Israel’s physician scarcity is due to a number of factors: the retirement of Russian doctors who immigrated to Israel en masse in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, a decision by the Israeli medical establishment to stop accepting medical degrees from various institutions in Eastern Europe as well as the limited number of seats in Israeli medical schools, according to Tony Gelbart, co-founder and chairman of Nefesh B’Nefesh.

“Israel never fully adjusted for this, resulting in a bottleneck in residency and internship positions,” said Tony Gelbart, whose organization facilitates Aliyah from North America. “The convergence of these factors is creating an impending crisis.”

I think that the apartheid state’s want of physicians is a little bit more complicated than this.

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    They are scouring MyHeritage for any Zionist doctors carrying DNA connecting them to Joseph Mengele’s lineage. Any doctor with a conscience would never emigrate to Israel.

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      See, I know that the author wants everybody to be worried or upset over this news, but my own takeaway from this report is that the apartheid state is inching closer to collapse.

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      They sadly would be able to find plenty. Plenty of zionist doctors in america.

      I had a femoral catheter placed by one, I don’t want to baselessly claim discrimination, but after she saw my last name on the chart, her entire demeanor changed. She placed it without any local anesthetic, it was the most pain I’ve felt in my life, worse than any broken bones I’ve gotten.