A landmark aesculapian league successful Morocco successful caller days brought unneurotic section crab specialists and experts from Israel, and each successful a Jewish museum.
The three-day event, which concluded connected Sunday, was titled “Tomorrow’s Medicine arsenic a Bridge for Peace.” Discussions among the 60 participants focussed connected hopes that the 2020 normalization betwixt Israel and Morocco volition spur greater aesculapian cooperation.
It took spot successful the occidental larboard metropolis of Essaouira, known for its affluent Jewish past and for the Bayt Dakira (House of Memory) Jewish museum, wherever the gathering took place. The museum, which opened successful 2020, is dedicated to the historical coexistence of the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities.
The lawsuit was organized by the Peace Medical Association, a nonprofit that brings unneurotic aesculapian professionals from Israel and Morocco, arsenic good arsenic French counterparts who besides attended the event.
One of the Israeli participants, Bar Ilan University immunologist Prof. Cyrille Cohen, recovered the lawsuit peculiarly affectional owed to his Moroccan-Jewish descent.
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“I was precise moved to talk astir crab successful the onshore wherever my begetter and forefathers were born,” helium told The Times of Israel. “Normalization has made a large difference, and is making it overmuch easier to bring unneurotic Israelis and Moroccans to speech astir however we tin assistance each different successful medicine.”
The lawsuit was opened by André Azoulay, advisor to Morocco’s king, Mohammed VI, and 1 of the country’s best-known Jewish figures. On Friday night, each participants sat down for a kosher Shabbat meal, unneurotic with guests from the section Jewish community.
“We sang successful Hebrew, we sang successful Arabic, and everyone experienced Shabbat, astir 100 radical — it was amazing,” said Cohen.
Bar Ilan University immunologist Prof. Cyrille Cohen speaking astatine a aesculapian league successful Morocco connected October 30, 2022, beside a representation of Morocco’s king (Courtesy of Prof. Cyrille Cohen)
As a starring crab researcher and president of the Israeli Society for Cancer Research, Cohen was 1 of respective presenters. Others included Prof. Miriam Ben Haroch from Rambam Health Care Campus successful Haifa and Laila Hessissen, prof of pediatrics astatine the Medical School of Rabat, Morocco.
Cohen said that the discussions highlighted however acold Morocco has precocious successful oncology, and however the clip is close to physique collaborations.
“Morocco has undergone a gyration successful oncology successful the past 15 years,” helium said. “Israel is precocious successful this field, and it is important to stock our cognition and to assistance the section colonisation determination and besides to summation from their experience. I deliberation that 1 of the adjacent tasks volition beryllium to make ongoing collaborations successful the tract of crab research.
“The adjacent step, we hope, volition to bring Moroccan doctors to Israel, and we’re looking guardant to this.”
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