Dear APF Friends and Supporters,
Israel needs you!
For the first time since the activation of the APF’s Emergency Medical Volunteer Registry during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, we may need to activate our volunteers to go to Israel and assist in providing care for all people in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. While all countries are struggling, Israel is unique in that unlike other nations, it faces the additional burden of military preparedness every single day.
APF just received this notification from the IDF Medical Corps’ Trauma and Combat Medicine Branch:
“We are approaching you now with the request to update us of your willingness and capacity to be deployed for a period of two weeks (or longer) to Israel to supplement the Israeli hospitals or other medical facilities.”
It is part of our mission to support this request, and we will.
However, we need your financial support to rise to this challenge. Your donation helps APF honor its commitment to support Israel in its times of dire need.
We are standing by, ready to activate our registry.
Will you join our volunteer doctors and nurses by donating to APF to facilitate this mission? Your contribution will significantly help us to be ready to activate on a moment's notice and send lifesaving medical professionals and aid to Israel to ease their overwhelmed system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We hope and pray that Israel’s system continues to manage the pandemic, but we need your help to be ready. American Physicians Fellowship, tax ID: 04-2207701, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, per the IRS code, and all donations are tax-deductible.
As Rabbi Hillel famously said, “If not now, when? If not me, then who?” We need
you
!
Sincerely,
Nancy Schmidt, RN, BSN
President of the APF
