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A medical wonderland for healing kids

Posted on July 19, 2015

Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center has just opened its Wilf Children’s Hospital. It has several facilities to calm young patients, including an animal house, music school, arts and craft therapy, books and games libraries and Israel’s specialty – medical clowns. … Continue reading →

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Syrian refugees meet Israel’s Dream Doctors

Posted on July 2, 2017

This video features two of Israel’s medical clowns – one Jewish and one Christian Arab – who bring relief and break down social barriers, one giant puffy red nose at a time. They may look silly, but they are revolutionizing … Continue reading →

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Help create new dream doctors

Posted on May 22, 2016

I have reported about Dream Doctors (Israeli medical clowns) previously.  Now you have the opportunity to donate in a matching scheme to sponsor five new clowns to heal and decrease the suffering of sick children in Israeli hospitals. https://www.causematch.com/en/projects/dream-doctors/

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Nepal – Israelis are on the scene

Posted on May 17, 2015

So much has happened in Nepal. A new 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit, with Israelis still on the scene. IsraAID is working in one of the remote devastated regions. A Nepalese man, who had previously worked in Israel, thanks Israel (in … Continue reading →

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Israelis help AIDS patients in Africa

Posted on June 1, 2014

Professor Dan Engelhard of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center founded the Art Joy Love organization to help AIDS patients. In Uganda, his doctors, nurses, medicine, medical clowns, social workers and other volunteers in 18 months have reduced AIDS from 18% down … Continue reading →

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Israel trains Yazidis to treat Iraqi trauma victims

Posted on July 8, 2018

A group of five Yazidis from Iraq recently received training in Israel in medical clowning to help them treat children in their home country, in need of medical treatment or post-traumatic stress disorder. The Yazidis were brought to Israel by … Continue reading →

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