An AIDS Solution for Africa Comes out of Israel

Circumcision – dating back to Abraham – is the oldest surgical procedure in the world. It has always represented entry to membership in the Jewish people among males, whether in infancy or later in life. Yet, an Israeli circumcision initiative that has nothing to do with religious identification and is performed on teens and men in sub-Saharan Africa, has saved hundreds of thousands from being infected with HIV, the AIDS virus.