TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) Israeli army medics have delivered a baby in the typhoon-hit central Philippines, and the grateful mother named him Israel.
About 150 members of the Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command set up a field hospital in Bogo city on Cebu Island after Typhoon Haiyan killed thousands
of people.
On Friday, Audrin Antigua was rushed in from among a long line of patients seeking treatment.
An Israeli Embassy statement on Saturday said the attending physician, Dr. Reuven Keidar, held Israel in his arms and offered the traditional Hebrew congratulations to the parents: "Mazel Tov. It's a boy."
It said Israeli doctors are now working on restoring a 70-year-old man's eyesight after he was struck by a nail in the eye during the typhoon, the first ophthalmologic case for the Israeli team.
