The model
The future does not begin with an agreement. It begins with people working together.
In Israel's north, shared life is not abstract. It is practical, demanding, and deeply human. At Ziv Medical Center, Druze, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian professionals work side by side. They care for families, soldiers, civilians, and strangers who arrive in need.
The work does not erase difference. It proves that difference does not have to prevent people from building, healing, and protecting life together.
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Prof. Zarka at a Miami gathering for Ziv hosted by Dr. Roy and Faye Weiss.
Infrastructure
Humanitarian healthcare is infrastructure
Roads, borders, public institutions, and security systems shape a region. Hospitals do too.
A trusted hospital builds relationships across communities before a crisis, holds those relationships during a crisis, and gives the next generation evidence that cooperation is not naive. It is already part of daily life.
From Syria to Israel's north
A commitment to human life
During the Syrian civil war, Ziv's teams provided humanitarian care to wounded and ill Syrians who arrived in need. The same institution has cared for communities across northern Israel and for soldiers and civilians through the years of conflict that followed.
The common denominator is not politics. It is a commitment to human life.
Rooted in the north
A hospital rooted in the north
Ziv Medical Center is a government hospital in Safed and an affiliate of Bar-Ilan University's Azrieli Faculty of Medicine. Its teams provide trauma and emergency care, mental health services, cancer care, maternity and newborn care, research, and medical education for communities across northern Israel.
Its location near the Lebanese and Syrian borders makes emergency readiness essential. Its everyday work makes Ziv equally important between emergencies.
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Prof. Zarka at a Miami gathering for Ziv hosted by
Dr. Roy and Faye Weiss.
Care across the human experience
What the hospital carries, every day
Trauma and emergency care
Readiness for soldiers, civilians, mass-casualty events, and everyday emergencies.
Mental health
Care for children, adolescents, adults, families, and teams facing trauma, anxiety, depression, and crisis.
Mothers and babies
Maternity, neonatal, pediatric, and family care for the north's diverse communities.
Cancer and advanced treatment
Oncology, radiotherapy, diagnostic services, and continuing clinical development.
People behind the medicine
Practical support that helps Ziv's teams continue caring for others through extraordinary pressure.