The Maccabee Fund

The Maccabee Fund Give Light to Our Modern Maccabees: Helping Our Heroes Back to Life Help Them Walk Again- Help Us Equip Shamir’s Surgeons With the Equipment That Saves Limbs A Chanukah Campaign for Shamir Medical Center Reuven has an extraordinary story, but he is not alone. On October 7, Reuven ran toward danger in flip-flops and a handgun. He was shot six times fighting a dozen terrorists yet still drove kilometers while bleeding and under fire. Doctors told him his leg had to be amputated. He searched everywhere for hope. Only Shamir Medical Center’s Limb Reconstruction Unit agreed to try. For months, Dr. Alex Sorkin and his team rebuilt Reuven’s shattered leg millimeter by millimeter. Now he is taking steps no one believed were possible, steps toward becoming a father who can stand on his own legs to hold his baby. Reuven is just one of many. Every week, more arrive at Shamir with devastating limb injuries, and the chance to save them depends on a tool we do not yet have. The Urgent Need: A Surgical Microscope That Saves and Changes Lives Cost: $800,000 ($300,000 raised so far) Shamir’s surgeons perform Israel’s most complex limb-saving operations, but with outdated equipment. To save the next Reuven, we urgently need a state-of-the-art surgical microscope with an integrated camera. This microscope will allow our team to: • Save limbs otherwise destined for amputation • Rebuild nerves and blood vessels with microscopic precision • Offer procedures currently unavailable in Israel • Train the next generation of Israeli microsurgeons This is not just equipment. It is the difference between losing a leg and walking again. Your Gift Matters — Now Reuven fought for us, but he survived because someone fought for his leg. Many others are waiting for their chance. Your donation directly funds the microscope that will save the next hero, the next young parent, the next life changed by a few millimeters of surgical skill. Please give today. Every step Reuven takes, and every step still to come for those we have yet to save, begins with you.