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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Applebaum > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Applebaum.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Applebaum > Source revision: 1341912252 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{Short description|American-born Israeli physician and rabbi}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = David Applebaum | honorific_suffix = | native_name = דוד אפלבום | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1952 | birth_place = | death_date = 2003 | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = | period = | occupation = Physician | title = | boards = | known_for = | spouse = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | era = | language = | discipline = [Emergency medicine](/source/Emergency_medicine) | sub_discipline = | movement = | religion = | denomination = | education = [Medical College of Ohio](/source/University_of_Toledo_Medical_Center) | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = | workplaces = [Shaare Zedek Medical Center](/source/Shaare_Zedek_Medical_Center) | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = | footnotes = }} '''David Applebaum''' ({{langx|he|דוד אפלבום}}; 1952–2003) was an American-born [Israel](/source/Israel)i physician and rabbi. He was chief of the emergency room and trauma services of Jerusalem’s [Shaare Zedek Medical Center](/source/Shaare_Zedek_Medical_Center). Applebaum was murdered in a [Palestinian](/source/Palestinian_political_violence) [suicide bombing](/source/suicide_bombing) at [Cafe Hillel](/source/Cafe_Hillel) in [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem) on September 9, 2003. ==Biography== David Applebaum was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended high school at the [Hebrew Theological College](/source/Hebrew_Theological_College) in Skokie, Illinois and received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi [Aaron Soloveitchik](/source/Aaron_Soloveitchik) at the [Brisk yeshiva](/source/Brisk_yeshiva) in Chicago. Applebaum was a graduate of [Roosevelt University](/source/Roosevelt_University) in Chicago, with a master's degree in biological sciences from [Northwestern University](/source/Northwestern_University). He earned his medical degree at the [Medical College of Ohio](/source/University_of_Toledo_Medical_Center) in Toledo, Ohio in 1978.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/world/a-healer-of-terror-victims-becomes-one.html|title=A Healer of Terror Victims Becomes One|first=Greg|last=Myre|date=September 11, 2003|via=NYTimes.com}}"The Lancet," Volume 362, Issue 9389, 27 September 2003, Page 1083 He [immigrated to Israel](/source/aliyah) with his family in 1982. ==Bombing== {{main|Café Hillel bombing}} Applebaum was killed along with his 20-year-old daughter, [Nava Applebaum](/source/Nava_Applebaum), on the eve of her wedding.[http://www.altawasul.net/MFA/Terrorism-%20Obstacle%20to%20Peace/Memorial/2003/Dr%20David%20Appelbaum Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Dr. David Appelbaum, 9 Sep 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120720082639/http://www.altawasul.net/MFA/Terrorism-%20Obstacle%20to%20Peace/Memorial/2003/Dr%20David%20Appelbaum |date=20 July 2012 }} ] Applebaum had just returned from New York, where he addressed a symposium on terrorism marking the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States. He ended his remarks with: "From one moment to the next, we never know what will happen in the ER [emergency room], but it's in Jerusalem that real reality occurs." Applebaum's murder was described by ''[The Lancet](/source/The_Lancet)'' as a tragic irony: This victim of a suicide bomber was himself an "emergency room doctor who treated victims of dozens of suicide bombings in Israel." In an incident in 1984, Applebaum rushed to aid a man shot in a clothing shop, operating on him while the shooting continued. In 1986, the Israeli [Knesset](/source/Knesset) presented Applebaum with the Quality of Life Award for treating terror victims on King George Street in Jerusalem while bullets flew around him. Applebaum’s younger daughter, Shira, earned her paramedic degree from [Ben-Gurion University](/source/Ben-Gurion_University)'s Health Sciences Faculty and works in emergency medicine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel/dr-david-applebaums-daughter-starts-medical-career|title=Dr. David Applebaum's daughter starts medical career|date=November 23, 2006|website=The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com}} ==Medical career== Applebaum pioneered the idea of immediate care clinics in Israel, to divert non-emergency cases from hospital emergency rooms while delivering faster care to patients who would have had long waits for emergency room staff.{{Cite web|url=https://fr.jpost.com/Tags/satellite|title=Satellite News and latest stories | The Jerusalem Post|website=fr.jpost.com}} The ''[British Medical Journal](/source/British_Medical_Journal)'' noted that Applebaum trained both [Arab](/source/Arab) and Jewish physicians and nurses for his system of urgent care centers so that there would be staffing on the holy days of both religions.British Medical Journal 2003 September 20; 327(7416): 684. He was credited by [The Lancet](/source/The_Lancet) with "transforming" the delivery of emergency care in Israel. Jonathan Halevy, Director General of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, called Applebaum "a master of emergency medicine." He said that Applebaum had spent the last year upgrading the center’s emergency room procedures, and previously had set up a chain of small emergency care centers called Terem throughout Jerusalem.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hagshama.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1511|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010201543/http://www.hagshama.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=1511|url-status=dead|title=Cafe Hillel|archivedate=October 10, 2007}} ==See also== *[Nava Applebaum](/source/Nava_Applebaum) *[Health care in Israel](/source/Health_care_in_Israel) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130127021609/http://www.jewish-e-books.com/david-avdi.html ''David Avdi: Inspirations and Memories of David Yaakov Halevi Applebaum,'' edited by Debra Applebaum] * [http://adelsoninstitute.org.il/FullArticleViewer.aspx?id=99&member=a The Historic Significance of American Aliya, Yossi Klein Halevi, September 2003]{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702221345/http://www.terem.com/eng/aboutE.php?id=Applebaum |date=July 2, 2008 |title=Memorial page at Terem Emergency Medical Centers }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Applebaum, David}} Category:1952 births Category:2003 deaths Category:American emergency physicians Category:American emigrants to Israel Category:American Orthodox Jews Category:Israeli casualties in the Second Intifada Category:Israeli emergency medical doctors Category:Israeli murder victims Category:Israeli Orthodox Jews Category:Israeli terrorism victims Category:Northwestern University alumni Category:People murdered in Israel Category:Roosevelt University alumni Category:Terrorism deaths in Jerusalem Category:University of Toledo alumni Category:Terrorist incidents in Jerusalem in the 2000s Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in 2003 Category:Murdered American Jews Category:21st-century American Jews Category:American people murdered abroad Category:Shaare Zedek Medical Center Category:Burials at Har HaMenuchot Category:Jerusalem in the Second Intifada Category:People killed by Hamas Category:American expatriates in Israel Category:American terrorism victims --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [David Applebaum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Applebaum) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Applebaum?action=history)). 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