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Ronit Matias

Monday, 21 September 2020, 12:07

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Adopt Research - Adopt a researcher

Mor Barak Rivlin,, Dvir Bendek, Tamir Gilat (Photo: Eli Dassah)

This weekend, the annual fundraising event of the Israel Cancer Research Foundation ICRF was held live in hybrid format, with the participation of hundreds of the foundation's supporters, some of whom were present at the Petah Tikva Psalm Studios, and most of them participated in ZOOM.

Among those present at the studio are Prof. Aharon Ciechanover and Prof. Avraham Hershko, Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, whose initial research was funded by the Israel Cancer Research Foundation, which later led to the Nobel Prize.

This year, Prof. Hershko once again won a scholarship from the foundation, this time for the prestigious "Professor" scholarship.

Adv. Tamir Gilat, chairman of the foundation, and senior oncologist Dr. Talia Golan, who has been accompanying him in dealing with cancer for nine and a half years.

Gilat announced the launch of a new campaign by the foundation: "Adopt Research - Adopt a Researcher", in which the fund's donors can adopt a full or partial study of an Israeli cancer researcher selected by the foundation.

During the evening, Yonatan David, who previously dealt with cancer, donated a bridge scholarship worth NIS 200,000 per year for 3 years, in honor of L.A.

Sasportas, which deals with pancreatic cancer and is being treated by Dr. Golan. The Gesher Scholarship for 2020 was awarded to Dr. Erez Hanis.

During the event, 3 donations for a full scholarship were made and many more donations for scholarship parts.

On this exciting evening, the foundation announced the distribution of 21 new scholarships to members of the "dream team" of cancer researchers selected by the foundation for 2020 and joining 47 additional scholarships from the last two years.

In total, the foundation has supported 69 Israeli cancer researchers this year and so far more than 2,400 studies since its inception. On the evening hosted by Dvir Bendek, Achinoam Nini and Gil Dor, Sharon Haziz and Ohad Hitman performed.

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Tasteful contribution

Yossi Shalio, Zohar Jacobson, Hagai Shalom, Roni Green.

(Photo: Assaf Lev)

Hagai Shalom, CEO of the Tiv-Ta'am Group, Yossi Shalio, VP of Trade and Marketing, and Roni Green, Sales Manager and Customer Club, hosted Zohar Jacobson, founder of Tal, and Shira Segal-Kuperman at the chain's flagship branch in Ramat Hachayal in Tel Aviv. , executive director of the association and an enterprise Hlasrtn ceremony during which presented a check donation in the amount of 151,275 shekels.

Shalom said that at the beginning of the new year, they celebrate mutual support in order to continue to support and help non-profit organizations in Israel, doing holy work, and wished robust health and a speedy recovery to all the people of Israel.

Jacobson said that Tiv Taam made unbelievable especially at this time, for young cancer patients and is grateful to them for that. Jacobson stressed that it is important to remember traffic sources, but the cancer unfortunately remain and the # 1 death in Israel. Segal -Cuperman, added that every day 10 young people aged 18-44 are diagnosed with cancer, they face tremendous difficulties especially at this time, and the contribution of taste touches them directly and facilitates the daily suffering and coping.

Sign zoom

Yoram Debash and Ahmad Ben-Soliam sign the agreement (Photo: Assaf Levy)

Senior members of the Israel Diamond Exchange have signed an agreement on economic cooperation with senior officials of the Dubai Diamond Exchange on New Year's Eve, according to which the Israeli Diamond Exchange is expected to open a representative in the Almas Tower in Dubai, and DMCC is expected to open offices in the Ramat Gan Diamond Exchange complex. Common between the two countries.

In addition, the stock exchanges will develop new business opportunities, intensify dialogue, hold annual seminars and joint exhibitions in Dubai and Ramat Gan, and jointly explore joint initiatives to create effective trading opportunities for both parties in other areas.

The purpose of the agreement is to enable renewed growth for the diamond industry, the development of knowledge between Israeli and Dubai diamonds, the promotion of ties between the two and the sharing of long-term commercial knowledge between the parties.

