Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha is a Palestinian-Israeli physician currently working in Boston. She is a health policy expert and activist who has worked to improve public health in the Bedouin community in Israel, founding several NGOs and receiving honors in Israel for her work.

While in Israel, she was a first responder treating incoming victims of Hamas’ brutal attacks on October 7th. On that day she lost many colleagues, friends and neighbors. In the subsequent weeks and months, she lost friends in Gaza during Israel’s military campaign. Throughout this traumatic period in her life, she has refused to surrender her sorrow or concern for all innocent victims of violence.

Dr. Abu Fraiha will share her perspective on what is currently happening on the ground, her work on resistance and bridging communities, and what can be done to make a change. She gave a wonderful talk at our conference in March.

Yasmeen shared these two opinion pieces she recently wrote:
The Jewish Society in Israel is Blind to the Crimes Against Humanity It’s Committing

Our Colleagues in Gaza are being Killed, and the Medical Establishment in Israel is Silent