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Meet the real heroes of Shaare Zedek and see where your money has made the difference

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

s I look back over the past year of successes and challenges, I cannot help but think of these insightful words from Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie

Wiesel. At a time when Jerusalem faces her greatest sustained terror wave since the Second Intifada, where British doctors are reportedly trying to have Israeli doctors expelled from the World Medical Association and natural disasters continue to reap damage across the globe, it is easy to see the darkness.

Perhaps it is only at these dark times when we can truly appreciate the light. In this edition of Heartbeat you will read about many lights. You will meet Asael; a young Israeli soldier badly wounded in the line of duty who is now a proud member of our paediatrics team. You will meet the Goldbergs; an incredible family who are so driven by hope that in the wake of their own personal tragedy they decided to make a life-saving choice to help others. You will hear about the miracles our doctors perform every day in our Emergency Department and across the world on their Humanitarian mission to Nepal. You will read about the incredible new Children’s hospital treating hundreds of children every day and some of the incredible British supporters who have raised the money to make this happen.

None of our success would have been possible without you. Last year you sent £2,051,008 to support all of this incredible work. I hope you enjoy reading how your efforts and donations are making a difference. There is a bright light burning in the heart of Jerusalem and you keep it alight.

Simi Ben HurExecutive Director

Contents

02 WELCOME AND UPDATE

04 ISRAEL’S NUMBER 1 EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

07 ASAEL LUBOTSKY: A STORY OF RESILIENCE & COURAGE

08 GLOBAL IMPACT: NEPAL

12 CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL: A MEDICAL WONDERLAND

14 REFLECTION ON EVENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2015

18 COMMUNITY HEALTH ISSUES

20 IN MEMORY: RABBI GOLDBERG Z”L

22 UK VISITS TO THE HOSPITAL & DEDICATIONS

24 CELEBRATIONS & COMMEMORATIONS

28 THE YEAR AHEAD

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Dear Friendsam proud to report the past year has been one of tremendous growth at Shaare Zedek.

We have increased the number of patients we care for and witnessed the opening of numerous

new departments. We also take pride in our many research accomplishments as studies advanced here in Jerusalem are impacting medical science globally. After many years of planning, we are blessed to see the opening of The Next Generation Building including the Wilf Children’s Hospital. Even within a short period of time since the opening, we are witnessing a dramatic increase in demand on these facilities, proving the value of this new facility each and every day.

We are embarking on several renovation and relocation projects that fall within our vision of a complete hospital renewal within five years. Many of our medical departments were constructed back in 1979 and require significant updating.

As we have become the fastest growing hospital in Jerusalem, the number of patients we treat continues to rise. In 2015 we treated over 700,000 patients in more than 30 patient departments and 70 outpatient units. This includes the birth of 22,000 babies, 25,000 surgical performances and over 140,000 cases treated in our emergency department.

There can be no denying that the last months have been deeply challenging for the people of Israel and Jerusalem as we once again have faced a scourge of hostile attacks. As in past terror waves, the majority of victims in the Jerusalem area have been cared for at Shaare Zedek. Even while we all hope and pray that calm will be restored very soon, we remain prepared for every eventuality.

All these developments are only made possible through the generosity of friends around the world. So for your kindness and support, I extend my sincere thanks and look forward to our continued partnership in caring for the people of Jerusalem and Israel.

Professor Jonathan HalevyDirector General, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre

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“We have become the fastest

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Israel’s

NO.1 emergency department and the miracles

it performs

Israel’s

NO.1 emergency department and the miracles

it performs

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haare Zedek’s trauma expertise, together with its central location, has resulted in us treating the majority of victims injured in these attacks. At such a

troubling time, it is important for us to share with you some of the miracles we have witnessed in Jerusalem’s busiest ER and the stories of the doctors and nurses who perform this life-saving work.

Dr Ofer Merin is the Deputy Director General of Shaare Zedek and Director of Trauma Services at the Kennedy Leigh Shock and Trauma Unit. He manages the trauma response to emergency situations and has kept us updated on the current situation. On his recent visit to the UK he told us just how difficult a job he has, not only treating victims of terror, but often the perpetrators of these attacks. We heard Dr Merin talk first-hand about the passion and dedication it takes to save lives.

Dr Merin and his team were praised for their “unwavering sensitivity” by an Israeli news crew who shadowed the team for 96 hours and witnessed the complexities of caring for terror victims and their families first hand. This included watching Dr Merin and his team

working together with the family of severely injured Shoshana Haim in order to determine the best way to break the devastating news that her husband had been killed in the same attack that had left her so badly injured.

