Jerusalem Hand Surgeons
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The Shaare Zedek Hand Unit’s team includes six specialists: Dr. Gershon Singer, the unit’s director, Dr. Alexander Bergman, Dr. Michael Michaelevich, Dr. Oren Sarig, Dr. Kobi Steinberg and Dr. Nathan Silver. Dr Rafaat Akil completed his orthopedic training and joined our team as a hand surgery fellow December 2024. In addition, there is an orthopedic resident who does a 3 month rotation on our service.
The hand unit has extensive and intensive activity – clinics every day, an operating room for general anesthesia 3 days a week and additional operating procedures under local anesthesia 6-8 times per month. Specialty clinics include ultrasound clinic for orthopedic injections, a prenatal clinic for congenital cases, and a clinic for complex cases attended by all the doctors in the unit. One of our hand surgeons is on call for emergency cases 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
