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Meet the first babies born in Israel in 2019.
• At Bnei Brak’s Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital, the fourth child was born to a family which lives in the Center at 12:03AM.
• Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon: Oriyan Barnea gave birth to a girl weighing 3.360kg (7.1 lbs.) at 12:28AM.
• Hadassah Hospital Mt. Scopus: A second child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Naeh and Natan Tuito of Givat Ze’ev. Mrs. Tuito gave birth to a girl, who will join her older brother when she heads home in a few days. Naeh gave birth in the new delivery suits at 1:00AM.
• Hadassah Ein Kerem: Mr. and Mrs. Meital and Avi Truzman welcomed their son into the world, who will join his two brothers and two sisters at home.
• Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Rishon L’Tzion: The first girl came into the world at 1:00AM, a daughter to Meshi and Gavriel Kahlon of Yishuv Azur, weighing 2.68kg (5.9 lbs.). At the same time, in another delivery room, the veteran midwife of the hospital, Batsheva Shuv, delivered her grandson as daughter Hodayah gave birth to a 2.690kg (5.9 lbs.) boy. A total of five boys and five girls were born in the hospital during the night. During 2018, 8560 babies were born, including 4,440 boys and 4,305 girls, 177 sets of twins and three sets of triplets.
• Galil Medical Center: A boy was born at 1:01AM, weighing 2.630kg (5.7 lbs.), a third child to the couple. Three other girls were born during the night. A total of 5,500 babies were born in the hospital in 2018 including 100 sets of twins and two sets of triplets.
• Hillel Yafeh Hospital in Hadera: A woman from Baka al-Garbiya gave birth to a daughter at 12:02AM. A Pardes Chana woman gave birth via an emergency Cesarean section at the same time. A total of over 4,600 babies were born at the hospital during the year.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Hadar Elboim, Hadassah Spokesperson)
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4 Responses
Sincerest mazel tov wishes to all newborn Yiddishe kinderlach. But, is the fact that they were born 1 or 2 minutes into the new Christian year actually significant? Does Pope Gregory’s calendar calculations confer any special “mazel” on anyone? Le’fi ha’emes, there’s nothing special about this day.
The answer to your question american_yerushalmi is no, it does not make any difference, and the gregorian calender partaining to months and years (besides the actual fact that it is a yearly cycle for the earth/sun from point A all the way around back to point A) is completely meaningless. The only reason these subjects are “items” these days in our communities, is probably due to the fact that everyone finished already the whole bavli, yerushalmi, tosefta, all musar seforim, everything everything, and they now have nothing to do on earth anymore and are filling up their time with such “important” facts………………………………..
Why is Israel so secularism? These babies were born on the 24th of Teves5779. Enough with the goyishe calendar. This is Yeshiva World., Supositorerly.
I was on phone @5PM EST Monday with my son in Bais Yisroel section of Yerusholayim, when suddenly he began hearing fireworks, and then realized it was stroke of midnite and that a new secular year had commenced.