Welcome to the first Think Biblically Cultural Update. I'm your host Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host Scott Ray.

And we're trying something new here. We're going to look at a few cultural issues

through a biblical lens. give you some thoughts on them and then also take

questions that you send into us from previous episodes. Scott, our hope is to start doing this weekly and this is kind of a sample.

So we want your feedback, we want your thoughts.

This is going to be fun.

We've been talking about doing this for a long time.

Scott, what do you say we just jump right into three fascinating stories really in your lane kind of bioethics, so to speak?

Yeah, first one is actually very, very timely because it has to do with the war in Israel against Hamas.

Okay. It's the story of a health care center, a hospital in Israel in the town of Haifa, which is in the northern part on the coast, that two

years ago this medical center launched a mission to bridge the gap between Israeli and Palestinian communities and

offer medical services particularly to pediatric patients and to cancer

patients. Okay. To Palestinian patients from both Gaza and the West Bank.

They established a whole coordination unit to facilitate the management of these cases and to work out all the logistics.

And what they did, they were able to provide treatment in those two years for 34 pediatric patients and 84 adults coming from both Gaza and the West Bank.

The war that

changed everything.

Yeah.

But what they discovered is that their mission was still intact and still necessary.

Even in the midst of the war that was raging throughout Gaza and to a lesser extent

in the West Bank.

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