





Donor Pool Name | October 2020 Transplants | Total Transplants |
Blood Brothers | 2 | 13 |
Brazil Community | 3 | 204 |
Elliott & Lynn Dolin | 1 | 7 |
El-Ad Modiin Community | 1 | 2 |
Englewood Community | 1 | 3 |
David & Sara Farajun | 1 | 144 |
Hershel Fink | 1 | 2 |
Florida | 1 | 18 |
Gabor Vardi | 1 | 6 |
Guardians of Life | 1 | 2 |
Yaakov David ben Simcha Mordechai | 1 | 5 |
Hope4Adam | 1 | 12 |
Hall Family | 1 | 3 |
Hole In One | 2 | 76 |
Leora Kuhillow | 1 | 15 |
Lechu Neranena Raanana Community | 2 | 7 |
Rubin & Mollie Lazarus | 1 | 3 |
Liat, Noam & Eden Neubert | 1 | 1 |
Ronald O. Perelman | 1 | 41 |
George & Pamela Rohr | 1 | 80 |
Ira & Ingeborg Rennert | 1 | 172 |
Danielle Sonnenfeld | 1 | 3 |
BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
In September 2020:
27 transplants, 23 of these from donor pools
3,724 total transplants
10,033 new members this month
1,045,002 total members in registry
Transplant Countries
Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Slovenia, UK, USA
Donor Pool Countries
Brazil, Israel, Mexico, UK, USA
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni opened the Knesset meeting this morning with words of thanks to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (G-d) for His many kindnesses and pronounced the berachah (blessing) of “Hagomel” —“Who does good to the undeserving and Who has rendered every kindness to me.”
MK Gafni related: “I didn’t realize what it was all about. It was Shabbos (Sabbath). Suddenly I felt that I couldn’t walk and before I knew it, I had fallen. I wanted to go down to Minchah (Afternoon Services) so my children wouldn’t worry about me. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. It’s probably nothing, i thought to myself, but I did need to take care of the gash near my eye before Mincha so I went to Ezer Mizion’s Emergency First Aid Station. There were two doctors there, Arabs, it happened, friends of mine. I told them that I had fallen and I asked them to close and bandage the wound I’d gotten around my eye from the fall. Even though all I had asked them to do was to take care of my wound, they insisted on doing an EKG. EKG for a wound??? I told them that all I came for was a simple bandaging. But they did an EKG and immediately sent me to the nearby Maayanei Hayeshua Hospital Emergency Room.
Dr. Zachalka was there, a cousin of the former MK. We’re old friends but he just looked at me seriously. And he didn’t make any jokes. I asked him: “What’s going on?” He says to me, “Is this your EKG test?” “Yes,” I answered, “It’s mine. I just came with it from Ezer Mizion.” He immediately called another doctor and brought him in together with his team. They did this. They did that. And then like the voice of a nightmare, Dr. Zachalka tells me, “You’re having an angioplasty right now. You’re in the middle of a heart attack.” He couldn’t understand how I was speaking and laughing. It was a Divine miracle. Had I not fallen, i never would have gone to Ezer Mizion. I would not have known that I was having a heart attack. I didn’t even know that I had a heart…”
Knesset colleagues interjected: “It was your good fortune is that you fell and got hurt. Otherwise you wouldn’t have gotten to the hospital…”
“They called in Professor Granat, head of Cardiology at Maayanei Hayeshua. He immediately put in a stent and that saved my life. That is the story. Baruch Hashem (thank G-d), they took very good care of me. I have the highest praise for the doctors in all the places that took care of me; they were exceptional. My children, especially my youngest son, were with me for the duration of my hospitalization and recovery at home, and in addition, there wasn’t a single Knesset worker or MK who didn’t inquire as to how I was doing. I hope to reciprocate to everyone on happy occasions, and I thank Hakadosh Baruch Hu again and again for all of the kindnesses He did for me.”
“Think, everyone, think!” she cried out. “There has to be something! Something we can do even in the midst of corona.” We all sat there. We’re normally a creative bunch but the ideas were just not coming. Every year we hosted a retreat for families dealing with cancer. It was the highlight of the year for them, a time to bond with their family, good food, fun entertainment – a vacation from cancer. Away from hospitals and tests and treatments. Something to put a smile on faces that almost forgot how. It meant everything to the families whom, in addition to the medical situation, were suffering so much emotionally with many family relationships on the verge of collapse. Continue reading Think!
Maccabi Health Services known as Kupat Cholim Maccabi, is one of the four HMOs in Israel with over 2 million members and is considered an influential institution in regards to the Israeli healthcare system. Maccabi members benefit from diverse health services but there are many, many instances where help is needed. As Maccabi staff members can testify, Ezer Mizion is the address to turn to. Ezer Mizion’s goal: to be there for others. Their means: a professional, extensive network willing to think out of box in order to benefit the ill. Time and time again, when standard routine would not allow for the patient’s receiving what he needs, a call was made to the number they all knew by heart and the walls came tumbling down. Continue reading Maccabi Salutes Ezer Mizion
The strains of ketzad m’rakdim (a wedding song) still reverberated in the air as they began to the drive home after a family wedding. Feet were still tapping to the joyous rhythms as the family regaled each other with the highlights of the evening. And then came the crash. Unexpected. Without warning. And suddenly their lives were changed forever.
How could it be??? Just a moment ago, they had been so happy. Continue reading Shock!
June 2020 – BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
38 transplants, 31 of these from donor pools
3,634 total transplants
573 new members this month
1,035,584 total members in registry
Transplant Countries
Argentina, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel,
Italy, Netherlands, Spain, USA
Donor Pool Countries
Austria, Brazil, Israel, UK, USA Continue reading Because of You!
BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
In May there were:
30 transplants, 25 of these from donor pools
3,596 total transplants
4,928 new members this month
1,035,790 total members in registry
Transplant Countries
Canada, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, UK, USA
Donor Pool Countries
Brazil, Canada, Israel, USA
Donor Pool Name | May 2020 Transplants | Total Transplants |
Tuvia Theo Bloom | 1 | 5 |
Brazil Community | 4 | 195 |
Damaghi Family | 4 | 86 |
David & Sara Farajun | 1 | 139 |
Florida | 1 | 15 |
Freescale Israel | 1 | 3 |
Gaash Golf | 1 | 2 |
Heichal Moshe & N. Tel Aviv | 1 | 3 |
Jewish Bone Marrow Testing Fund | 1 | 65 |
Moshe & Tzippy Kammar | 1 | 1 |
Lechu Neranena Raanana Community | 1 | 5 |
Moriel & Anat Matalon | 1 | 6 |
Irving & Cherna Moskowitz Fd. | 1 | 40 |
Morris & Rickie Platt | 1 | 4 |
Israel & Edith Pollak | 1 | 18 |
Chaim Rav-Acha | 1 | 1 |
Reuven & Tzipora Schlussel & Family | 1 | 1 |
Oded & Zoharit Shriki | 1 | 1 |
Steven E. & Bonnie B. Stern | 1 | 8 |