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 Sirpa enjoying the emergency
room, Sieff Hospital by Trillian2005, 3 more photos
She and her husband Romi live in Kiriat Shemona, a town which has everything your heart desires, except a movie theater and a hospital. The closest hospital is Sieff Hospital in Zefat, about a 30-minute drive away.
Sieff hospital is a great place. It has truly fantastic views of the surrounding mountains and is almost as historical as the city of Zefat itself.
The emergency room is a bit chaotic, but that's only normal because emergencies aren't usually well organized, especially when they happen.
The hospital provides free, fashionable pajamas to everybody (as long as you're a patient), polka-dotted pink for the women, and polka-dotted blue for the men. These outfits are cheerful and want to make you recover quickly, so you can all dance the polka together.
The beds are tastefully decorated with lovely blue sheets in mille-fleur design, with matching pillow cases. The blankets are color-coordinated and sport an elegant hospital logo.
Other services provided by the hospital are free meals, visits of hospital clowns, wheelchair races with the nurses, and of course any medical treatment requested, and/or surgery if desired.
The staff is friendly and multi-lingual. You may communicate in any of your favorite language as long as it is Russian, Arabic or Hebrew. If you prefer another, off-the beaten path language, such as English, I'd suggest you make your reservations at a hospital in Afula or in
Tel Aviv
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The Lag Ba'Omer fest is celebrated 33 days after Passover. Whence its name, which stands for "the 33 day in the Omer count". This is the count of 7 weeks from Passover to Pentecost. Accodring to Jewish tradition there are no weddings from Passover until Lag Ba'Omer to commemorate the death of Rabbi Akiva's pupils during that time, in Roman times around 130 AD. Anyway, because of that this holiday has the largest amount of weddings than any other day of the year.
As a kid, you don't really care about weddings. For you the importance of Lag Ba'Omer is that at this night it's traditional to fire bonfires. So, this is also the day in the year with the largest number of fires...
Anyway, back to the point. Every year in the night of Lag Ba'Omer there is a huge fest in the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai on Mount Meiron, next to Zefat. According to tradition, Shimon Bar-Yochai is the author of the Zohar book. The base of the Kabala. In this fest there are of course plenty of bonfires and religious people come with their 3 year old kids to give them their first haircut.
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