Eight times! For eight years, Ezer Mizion has held its annual Thanksgiving Day Golf Tournament at Caesaria Golf Club in Israel. Golf aficionados gather for a day under the azure skies, each stroke being a strike against cancer. Many travel to Israel from abroad to join in the camaraderie of the event. Continue reading A Hole in One
$50…it can buy a lunch for two… a nice shirt…a tank of gas…or a child’s life. Yes. For fifty dollars, a tiny toddler with cancer can be genetically matched to a bone marrow donor and his life will be saved.
For many cancer patients, a bone marrow transplant is their sole chance of survival. To be successful, both donor and recipient must share the same DNA. Ezer Mizion, the largest Jewish Bone Marrow Registry in the world, has saved over 2500 lives of people around the world but too many are still waiting for the match that will mean life itself.
Parents of tiny toddlers, whose mischievous giggles have long given way to a pathetic whimper, sit for hours in the pediatric oncology ward. Teenagers refrain from joining their peers who are planning their futures since, for them, there may not be a future. Young mothers and fathers clutch their kids tightly, praying so hard that these precious children will not have to grow up as orphans.
Even the largest registry is not large enough. Your gift of $50 will help expand the registry. And then the phone at the home of one of these families may ring and a triumphant voice will announce: Yes! We have a match!
Click on the links to share the joy of families who had despaired of seeing the sun shine again. Donate generously on #GivingTuesday so that other families may share that same joy!
A conversation with Rabbi Chananya Chollak, International Chairman of Ezer Mizion
For the Yamim Nora’im, Ezer Mizion has set out on a major fundraising drive to raise the money needed to finance scanning tens of thousands of stem cell samples, so as to expand its International Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Rabbi Chananya Chollak, the organization’s International Chairman, took the time to speak with us personally about the need for public support to fund lifesaving activities, to tell us about Ezer Mizion’s goals, and to convey a message to the public. Continue reading We Need You Now!
23 lifesaving transplants
2,569 total transplants
865,626 members in registry
14 from personalized donor pools (see below) Continue reading Because of You!
July 2017 – BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
33 lifesaving transplants
16 from personalized donor pools
2,546 total transplants
860,453 members in registry
Below are the donor pools that saved lives this month, and their total transplants. Continue reading Because of You!
June 2017 – BMDR ACTIVITY SUMMARY
22 lifesaving transplants
17 from personalized donor pools- see below
2,513 total transplants
858,125 members in registry Continue reading Because of You!
MAY 2017 – BMDR ACTIVITY SUMMARY
28 lifesaving transplants
15 from personalized donor pools (see below)
2,491 total transplants
856,665 members in registry Continue reading Because of You!
April 2017 – BMDR ACTIVITY SUMMARY
31 lifesaving transplants
21 from personalized donor pools
2,463 total transplants
856,257 members in registry
Below are the donor pools that saved lives this month, and their total transplants.
Alan Cohen Donor Pool – 76 lives saved
David & Sara Farajun Donor Pool – 79 lives saved – 5 this month!
Tommy & Yehudit Farkas Donor Pool – 1 life saved
Hole In One Donor Pool – 20 lives saved – 2 this month!
Leora Kuhillow Donor Pool – 9 lives saved
Manny & Mojdeh Malekan Donor Pool 
– 1 life saved
Irving & Cherna Moskowitz Donor Pool – 21 lives saved
Ronald O. Perelman Donor Pool – 28 lives saved
Rolf & Ruth Redlauer Donor Pool – 6 lives saved
Dudu & Chagit Saada Donor Pool – 1 life saved
Alan & Nicole Samson Donor Pool – 7 
lives saved
Ephriam & Devora Schreiber Donor Pool – 1 life saved
Farzad & Sheila Shahery Donor Pool – 2 lives saved
Shva Company Donor Pool – 5 lives saved
Wiener, Widawsky, Rebenwurzel Donor Pool in memory of Shmuel and Yaffa Herman – 1 life saved
Marjorie & Arnold Ziff Donor Pool (Anne Manning’s Donor Pool) – 1 life saved
Does Ezer Mizion provide transplants to Israel residents only?
Ezer Mizion receives Search Requests from oncology clinics around the globe. DNA matching is based on ethnics. As the largest Jewish Registry in the world, Ezer Mizion is the natural address for an oncology clinic working with a Jewish patient in Europe, Russia, South Africa, South America, Australia, Canada and the US.
In April 2017, 14 of 31 transplants were done for Israeli residents and 17 for countries around the world including 6 in US and Canada.
Did the partnership with the IDF create any significant change in the success of finding DNA matches?
Due to IDF recruits being young and healthy, they remain on the database for decades, thus greatly increasing the chances of eventually being found to be a match for a patient. In addition, they come from highly varied backgrounds resulting in much increased representation among minority ethnic groups.
In April 2017, 18 of the 21 transplants funded by donor pools are IDF recruits, some having been inducted and joined the registry just a few months ago.
How long, on the average, does it take for a new Bone Marrow Donor Pool to receive the at long awaited letter: You have saved a life!
There can, of course, be no guarantees. In April of 2017, 4 of the 21 transplants funded by donor pools were opened within the last half year.
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Everyone dreams about it. Very few ever have the opportunity. I was one of those very few. True, I didn’t jump into the ocean and save a child from drowning or dash into a burning building to save a baby but I did save a life. A forty-year-old cancer patient had only one chance to survive—a bone marrow transplant. A genetic match is vital for success and I was that genetic match. An Ezer Mizion staff member asked me if I would do it. Would I do it???! How could I not do it?! How could I live the rest of my life knowing that because of a little discomfort, a little inconvenience, a young woman was prevented from living the rest of hers? Continue reading Saving a Life: The See-Saw Remains on Up
