
Davidoff Cancer Center is an international leader in cancer care and has set the standard as Israel’s first and preeminent comprehensive cancer center. It is an advanced and patient-friendly facility that treats more than 200,000 patients annually throughout Israel and the world. Davidoff Cancer Center’s research efforts are exceptional in their academic scope, with outstanding doctors, research units with over 30 employees, and over 110 original articles published in the past year.
Rabin’s Davidoff Cancer Center’s multidisciplinary approach focuses on the entire spectrum of patients’ well-being, including a variety of compassionate treatment options. The holistic approach to cancer treatment includes social services to address psychological and emotional needs, as well as integrative medicine such as acupuncture, shiatsu, reflexology, yoga, pilates and tai-chi. Rabin’s Davidoff Cancer Center continues to set the standard for cancer research and treatment in Israel in its infrastructure, clinical services, and academic environment.
The director of the Department of Organ Transplantation at
Rabin Medical Center, Professor Eytan Mor, recently visited New
York City and spoke to American Friends of Rabin Medical Center
supporters of the pioneering work in organ transplantation.
A 57-year-old man who used to blow the shofar in his synagogue until he was 17, when he suffered serious lung damage in a prank played on him, succeeded in blowing the ram's horn again for the first time.
My father, Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, died from
colon cancer in 1964. He was forty-four.
I was six. Three years later, my mother,
Hadassah Yanich Plaut, uprooted our
family from Great Neck, Long Island to
Jerusalem, Israel to start a new life.