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Jun 26, 2025, 11:46 PM
Life in Israel
The internet is full of facts, opinions, blogs, podcasts and all sorts of expert advice on the war between Israel and Iran. Many are quite good. I choose to write how this war looked to an average Israeli living...
Jun 11, 2024, 6:29 PM
What It’s All About
It's midnight and I just got back from performing an emergency operation on a two week old Arab baby born three months premature with perforated intestines. I work at a hospital in the north of Israel and at least...
Mar 12, 2023, 9:52 PM
Sherry
In the book of Genesis we learn that Terach, Abraham’s father, took his children and grandchildren with him “to go to the land of Canaan: They arrived at Haran and settled there.” Terach died in Haran and never made...
Jan 12, 2023, 2:38 PM
Difficult People
Robert was a sweet three year old boy nearing the end of his treatment for leukemia. He was doing well when my boss, a decidedly not difficult person, was called late Sunday night. Robert’s oncologist had noticed a new...
Nov 28, 2022, 11:46 PM
Miri
Ein Hod is an artists colony in the north of Israel famous for its bohemian lifestyle and its near total destruction during the Carmel Mountain fire of 2010. Ein Hod fit Miri like a glove. By the ripe old...
Nov 7, 2022, 5:50 PM
Wrestling with faith
All I am, B'H, going to be putting these stories together for a book in the coming months. This is an excerpt from a much larger story in the book. This is my first post from Israel! About a year after...
Aug 5, 2022, 10:17 AM
The nine days
“… Let all men seem greater than you in your eyes: If another is more wise or wealthy than yourself, you must show him respect. And if he is poor, and you are richer or wiser than he, consider...
Jul 11, 2022, 6:28 AM
Kathy
Blessed are you, Hashem, our G-d King of the universe, who fashioned man with wisdom and created within him many openings and many cavities. It is obvious and known before Your Throne of Glory that if but one of...
Jun 27, 2022, 6:42 AM
Edgar
Edgar was a seven year old boy with a hefty dose of ADHD and entirely too much free time on his hands over the summer. One day in an effort to keep himself entertained Edgar decided to joy ride...
Jun 17, 2022, 6:49 AM
Seeing the hand of God at work
The reaction to my post last week was, thankfully, very positive. Though I appreciate all the kind words, I am afraid that what I wrote didn’t accurately portray why I wrote it. Jewel’s miraculous recovery after being beaten to...
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Marc Arkovitz is the head of pediatric surgeon at Ha'emek medical center in Afula, Israel. He is an associate professor of surgery and pediatrics with more than 20 years experience working in both Israel and the US.
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