Israeli hospital named for eugenicist awards Fauci

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center Sunday presented an award to former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

The award was presented for Fauci’s work with Israel during the pandemic as well as his cooperation with Sheba. As one of his last official acts before leaving office on December 31st last year Fauci signed a memorandum of understanding to help the hospital establish the Sheba Pandemic Preparedness Research Institute (SPRI), which aims to research emerging pathogens and create tools to prevent future pandemics.

Chaim Sheba Medical Center is the largest medical center in Israel. Established in 1948, the facility went through two name changes — first as Army Barracks No. 5 and then Tel HaShomer Hospital.

In 1953, the hospital fell under the direction of Dr. Chaim Sheba, who had formerly served as director general of Israel’s Health Ministry. Dr. Sheba died in 1971, but still stands accused of managing a ringworm outbreak by experimenting on Sephardic children with radiation poisoning. Under Dr. Sheba, about 100,000 North African children reportedly had their heads x-rayed with 35,000 times the maximum dose of ionizing radiation. According to a documentary on the affair, 6,000 children died soon after their treatment while thousands more either died later from related cancer or continue to suffer from amnesia, psychosis, epilepsy, chronic headaches and other maladies.

"They brought them in lines,” a nurse who helped administer the x-rays said in a documentary called The Ringworm Children. “First their heads were shaved and smeared in burning gel. Then a ball was put between their legs and the children were ordered not to drop it, so they wouldn't move. The children weren't protected over the rest of their bodies. There were no lead vests for them. I was told I was doing good by helping to remove ringworm. If I knew what dangers the children were facing, I would never have cooperated. Never!"

The experiment was allegedly part of a program funded by the US government, which paid Israel handsomely for the operation.

Following Dr. Sheba’s death, Tel Hashomer Hospital was renamed Chaim Sheba Medical Center in his honor.

On Sunday, when accepting the Champion of Global Human Health Award, Fauci credited Sheba for US policies on vaccines.

“We were able to make policy decisions about how we would handle vaccinations, boosters and things like that based on the real-time data we were getting from Israel, primarily from Sheba,” Fauci said.

Sheba was indeed the hospital most instrumental in vaccines, lockdowns, masks, and child vaccinations.

When Pfizer developed its first COVID-19 booster, for example, most countries were hesitant to offer up their populations without any prior data. But as it had done with the first Pfizer vaccines, Israel volunteered — and Sheba eagerly stepped forward.

Then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gave a batch of the newly developed boosters to Sheba Medical Center Infectious Disease Unit Head Professor Galia Rahav to experiment on 2,000 members of the hospital’s medical staff. The experiment was apparently not conducted under the official auspices of Israel’s Health Ministry.

“She tried it first, on their doctors, on the hospital staff, 2,000 people,” said Bennett. “She sampled the decrease in antibodies and mortality.

“So [Galia] was the first in the world. So every day I would call and ask, ‘What's going on, Galia?’ and she would update me.”

Rahav was also Israel’s most influential voice on mandates.

Galia Rahav is Israel’s “Lockdown Lady,” a government advisor and media COVID darling who was instrumental in the heavy-handed lockdowns imposed on Israeli citizens. Rahav also heavily pushed child vaccines and masks. She holds no love for the unvaccinated, whom she refers to as “parasites”. 

But likely most important to Rahav is that she is the Israeli media’s token “medical expert” whom they trot out occasionally to stoke the embers of mass panic when it begins to wane. 

In the year before the pandemic Rahav had little to no media coverage; in fact, a search for “Galia Rahav” in the news between January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020 generates no results.

But in 2020, the year of the pandemic, Rahav was mentioned at least twenty times in the mainstream media. 

In 2021, the year of vaccinations, Rahav’s fawning media coverage increased, especially when she was threatened by parents over her influential push to vaccinate children. The threats earned Rahav NIS 42,000 ($11,900) in damages and her own page on the Israel government’s website in her defense.