Yoseftal Hospital in Eilat

Historically, Eilat-Eilot has served as a single-industry region, with 80% of the population employed either directly or indirectly by the tourist industry, in jobs that neither demand professional training nor promise a stable income. The Jewish Foundation and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto are working to transform the region into a centre of opportunity by diversifying the professional opportunities available there.

 

The Sherry Simcha Menashy Memorial Fund is working to create a treatment room at Eilat’s Yoseftal Hospital. Founded in 1969, the hospital is the only advanced medical facility in the region. Yoseftal cares for trauma victims involved in traffic and other accidents, and its decompression chamber has saved the lives of many deep-sea divers. It serves the hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit Eilat each year as well as residents of the area.

 

The emergency room at Yoseftal does not meet the community’s growing needs. It treats more than 50,000 patients each year, and the next closest emergency room is 240 kilometers away. In response to this critical need, the Sherry Simcha Menashy Memorial Fund is facilitating a massive upgrade of Yoseftal’s emergency room, expanding the existing space and supplying it with state-of-the-art medical equipment.

 

This upgrade will have a profound effect on the health of the community by saving hundreds of lives of every year, making the region safer and more secure, attracting new residents, more tourists, and an increased number of medical professionals to the region.

 

After the recent terrorist attacks in the area, dozens of Israelis were cared for at Yoseftal Hospital.