A Physician's Personal Account of the Yom Kippur War​​​​​​​

Yom Kippur Day, September 28, 3 pm

Learn about the 19-day 1973 Yom Kippur War and its effects on Israeli society from a battalion physician in the Sinai. Itzhak Brook, MD, will present a 40-minute remote lecture on his experiences, with time for questions afterward. He is a professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine; he was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, and earned his medical degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also served in the Israeli army as a medic during the Six Day War in 1967, and served in the medical corps of the US Navy for 27 years.

For more information about the talk and Dr. Brook's background ogo to http://www.israelemb.org/washington/Speakers-Guide/Society-and-Politics/Pages/Itzhak-Brook.aspx.

Those interested in reading Dr. Brook's book " In the Sands of Sinai- A physician's Account of the Yom Kippur War" can obtain it at http://amzn.to/1chHEQi .