A California doctor donated $5 million to a Jerusalem hospital. Dr. Norman Levan gave the funds to Shaare Zedek for a center for humanistic medicine, the hospital said in a release. Levan, at 90 years old a practicing dermatologist, lives in Bakersfield.
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