Don't get sick on Shabbos

 I have talked about the American dentist, an aliyah pusher, who I consulted with before moving to ssoi. Dentists are doctors. They study for years. They give medical care. So I asked him about the medical care in ssoi and of course he lied, like all aliyah pushers. He gave me the impression that the medical care is on par with that of America. 

And as it turns out, it isn't even close. Mammogram? 4-month wait. 
Same with surgery on a toe. Same with an MRI or a sonogram. My friend had severe stomach pains. He said he feared he was dying. 4 month wait. That's on par? 

So a woman I know who has been sick all week had trouble with her eyes on Shabbos. They were swollen, and bloodshot, and burning. You don't take chances with the eyes. But her city of 150,000 people doesn't have a hospital. It also doesn't have emergency care that is close by. There was something in Ezrat Achim which is an organization that provides bus services to the far away hospitals along with a few other little medical things. They host an Arab doctor or two from Terem, the emergency care service, for a portion of Shabbos in her city of religious people, but they are always changing hours. You'd think a city of religious Jews would have emergency care for religious Jews for all of Shabbos. Think again. Her husband walked 1 KM to the office to check on the hours, but a sign said that they moved the office temporarily to a location even further away but didn't say if they have emergency Shabbos care there. That's typical Israeli bad communication. They don't bother to make themselves clear. 

So the husband called a taxi that is supposed to have non-Jewish drivers. The driver, as it turns it there's only one of them, said he's out of town. There are no other drives. "Call Hatzalah," he said. Note, when you see in the phone book a listing "Emergency Shabbos service" and think, well they have everything taken care of here, well they don't. It's just a listing with little behind it.

Lots of time is passing now. Hours. The husband calls Hatzalah. An American woman answers the phone and efficiently dispatches the ambulance which brings two competent Hatzalah guys that first take her to a local eye doctor (American) and then, upon his advice, to the emergency room in Jerusalem, 40 minutes away. 

So what do we have here. Israel fails to supply decent emergency medical services. To get that, you have to call an American woman who dispatches an American man and a South African man who arrive in a private ambulance paid for by donations from chutzeh l'aretz and get advice from an American doctor. They drive you to the hospital.

When you walk around Israeli hospitals, you can't help but think of America. That's because all the machinery is from America. Maybe a bit is from Switzerland and Germany. And all over the walls are donation plaques with donors from Beverely Hills, Palm Springs, Miami Beach, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Chicago, Detroit. There are even plaques showing donations from "The people of the United States," i.e. donations from the government of the USA (using taxpayer money of course.)

What country am I in? These American and British aliyah pushers act is if they moved to Ottoman Palestine. They see themselves as chalutzim of the first Aliyah. They are so proud of themselves, even the rabbis who teach in Anglo schools that are funded by donations from chutz. Some, like the one who teaches at yeshivas Ohr Somayach, came after long careers, professional and rabbinic, in America, after having sold their homes for a million dollars. They come to Israel and start pushing young people, including innocent baalei teshuvah, to move to Israel where the housing costs a fortune, the culture is yuck, the derech eretz non-existent, and the medical care barely passable. That is of course unless you manage to get yourself around some Americans. But then are you really in Israel? 

But the story isn't over. The doctor at the hospital, who was actually a resident, but a competent one even though he be Israeli, said that the situation was potentially dangerous, and the woman should see an ophthalmologist the following day. But as it turns out, there's no ophthalmologist in her city of 150,000 until Thursday. So right now, she's in a taxi again. I say again because she had to take a taxi home after sitting for hours in the hospital. She's on her way to Jerusalem again, to see an ophthalmologist. That's a forty minute trip each way. 

This is not in the North or South by the way. This is the center of the country which is supposed to be the developed, sophisticated part.   Lies, lies, and more lies. That's what Zionists claim everyone else is doing when they talk about Israel. Actually, it is what aliyah pushers do every time they open their mouths. And that includes dentists.