Recalculating Route / Annual Activity Report | 7.2.2023 View this email in your browser ,Dear friends We are at a critical point in time. On the one hand, the right to health of so many who live here has been gravely harmed consistently and for many years. On the other, it is clear that we are facing a new era, which will be different from those before it. If, until this point, we sliding down a slope, we may have now reached the cliff edge. During the past year, we at Physicians for Human Rights Israel have used all the tools at our disposal, alongside our volunteers and with the help of our supporters, to aid those whose lives and health are compromised. Our work has supported asylum seekers, Palestinians, prisoners and detainees, and residents of Israel’s social and geographic periphery. As you will see in our 2022 annual activity report, we helped thousands of people and impacted many communities through our policy change work. We had several significant achievements, resulting from our determined and meticulous work over many years to achieve clearly defined goals. We will continue doing so in the coming year. To Read The Full Report - Click Here But as we stand on the cliff edge, we should stop and re-examine our role as a human rights organization fighting to protect the right to health in this worsening reality. A time when the communities with whom we stand are more threatened than ever. A time when we are ourselves at risk.   In his book “Age of Iron,” South African author J. M. Coetzee writes in the last years before the fall of apartheid, when the violence toward black people became especially harsh and aggressive:   “What I had not calculated on was that more might be called for than to be good. For there are plenty of good people in this country. We are two a penny, we good and nearly-good. What the time calls for is quite different from goodness. The time calls for heroism.”   Even in these early days of the new Israeli right-wing government, we can identify processes that will cross every red line. Developments before which we will not be able to remain silent. We will resist. And we will ask you – our community, our supporters, our volunteers – to stand with us. To identify this critical moment, when it is no longer enough to be good - when we must heroically stand as one and say: ¡No Pasarán!   Yours, Dr. (Ph.D.) Guy Shalev Executive Director Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube PHRI Website