When Orna and Isaac Levy stood up before the international community’s top couture designers earlier this summer in Las Vegas to receive the prestigious Town and Country international pearl designer award for the third year in a row, it seemed …
Author Archives: Lauren Gelfond
Jerusalem becoming call center capital
‘There’s no doubt that Jerusalem is the optimal place for American and European companies to outsource their work.’It’s a scenario that takes place every day in the United States. A consumer needs a service center and calls the toll free …
Israeli doctors treat Palestinian children in ‘Saving Children’ project
A Palestinian mother and child are taken care of by an Israeli doctor at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem as part of the ‘Saving Children’ project.Scores of Palestinian children with serious medical conditions have long gone untreated because of lack …
Israeli cell therapy tricks immune system into fighting cancer
Prof. Shimon Slavin: When the cells are infused into a patient, they go immediately to work because they were already trained in the laboratory to become professional killer cells capable of recognizing and destroying foreign cells.”Until recently, the prognosis was …
Not just child’s play
Initiated by child Holocaust survivor Dr. Kitty O. Cohen, the Painting Pain, Dreaming Peace program led Palestinian and Israeli children, ages 9-12, to express pain, fear and anger through painting.A group of 150 Palestinian and Israeli schoolchildren unveiled last week …
Learning how to debate instead of fight
Israeli and Palestinian participants in a model United Nations in Israel conference held recently near Tel Aviv.Ramzi Sfeir, a 17-year-old from the Palestinian village of Bet Jalla, never believed that Palestinians and Israelis could agree on anything. But after he …
Israeli doctors teach US professionals about emergency treatment
Dr. Benjamin Sachs, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School, was one of the 70 US professionals who learned about Israeli emergency procedures. (Photo: Avi Hayoun) “American medical professionals have a lot to learn from Israelis,” according to …