GRAPEVINE: The haredi medicine man

Tel Aviv’s Charles Bronfman Auditorium – that for many years was famous as a Mann Auditorium – was packaged to ability final week during a intense salute to Rabbi Elimelech Firer, owner and conduct of a Ezra Lemarpeh Association in jubilee of his spending a past 40 years assisting a sick.

It is unfit to tell how many lives he saved in that generation of time, though sufficient it to contend that his work for a advantage of others warranted him an Israel Prize in approval of his special grant to multitude and a state.

Firer, who is haredi and a father of 10 children and many grandchildren, has never done distinctions between one ill authority and another. He doesn’t caring either they’re Jewish or not, or to what border those who are Jewish use their Judaism.

What interests him is how he can assistance them to make hit with a right alloy who can soothe them of their ailments.

Firer began his activities for a advantage of multitude while still a immature yeshiva student. He was asked to assistance a crony in trouble obtain an modernized medical device for his home.

Later on, he was approached to support in additional requests for medical equipment, that eventually desirous a investiture in 1979 of Ezra Lemarpeh. Although Firer perceived no grave medical education, he amassed endless believe on his own, so many so that he grown imagination in many fields of medicine and was means to advise literally thousands of people who incited to him for help.

His contacts are not usually in Israel, though around a world, and it is a good reverence to a honour in that he is reason by members of a medical contention that when Firer calls, a call is answered roughly immediately unless a surgeon being called is in a handling theater. Businessman Ami Sagi chaired a reverence eventuality that was attended by a who’s who and who was who in a echelons of Israeli multitude including many people of influence.

Among those benefaction were: Judge Hila Gerstel, former attorney-general Yehuda Weinstein, former conduct of a Israel Ports Authority Yiftah Ron Tal, Teddy Sagi, Yair and Gideon Hamburger, Shuki Madanes, Doron Halperin, Shimon Mizrachi, Avraham Kuznitzky, CPA Reuven Shiff, former Air Force commander-in-chief Amir Eshel, hotelier David Fattal, indication and radio celebrity Galit Gutman with her partner Yigal Ahuva, former beauty queen Titty Aynoh, Los Angeles businessman David Agar, Batsheva and Moshe Bobbil, and many more. The module was chock-a-block with entertainers, among them: Eyal Kitzis, Zvika Hadar, Yehoram Gaon, Lior Sochard, Shlomo Gronich, Avraham Tal, a Ra’anana Symphonette, and more. The eventuality was overseen by Kalman Schraiber – Firer’s longtime, constant assistant.

■ JUST AHEAD of Rosh Hashanah, a Ruppin Academic Center hosted a commission of French-Muslim leaders who had been brought to Israel underneath a auspices of a American Jewish Committee. Guiding a commission were Ruppin President Prof. Galia Sabar and Nidaa Kitani, who is obliged for compelling a interests of Arab students during a Ruppin Center. Members of a commission included: Jihad Balmari, village leader, amicable and domestic activist; Didi Rada, director of a Cabinet of La Ville Entreprise; Kasmi Samia, member of a Nanterre City Council; Lillian Nasima-Wadad, Secretary General, RPLR, Hasina, who headed-the delegation; Ministry of Interior representative Derbal Taufik, and Olivier Vran an partner to a member of a Parliament.

Ruppin specializes in immigration and amicable integration, conducting corner investigate projects in these fields.

France is deliberate a nation that, like Israel, copes with many immigrants and has many hurdles in amicable integration. The tie between France and Ruppin was combined following a ask by a American Jewish Committee to horde a French-Muslim leaders for a convention on Israel. The purpose of a revisit was to strengthen shared relations.

The commission toured a Ruppin campus and visited a pretentious immigrants’ sculpture garden, a gallery, a library and a Institute for Immigration and Social Integration.

Sabar reviewed a state of immigration and formation in Israel and discussed Ruppin’s endless activities on issues of amicable formation in Arab society. Kitani introduced a commission to Jewish and Arab tyro discourse workshops that she had given over a past dual years, and talked about a new Ramadan cooking celebration during Ruppin and other formation activities.

