Clalit\u2019s southern district<\/a>, said doctors were already seeing patients in the first days after the first round of displacements, working out of hotel rooms and temporary spaces.<\/p>\n\u201cWe took up rooms in hotels, like guest rooms\u2026 or we just took some conference rooms, and we turned that into a clinic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Uri Shliom with displaced patients from Arad at hotels at the Dead Sea. (credit: Clalit Southern District)<\/p>\n
By the second day of recent evacuations, Shliom said, clinics were already functioning.<\/p>\n
The system, he noted, is not new. Years of repeated emergencies have made this response almost automatic.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of so many wars that we\u2019ve had before, the HMO [health maintenance organization] was really prepared for this,\u201d Shliom said. \u201cIt\u2019s sad to say that, but it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under Israel\u2019s National Health Insurance Law, every resident is required to be a member of one of four health funds \u2013 Clalit, Maccabi, Meuhedet, or Leumit. The system is publicly funded through taxation but is delivered through these independent providers, which maintain patients\u2019 medical records, prescriptions, and services.<\/p>\n
Garcia-Dincin described receiving calls from her clinic and regular messages offering prescriptions and consultations. \u201cIt\u2019s helping\u2026 to know that they\u2026 care about you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Doctors are not only treating illness. They are also replacing medication, arranging care, and managing patients who don\u2019t have access to their regular services.<\/p>\n
Beyond medicine<\/p>\n
In the first days of displacement, when people first arrive, they don\u2019t need complex treatment \u2013 they need immediate, practical basics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t have their medications\u2026 their hearing aids\u2026 their eyeglasses,\u201d said Dr. Ishai Lev, a family medicine specialist working with evacuees.<\/p>\n
Chronic conditions destabilize quickly. Blood pressure spikes. Diabetes becomes harder to manage. Older patients arrive confused, disoriented, and without access to routine care.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they needed is someone to hear them\u2026 just to give them normality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Shliom echoed this sentiment. \u201cThey would come\u2026 for medical needs, for social needs, for bureaucratic needs, for a shoulder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Dr. Ishai Lev, Director of the Tzur and Abu Gosh Clinics, sees patients at a makeshift clinic in Jerusalem for evacuees from Beit Shemesh. (credit: Clalit Jerusalem District)<\/p>\n
Patients arrive with headaches, stomach pain, and fatigue. The symptoms are real, but not always physical.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of somatization,\u201d Shliom said \u2013 physical symptoms reflecting emotional distress.<\/p>\n
Anxiety surfaces indirectly. A patient may describe fear and, in the same breath, a severe headache, without connecting the two.<\/p>\n
In many cases, the boundary between medical care and emotional support disappears.<\/p>\n
Life without structure<\/p>\n
The deeper challenge is not the immediate disruption but the absence of routine that follows.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they need is structure,\u201d Shliom said. Displacement strips away the systems that organize daily life \u2013 work, school, community, even simple habits. Hotels, he added, work against that need.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like sort of a temporary paradise, but it\u2019s not really paradise,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
At first, the environment can feel like an escape, a vacation of sorts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, yes, the room is great\u2026 everything is okay,\u201d Garcia-Dincin said.<\/p>\n
Within days, that perspective shifts. There is no privacy. No stable routine. The room is shared. The lobby is crowded. Work becomes difficult, sometimes impossible. \u201cIt was impossible to try to set a daily routine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Healthcare systems attempt to fill that gap. Clinics become fixed points \u2013 places with schedules, staff, and predictable processes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey become an anchor,\u201d Shliom said, describing clinics as one of the few stable structures available to evacuees.<\/p>\n
Around them, other services follow: temporary kindergartens, mental health support, and community programming. But the environment remains inherently unstable.<\/p>\n
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Destruction from the Iranian missile strike in Arad. (credit: Clalit Southern District)<\/p>\n
For children, the impact is more immediate.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re taking the basic safe feeling\u2026 and breaking it,\u201d Nofar Bar Lipshatz, a developmental psychologist at Clalit Health Services, told the Report.<\/p>\n
Children lose not only their homes but also their sense of stability. Play reflects the disruption \u2013 games about alarms, running, and hiding.<\/p>\n
Many regress to earlier behaviors: bedwetting, separation anxiety, and increased sensitivity to noise.<\/p>\n
The work, she said, often focuses on the parents. \u201cYou\u2019re the secure base,\u201d she tells them.<\/p>\n
Without a physical home, stability becomes relational \u2013 something children find in their caregivers rather than in their environment.<\/p>\n
Waiting to return<\/p>\n
For Garcia-Dincin, the support is visible \u2013 in phone calls, access to medication, and the presence of systems working around her.<\/p>\n
But it exists alongside uncertainty. She is still in the hotel. Still without a clear timeline. Still waiting to return home.<\/p>\n
Around her, the system continues to function \u2013 rebuilding care in temporary spaces, restoring fragments of routine, holding together what has been disrupted.<\/p>\n
But the conditions it is responding to remain unresolved. \u201cWhat they need,\u201d Lev said, \u201cis to feel that they can take their life back.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, that process has begun \u2013 not at home but in the spaces in between.\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The explosion came while she was across the street. Danit Garcia-Dincin had stepped into a supermarket in Beersheba…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[104173,163,521,25760,85,199353,46,13810,19346,157283],"class_list":["post-423834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-clalit","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-system","tag-il","tag-internally-displaced-people","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem-report","tag-missile-attacks","tag-operation-roaring-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}