Pictures from around Rambam Medical Center

Here are some more pictures that I took on my walks around Rambam Medical Center (in Haifa). The first one is a nice view of the area just outside the neurology department where David is hospitalized. The sliding glass doors on the right of the picture lead directly into the ward. The path of the left side of the picture is part of the ramp between the corridor along the "pavilions" (David's building is one of them) and the main building, which is out of sight to the left.

If you go up the ramp and enter the main building, you are immediately in a little mall. The following picture is a view inside that mall. On the right side, you can see an ice cream stand, which has yummy ice cream! Further to the right, out of the picture, is a food court, including a MacDonald's, a pizza place, and a couple of other fast food joints. On the left side of the picture, you can see a lottery sales stand and, further back, a branch of צומת ספרים Tzomet Sfarim ("Book Junction"), one of the two major bookstore chains here in Israel. Further to the left, out of this picture are a candy store, a pharmacy, and a gift store.
I actually took this next picture a day or two earlier. This is a view of the big hole they are digging there. It will house an underground parking structure, above which will be 3 new large buildings. The hoses that you see coming out of the vertical pipes are carrying the ground water that is being pumped out to the sea. See my previous post for pictures of it entering the sea. The tiny size of the workers in this picture can give you a sense of the scale of this hole!
Here's another picture of the big hole, taken from the main entrance to Rambam. This is also the road that they use to get down into the hole. In this view, you can see the two large cranes that are working there. Also, on the left is the tower that houses the Technion Medical School. The tall building on the right is the Sammy Ofer tower, the current main building of Rambam. The mall seen earlier is on the ground floor of this building but actually the other side of the tall part. The building a little to the left of the main building in this picture is the Rambam Children's Hospital.