Yoram Debash, President of the Israel Diamond Exchange and President of the World Federation of Diamond Exchanges, Ahmad Ben-Suleyam, Chairman of the Diamond Exchange in Dubai, promised that a business delegation is expected to launch an agreement soon.

Combine arms

Avi Avgil and Dror Feldman (Photo: PR)

The mortgage arm at Mizrahi Tefahot Bank and the Association of Mortgage Advisors held a meeting and raised a glass for the new year.

Avi Avgil, chairman of the Association of Mortgage Advisers, and Dror Feldman, director of the mortgage arm at the bank, congratulated the members of the association and reviewed the mortgage industry in the light of the Corona. The meeting was signed by David Blatt in his inspiring lecture, "Never Give Up."

Mortgage experts from Mizrahi Tefahot reviewed the innovations and updates for mortgage advisers.

Among other things, the exclusive product was presented to the "Pension Mortgage" bank, which was recently launched for the elderly, and a professional training was held on the "Mortgage at your own pace" product, another exclusive product for the bank that meets the current needs of customers who need a mortgage.

taking off

Edward Yaakovov, Pini Cohen, Moti Sasson, Ehud Danoch, Shmuel Goldberg and Yoav Ben Or (Photo: Ofer Amram)

At the HIT Institute of Technology in Holon, a cornerstone laying ceremony was held for the new student dormitory project, which was launched 17 years after the idea first came up.

The dormitories will be used by students coming from distant localities and foreign students.

The project, which will be built by Solel Boneh with an investment of NIS 140 million, will include 430 apartments that will house 472 students, commercial space, a student club, a large underground parking lot and more.

It is expected to be inhabited in October 2022. The rental cost will be about NIS 1,870, and will be supervised by the MLAG.

There were and assumed: Ehud Danoch, CEO of Solel Boneh of the Shikun VeBinui Group;

Entrepreneur Pinchas (Pini) Cohen, one of the owners of Keren Noy and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of HIT; Yoav Ben-Or, CEO of Amitim Pension Funds;

Architect Kika Baraz, project planner; Prof. Eduard Yakubov, President of the Institute of Technology and Shmuel Goldberg, CEO;

Holon Mayor Moti Sasson.

Indian in pita

Konal and Rina Pushkarna (Photo: Ronit Matias)

The Corona crisis has hit quite a few restaurants but there are those who are turning a crisis into an opportunity.

One of them is Konal Pushkarna, the son of businessmen and restaurateurs Rina Winod Pushkarna, owner of a tandoori restaurant chain, who recently opened Tika Pika, which is always suitable for closing days when restaurants are closed and only allow deliveries.

Konal said that this is a place that has become a success and has won wonderful reviews due to the fact that it combines cosmic, the favorite dishes of Indian cuisine that Pushkarna has ingrained and become part of Israeliness, and fresh pitas baked in the place,

A one-time and unconventional culinary experience.

bigger than life

Lior Shmueli Nasrin Kadri and Eleanor Levitan (Photo: Hila Eisinger)

Lior Shmueli, CEO of the Greater Than Life Association, which works for children with cancer and their families; Eleanor Levitan, the association's vice president, and singer Nasreen Kadri, met just before the holiday to promote the annual fundraiser to be held this year on October 11 on Network 13. Israel's Best Artists Expect to take part in the exciting broadcast that will be marked 'Thank you'.

Ahead of the fundraising day, the association is launching a fundraising campaign that will be launched on a voluntary basis by Nasreen Kadri, who will sing "Always Remember" written by Noam Horev.

The campaign will be launched at the end of the month with the aim of raising awareness, and raising donations for the association's families who encountered many difficulties during this period.

Respond to challenges

Arik Mifno, Ariel Hadar, Emanuel Abolov, Lior Len Frenkel, Olga Rosenblatt, Ronit Lapidor Blue, Elizabeth Lev, Avital Price, Alexander Gesser (Photo: PR)

Mia Analytics employees are accustomed to joint volunteer activities that the company conducts during the year, especially before the holidays.

