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| Gala Dinner Salutes Donors |
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"As those who are involved in chessed, the world exists in your merit," so said Maran Rosh Hayeshiva Rav Aharon Y. L. Steinman shlit"a to the guests at a gala dinner at the Tel Aviv Hilton to benefit Ezer Mizion, one of Israel's largest...
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| IDF Fights for Shahar’s Life |
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Shahar patted her hair. She wanted to look especially nice. The hair was new. It has just grown to normal length. Last year, she didn't have any at all. Last year she had been fighting for her life. She brushed a lock from her forehead, trying...
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| 78% Transplants from IDF Recruits |
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In April 2013, Ezer Mizion's International Bone Marrow Donor Registry facilitated twenty-eight lifesaving transplants. In twenty two of these transplants (78%), the donor was an IDF recruit. For the past seven years, the IDF has been...
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| Environmentally Wise Saves Lives |
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A new, innovative fund-raising project bears promise of support for Ezer Mizion's International Bone Marrow Registry. Yuval Kadosh, father of Amit, a cancer survivor, launched a campaign collecting out-of-use cell phones from the...
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| Donating Stem Cells: Where Giving is Getting |
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Sharon Vazna has known many challenges, but none of them got him to give up his dream of becoming a Border Patrol fighter. Just when things looked like they would fall apart, Sharon donated stem cells. The knowledge that he saved a...
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| Actress Agam Rodberg Donates Bone Marrow |
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The actress Agam Rodberg joined Ezer Mizion's International Bone Marrow Donor Registry eight years ago, upon her induction to the IDF. Recently, she got a phone call informing her that her bone marrow was found to be a perfect match for...
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| 2012 Registry Summary |
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In 2012, 215 cancer patients were recipients of stem cell transplants, donated by members of Ezer Mizion's Bone Marrow Donor Registry. For these patients, a transplant was the only hope of survival. The Registry's records show...
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| Stem Cell Transplant will Save Rinat Mordo |
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Residents of Ramleh and nearby areas are invited to take part in a special bone marrow donation drive to save the life of Rinat Mordo, a ninth grader at Idanim High School in Ramleh who has leukemia. Ezer Mizion's Bone Marrow Donor Registry is...
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| They Gave a Hand – You Threw Me an Anchor |
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Over the last two years, Pini Doron had plenty of time to think about the anonymous donor whose bone marrow donation saved his life. Last week, the two were finally able to meet, and Pini and his family had the chance to...
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| Accounting Time! |
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It's the end of the 2012 fiscal year. Accounting time. How did we do? Questions every business asks and Ezer Mizion is no different. Except in the ‘what' that is tabulated. It's not stocks or dollars that is counted but in...
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| Turnaround |
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"You probably don't remember the thirteen year old boy with cancer that Ezer Mizion's Bone Marrow Registry collected blood samples for. It was a few years ago... I remember him well. I was 32 years old then. I worked as a producer. That day...
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| “I Feel as if the Same Blood Flows in our Veins” |
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A routine blood test done during the IDF induction process led Idan Dukatch, a soldier from Ashkelon, to the opportunity to save a life. His bone marrow donation was transplanted to Alex Katz, a 17-year old boy from New Jersey with...
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| Mazal Tov - the Lucky Winner! |
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Nofer Mazal (24) a secretary at the Barzilai Hospital's Mammography Institute in Ashkelon, was gifted with the privilege to save a life. This week, Mazal got the wonderful news that the bone marrow sample she gave a year ago in...
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| A Typical Day at Ezer Mizion |
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A patient lies helpless in a hospital bed. His family surrounds him. The room is filled with tension. He has one chance to live. A bone marrow transplant can save his life but a genetically matching donor is needed.
Ezer Mizion's Bone...
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| The Prick that Produced a Hero |
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The day Einav Lulian made her way through the frantic atmosphere of the recruitment base, waiting for her new green IDF uniform, she never thought that with a little pinch of a needle at the Ezer Mizion bone marrow sample testing booth, she could save...
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| Ironic Twist of Fate |
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A little over one month ago, Ezer Mizion coordinated a massive bone marrow donor recruitment drive throughout Israel. The drive's goal was to enlarge the Registry and increase the presence of...
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| Officers Course Comrades and Blood Brothers |
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In the course of Itai Chanan's army service, he was diagnosed with blood cancer. The one who donated bone marrow to him is a soldier himself. "Anything I will ever do in my lifetime is all thanks to him," says...
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| Come Save Worlds! |
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Rabbi Chananya Chollak, International Chairman of Ezer Mizion, and thanked him for the Ezer Mizion's important life-saving work. He added: "I call upon Israeli residents of all ethnicities to...
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| Over 20,000 Join Registry in Ethnic Drive |
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Ezer Mizion summed up the ethnic drive that took place throughout Israel on May 31 with deep satisfaction. More than 20,000 members of the Bukharan, Georgian, Yemenite, Kurdish, Caucasian, Iraqi, and Ethiopian ethnic groups joined in the Registry at...
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| Cancer Patient Dies on Day of the Drive |
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Yosef Karchili, one of the four poster patients representing different ethnic communities for Ezer Mizion's recent ethnic stem cell donor recruitment drive, died on the day of the drive. Yosef Karchili, father of two, a member of ...
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| "Ethnic Genie" Drive |
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On Thursday, May 31, a nationwide stem cell donor recruitment drive will take place throughout Israel. The drive is focused specifically on donors from the Iraqi, Yemenite, Georgian, Bukharan, Caucasian, Kurdish and Ethiopian ethnic...
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| Annual BMDR Report |
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2011 Annual Report for Ezer Mizion's Bone Marrow Registry and Cancer Support Services
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| The One Thousand Milestone |
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This month our Registry crossed a major milestone: the 1,000 mark transplant. The lucky stem cell donor, is 20 year old Paulina, an IDF soldier. Paulina joined Ezer Mizion's Registry at her induction in to...
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| Across Generations: A Family Victory |
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A few months after 6-year-old Ilai was diagnosed with cancer, his 71-year-old grandmother Zelda discovered that she too was stricken with the same illness. After successful bone marrow transplants, the two are on the way to...
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| Union Bank Joins IDF-Ezer Mizion Efforts |
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Chaim Freilichman, CEO of Bank Igud, and Tuvia Sofer, Igud's Marketing Network Manager, reported to the IDF Induction Center early one morning, as a display of the bank's enlistment to support Ezer Mizion in their project of collecting blood...
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| "Good Deed Day" Bone Marrow Donor Drive |
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On Tuesday, March 20, the day designated as Israel's national "Good Deed Day", a donor drive to recruit new potential stem cell donors for Ezer Mizion's Bone Marrow Donor Registry will take place...
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| An Unexpected Phone Call |
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Suddenly, again, that strange phone number. They're really after me.
Should I answer? I gaped at the screen a few moments. The conversation was flowing. I really did not want to chop it. All of a sudden, even though I really didn't want to, I answered...
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| 19 Lives Saved In One Month! |
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A life-saving achievement: This past January, Ezer Mizion facilitated a record-breaking number of transplants from potential bone marrow donors in its Registry. 19 people awaiting their personal salvation received...
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| Thanksgiving in February |
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Not very long ago, Avichai Fund was a seriously ill toddler, desperately waiting for a bone marrow transplant - the only treatment that could save his life...
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| Cause of Death: Ethnicities Missing Donors |
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Specific ethnic groups are underrepresented in bone marrow registries worldwide, including Ezer Mizion's. Ezer Mizion has initiated the "ethnic gene" campaign, with the goal of raising awareness of the importance of donating bone marrow...
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