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Aug 5, 2024, 2:21 PM

Gimme shelter (or déjà vu all over again)

As a boy growing up in Toronto I always thought I had several things in common with Winston Churchill -- but not everything. On the positive side, definitely a legend in his own mind, we both admired him. As...

Apr 11, 2021, 7:31 PM

Salman Rushdie and me: Democracies under siege

In a recent piece in the Guardian relating to India-Pakistan, Salman Rushdie put into words exactly what I feel about Israel-Palestine (see here). And my thoughts are those of a long-standing Zionist. I chose to immigrate to Israel, made...

Dec 16, 2020, 7:13 PM

Israelis should give Palestinians the jab: A COVID-19 Dayenu

There is no doubt in my mind that we in Israel should send a few hundred thousand doses of whatever SARS-CoV-2 vaccine we can lay our hands on over to the Palestinian territories as soon as possible, with many...

Sep 15, 2020, 1:01 PM

COVID-19: The Silver Lining

To paraphrase Shakespeare, "I come to praise SARS-CoV-2, not to bury it". Well not exactly to extoll its virtues, as there is quite enough to curse in this terrible snippet of RNA. And as a doctor for more than...

Dec 30, 2015, 1:33 PM

The silence of the boycotting anthropologists

A US academic association based its decision to censure Israel on lies and distortions

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About Me

Dr. A. Mark Clarfield is an Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics and head of the Centre for Global Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He grew up in Toronto went to medical school there before moving to Montréal. He is certified in Family Medicine, Public Health and Geriatric Medicine. In 1992 together with his family he moved to Israel. Apart from work he enjoys performing in his folk music band, "The Unstrung Heroes".

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