This year, in light of Corona's limitations, the activities took place over an entire week, with each employee choosing the activity that was right for him.

The company's employees helped Pethon Lev pack hundreds of food baskets for aid seekers;

Ride bicycles with people with disabilities in order to make them happy and break their daily routine, in collaboration with the Kfar Saba Municipality;

Clean up Palmachim Beach in Rishon LeZion in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority and more. Ronit Lapidor-Blue, CEO of Mia Analytics said that contribution to the community is at the core of the company's strategic activities, and in this complex period of daily challenges, managers have a great responsibility to work intensively for populations. Weakened, otherwise economic, employment and social disparities will be created.

For those who stay at home

Sharon Hazum, Itai Israeli and Sarit Racin (Photo: Ronit Matias)

Just before the closure, the book "At Home with Shirley Dan 2" was launched at the Tel Yitzhak restaurant, Dan's second book, with an architectural design and planning office specializing in luxury homes.

The book, published by Matar, was edited by architectural author Orly Robinson, and presents accurate planning and design for the Israeli family and combines family homes designed and planned by Dan down to the last detail, it includes recommendations, tips, questions, inspirations and thoughts related to the design process from A to T. .

Senior executives from the world of construction, design and architecture, enjoyed most of what Sharon Hazum produced and included a dinner and congratulations from Dan and Robinson.

Adia Robinson, Sandra Haliva, Orly Robinson, Ofra Shimoni (Photo: Ronit Matias)

Yossi and Miriam Ezra (Photo: Ronit Matias)

Etty Vandermolen and Dorit Weinburn (Photo: Rafi Daloia)

Arik Ben Simhon, Shirley Dan - Mikla Simeone (Photo: Rafi Daloia)

Think and accelerate

Uzi Ben Eliezer, Dov Moran, Avraham Meidan, Assaf Avrahami, Oren Zabida (Photo: Yonatan Rotem)

Accountant managed by Dr. Assaf Avrahami, launched in collaboration with the Technion, Fischer Bachar Chen, Deloitte, Reinhold cohn and IVC, an accelerator-accelerator, designed to help startups develop technologies for more efficient business management. At the end of the accelerator, the technologies will be assimilated in small and medium-sized businesses in Israel. In the long run, they will help them recover from the economic crisis. At the

tangents: Uzi Ben-Eliezer, director of the innovation program; Dov Moran, managing partner of the Grove Ventures venture capital fund; Dr. Avraham Meidan, chairman of the accounting firm and Dr. Assaf Avrahami, CEO ;

Oren Zabida, web development manager, accountant.

The young entrepreneurs

Roni Tzarom and Assaf Weiss (Photo: Amit Ozen)

In the finals of the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition of the Ted and Hedi Ordan Unistream Association, a group of 17-year-olds from Or Yehuda were announced as Israel's next entrepreneurs. The winners are in the third year of the Unistream program, in which they develop the MEAL PREP app. user offers healthy recipes with ingredients found at home.

Following the crisis of sources, competition took place online during the past three weeks, in which featured more than 100 start-ups of 3,500 youths participating in the program, 85 communities in the periphery and from a variety of sectors, competing for a start-up prize The Outstanding Business

Association The panel of judges included hundreds of senior businessmen from Israel and around the world, who examined the projects in more than 50 online judging events. In attendance: Roni Tzarom, the association's founder, Assaf Weiss, CEO and Minister Amir Peretz Weiss.

Helping the needy

Karen Gillerman 'Marina Maximilian and her daughter Lychee (Photo: Karen Gillerman)

Dozens of volunteers showed up at the exhibition grounds to pack food rations for the organization to immediately help Holocaust survivors, during the day hundreds of holiday packages were packed, with work done in capsules with masks and gloves, dozens of volunteers who arrived were sent home disappointed, to maintain precautions and prevent crowds.

Marina Maximilian Blumin and her daughter Lychee volunteered to pack, Karen Gillerman volunteered to photograph and document.

