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Canadian Volunteer Medic in Israel

(Jewish Agency for Israel) Sara Ahronheim, 24, decided to spend a year in Israel before starting medical school at McGill University and was a volunteer this past year with Magen David Adom in Jerusalem. Sara served as a first responder on first aid teams for many years. "I felt the best way to help Israel was to come here using my skills as a medic," she adds. An honors graduate of Queens University in Ontario, Sara came to Israel last June, to participate in the Yochai Porat Magen David Adom Oversees Volunteer Program. She was already fluent in Hebrew, thanks to her religious Zionist day school education and years of Hebrew-speaking summer camp. As a medic she was called in during two terror attacks in Jerusalem. "You come to a scene that you hope that you'll never see," she says. "There, in front of you, is a carcass of a bus. But all of my training kicked in. I knew what to do, and how to help people."
2004-01-02 00:00:00
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