07.02.2012                      14.Schwat. 5772

Medizin:

Sderot’s first resident’s hearing restored

Meir Turgeman will for the first time be able to hear the Red Alert warning siren against rockets from Gaza.

The ability to hear has been returned to Meir Turgeman, the most veteran resident of Sderot, who said Monday that thanks to the operation he underwent at Kaplan Medical Center, he will for the first time be able to hear the Red Alert warning siren against rockets from Gaza.
Turgeman, who celebrated his 67th birthday the same day, said he had lost his hearing 25 years ago. Only now, after the second part of a complicated operation on his right ear was the sense restored. He took his family to live in the then-new development town in the South in 1955. He continues to work as a “house father” in the comprehensive school in town, even though he has been deaf for a quarter-century. A hearing aid was of no help, he said….