In the film our Head Nurse of ER Naama Bagrish recounts the profound impact the patients have on the lives of the team. She recalled one particular patient killed in a terror attack that had no visitors. On realising he was “all alone in the world” Naama worked with ZAKA and other networks to publicise funeral details to ensure he would have a respectful burial. Hundreds of people came, including some of the ER staff and Shaare Zedek nurse Deganit gave the eulogy.

Despite the sadness there are many shared moments of joy between our doctors and their patients’ families. Moshe arrived at the hospital in critical condition, having been stabbed in the neck. Dr Merin and Naama described the whole team’s huge sense of pride and happiness in seeing him leave the hospital a week later standing on his own two feet. When saying goodbye to Moshe and his pregnant wife, Dr Merin expressed his hope that the next time they visit Shaare Zedek will be for a much happier reason, the birth of their baby.

In a patient survey conducted in November 2015, our Weinstock Family Department of Emergency Medicine was ranked top of all the Emergency Departments in Israel. The survey, conducted by online news journal The Marker, comes at a time of increased terror attacks in Israel. 24 people have been killed with over 1100 people wounded in these brutal attacks.

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Despite the sadness there are many shared

moments of joy between our doctors and their patients’

families.

Top to bottom:

Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman MK, Professor Halevy and Professor Petachia Reissman, Chairman of the Department of General Surgery

Dr Todd Zalut, ER Department Head treating a patient

Dr Ofer Merin in the Trauma Department

Dr Ofer Merin receiving updates on terror attacks – October 2015

Meir was another terror victim who arrived at the hospital in such a severe state that he was “holding his intestines in”. On being discharged from hospital Dr Merin told Meir how much he and his team would miss his smile and his joy.

As heartbeat went to press we had just received the incredible news that Michal Froman, the pregnant victim of a stabbing attack is being released from hospital with her unborn baby also in good health.

Your support for our Emergency Department has allowed us to give Dr Merin, Naama and their team the best equipment and facilities available to save as many lives as possible. Thank you. These stories and others are captured in the 10 minute film “96 Hours with Shaare Zedek’s Trauma Unit” which is available to view on YouTube (English subtitles).


Resilience & courageAsael’s story

ine years ago, Asael Lubotzky was serving as a Platoon Commander in Battalion 51 during the Second Lebanon War

when Hezbollah terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at the armoured personnel carrier he was in. Asael was seriously wounded and left fighting for his life.

Lubotzky recalls, “We were in a convoy and we entered a missile ambush. Seconds before the missile was launched I stood up to see the battle area. Half my body was inside the carrier and half outside, and that’s what really saved my life. The missile hit the front of the vehicle and dozens of pieces of shrapnel sliced through my body, but luckily they hit my lower body. My head and chest were not hit.”

Lubotzky’s injured leg, which was partially attached to his body, slid off the stretcher whilst he was being evacuated. “I shouted at one of the soldiers to catch it and tie it to the stretcher. In my heart I had already accepted that my leg was lost.”

Lubotzky was rushed to Rambam Hospital in Haifa, where doctors worked round the clock to save his leg. Later it was strengthened and extended through muscles that were transplanted from his back.

It has taken 9 years and countless surgeries, but in September 2015 Asael Lubotzky began an internship in Paediatrics at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre and can look towards a brighter future. Unlike other students Lubotzky did not dream of becoming a doctor, it was his own personal experiences of being a patient that moved him to want to explore this career path.

He does not allow anything to get in his way and says sometimes “it is a little more difficult spending many hours on my feet. The children ask me about my crutches and usually I feel it creates a better chemistry with them. It’s even a little less frightening to them than a doctor that comes with a white coat and an official uniform.”

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Asael during his recovery and working as a doctor at Shaare Zedek

Global impact:Global impact:Global impact:

Nepal Nepal Nepal

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As we all heard news of the Nepal earthquake in April 2015, Shaare Zedek doctors and nurses were already making their way to the disaster zone to provide full medical support. Our ten person team was the largest sent by any single Israeli hospital and included Director General Professor Jonathan Halevy who described the mission as one of the greatest challenges he had faced in 42 years of working in medicine.

n addition to his duties at Shaare Zedek Dr Ofer Merin is also the medical director of the IDF field hospital and led the mission to Nepal. The IDF field hospital is truly unique, bringing a self-sufficient

team equipped for any situation to any country that needs it. The level of expertise, training , equipment and supplies have seen Dr Merin and his team support disasters around the world including the Philippines, Japan, Syria and Haiti.

