Hagai Suissa: From Fighting for his Life to Saving Others
Published by www.ynetnews.com on November 7, 2025.
When he was just 11 years old, Hagai Suissa suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that left him fighting for his life. Twenty-six years later, Dr. Suissa, now 37, has come full circle — returning to the operating room, this time as a neurosurgeon at Ziv Medical Center in Safed.
Just a month ago, Suissa completed his residency in neurosurgery at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya and began working as a senior physician in Ziv’s newly opened neurosurgery department. For him, the moment marked the culmination of a journey that began in 1999, when he was rushed to surgery after suffering a life-threatening brain hemorrhage.
In a poignant twist, Suissa recently reunited with Dr. Zeev Feldman, the surgeon who performed the emergency operation that saved his life and who now serves as chair of the Israel Medical Association.
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Dr. Hagai Suissa graduated with honors from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Medicine.
