In response to predictions of a shortfall of doctors Israel has launched a campaign to encourage Jewish doctors from North America and Britain to come on aliya. A package of special grants and benefits worth $60,000, in addition to the standard aliya benefits, will be given to physicians on condition they are less than 40 years old and commit to work in Israel at least nine months a year. Hospitals and clinics that hire them will also receive financial assistance from the state.
The doctors will be provided an accelerated licensing track that should eliminate most of the Israeli bureaucracy and ensure them a quick integration into the healthcare system. The campaign is being organized by the Health Ministry, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry, the Morasha Foundation and Nefesh Benefesh to promote aliya from Western countries.
A report written last summer for the Council of Higher Education’s Budget and Planning Committee points to an increasing number of doctors leaving Israel. In light of this trend and relying on forecasts of population growth, the current ratio of 3.4 doctors per 1,000 people could go down to 2.5 per 1,000 by the year 2025.
(Source: Dei’ah veDibur)
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16 Responses
Is it a MItzvah to live in Israel? What do the Piskim say? They lead us.
It is not a shortage of doctors but a shortage of qualified doctors!
To #1, yes it’s a mitzva, it is only argued whether it is a voluntary mitzva or a required mitzva. Something to think about. Of course, either way, there are countless mitzvos that can only be done here in E”Y!
The first step to get them to move and stay will be to change the socialized medicine system that they have.
It might be a Mitzvah, but do I want my kids growing up with that Israeli Chutzpah? Sadly Midos seems to have been forgotten in the Holy Land.
Is it a MItzvah to live in Israel? What do the Piskim say?
Reb Moshe wrote extensively on this sheyla, read his sefer, he compares it to the mitzvah of ‘TZITZES’. Wow, imuststeig, never met a kid in USA with chutzpah? Where you from? Chazal always praised the kinderlach of E”Y, for their quick answers and sharp thinking (could be called chutzpah in some circles). Think of a better excuse…
I agree with #4(baki). And now with Hillary Clinton literally cruising her way to being elected as President, socialized medicine is now making it’s way to us here in the U.S.A.
#5 imuststheig
perhaps u really need to shteig in sefer chafetz chaim – hilchos lashon horah. see also end of meseches kesubos & rashi at the top of daf 112b
socialized medicine-insurance is much cheaper.
keep that in mind when thinking about ur fellow yidden in EY
In response to those whom did not understand me..I am saying that it is not clear whether today there is a Chiyuv, an obligation, to go live in Eretz Yisroel. It seems as if it is a rishus.If you think it is simple, do some research.Read the seforim.
Knowing that, I also consider how my kids will I”Mh turn out. I see a large difference in the way Israeli kids act in contrast to American Kids. I don’t call “sharp” or “clever” a good thing when kids use it to undermine authority and be disrespectful. It is a sad truth about what is going on in Israel. Perhaps we learned it from the Arabs living in that vicinity.
israelis often treat their fellow yidden like close family. u probably speak to ur siblings differently than to others. this is normal.
i strongly suspect that “imustshteig” is not yet a father [or mother] of children the age of children he’s thinking & writing about.
please keep out moitsy shem rah!!
#9
Why do you think it is doctors that should curtail their income to practice socialized medicine as opposed to other professions? If doctors don’t get paid sufficiently well, you won’t have enough qualified doctors. Maybe there should be socialized housing so that everyone can afford a nice apartment in Eretz Yisroel.
ImustShteig, Ever get to parshas Shelach, see the consequences of loshon hara about E”Y.
i think that there is definetly a certain agressivnes in isralies . but i think its because thats the only way they can survive there.
but to ” imustshteig” if you would live in israel and you were worrieed about your childrens “politness” then you shoould teach them the right chinuch and mold them just like you would here!! why should it be any different? there are some pretty nasty americans and i dont see jewish kids being affected by it! think about it!!
To asinburt…i appreciate your logical and rational reply. You are right about everything. They probably do have and might need that attitude to survive. And if i would raise my children a certain way which i think would best teach them the proper midos, I hopefully can have a strong impact.
I guess,when I think of a “Jewish state” I think of a country full of my brothers and I want and expect Jews to act in a certain holy ,very special way. Anything short of that disappoints me. I am not perfect, far from it, but I guess i get emotional and hope that our own Medinah can be the Perfect Utopian country.
To “zionflag”- Are you saying there was a time when we had Jewish leadership as liberal and anti-frum as what we have now? I think you might be blind with your love and desire to have a “jewish State”. Nationalistic feelings are blinding you from the reality that the secular government in Israel does not want anything to do with the Torah. Do you read what goes on in Tel Aviv? I wont mention it on this Chashuvah blog. Do all the jews there act that way? No. Of course not. But the majority of the governemnt does. We are so supposed to be ” a light onto the nations”. Do You think parents around the world are saying to their kids- ” I hope you grow up to be like those holy Israeli ministers”? I think not! Make the government more frum and into our holy Torah, just a little bit, and then I would let you compare their mistakes to the mistakes of our forefathers.