In Nepal the team treated 1600 patients, performed ninety life-saving operations and delivered eight babies, including six by c-section. They brought 95 tons of humanitarian aid and

medical supplies, leaving all equipment in Nepal for local hospitals to make use of once the teams returned to Israel.

Dr Merin visited London in November to share his experiences and best practice in trauma medicine with Parliament, the British Red Cross and Shaare Zedek supporters.

Nepal Nepal Nepal

Left: Professor Halevy with Nepalese children

Right: IDF Field Hospital in Nepal

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Global impact: Nepal


Sharing an emotional account of the devastation and conditions they arrived to, Dr Merin shared his pride in the size and scope of the Israeli team amongst the 100 teams from around the world who came to help Nepal. 260 Israelis including 45 physicians, nurses and x-ray technicians spent two weeks working at the largest IDF field hospital ever established. The equipment that the team took to Nepal was state of the art and according to Professor Halevy, the best the Nepalese had ever seen.

A true testament to the teams expertise was the decision of an officer, a physician from the local Nepalese military hospital, who chose to bring his wife who was 31 weeks pregnant and in early labour to the IDF hospital to have their baby. This just shows the confidence that the IDF field hospital elicited in everyone. “He preferred our field maternity to the maternity of his regular hospital that speaks for itself.”

For the doctors in Nepal, there were many miraculous moments. One memorable patient was Pemba, a 15 year old boy found under the rubble 5 days after the earthquake and treated by the Israeli team. Libby Weiss, a spokeswoman at the Israeli field hospital explained “He was under the rubble for 120 hours and it is certainly the longest we have heard anybody of being under the rubble and surviving. I don’t have any logical explanation. It is miraculous. It is a wonderful thing to see in all this destruction.”

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Right: Professor Halevy treating victims of the Nepalese earthquake

Below: Shaare Zedek Nepal Team – Top row, left to right: Dr. Harel Arzi, Dr. Ofer Merin, Prof. Jonathan Halevy, Deganit Kovliner, Dr. Tamar Lachish, Sergei Nazarov. Bottom row, left to right: Dr. Avi Alpert, Prof. Amos Peyser, Dr. Sefi Mendlovic, Dr. Giora Weiser

Left: Professor Halevy and Dr Merin take a break from their intense work

Dr Merin shared his pride in the size and scope of the Israeli team amongst the 100 teams from

around the world.



Children’s hospital

A medical wonderland

A medical wonderland for healing the children of Jerusalem opened in August 2015. After years in the planning, the Wilf Women and Children’s Hospital welcomed patients through the doors and into a calm and captivating environment that promotes healing in such a way it means patients can actually enjoy being in hospital.

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“We have created an environment that promotes healing for patients and their

families.”Professor Yechiel

Schlesinger

ne patient’s mother shared “While I hope that no child needs to go to hospital, if they do the Wilf Children’s Hospital is

magnificent. I think my son is actually in a better mood just because we moved to a new hospital and everything is decorated in a cheerful way”.

In addition to the main departments, the new children’s hospital has units for paediatric gastroenterology, haematology, pulmonology, kidney disease, endocrinology, cardiology, genetics, urology, orthopaedics, psychiatry, neuropsychology, ophthalmology and ear-nose-and throat, among others.

Having the Lincoln David Abraham Paediatric Educational Institute at Shaare Zedek makes a huge impact on our youngest patients. Long hospital stays do not have to impact on their studies and they are able to continue some normality whilst being in hospital.

Children can take part in art therapy, music therapy and pet therapy which enable them to escape from their conditions, but also to learn about them too. A pair of diabetic Chinchillas makes a big impression on young patients who themselves are

dependent on insulin injections. They learn from these animals, what side effects and symptoms to watch out for and how to take care of themselves.

Shlomo, who is being treated for an ENT condition, was one of the very first to use the new facilities. His mother Tamara explained, “When we arrived Shlomo made a beeline for the ‘enchanted’ school rooms. A social worker sat with Shlomo and showed him the special pre-op book made to explain to young children what it is like to be in hospital. I needn’t have worried; my son was completely at ease with the people and the place.”

“We created an environment that promotes healing and optimal relaxation for the patients and their families,” said Professor Yechiel Schlesinger, the director of the Wilf Children’s Hospital “This was the vision that guided the development of this new hospital.”

Helen Abraham dedicated the department in her son Lincoln’s memory. On visiting the department for the first time, she described it as “amazing”. “Words can’t really describe it. The enthusiasm of all the staff, teachers, and therapists who are so dedicated to the children makes it a very special place”.

