Azrieli Collaboration in Latvia

For several years the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine at the Riga Stradins University in Latvia have collaborated with one another. This has included frontal lectures by Azrieli faculty, to students and medical specialists alike, as well as lectures by professors from Riga in hospitals affiliated to Azrieli, in addition to student visits and joint Zoom lectures and seminars during COVID.

At the end of October 2022, Prof. Alexander Lerner of the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine was invited to Riga in order to train doctors and students from the RSU Faculty of Medicine in new methods of treating serious injuries, including modern war injuries.

Students from dozens of European, Asian, African and Latin American countries study at the RSU Faculty of Medicine. Many of them were exposed for the first time to, and personally saw the results of the humanitarian treatment of, Syrian citizens (from an "enemy state") in the hospitals in northern Israel that are affiliated to the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine. Following three standing-room-only lectures given by Prof. Lerner, students expressed their excitement. But what impressed Prof. Lerner the most were the  Israeli students studying at RSU, who said that after such lectures they are even more proud of their country and feel the respect of their classmates from other countries.

The Israeli Ambassador to Latvia, Mrs. Sharon Rapoport-Palgi, with whom Prof. Lerner met in Riga at the end of the lectures, noted the great importance of such collaboration in order to strengthen the ties between the two countries and to improve Israel's reputation worldwide.

[Pictured: Prof. Lerner with Israeli students]