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4 Jul

“Just Clownin’ Around!” Medical Clown at Hadassah Hospital heals with happiness

When David ‘Dush’ Barashi walks up to you in the hallway, he comes across as animated, a cartoon figure come to life. You feel like you’re meeting a Disney character. Perhaps from “Aladdin” or “Pirates of the Caribbean.” His mop of salt and pepper hair and twistable mustache looks like it spawned from the barbershop […]

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26 Jun

Rare disease creates bond between Israeli and Palestinian patients

They met in the Paediatrics Department at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, two couples whose children suffer from a rare disease. One couple from an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, and one couple from Gaza, both sharing the same concern for their tiny loved ones who are hospitalised for treatment and follow-up at a Hadassah Paediatric gastroenterology […]

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7 Nov

Guest Blog; Aly’s Hadassah Blog

Guest Blog: Aly’s Story- My name is Aly, and I’m proud and honoured to have been asked to write a blog for the Hadassah UK website.  I hope that my regular updates can help to give you an insight into what truly makes the Hadassah Hospital tick . . .  the building, the patients and […]

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11 Feb

Coexistence at Hadassah: Reflections of an Arab Social Worker in Israel

I am a social worker in the Paediatric Surgical Department and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, and I teach the students at the Hebrew University School of Social Work. I am proud that we provide healthcare services for all patients, whether they are from West Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, the settlements, […]

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11 Jan

Moving into the Future: Hadassah Dedicates New OR Complex

The long-awaited operating room complex for the Hadassah Medical Centre’s Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower was dedicated on January 10th. Built to allow Hadassah’s high-level surgical teams to carry out complicated surgeries under optimal conditions, with a level of  technology used by the world’s top-tier hospitals, the complex took eight years to complete at a […]

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