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Patients in the Lincoln David Abraham Paediatric Educational Institute


A medical wonderland

2015 event highlights

Rising to the exhausting but exhilarating 100 mile cycle challenge across London were Alain Stechler, Jeremy Gubbay and Brian Nathan (with Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman having to pull out at the last minute due to a training injury) raising a combined total of £8,671. It was smiles all round when they cycled under Admiralty Arch towards a spectacular finish on The Mall.

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Reflection on event highlights

from 2015

It was an incredibly successful year for Team SZUK with a range of challenges from the Jerusalem Marathon where Benji Morris, Aaron Rosenberg, Avi Gutstein and Eliot Young raised almost £2,500 to the enormously fun Maccabi GB Community Fun Run, where the Levin family with Lauren, Eli, Rachel Emuna, Chani and Yitzchak crossed the finish line raising a whopping £1,284 for the children’s hospital.

2015 event highlights

Our biggest challengers to date must be Jonathan Paull and his team who sailed to seventh Place in the Arc World Cruising Cup across the Atlantic in December. Professor Halevy met Jonathan in December and said “In all the years of being involved in Shaare Zedek I have never come across such a unique, dangerous and personally challenging way of supporting the charity”. Thanks go to Jonathan and his crew Dr Paul Newham, Ole and Rene who literally put their lives on the line. There is still time to donate to their incredible challenge by visiting https://mydonate.bt.com/events/jonathanpaullatlantic/196230.


Carrying the torch for Shaare Zedek at the Royal Parks Half Marathon last year were Francesca Caller who also heads up our young committee and Gaby Morris who completed the challenge in 1h48. Together they raised almost £2,500.00.

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GlasgowThe Glasgow Friends of Shaare Zedek have raised more than £70,000.00 over the last ten years and at our annual gathering received recognition as “Diamond Founders” of the hospital, they are to be honoured with a plaque in the hospital. If you would like more information about our Founders Programme, please contact [email protected]

LiverpoolA supper evening was held in Liverpool in November in memory of Rabbi Avraham Goldberg. Avril and Philip Lappin welcomed guests to their home as a way of thanks for the generous contributions to the Avraham Shmuel Goldberg fund that was set up as a legacy to the Rabbi who succumbed to his wounds following the brutal attack at a synagogue in Har Nof in 2014. The fund has raised close to £67,000 and has paid for a 3 bed unit in the emergency department at Shaare Zedek. A welcome addition, given the vastly increased demand on the emergency services.

A Tale of Two Chairmen welcomed 100 guests to a robust and candid Q &A with David Bernstein and Lord Triesman on all matters football. Special guest speaker from the hospital was Lt. Col. Dr. Ofer Merin, Shaare Zedek’s Deputy Director General and head of Trauma. He reflected on the incredible life-saving work at the hospital, particularly in response to the recent escalation in violence and provided illuminating insights into impressive work of the IDF‘s relief missions abroad. Highlights of his visit in London included an address to British Aid workers and a meeting in Parliament. The event raised more than £25,000.00 for the emergency unit.

Alan and Adrienne Harris, Stephanie Kronson and Avril and Philip Lappin

Ida Caplin with Simi Ben Hur and Stephanie Kronson

Below left: Marcus Margulies & Kim Sorkin

Left: Dr Ofer Merin giving his speech

Below: David Bernstein, Dr Ofer Merin and Lord Triesman


The next generations

We cannot reflect on 2015 without mentioning the fantastic fundraising efforts of Yavneh and King David schools in Manchester who have selected Shaare Zedek as their charity of the year. School pupils have been supermarket bag packing, raffling donated goods, holding sweet sales, sponsored haircuts and much more. They are aiming to buy an ECG machine and transport monitor for the Paediatric Emergency Unit and hospital staff in Jerusalem look forward to welcoming them on a visit later on this year.

Young supporters are our future and we continue to work with the charity, GIFT, in educating school pupils about the concept of Tzedakah and drawing their attention to the work of Shaare Zedek. We hold group workshops and engage the children in activities that support our work as a charity. Last year pupils from a number of Jewish schools designed colourful puzzles for the Children’s hospital in under 15 minutes. Brightly coloured winning entries formed the cover of our Rosh Hashanah cards this year and we thank everyone for their incredible effort. We also held a workshop with A-level students at the Israel Get Connected programme hosted at JFS where participants were asked to devise a campaign to sell Israel and then reflect on just how effectively Shaare Zedek embodies the best that Israel has to offer.

