Israeli Eye Doctor Treating Thousands of Ethiopians
When Dr Morris Hartstein’s children asked to go on a volunteering trip together, he had no idea that it would change their lives and help over 5000 Ethiopians.
One of Israel’s leading eye surgeons, Dr. Morris Hartstein, 57, was born in St Louis, Missouri. Following in his father’s footsteps, he qualified as an ophthalmologist and then specialized as an oculoplastics surgeon operating on bone and soft tissue around the eye. In 2004, he was working for Saint Louis University when he and his wife Elisa embarked on a ten-month sabbatical in Israel.
“With four kids under the age of six, it had been an intense few years, developing our careers while building our family. We were looking for ‘something,’ and had spent a very meaningful six months in Israel just after we were married, so we decided to go back.”