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X-WR-CALDESC:TIME AND LOCATION WILL BE REVEALED AFTER REGISTERING\n\nOn Wed
 nesday\, September 17\, our community will have a unique opportunity to he
 ar the inspiring story of “Galilee Medical Center: a Model for Coexistence
 ” at the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley.\n\nThe event is co-sponso
 red by Partnership2Gether for Western Galilee\, Sunnyside Presbyterian Chu
 rch\, The Simon Foundation of Temple Beth-El\, and the Federation’s local 
 Partnership2Gether committee. It will take place at the Jewish Federation.
  This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. \n\n
 The keynote speaker for the event will be Dr. Khaled Atalla\, Director of 
 Emergency Medicine at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya\, Israel.\n\nSinc
 e the hospital is located just a few miles from Israel’s border with Leban
 on\, Galilee Medical Center has faced many challenges. After Hezbollah beg
 an its attacks on October 8th\, 2023\, the entire hospital moved into its 
 underground facility and faced the extreme challenges of coping with routi
 ne visits to the ER and battlefield wounds of both civilians and IDF soldi
 ers.\n\nYet the story behind that story is that this hospital\, and its pa
 tients and staff\, serve as a model for coexistence and provide great hope
  for the future.\n\nGalilee Medical Center serves an incredibly diverse re
 gion of Israel called Western Galilee that includes Christian-Arabs\, Musl
 im-Arabs\, Druze\, and Jews. All are Israeli citizens. The patients and st
 aff of the hospital reflect this fascinating ethnic diversity.\n\nThe stor
 y of Galilee Medical Center that Dr. Atalla will share provides a microcos
 m of what peace could look like one day in the Middle East\, a region wher
 e bitter ethnic and religious rivalries have become the norm.\n\nOur Jewis
 h Federation is connected to Western Galilee through Partnership2Gether\, 
 a co-sponsor of this event along with the Jewish Federation.\n\nDr. Khaled
  Atalla\, an Arab citizen of Israel\, was born in 1985 to a Christian fami
 ly in Kfar Yassif village. In 2003\, he started medical school at The Tech
 nion in Haifa where he met Jasmin\, a Muslim-Arab\, and they married after
  they both graduated from medical school.\n\nIn August 2016\, Dr. Atalla a
 nd his family moved to Nes-Ammim\, a special village founded in 1964 by Eu
 ropean Christians as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish people after the
  Holocaust. Among its aims and activities\, Nes-Ammim strives to contribut
 e to peace-making by organizing seminars of encounter and dialogue between
  Israeli Jews and Arabs.\n\nAfter Dr. Atalla graduated medical school in 2
 011\, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Bnai Zion Medic
 al Center in Haifa in 2016. Dr. Atalla also worked as a Clinical Instructo
 r at the Technion and served as a Clinical Tutor for clinical rotations of
  medical students. He was recognized for Excellence in Medical Training tw
 o times with awards.\n\nDuring his Internal Medicine residency\, he became
  interested in Emergency Medicine\, and he subsequently performed a reside
 ncy in the field at Galilee Medical Center from 2016 to 2019.\n\nFollowing
  his Emergency Medicine residency\, Dr. Atalla completed a year of Emergen
 cy Medicine Fellowship training and an additional six months of extra fell
 owship training focused on Emergency Medicine Leadership at Mount Sinai Ho
 spital in Toronto\, Canada.\n\nIn April 2022\, Dr. Atalla returned to Gali
 lee Medical Center\, as a senior physician and began serving as director o
 f the hospital’s Emergency Department.
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DESCRIPTION:TIME AND LOCATION WILL BE REVEALED AFTER REGISTERING\n\nOn Wedn
 esday\, September 17\, our community will have a unique opportunity to hea
 r the inspiring story of “Galilee Medical Center: a Model for Coexistence”
  at the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley.\n\nThe event is co-sponsor
 ed by Partnership2Gether for Western Galilee\, Sunnyside Presbyterian Chur
 ch\, The Simon Foundation of Temple Beth-El\, and the Federation’s local P
 artnership2Gether committee. It will take place at the Jewish Federation. 
 This event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. \n\nT
 he keynote speaker for the event will be Dr. Khaled Atalla\, Director of E
 mergency Medicine at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya\, Israel.\n\nSince
  the hospital is located just a few miles from Israel’s border with Lebano
 n\, Galilee Medical Center has faced many challenges. After Hezbollah bega
 n its attacks on October 8th\, 2023\, the entire hospital moved into its u
 nderground facility and faced the extreme challenges of coping with routin
 e visits to the ER and battlefield wounds of both civilians and IDF soldie
 rs.\n\nYet the story behind that story is that this hospital\, and its pat
 ients and staff\, serve as a model for coexistence and provide great hope 
 for the future.\n\nGalilee Medical Center serves an incredibly diverse reg
 ion of Israel called Western Galilee that includes Christian-Arabs\, Musli
 m-Arabs\, Druze\, and Jews. All are Israeli citizens. The patients and sta
 ff of the hospital reflect this fascinating ethnic diversity.\n\nThe story
  of Galilee Medical Center that Dr. Atalla will share provides a microcosm
  of what peace could look like one day in the Middle East\, a region where
  bitter ethnic and religious rivalries have become the norm.\n\nOur Jewish
  Federation is connected to Western Galilee through Partnership2Gether\, a
  co-sponsor of this event along with the Jewish Federation.\n\nDr. Khaled 
 Atalla\, an Arab citizen of Israel\, was born in 1985 to a Christian famil
 y in Kfar Yassif village. In 2003\, he started medical school at The Techn
 ion in Haifa where he met Jasmin\, a Muslim-Arab\, and they married after 
 they both graduated from medical school.\n\nIn August 2016\, Dr. Atalla an
 d his family moved to Nes-Ammim\, a special village founded in 1964 by Eur
 opean Christians as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish people after the 
 Holocaust. Among its aims and activities\, Nes-Ammim strives to contribute
  to peace-making by organizing seminars of encounter and dialogue between 
 Israeli Jews and Arabs.\n\nAfter Dr. Atalla graduated medical school in 20
 11\, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Bnai Zion Medica
 l Center in Haifa in 2016. Dr. Atalla also worked as a Clinical Instructor
  at the Technion and served as a Clinical Tutor for clinical rotations of 
 medical students. He was recognized for Excellence in Medical Training two
  times with awards.\n\nDuring his Internal Medicine residency\, he became 
 interested in Emergency Medicine\, and he subsequently performed a residen
 cy in the field at Galilee Medical Center from 2016 to 2019.\n\nFollowing 
 his Emergency Medicine residency\, Dr. Atalla completed a year of Emergenc
 y Medicine Fellowship training and an additional six months of extra fello
 wship training focused on Emergency Medicine Leadership at Mount Sinai Hos
 pital in Toronto\, Canada.\n\nIn April 2022\, Dr. Atalla returned to Galil
 ee Medical Center\, as a senior physician and began serving as director of
  the hospital’s Emergency Department.
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