David Applebaum (; 1952–2003) was an American-born

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i physician and rabbi. He was chief of the emergency room and trauma services of Jerusalem’s

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. Applebaum was murdered in a

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at Cafe Hillel in

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on September 9, 2003.

Biography

David Applebaum was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended high school at the

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in Skokie, Illinois and received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi

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at the

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in Chicago. Applebaum was a graduate of

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in Chicago, with a master's degree in biological sciences from

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. He earned his medical degree at the

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in Toledo, Ohio in 1978."The Lancet," Volume 362, Issue 9389, 27 September 2003, Page 1083 He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1982.

Bombing

Applebaum was killed along with his 20-year-old daughter,

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, on the eve of her wedding. Applebaum had just returned from New York, where he addressed a symposium on terrorism marking the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States. He ended his remarks with: "From one moment to the next, we never know what will happen in the ER mergency room but it's in Jerusalem that real reality occurs." Applebaum's murder was described by ''

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'' as a tragic irony: This victim of a suicide bomber was himself an "emergency room doctor who treated victims of dozens of suicide bombings in Israel." In an incident in 1984, Applebaum rushed to aid a man shot in a clothing shop, operating on him while the shooting continued. In 1986, the Israeli

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presented Applebaum with the Quality of Life Award for treating terror victims on King George Street in Jerusalem while bullets flew around him. Applebaum’s younger daughter, Shira, earned her paramedic degree from

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's Health Sciences Faculty and works in emergency medicine.

Medical career

Applebaum pioneered the idea of immediate care clinics in Israel, to divert non-emergency cases from hospital emergency rooms while delivering faster care to patients who would have had long waits for emergency room staff. The ''

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'' noted that Applebaum trained both

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and Jewish physicians and nurses for his system of urgent care centers so that there would be staffing on the holy days of both religions.British Medical Journal 2003 September 20; 327(7416): 684. He was credited by

with "transforming" the delivery of emergency care in Israel. Jonathan Halevy, Director General of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, called Applebaum "a master of emergency medicine." He said that Applebaum had spent the last year upgrading the center’s emergency room procedures, and previously had set up a chain of small emergency care centers called Terem throughout Jerusalem.

References

External links

''David Avdi: Inspirations and Memories of David Yaakov Halevi Applebaum,'' edited by Debra Applebaum

The Historic Significance of American Aliya, Yossi Klein Halevi, September 2003
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Biography

Bombing

Medical career

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