“When soldiers arrived via helicopter from Gaza, I prayed," said Dr. Eugene Rapaport, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist
“I feel my blessing is being a doctor. I wanted to make sure that if somebody was ready to give their life for the State of Israel and got hurt, I would be able to help them,” Dr. Eugene Rapaport, a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist who made aliyah from California in June, told JNS.
Rapaport went to medical school at Tel Aviv University from 1989 to 1993. After his studies, he lived and practiced medicine in the United States for three decades.
“I have two older kids who both finished college—my eldest already lived in Israel, and I have a 12-year-old who immigrated with me. It required finances to be able to do this but it was time. Everything aligned,” he said during the Monday interview.