Left: JFS students who participated in a Shaare Zedek UK Purim workshop organised by GIFT

Below: Stephanie speaks to sixth form students at JFS

Students from King David school, Manchester

s the Director of Jerusalem’s fastest growing hospital, Professor Halevy is in a somewhat unique position to assess and address health

issues that impact the Jewish community. Speaking at Limmud conference in Birmingham in December, Professor Halevy gave a series of talks ranging from complimentary medicine to the ethics and dilemmas of running a hospital. Professor Halevy shared the importance of highlighting health concerns where if the community takes leadership it can affect real change, speaking specifically about organ donation and breast and ovarian cancer.

Professor Halevy explained that the breast carcinoma genes, known as BRCA 1 & 2 were discovered in 1995. The prevalence of these genetic mutations amongst Jewish Ashkenazi women is particularly high at 2.5% meaning 1 in 40 women is a carrier. Health authorities around the world currently provide free screenings for BRCA 1 & 2 where there is a family history of the gene mutation or breast or ovarian cancer. The audience heard from Alison, a cancer patient who bravely

shared her own emotional account of being diagnosed with cancer and how universal screening would have identified the gene mutations and helped her to take preventative action to stay healthy. Professor Halevy explained the need for authorities to offer universal screening for all Ashkenazi Jewish women, based on research conducted at Shaare Zedek which suggests that a lack of family history only reduces the risk of carrying the gene by 50%. “Knowledge is power and we have to convince the authorities that every woman should be entitled to screening free of charge”.

As a former Chairman of the Israeli Organ Transplant Committee, Professor Halevy passionately addressed the medical, ethical and halachic aspects of organ donation. He explained the need for 20-30% of Israeli society to sign up to the donor register in order for there to be enough organs for those requiring transplant. Currently the rate is around 10% and 90 to 110 patients die each year waiting for a donor. In the UK 429 patients died in 2014 waiting for transplant.

Recognising this growing concern, laws were passed in Israel to support increased organ

Professor Halevy calls on British Jewish

community to take leadership on Jewish health issues

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Community health issues

donation, one giving every family the right to recognise or choose not to recognise brain death as death. The social justice implications of this law are extremely important and Professor Halevy expressed great pride in their existence and the rights they bestow which are particularly significant to religious families, who now have the protection of this law to ensure their loved ones will continue to be treated after brain death has been pronounced, meaning life support machines and respirators will never be switched off against a family’s wishes.

Having addressed the religious aspects of organ donation, he explained that religious objections are not the main reason for low sign up rates, with secular kibbutzim having similar low donor rates to those in religious communities. Professor Halevy believes superstition is a big factor preventing people from signing up and to this end he spent his 6 years as Chair of the Organ Transplant Committee- in addition to his responsibilities as Director General of Shaare Zedek- giving 70 lectures per year across Israel on the importance of signing a donor card.


“Knowledge is power and we have to convince the authorities that every woman should be entitled

to screening free of charge.”

Community health issues

At 7am on November 18th 2014 I was woken up by the news on the radio announcing there had been a massacre in a Shul in Har Nof Jerusalem. My heart missed a beat as I immediately thought of my cousin Rav Avraham Shmuel Goldberg who I knew davened there. I rang his mobile, there was no reply. My worst fears were realised a few hours later when my sister who lives in Israel, was screaming down the phone crying, Avraham Shmuel had been murdered.

hen I saw the news on the BBC web site and read they were interested in hearing from people who had

a connection with him, my instant reaction was to contact them. Within moments I was inundated by almost every newspaper in the world and TV and radio stations. I was determined that Rav Avraham Shmuel Goldberg would not become a statistic and people should know he was not a fanatic, but an innocent and highly intelligent person gunned down while praying peacefully.

Avraham Shmuel was born in Liverpool in 1945 he had a PhD in Chemical engineering and

we recently discovered had been awarded Hon PhDs from American Universities as well as receiving Smicha. He was a very modest individual, tolerant and non-judgemental. He was of the opinion that ultra-religious men should be able to financially support their families and so when he retired was instrumental in establishing a degree course accredited to Ben Gurion University that was suitable for them. Above all Avraham Shmuel was a family man, truly proud of his wife Briana and his six children and grandchildren. When they made Aliyah the family lived in Har Nof where he continued his business and studied Torah each day.

I felt a deep responsibility that Avraham Shmuel should have a worthwhile memorial.

