The Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon
Photo: Roee Idan
NY Jewish leaders pledge $200,000 to front-line hospital
Donation to Barzilai Medical Center in city of Ashkelon, which has been hit hard by Hamas rocket fire, announced during UJA-Federation of New York's solidarity visit to Israel.
Some 20 top leaders of UJA-Federation of New York, who visited Israel this week on the UJA-Federation of New York Operation Protective Edge Solidarity Mission,
pledged $200,000 to the front-line Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, a seaside city near Gaza that has been hit hard by Hamas rocket fire.
The gift will go towards a laminectomy set, urgent equipment for the emergency room, laser equipment for eye surgery and ophthalmic ultrasound, and an anesthesia machine for the operating room.
The donation to the Barzilai Medical Center was announced in a meeting at the hospital with Mission Chair and UJA-Federation of NY Chair Linda Mirels and Barzilai Medical Center Director-General Dr. Chezi Levi.
Jewish Aid
KKL raises some NIS 13.7 million from Diaspora Jewry in recent days; NIS 9 million used to help fortify southern Jewish and Bedouin communities against rocket fire.
As part of their visit, the group was in both Tel Aviv and cities in the hardest-hit areas in the South, where they visited trauma centers, hospitals, bomb shelters and received briefings from key national security advisors and from UJA-Federation network agencies, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Israel Trauma Coalition (ITC), and Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI).
UJA-Federation has to-date committed $2.1 million in emergency aid for Israel.
