Blessed to serve...

Dear friends,

Iwelcome this chance to update all our friends of Shaare Zedek in the UK on the truly exciting and potential-filled developments which are ongoing here at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre. As has always been our vision, progress is defined by our historic desire to respond to the growing needs of the community we are blessed to serve.

When Shaare Zedek opened its doors 120 years ago, the hospital consisted of 20 beds and 40 cows. Within the next few years, we’ll have grown to some 1,500 beds and be home to dozens of biotech and hi-tech companies. Our vision is to make Shaare Zedek into a centre of advanced technological development that combines the best of clinical medicine with innovative research and scientific accomplishment.

In November 2022 we began treating patients in our new Helmsley Cancer Centre, a remarkable building with an award-winning design. It has been designed to place the patient experience at the very centre and later this year we will be opening our newly expanded Department of Emergency Medicine. We know that Israel needs to already be planning to respond to the challenges that will define our national healthcare in twenty years from now. This is specifically what we at Shaare Zedek are involved with, with a strategic and ambitious plan to ensure that the people of the greater Jerusalem region will be afforded the medical response they need and deserve.

As always, I welcome the chance to salute our remarkable team of over 5,000 doctors, nurses, researchers, administrators and maintenance and support staff that call Shaare Zedek their professional home. They are the heart that allows this growth and we all owe them a great debt of gratitude for their dedication every day and night.

I also welcome the chance to express our thanks to you as our partners and caring for the people of Jerusalem and Israel. On their behalf I want to share my gratitude and deepest thanks for your continued support. I wish you and your families all the best of health and happiness.

Professor Ofer Merin Director General Shaare Zedek Medical Centre