Nuseir Yassin visits Harabi, a small Arab town in northern Israel where six out of every thousand residents are doctors, one of the highest rates worldwide. Seventy percent of one class became physicians, and families stack with doctors across generations. The town has near-free healthcare because so many residents are medical professionals.
This is the city of doctors. More doctors live here than anywhere else in the world because everyone studies medicine.
I'm a doctor. I am a doctor.
And I'm a doctor. And guess what? This is my city. It is where I grew up. It's called Harabi, a small Arab city in northern Israel near Nazareth. And for some reason, everyone became a doctor. So much that six out of thousand residents are doctors. According to AI, that's one of the highest in the world. Seventy percent of my classmates became doctors. My brother became a doctor. My cousin did, and family friend too. And my three sons are doctors. At least twenty of my family members are doctors.
And my father is also a doctor.
Which means healthcare is free. Everyone gets the family discount. Check this out. This is a random building. Doctor. Psychologist, dental, pharmacy clinic, physiotherapy. It's a random building in the city. But why so many doctors?
There are so many doctors in Arab city because we have a strong culture of education.
In Israel, every group of people has a golden career. For Jews, it's tech and startups, and for Arabs, it's medicine.
Medicine is our culture.
25% of doctors in Israel are Arab. 50% of pharmacists are Arab too. Every hospital in the country. Is full of Arab doctors treating every patient and saving lives, and many of them came from a small city on top of a hill.
