{"id":5111,"date":"2019-09-18T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:59:52","slug":"when-dropping-the-ball-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/when-dropping-the-ball-saves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"When Dropping the Ball Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Prize Ball Drop Winner Receives 30% of Pot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hundreds of eyes were turned toward the sky. Waiting\u2026for the ball to drop. Ezer Mizion\u2019s Golf Tournament added a new feature to its annual event. The day had been glorious. \"golf<\/a>The weather perfect.\u00a0 Now all players gathered to watch as a bucket truck-cherry picker lifted its bucket 200 feet above the green and dropped 701 golf balls that had been purchased by those participating in Ezer Mizion\u2019s life saving mission. \"golf<\/a>\u201cWhere would my ball drop? Would this be my chance to get a Hole in One?\u201d “That was one of the coolest things I have ever seen at a golf tournament!” was heard from so many. <\/p>\n

The atmosphere changed to serious at the dinner as one guest remarked, “I watched the videos you showed and I cried. Then I heard the incredible story of Yitzi Stern, the IDF soldier who donated his stem cells<\/strong> to save a life, and I cried more..What an emotional evening.”<\/p>\n

For many cancer patients, the sole chance of survival is a stem cell transplant<\/strong>. Success is dependent on the genetic matching of donor and recipient.\"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> Ezer Mizion, the largest Jewish registry worldwide, has saved over 3,300 lives but too many requests are returned with the ominous words: No Match Found, a virtual death sentence.\u00a0\"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> \"golf<\/a> Enlarging the Registry is essential and the annual golf event has brought us much closer to our goal of a positive response for every request: Yes! We have a match!\"golf<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you Simmie Chiger, Manny Malekan, Alex Dembitzer, Johnny \"golf<\/a>Halpert and the entire golf committee!\"golf<\/a><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of eyes were turned toward the sky. Waiting\u2026for the ball to drop. Ezer Mizion\u2019s Golf Tournament added a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1276,922,193],"class_list":["post-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bone-marrow-registry","tag-idf-soldier","tag-stem-cell-transplant","tag-stem-cells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}