Members of a commission were utterly meddlesome in domestic and mercantile developments in Israel, a backgrounds of Arab students during Ruppin and a border to that they were integrated. They were astounded to hear about a investment in a intensity of any student, and a accumulation of activities and services that a students accept during their studies, including credentials for employment. In France there are no such activities saved by supervision ministries, they said.

The delegation’s channel also enclosed a Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya; a debate of a Old City of Jerusalem, full with a revisit to a Dome of a Rock; and an in-depth debate of Yad Vashem.

■ AFTER YEARS during a helm of Africa Israel Investments, billionaire Lev Leviev is finally releasing his reason on a company, offered it to Extra Holding that is tranquil by businessman Moti Ben-Moshe who done his happening in appetite enterprises.

Leviev had a regulating conflict with a Jerusalem municipality over a primary square of genuine estate that was once a President Hotel. It was a initial hotel in a collateral with a swimming pool, and a guest enclosed Israel’s first primary apportion David Ben-Gurion. The building, that has depressed into neglect and is now utterly dangerous, was for some years a breakwater for a homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics who pennyless windows to hide in and a have a roof over their heads. The municipality wanted Leviev to build a new complicated hotel on a site, though he was some-more meddlesome in building oppulance apartments.

After a lot of wrangling, a concede agreement was reached a integrate of years behind whereby partial of a new structure would be a boutique hotel and a rest would be apartments. But zero happened, and rubbish continues to raise adult along a extraneous wall. Perhaps Ben- Moshe will be some-more fair to a desires of Jerusalem’s City Hall, though any contention on a theme will apparently have to wait compartment after a Oct metropolitan elections.

Given a series of boutique hotels that have sprung adult in middle city areas of Jerusalem over a past 3 or 4 years, any genuine estate developer would have to be really heedful of building nonetheless another hotel, or really confident about rising numbers of incoming tourists.

■ IN THE DAYS heading adult to Rosh Hashanah, a electronic media has, as usual, been flooded with appeals from amicable gratification organizations for donations to safeguard that comparison adults – generally those who are Holocaust survivors – are means to suffer a holiday repast.

In some cases, a suspicion is to put them adult in a hotel for a generation of a festival so that they can be together, not usually in a dining room. That suspicion came from Social Affairs Minister Haim Katz.

Former apportion Yossi Peled, who is now a authority of a Public Council of Pitchon Lev, has been job for supports for meals, regulating a radio as his height – with a blurb being aired during reduction than dual notation intervals. It’s intensely off-putting as it starts with Peled patting himself on a behind for thirty years of open use to a army afterwards polite service, and now to amicable welfare.

Rabbi David Grossman’s Migdal Or is seeking for supports to feed a needy, and Amcha, one of several organizations that caring for Holocaust survivors is seeking for people who are peaceful to horde a survivor or a comparison citizen to hit one of their offices around a country. Yad LeHaver – that together with partners has built a residential trickery for Holocaust survivors in Haifa – is seeking for funds, though distinct many other organizations of good intentions, is not seeking for people who wish to be hosted or to accept dishes to hit a organization.

What many organizations don’t seem to comprehend is that in their enterprise to do good for Holocaust survivors and other comparison citizens, they are robbing them of their dignity. No one wants to be suspicion of as a present case. Many waste people who might also be in need of a dish are too unapproachable to call and register themselves among a needy. And there’s no reason in a digital age because they should.

The National Insurance Institute, a Ministry of a Interior and other state institutions as good as metropolitan amicable gratification agencies have updated annals with a names, ages, marital standing and addresses of comparison citizens. In many cases they know accurately who needs association and food.

But where they don’t, it’s only as easy to enroll members of girl groups to go door-knocking with medium bunches of flowers to contend they’ve brought a present for a holiday.

Then a immature visitors enter into a conversation, where a theme of how a comparison citizen will be spending a holiday is broached in a infrequent manner. Then if necessary, an offer will be done for accommodation and dishes during a holiday period.

It’s a approach of elucidate a problem while concurrently enchanting some-more people in good deeds. Even some-more critical perhaps, is a arriving Succot generation in that it would be good for families to entice a comparison citizen to join them on an tour – generally if they’re going out of town. It’s a comparatively tiny bid that could meant a lot to recipients.

Shana Tova – A Good New Year – to all readers of The Jerusalem Post.

May we suffer health, complacency and prolonged life, and continue reading for many years to come.

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