In memory ofRabbi Goldberg z”l

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After discussion with my siblings we decided that Shaare Zedek best encapsulated the dogma held by him. He believed that Jews and non-Jews must respect each other’s views and live peacefully together and that Torah study must be combined with good deeds. These ideals are practised at Shaare Zedek every day. Jewish and Arab doctors work side by side to alleviate the suffering no matter what the creed or colour of its patients. Every life is equal and precious.

To commemorate the first Yahrzeit of Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg in November 2015 a hundred people, including family and friends from every stage of his life as well as representatives of the Liverpool Jewish Community gathered together to dedicate a three bed unit in the Accident and Emergency Department at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, in his memory. It was one of the most uplifting moments of my life because with the financial help of so many people who respected Avraham Shmuel we were able to turn a tragedy into something meaningful and purposeful. We all felt Avraham Shmuel was smiling down at us enjoying seeing his nearest and dearest supporting and enjoying each other’s company whilst helping others less fortunate.

We were all humbled by the experience and proud to be a donor to the Shaare Zedek Hospital.

Michelle Hirschfield


ach year we produce a Memorial Book which includes the names of our supporters’ loved ones who are no longer with us. We send this book

out between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and it is a lovely way to remember and honour loved ones at this important time of year, whilst supporting the special work of the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre. For the first time in 2015 we expanded the scope of the book to include individual

stories and testimonies throughout, it became an engaging and moving tribute to the lives of so many people and the feedback we have received has been exceptional.

If you would be interested in submitting a name for our memorial book this year please call 020 8201 8933 or email [email protected]

Shaare Zedek Memorial Book

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Below, left to right: Michelle Hirschfield and Brianna Goldberg; Dr Zalut unveiling the plaque with Brianna and Michelle; Dr Zalut with Brianna Goldberg, Dr Aron Marcus and Patrick Haughey of the British Embassy

In memory

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“Our visit to the hospital was so worthwhile and it meant so much to see what wonderful miracles are carried out in the hospital, first hand. No amount of photographs can portray the wonderful facilities we witnessed for ourselves.”

Richard Blank

“Seeing the hospital in ‘real life’ showed what huge impact donations have. It was particularly special to see a plaque dedicated to a late relative of Benjamin, and we were inspired to make a donation to Shaare Zedek on the occasion of our upcoming wedding. We really can’t think of a better way to share our love and happiness than to help this magnificent hospital with its incredible work.” Claudia Levine

UK visits to the hospital and dedications

Left: June Fletcher and her son

Below left: Emmanuel Grodzinski with his cousin Piccolo the Dream Doctor

Below: Rachelle Goldberg a UK volunteer who plays the violin for patients

Above: Trustees of the Wohl Foundation tour their newly dedicated department

Right: Sir Ian Gainsford of the Wohl Foundation


“It would be easy to lose hope amid frequent terror attacks, but the work of Rabbi Goldberg’s family is an example of hope, responding to their own personal tragedy not with anger but by supporting Shaare Zedek.”

Patrick Haughey, head of the political section at the British Embassy speaking at the Rabbi Goldberg Memorial dedication

“I was extremely impressed by what I saw at Shaare Zedek. The staff work tirelessly to deliver the highest levels of care to all members of their local community, providing exactly the same help for whoever comes through their doors, be they Jewish, Muslim, Christian or of no faith whatsoever. It’s important to always remember that whatever a small minority would want us to believe, the reality of most communities around the world is people of different beliefs and origins getting along together completely happily, and this is what is demonstrated so effectively at Shaare Zedek. I’m also particularly proud that much of the ground breaking work done here is made possible by the generosity of donors right here in the UK.”

The Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles MP, UK Government Special Envoy on Post-Holocaust Issues.

UK visits to the hospital and dedications

Top right: Lord Polack with Sir Eric Pickles

Above left: Trustees and their families of the Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust

