Dr. Yehuda Leib Puchovsky

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Dr. Puhovsky served as a surgeon in - Hospital Zion Gate, Jaffa, and for several years was the chief Medical Association in Tel - Aviv. Early years of Tel - Aviv used to deliver in - maternity. Following World War opened his home to home - Hospital Gilad , where many of the children were born in Tel - Aviv at the time. Died in Tel - Aviv, old age, in his 94th (in 1963). Beloved wife was known as "Lady" and was one of the organizers of the Adlaidot' in subsequent years.

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joined the youth celebrate Youth fans - Zion in his city. He was one of the first Russian Jews were allowed to study medicine. He studied and was certified as a physician at the University of Kharkov in 1897. Following the training profession Berlin, Dr. Fohovsky to Israel - Israel in 1906., and opened private clinic in Jaffa. In addition to Jeff that served as a surgeon in - Hospital gates of Zion in Jaffa. After several months of work in Jaffa invited Dr. Fohovsky be a doctor settlement blocks. After two years on the streets, he returned to Jaffa and joined the founders of the "Mansion House" where he established Dr. Fohovsky the two-story house on Lilienblum 27 was intended to be used in a clinic. In 1911 was appointed Director of the - Hospital gates of Zion, which served the Jewish community in Jaffa and Tel - Aviv. many years headed the Medical Association in Tel - Aviv. In 1912 married lover [to Ftroshnsky] who immigrated to Israel - Israel Bessarabia. The couple had three children. Two daughters Hilda and Gabrielle and son, Theodore Ben - Zion fell during the - during the battle at Independence - Susin, in June 1948. Son, Theodore served in the Palmach and during World War II he enlisted and served in the Jewish Brigade Jewish Question. The outbreak of the First World War and was drafted Htat'mn Turkish. He served in - military hospitals in Gaza, Syria, Jerusalem and Tiberias. After the war he returned to Tel - Aviv and opened his home to home - private hospital "Gilead" which many children were born in Tel - Aviv of those days. Fohovsky family's house was a social meeting place in Tel - Aviv little. Beloved public figures was active, it was one of the organizers of the Adlaidot' Dr. Fohovsky help with medical work. Dr. Fohovsky was also a "farmer." He kept living stock in his backyard - including cows, chickens, geese and ducks as well as a vegetables garden and fruit trees. Minutes of one meetings of the municipality mentioned a complaint of neighbours of the Fohovsky, complaining about the animals that violate the tranquility of the street ... Beloved Fohovsky wife died first and was buried in Kiryat Saul cemetery. Judah Chaim Fohovsky passed away in 1963 at the age of 94 and was buried in Tel Aviv old cemetery on Trumpeldor Street.

ד"ר פוחובסקי שימש כרופא כירורג בבית-החולים 'שער ציון' ביפו, ושנים אחדות היה ראש הסתדרות הרופאים בתל-אביב. בשנים הראשונות של תל-אביב נהג ליילד בבתי-היולדות. אחרי מלחמת העולם הראשונה פתח בביתו את בית-החולים 'גלעד', שבו נולדו רבים מילדי תל-אביב דאז. נפטר בתל-אביב, בשיבה טובה, בשנתו ה-94 (ב-1963). רעייתו אהובה היתה ידועה כ'ליידי' ונמנתה עם מארגני ה'עדלאידות' בשנים שלאחר מכן.