Five years have passed since the distribution of the annual prize began, and this year another record was broken in the number of HMO insureds who voted for their GPs. If last year 250,000 insured people voted, then this year no less than 317,000 members of the Clalit, Maccabi, Meuhedet and Leumit HMOs participated in the vote. These praised their doctors who, in addition to their professional work, gave an extraordinary humane and empathetic treatment that gave healing to their psyche.
He said, “We felt the people were eager to thank their GPs who are the first to receive them before the specialist doctors and accompany them all the way.”
Thus, in early December, the Prize Committee convened, chaired by the Israel Prize winner and chair of the Aid for Healing Rabbi Eliezer Firer, marveled at the representation of the entire spectrum of Israeli society played by selected doctors: Ashkenazis and Mizrahis, Jews and Arabs, secular and ultra-Orthodox, new immigrants, working-class settlers, development towns and cities. Strong in the center of the country.
Such is, for example, the story of Dr. Tal Nir (65). An ultra-Orthodox who serves as a rural family doctor in Kibbutz Hatzor, Moshav Shtulim and in the Moshav Emunim clinic of the Clalit Health Insurance Fund, which also shares the Moshavs Ezer and Beit Ezra. Among the testimonies of his patients who said that he gives personal treatment and is happy to help even during non-routine hours, the testimony of a moshavnik from the south stood out: “He brings us matzah on Pesach, and he comes on Rosh Hashanah to bless me and my sister wherever he is. He has become my kind of personal therapist. ”
Dr. Nir says that he was born in Kibbutz Gavim in the Gaza Strip and repented during his medical studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. And also be a doctor. ‘Somehow he told me that, a stone fell from my heart and I felt that was what I needed to do, “said Dr. Nir.” The award goes to my patients, not me because it is their choice. “God is the healer and I am just the messenger, the pipe to pass the medicine on to the patients. We hope that the pipe will continue to be hollow and not full of pride. We need a lot of modesty in medicine.”
“One, unique and unique”
Such are also the other Clalit Health Fund doctors: Dr. Hitam Namarna of Araba in the Galilee; Dr. Amnon Bitton from Dimona in the Negev; Dr. Adam Yahya from a clinic in Migdal Haemek; and also Dr. Mara Berkowitz from Rishon Lezion. Maccabi HMO doctors: Dr. Tal Agami from a clinic in Rishon Lezion; Dr. Hannah Minzer-Ofir from a clinic in Bnei Brak; Jack Stern from a clinic in Ramat Hasharon that the singer Oshik Levy is one of his recommenders and testified that he is “one, unique and unique.” United Kofach Physicians: Dr. Hanna Leah Levin from the United Kofach Clinics in Kiryat Ya’arim and Beit Shemesh; as well as Dr. Nick Beilinson who works at the clinic in Herzliya. National Health Insurance Physicians: National: Dr. Gerald Chen from clinics in Ganei Tikva and Rosh HaAyin;
The ceremony of awarding the Daniel Prize for Medicine with a Heart is expected to take place after the closure in Jerusalem, led by singer Yehoram Gaon, and its organizers hope that it will close the circle and mark the celebrations of the end of the Corona Age in Israel.