The Yom Kippur War: A Battalion Physician’s Experience of a War that Shaped Israel and the Middle East
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Speaker: Dr. Itzhak Brook, M.D.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Nusach Hari-B’Nai Zion
650 N. Price Rd., 63132
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. Itzhak Brook, M.D., served as a battalion physician during the Yom Kippur War and recounts his personal experiences during that time in his book In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician’s Account of the Yom Kippur War. It describes how he coped with his soldiers’ medical and psychological issues, the daily struggle of survival in the battle zone, the resourcefulness exhibited during the time of war and the struggle to preserve one’s humanity in the midst of it all.
About the Speaker
Itzhak Brook, M.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and the past chairman of the Anti-Infective Drug Advisory Committee of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, earning his medical degree from Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Medicine, in Jerusalem. Dr. Brook completed his pediatrics training at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Israel. He served in the Israeli army as a medic in the Six Day War in 1967 and as a battalion physician during the Yom Kippur war in 1973. Dr. Brook served in the US Navy for 27 years.
RSVP to Nancy Dubman at NDubman@JFedSTL.org or 314-442-3771. For more information, contact Cyndee Levy at CLevy@JFedSTL.org or 314-442-3754.
This program is sponsored by Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library and Nusach Hari-B’Nai Zion.