Left: David and Gill Bernstein with Professor Halevy

Right: The Lew Family

Birth

Navah & Eden Ben Meir

Lucy Brackup

Loiue Brackup

Tiferet Danciger

Chaya Mushka Jacobs

Lishan Meyer

Yosef Eliyahu/Joseph Elias Rothberg

Rachel Tashanah Shapiro

Elisha Shmuel Simmons

Livia Sophia Simmons

Pidyon Haben

Jacob Fellman

Birthday Ian Abraham

Rabbi R Berisch

Renee Binstock

Ian Bloom

Walter Breindal

Debra Caplin

Arthur Chesses

Haim Bitran

Stanley Busby

Jeremy Cohen

Sheila Coleman

Rosalind Copeland

Dennis Copeland

Harold Corney

Frank Crown

Basil Davis

Anne & Stuart Dove

John Edelnand

Ian Ellis

Cyril Fisher

Maurice Franklin

Barry Freed

Margaret Freedman

Yochewet Freeman

Chaya Leah (Lily) Galandauer

Deborah Glass

Rafi Glass

Brian & Nadia Glenville

Betty Globe

Andrea Gold

Lily Goldenberg

Cynthia Goldman

Marcia Goodman

Paul Gottlieb

David Grant

Ronnie Greenbaum

Frank Groszman

Tony Hammell

Lawrence Harding

Irene Herman

Danny Herman

Ivor Hershcovitch

Judy Irwin

Anthony Israel

Isaac Jordon

Bernard Joseph

John Kasmir

Stan Kaye

Thank you to all our wonderful supporters who have chosen to share their celebrations with us. From birthdays to Barmitzvahs there are many ways to support the hospital. To share your celebration with us please contact

Gail on 020 8201 8933 or email [email protected]

Thank Youfor making a difference

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Celebrations and commemorations

Leonard Kaufman

Marie Kormornick

Martin Korn

Angela Kosiner

Esther Landau

Benno Landau

Laurence Lando

Sheila Larah

Joe Lederman

Ann Lee

Judy Lever

David Lewi

Martin Lewin

Peter Marks

Michael & Rosalin Medalyer

Benjamin Menahem

Rebecca Menahem

David Menahem

Samuel Menahem

Jeffrey Milston

Harry Moss

Brian Nathan

Robert Nathan

Annette Nissim

Rivka Palmer

Debra Peacock

Alan Peters

Rafael Plaut

Ingrid Posen

Rabbi Benjamin Rabinowitz

Judith Robinson

Elaine Roos

Ruth Rose

Susan Rudolf

Jennifer Ryness

Sydney Sagar

Jeffrey Samuels

Edna Schneider

Sheila Scott

Rita Shaw

June Silver

David Simmonds

Jeffrey Simmons

Victor Smith

Stephen Spitz

Dr Stanley Steinberg

Simon Stemmer

Sonia Stone

Felix Sturm

Joseph Szlezinger

Sylvia Taylor

Syvlia Taylor

Phylis Vallon

Sheila & Michael Vellerman

Sam Walport

Johnny Weil

Professor David Weitzman

David Winter

Bernard Wolfson

100th BirthdayOlive Lawton

Michael Brummer

Eileen Woolfson

Fay Lipman

BarmitzvahJosef Simcha Rottenberg

Shalom Arieh Clark

Elisha Levy

Alon Peacock

Asher Woolf

BatmitzvahRachel Tova Clark

Esti Elijah

Hanil Klipsetin

Eileen Carroll

2nd Barmitzvah

Chaim Collins

Harvey Gothelf

Leslie Grant

Warner Peterman



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Wedding

“From generation to generation: We are thrilled to be celebrating the marriage of our daughter Aimee to

Refoel Sandler on January 18th 2016. At this happy time we would also like

to remember Aimee’s dear great grandparents Sam and Sybil Lovestone

Z”L of Birmingham. They were very proud supporters of Shaare Zedek UK and would have been incredibly proud

of their great granddaughter.”

