
ing terror and bomb blast victims.
Their trips around the world are still
paying dividends!'
Goldstein explained that Israelis live
with terror on a daily basis.
"As a result, they provide each child
with a cell phone that has a warn-
ing app in case of a terror attack!'
Goldstein told a group April 29 at
Hadassah House in West Bloomfield.
"When the app goes off on the phone,
children and adults know they have 30
seconds to find shelter."
This is just one of the stories
Goldstein, who now lives in Israel,
shares with communities across the
country. Her job with Hadassah Israel
is to further Hadassah's goal of estab-
lishing a positive perspective of Israel.
Goldstein is touring the U.S., giving
presentations to communities about
Israel's accomplishments and the role
of Hadassah in Israel and in the U.S.
She relates Hadassah's historic and
longtime role of helping to estab-
lish Israel's medical infrastructure.
"Hadassah has stood at the forefront
of health care in the Jewish state by
building medical facilities before Israel
was a state and then giving them to
the municipalities:'
The Hadassah Centers were first
established in 1917 in Jerusalem as a
series of clinics, or Milk Stations, for
new mothers and for treating eye dis-
eases caused by flies. From these small
beginnings, larger clinics were started
throughout Israel. In 1939, Mount
Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem opened,
followed by the Ein Kerem hospital
outside Jerusalem in 1961. Most clinics
were then closed and merged into the
hospitals and named medical centers.
Last year, the first patients moved

Barbara Goldstein

into the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson
Hospital Tower building at Hadassah
Medical Center in Ein Kerem.
"The Davidson family [of Detroit]
donated $75 million for the $360 mil-
lion, 19-story building!' Goldstein
said. "It was named for [the late] Bill
Davidson's mother, the late Sarah
Wetsman Davidson, who was a lead-
ing figure in Hadassah since 1916,
when she hosted Hadassah founder
Henrietta Szold in Detroit. Sarah went
on to found the Detroit chapter of
Hadassah. The tower is being built in
four phases and won't be completed
until 2014:'

Understanding Israel

Goldstein is convinced that most
Jewish Americans don't understand
the nature of the spirit of Israel.
"On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, sirens ring and the
country stops to remember!' Goldstein
said. "Even cars stop on the highways.
On Israel's Memorial Day, the day
preceding the country's Independence
Day, sirens ring and the country stops
again, only this time to remember
the 24,000 who lost their lives in the
struggle that led to the establishment
of Israel and for all the military per-
sonnel who were killed in active duty
in Israel's armed forces"
Joan Epstein, president of Hadassah-
Greater Detroit Chapter, said, "Barbara
has a wonderful way of telling stories,
emphasizing the seriousness of topics
and always inserting a little humor.

