Nathan Jeffay is The Times of Israel s health and science correspondent
Illustrative image: Medical workers, one Jewish and one Arab, holding signs calling for peace, at Rambam Medical Center, May 2021 (courtesy of Rambam Medical Center)
Arab medical staff left their homes for days at a time to keep a hospital in the range of Gaza rocket fire running smoothly and so their Jewish counterparts could have a break over the Shavuot holiday earlier this week.
Amid rocket fire and with Arab-Jewish violence on streets, many Arab staffers at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod, which is about 15 miles from the Gaza border and has treated 111 people who have suffered from the ongoing violence, said they were scared by their commute to work.