Despite a rise in global anti-Semitism and anti-Israel resolutions originating from the United Nations and international courts, the world last week received a reminder of how God continues to bless Israel and all who bless her.
The planet’s most advanced cardiac hospital opened in Jerusalem, offering care to persons of all races, religions, and backgrounds.
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
– Genesis 12:3
A Country the Size of New Jersey
“Israel is becoming a world leader in medical Artificial Intelligence (AI),” The New York Times declared last week.
“There are dozens of new health care start-ups in a country that has a population just shy of New Jersey’s,” The Times continued, in its series of articles on nations leading the AI field.
If there’s any doubt Israel uses its technology to bless beyond its borders, consider the story of Musa, a Muslim Palestinian baby who received a Jewish Israeli baby’s heart at a Tel Aviv hospital.
“There were several miracles associated with this complicated surgery,” said Dr. David Mishaly, chief surgeon at Sheba’s Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Unit. “By a twist of fate – a miracle – Musa, was able to receive the new heart from a Jewish child, whose parents had agreed a few hours earlier to donate the heart.”
In April, The Tower reported that an Israeli-based international nonprofit organization received the 2018 United Nations Population Award for its “mission of improving the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children in developing countries and creating centers of competence in these countries.”
According to The Tower, the work of this single Israeli organization “saved the lives of more than 4,400 children from 58 countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and throughout the Middle East, and trained more than 100 medical team members from these countries.”
That’s just one of many Israel-based organizations committed to making a difference through God’s blessing of advanced technology.
Carrying on Israel’s Generous Tradition
The health service that opened last week – the Irma and Paul Milstein Heart Center in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center – will carry on Israel’s tradition of generosity. The center occupies roughly 48,500 square feet of the hospital’s Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower and was made possible by a $10 million donation from Americans Irma and Paul Milstein.
According to Prof. Chaim Lotan, director of the Heart Institute at Hadassah Medical Organization, the new facilities “catapult us 50 years” into the future.
The Milstein’s son, Howard, said at last week’s dedication that his parents “saw Hadassah’s mission statement as the highest expression of the founding ideals of the State of Israel: To forge ‘links between patients of all nationalities, races and religion who come to its doors for healing.’
“Here at Hadassah, all patients – Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Druse, secular and religious – receive dignified care from a top-flight team of equally diverse medical workers,” he said. “As such, Hadassah is also a bridge to peace.
“If you need proof of that, look no further than the Syrian children who, in the midst of a horrific humanitarian crisis, have been brought to Hadassah for treatment of congenital heart defects,” the younger Milstein said. “The Milstein family resonates with that. We, too, are engaged in supporting a multi-faith effort to alleviate the Syrian crisis.”
Join with us in prayer:
- Thanking God for giving Israelis a heart for people of all nations and the technology to deliver on their generosity
- Asking for continued blessings on Israel as this tiny nation develops even more break-through technology with which to bless the world
- Petitioning God to use Israel’s technology to help bring peace to the Middle East and abate the growing tide of anti-Semitism globally
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