Runa Mackay obituary

My friend Runa Mackay, who has died aged 98, spent much of her long medical career working in Israel, where she strove to improve the health of the Palestinian people.

Brought up in Scotland, she began her work in Israel in 1954 with a six-month locum job at the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society hospital in Nazareth. Rather than going back home at the end of her stint, she ended up staying in Israel for the next 30 years.

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