From the deep darkness of Syrian Arab-on-Arab savagery, pin-pricks of light in northern Israel

...The humanitarian chain that got the woman from her home village under heavy shellfire to the boundary fence and then to hospital links guides in Syria to Israeli Army paramedics on the frontier, to the doctors and nurses in Tzfat. For the woman, every step in the process worked perfectly, perhaps because it has become a well-trodden path. She was the 177th person to make to the journey to the emergency room in what has become one of the most extraordinary subplots of Syria's agonising civil war.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
25 November '13..

A small, almost inconsequential, BBC report from Tzefat, an ancient city of some 32,000 and a renowned center of Jewish scholarship and mysticism, focuses a little welcome attention today on the Ziv Medical Center for the work its good people do in the face of the Arab-on-Arab savagery being done just a short distance away in Syria.

ZMC was established as a small clinic in 1910, later re-named in honour of Lady Rebecca Sieff, which is pronounced Ziv in Hebrew, and eventually expanded greatly as Tzefat itself grew. It is a government-owned and -operated medical center with 316 hospital beds, incorporating clinics, units and institutes, research laboratories and a nursing school. It now hosts the new Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bar-Ilan in Zefat, engaged in the education and training of future physicians.

The victims of Syria's war finding care in Israel

By Kevin Connolly | BBC Middle East correspondent, Tzfat | 25 November 2013

In the maternity unit at the Sieff Hospital in the Israeli city of Tzfat, the safe arrival of every baby feels like a minor miracle. But on the day we visited, there was one little boy among the row of newborns who will one day have quite a story to tell. That is, if his parents ever decide to tell him.

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