35-Year-Old Arab-Israeli doctor becomes nation’s youngest medical professor
“At Sheba, I never felt there is discrimination between Arab or non-Arab,” said senior rheumatologist Dr. Abdulla Watad, who has co-authored about 200 scientific publications.
Israel 21C 15.01.2023
Dr. Abdulla Watad, 35, from the Israeli Arab village of Jatt, has become the youngest Israeli physician to receive a full professorship in the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine.
This title is normally earned by much older physicians.
Watad is a senior rheumatologist and deputy director of the Internal Medicine B ward at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. He has co-authored about 200 scientific publications
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