Avraham "Avi" Rivkind (1949 - ) is an Israeli doctor. He is head of the department of general surgery and trauma unit of Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Karem, Jerusalem.
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Avraham Rivkind was born in 1949 and served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1967 to 1970. He completed his pre-medical studies at the University of Siena in Italy and received his Doctorate in Medicine from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980.
Rivkind is the Medical Director of United Hatzalah, Israel's largest volunteer emergency response organization. He is also an advisor to the Surgeon General of the IDF on trauma and ethics. He was the personal physician of the President of Israel, Ezer Weizman. Fellowship in traumatology and critical care, (MIEMSS) Baltimore, Maryland. Visiting Associate He is a professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California in Trauma and Fore-gut surgery.
Rivkind is revered "for refusing to give up on the most hopeless patients, such as the soldier who was shot in the heart and pronounced dead on arrival and whom Rivkind revived." [1] This soldier was Shimon Ohana, age 18, of the Border Police.
Rivkind has said he would like to invite Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas to Hadassah Hospital. "I would start by showing him a 14-year old Palestinian boy I operated on last week - and who was injured when a bomb he was working with blew up. I would ask Haniyeh, 'Look at this boy. Would you want your son to look like this?' And then I would show him the care this boy is getting here ... And I'll ask him, 'Isn't this a better way to live between us?' " [2]