Donate to patients

Erez Shimko, Aviram Soshard and Ohad Hochman (Photo: Daniel Ben Naim)

The Phillips Foundation and Philips Israel have announced the donation of 18 units of ultrasound devices at the initial treatment points for patients, with each unit being supplied with a tablet.

Ultrasound solutions will be provided to 13 hospitals in Israel to support diagnosis and allow direct treatment for corona patients.

The donation was made possible thanks to the support of HealthIL - an Israeli innovation community in the field of health, which was established to change health through innovation.

By performing an imaging test on corona patients during initial treatment, emergency or intensive care unit, physicians will be able to diagnose and monitor patients without moving them around the hospital thus helping to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to other patients or medical staff.

Cook with love

Yossi Sheetrit, Sarit Retzer and Nadav Amsalem (Photo: Cellcom Business Division)

Nadav Amsalem, VP of Business Customers at Cellcom, and Sarit Retzer, VP of Partners at Cisco Israel, celebrated the beginning of the new year with a virtual cooking workshop with Chef Yossi Sheetrit, delivered via WEBEX.

All the materials and supplies were sent to the homes of about 40 business customers, who enjoyed a cooking workshop, greetings, and raising a glass for the New Year to mark the strong partnership between the two companies.

In small

+ Businesswoman and philanthropist Raya Strauss Ben-Dror, founder of the Galilee Spiritual Initiatives and Treasures for the Promotion and Strengthening of the Western Galilee, received from the Menach organization the "Menachs Medal for Lifetime Achievement" for giving to others and strengthening society in Israel.

During the ceremony at Zoom, Dr. Moshe Kaplan, the organization's founder, presented the award to Strauss, saying they were proud to award Ms. Strauss Ben Dror the award for a lifetime achievement of giving to others, unprecedented social leadership in Israel, a philanthropic activity that extends to Decades ago, and is a constant contribution to strengthening the community and society in Israel.

+ Mizrahi Tefahot Bank is a member of the social enterprise "Dudu's Animals" and Ido Bensman, a young man on the autism spectrum, whose colorful animals he illustrated were included in the bank's calendar for the new year. The bank's many for the community that take place throughout the year, along with "Dudu's Animals" incorporated illustrations by Bensman depicting colorful and smiling animals full of emotion and joy of life.The

venture was established to create an employment solution for young people on the autism spectrum and allow them tailored employment. , Director of the Bank's Organizational Development and Training Division, said that during the year, the Bank expresses its commitment to contributing to the community, social growth and a sustainable economic future through various channels.

+ The fintech company from Ramat Gan presented its employees with Rosh Hashanah, a Bitcoin coin worth NIS 500. , received

The employees gave a similar gift, and those who kept it and did not redeem it, doubled the value of the gift to NIS 1,000 because the price of bitcoin in the world has risen more than 100% since then.

Sagi Bakshi, CEO of CoinMama said that as a gift for the year 2001 there is an educational value to savings, holding a Bitcoin currency is the opposite of buying tokens that aim to make the employee spend as much as possible, holding Bitcoin teaches you to save and resist, simply because over the years its value increases.

+ The Manpower Israel Group - a placement company, human resources and managed services, one of the largest in Israel, has held a toast.

Amnon Rader, the group's chairman Barach, and the comedian Eran Zarhovich in the form of Reuven, who amused hundreds of the group's employees when he laughed at Rader's fondness for arduous formation trips to the management, and awarded Dror Litvak, CEO of the Experis subsidiary, Who shed 28 pounds this year.

Last week, the GSG Global Impact Summit 2020 was held - the largest impact economy conference of the year, attended by more than 1,500 economists, investors, policymakers, and philanthropic foundations from 60 countries, focusing on actions to bring about global economic recovery from the Corona crisis Impact.

Speakers: Sir Ronald Cohen, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Social Finance Israel; Emanuel Faber, CEO of Danone Global;

Hollywood actress Jessica Alba;

Yaron Neuderper, CEO and co-founder of Social Finance Israel, who spoke, among other things, about social bonds in a pay-for-success model, as one of the world's experts in the field.

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