Miriam & Andy Marsden

Wedding Nomi &

Yitzchak Clark

Daniel Alfred & Georgia Brill

Sara Batya Lerer & Daniel Chaim Tanen

Simone Kirsch & Joe Shammah

Katie Brackup & Richard Benon

Ruth & Lionel Curry

Jamie & Hannah Masters

Wedding Anniversaries

Phyllis & John Graham

Anna & Simon Wiseman

SilverRowan & Howard Jones

Mel & Johnny Nassim

PearlRosamund & Neal Bloom

Miriam & Michael Gehler

Andrea & Tony Gold

Gillian & Nicky Levine

RubyCarole & Michael Braier

Judy & Charles Landau

Linda & Gary Lee

Sue & David May

Maureen & Shalom Simons

Irene & Ivor Weintroub

Sapphire Angela & Gerry Lucas

Angela & Colin Shaw

GoldenCarol & Brian Cooper

Rose & Sydney Faber

Sheila & Alan Fox

Leah & Benny Gilbert

Ronnie & Agi Greenbaum

Laura & Martin Levine

Ruth & Harry Leviten

Judith & Rodwyn Jackson

Frances & Michael Mandel

Lynda & Lionel Mendoza

Ruth & Clive Rosen

Vivien & Lionel Shebson

Sylvia & Irving Schryber

Aviva & David Silver

Carolyn & Mervyn Smith

Andrea & Malcolm Souts

Vivian & Walter Spilg

Valerie & Harvey Sperber

Pat & Howard Stanton

Myera & Frank Tobin

DiamondMignon &

Harold Franks

Phyllis & Stan Conway

Della & Henry Donna

Goldie & Norman Gale

Shirley & Alan Kutner

Betty & Arnold Shepherd

Ella & Alf Silverman

Freda & Joe Skovron

Bettie & Derek Taylor

Monica & Anthony Winner

65th Anniversary Joan & Syndey

Baderman

Helen & Johnny Lyndon

Ruth & Ronald Singer

Platinum Muriel & Sam Legon

Chatan BereshitSteven Livingstone

Community Honour

Rabbi & Rebbetzen Guttentag

Retirement Judge John Altman

Aimee & Refoel Sandler



Always in our hearts

We are also extremely grateful to those who have remembered loved ones by giving the gift of life to the people of Jerusalem and to those who have

left a lasting legacy by remembering Shaare Zedek in their will.

Lincoln David Abraham

Vera Banasch

Yitzchak Ben Moshe

Paul Benjamin

Alex Berlyne

Phil Burman

Jack Byruck

Samuel Citron

Jean Cohen

Freda Corby

Edith Debovitch (Hodel Bat Shmuel)

Avraham Moshe Dover

Ian Elstein

Zena Endlar

Sydney Enlander

Alice Fainberg

Melvyn Flacks

Dr Alan Frazer

Albert Isidore Freedman

Sol Gafan

Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg

Harriett Goodman

Henry Himmelschein

Lady Bronia Hirshfield

Isaac Kaye

Anita Kinshuck

Miriam Korenstein

Annie Lewis

Betty Lewis

Eileen M Lewis

Leah Manners

Yehuda Manners

Rivella Manners

Hanoch Marks

Rose Adele Marks

Simon Moses Marks

Alison Morland

Leah bat Rev Moshe

Yitzchak ben Rev Moshe

Sara Ita ben Rav Moshe

Doba bat Rav Menachem

Stella Nickson

Ruth Paull

Lilian Perlow

Barukha Rafaeloff

Debra Reiss

David Rothem

Ethel Sachs

Jacob Sachs

Mary Sansom

Shulamith & Jonathan Saul

Carole Chase Schmulian

Louis Schuz

Frances Schwalb (Shaw)

William Schwalb (Shaw)

Rita and Sidney Seltzer

Max Semp

Reeka Sklar

Albine Wallach

Geoffrey Nigel Waters

Permanent Yahrzeit

Programme

Ruth Berenblut

Anne Copeland

Ken Copeland

Toby Endler

Zena Endler

Diana Mayne

The year aheadGet involved with Shaare Zedek and help raise money for Jerusalem’s Hospital with a Heart. Rally your friends together to attend the next exciting event or get the adrenaline going by setting yourself a sporting challenge. We are always excited to hear how you want to get involved with Shaare Zedek UK and are looking for volunteers and committee members who want to help with our busy events schedule or give us a helping hand in our London office. Please call the office to see how you can get involved and register your interest in any activity or challenge.

Shaare Zedek UK 766 Finchley Road, London NW11 7TH | 020 8201 8933 | shaarezedek.org.uk

Advertise in the calendar The Shaare Zedek calendar is one of the most loved calendars of the UK Jewish Community. It gets sent out to over 6,000 homes and each year we receive messages of thanks from our supporters for their latest edition, many telling us they cannot live without it! By donating to Shaare Zedek you can include your own message, advert or celebration in the next edition of the Shaare Zedek calendar. If this is something you are interested in doing then please contact [email protected]

Purim cardsPurim cards are on sale now direct from our website or by calling our office. These cards will tell your friends and family that you have chosen to

honour them with a donation in their name to Shaare Zedek.

Pack of 3 cards - £5

If running or cycling is your thing we have places up for grabs at the following events, please contact the office to register your interest.

Bupa 10K – 30th May Maccabi Fun Run – 19th JunePrudential 100 Cycle Ride – 31st July

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Visiting Israel this year? We would love to have you visit us and see what your donations have done. Please be in touch to arrange your visit.

£681-day’s supply of syringes for

blood tests

£25010 blood

infusion sets

Hope for USHope for US

Hope for ISRAELHope for ISRAEL

Hope for the WORLDHope for the WORLD

You can donate to Shaare Zedek UK by phone, online, or direct to our bank:

HSBC Bank

Sort Code 40-03-11

Account no. 31622927

£14501-month’s

dialysis

Documents

SZUK Heartbeat 2016