HOLON, Israel-Just two days earlier but a world away, 8-year-old Salha Farjalla Khamis said goodbye to her parents and four siblings in her village on the African island of Zanzibar.Later, in a hospital in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon, tears roll silently...

RAMAT GAN, Israel — On television Lisa Edelstein, a star of the hit Fox show "House," and her fellow actors work medical miracles every episode. But at an Israeli hospital she stumbled trying her hand at simulated arthroscopic surgery. "I'm so glad...