Dr. Nadal Mohana, the Arab doctor from Umm al-Fahm who saved the lives of two patients, is a quiet hero, the kind who does not like to talk - but to perform.
On Thursday evening, he was in a car with his family at the entrance to Umm al-Fahm when he received a phone call from Maroni Gamzo (in which he was informed of the attack) and asked him to send an ENT doctor urgently.
"It was clear to me that I was leading this mission and the first to stand on my own two feet, being the director of the nose-to-ear array here in Ichilov and to stand at the hospital gates. I dropped my family off and flew to Tel Aviv," he said.
The wounded in the attack in Tel Aviv at the entrance to Ichilov Hospital, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
By the time he arrived she was already injured in an immediate life-threatening operating room.
Together with a team of professional surgeons and anesthesiologists, he managed to stop it from stabilizing and removing it from danger.
"Minutes later, I brought down another injured operating room from a facial injury and with complex surgery stopped the bleeding and is also now recovering," Dr. Mohana described the dramatic moments.
But two weeks ago, two residents of Umm al-Fahm carried out the attack in Hadera, in which two Border Police officers, Yazan Fallah and Shirel Aboukaret, were killed.
"It is important for me to set a different example on this day," Dr. Mohana emphasized. "99% of the residents of Umm al-Fahm and the Arab sector support coexistence and against violence and killing.
This is not our way and it is contrary to Islam.
Do not let a handful damage the delicate fabric of Israeli society. "
On being an example of coexistence and moderation in this complex period, he told Israel Today: "This is something I was brought up to do. Something that I think most citizens of the country believe in and maintain on a daily basis except for a handful that pulls us from both ends."
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