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A forged nursing certificate, department heads' stamps and courses taught to doctors: the Ramat Gan 'wound expert' who had no licence
In Israel nurses are licensed by the Ministry of Health, and only a licensed nurse may treat patients or hold a nursing post in a hospital. The system assumes that a certificate shown to a department head is genuine, and that a person teaching doctors about wound care has the qualification to do so. A police investigation made public on 30 April 2026 showed how far one forged certificate could carry someone through that system.
According to Channel 13, police arrested a 46-year-old Ramat Gan resident on Wednesday 29 April 2026 on suspicion that he had posed as a licensed nurse and an expert in pressure sores and complex wounds. The Ministry of Health found that he had no nursing licence and that the nursing certificate he had presented to hospital managers was forged, and it filed the complaint that opened the case. Ice reported that the Tel Aviv District Fraud Unit ran a covert investigation for several months before searching his office and seizing documents, including the certificate police say is fake.
Police said, according to both outlets, that the man provided medical treatments to patients at several medical institutions, lectured and ran courses and training programmes at large medical centres across Israel for audiences of doctors and nurses, met department heads, and used the professional stamps of department heads without their knowledge. Channel 13 reported that he also ran an aesthetics clinic and a home-care service in the Ramat Gan area. After questioning he was released to house arrest under restrictive conditions. Neither report lists formal charges at this stage, and he has not been named.
The mechanism was reputation layered on a single forged document. Once one hospital accepted the certificate, the courses and lectures became the credential: a man who teaches wound care to doctors is not asked for his licence number. Stamps borrowed from department heads gave his paperwork the look of authority. The check that caught him, a Ministry of Health licence lookup, was available to every hospital from the start.
For students and families this is a reminder that a certificate on paper is not a registration. Israel's Ministry of Health keeps public registers of licensed doctors and nurses; the equivalent in India is the NMC register and in Pakistan the PMDC register. Before accepting treatment, training or a job offer from a 'specialist', look the person up by licence number rather than by reputation, and treat courses, lectures and social-media followings as marketing, not proof.
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