Israel’s dedicated Dream Doctors are at the forefront of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Dream Doctors David ‘DUSH!’ Barashi and Ori ‘BEBESH’ Noaz are ready  and on demand at the front lines of Wolfson Medical Center, Holon.

“The coronavirus has brought so much chaos into our lives that our job now is to provide a sense of order.”

Dear readers of KOL Israel Bonds,

We salute Israel’s brave Dream Doctors, the only professional medical clowning organization in the world that has continued working in hospitals despite the Corona pandemic.

“Under normal circumstances, medical clowns lighten people’s mood by adding a bit of chaos into normally rigid medical situations and institutions to bring people joy and laughter,” explained Shoshi Ofir, who works as a medical clown in Israel’s northern hospitals of Baruch Padeh Medical Center
in Poriya and Ziv Medical Center in Tsfat. “However, the coronavirus has brought so much chaos into our lives that our job now is to provide a sense of order”

During the coronavirus crisis, Dream Doctors are duly tasked with lifting the spirits of tired and emotionally drained medical staff and finding creative ways to reach patients in quarantine through video chats, loudspeakers, exaggerated movement, sound and pantomime through thick hospital glass.

“I work in pediatric oncology and have developed relationships for years with many children who I can no longer see in person for fear of exposing them to the virus,” explained Nimrod Eisenberg, a Dream Doctor who works at
Echilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. “So we have to be even more creative now and find ways to
make them laugh about the situation.”

“You’re still healing and helping me.
Keep being a clown. You are needed and loved... Thank you again so much.”

Carrie Mork pictured here behind the thick glass. Clown to the left is Shoshi Ofir.

Carrie Mork, an American tourist who was visiting Israel before the outbreak and discovered she was infected with the coronavirus during her trip.  She had to be hospitalized for almost a month at Poriya Hospital and was in full quarantine.  There she met Dream Doctor Shoshi Ofir, who visited her almost daily.  When she was finally released and able to return to America, she wrote to Shoshi to express her gratitude, “You’re still healing and helping me. Keep being a clown. You are needed and loved... Thank you again so much.”