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	Ashdod Residents Are Paying An Enormous Price For Lack of Emergency Care Promotional Content By Sol Stephens The 250,000 loyal citizens of Ashdod, Israel's fifth largest city, are experiencing an on-going medical nightmare that continues to exact a hefty price. Just hours before the most recent ceasefire with Hamas went into effect, a Grad missile fell just outside the entrance to the Ashtar family's residence in the heart of Ashdod. ...

	The Power of Giving Promotional Content An Israeli soldier sits outside talking on his cell phone while an Arab boy rests in his wheelchair. A young mother with her newborn baby waits for a taxi and an elderly man is pulled along on a stretcher by paramedics. It’s just another day in the life of Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC ) in Haifa / Daniel Savery Known worldwide for its ...

	Letter from Adrian Duek, MD Promotional Content adrian_d@clalit.org.il aduek@intramed.net I was recently accepted by Professor Radek Skoda to join his lab at the University of Bazel, Switzerland beginning next summer as fellow for two or three years. Prof. Skoda is one of the most prestigious scientists in Experimental Hematology worldwide. In 2005, he published a landmark article describing a mutation on the Jak2 protein in ...

	The Raphael Recanati International School at IDC Herzliya – Promotional Content The only English-language BA Program in Israel The Raphael Recanati International School (RRIS) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya is Israel's only academic institution which teaches a complete, fully accredited BA degree program, which is taught exclusively in English. As of the 2008-2009 academic year, the school will be comprised of a 1,100-strong student body from over 60 countries with ...

	Caring Company: Globalgiving Promotional Content By Stephanie L Freid For more articles visit www.eolife.org Let's say you're a small farmer in Brazil in need of $100 to get your coffee bean plantation on its' feet and producing. While that sum of money may seem paltry to well-off Westerners, to a small Brazilian farmer it's the barrier between vision and a dream coming true. ...

	Zen Stories: The Thief and the Moon Promotional Content By Daniel Stambler For more articles visit www.eolife.org This famous Zen story is about Ryokan, the Japanese Zen master who lived alone in a hut at the foot of a mountain. He lived in abject poverty, eating local plants and the rice that neighboring farmers would sometimes give him. His little hut was empty, he slept ...