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Gideon Bach

Professor Gideon Bach

Medical Director of "Bedomaich Chayi" Cord Blood Bank, Jerusalem

Professor Bach headed the Department of Human Genetics of Hadassa Medical Center Jerusalem. He served for years as the Chairman of the Israel Society of Human Genetics and he is a member of the Counseling Committee of the Ministry of Health for Clinical Genetics Policies and a member of the National Helsinki Committee (Ministry of Health) on genetics experimentation.

Dvorah Abeliovich

Professor Dvorah Abeliovich

Director of Mogen Body Molecular Biology Laboratory

Isaac Yaniv

Professor Isaac Yaniv

Director of the Hematology-Oncology Department, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikva

Professor Yaniv is a specialist in the fields of Hematology and Oncology Fields, He is the Director of the Hematology-Oncology Department at Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikva.

Linda Harel

Dr. Linda Harel

Deputy Director in Charge of the Delivery Rooms at the Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center

Dr. Harel is a specialist in Obstetrics and Midwifery. She is personally dedicated and expertly skilled in the field of targeted unbilical cord blood collection.

Moshe Yeshurun

Dr. Moshe Yeshurun

Director of Bone Marrow Transplantation Department, Davidoff Center, Rabin Medical Center – Beilinson Hospital

Dr. Yeshurun is a scientific advisor to "Bedomaich Chayi", focusing on promoting the consent process. He specializes in internal medicine, hematology, and bone marrow transplants.
He is a member of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Moshe Israeli

Dr. Moshe Israeli

Tissue Typing Specialist

Mr. Israeli is an expert in HLA and tissue typing. He is coordinator of unrelated stem cell donor searches for the Clalit Health Services in Israel and is a member of WMDA & ASHI professional committees.

Ofer Shpilberg

Professor Ofer Shpilberg

Director of Hematology Dept., Rabin Medical Center – Beilinson Hospital

Professor shpilberg is the Chairman of The Israeli Society of Hematology

Reuven Or

Professor Reuven Or

Head of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy

Dr. Or is a specialist in Hematology. He is the Head of the Bone Marrow Transplant Dept., Hadassa Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Rephael Pollack

Dr. Rephael Pollack

Medical Director of Bikur Cholim Hospital

Dr. Pollack is a specialist in Obstetrics. He specializes in women's health, midwifery, high-risk pregnancies and ultrasounds. In January 2006, with the start of cord blood harvesting, he trained the collection staff of Bedomaich Chayi. Utilizing his vast experience and professional knowledge, which he gained during his previous posts in Canada, he trained the delivery room staff on cord blood preservation.

Shulamit Levenberg

Professor Shulamit Levenberg

Head of Biomedical Engineering Lab, Technical Institute of Israel, Haifa

Professor Levenberg has been a leader in the creation of cutting-edge technology in creating human tissue and blood vessels, which has brought the medical community closer to the creation of body parts for transplantation in the sick or wounded (the engineering of the formation of blood vessel tissue and cellular differentiation with polymeric materials). She appears in Scientific American's list of the 50 leading scientists and is considered a leader in stem cell research and tissue engineering, setting the foundations for the future of science in he field.

Shoshana Israel

Dr. Shoshana Israel

Head of the Tissue Classification and Matching Lab, Hadassa Medical Center, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem

Dr. Israel is a specialist in Immunology. She is the Head of the Tissue Classification and Matching Lab, Hadassa Medical Center - Ein Kerem in Jerusalem.

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For the first time, the public cord cell banks of Israel were saluted in a special ceremony at the Knesset.

What Is Cord Blood ?

Cord blood is the blood that remains in the placenta and umbilical cord...

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Professor Eliane Gluckman visit

Professor Eliane Gluckman of France, one of the leading hematologists worldwide who pioneered cord blood transplanting in 1988, visited the Bedomaich Chayi Cord Blood Bank.

A salute for the public cord blood banks in Israel

For the first time, the public cord cell banks of Israel were saluted in a special ceremony at the Knesset.

Or Yosipov

The national search for a bone-marrow donor for Or Yosipov - underscores the dire necessity of national cord-blood bank.

Tissue Typing Matches in 2010

In the year 2010, over 50 ! matches were found in the Bedomaich Chayi Cord Blood Registry, for patients around the world.

Unable to find bone marrow match

A Sacramento teenager, Katie Cramer (16), with a fatal blood disease has died despite her mother's unsuccessful efforts to find a bone marrow match in China.

The Presidential Award for the year 2010

was awarded to the Executive Director of ICBB.

Summary of Transplantation Results 2008

Summary of Activity and Transplantation Results of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in 2008.

The Shield of the Ministry of Health for the year 2010

was awarded to the Board of ICBB in the Knesset.

State finds funds for cord-blood banks

Three years after the Knesset passed the Cord-Blood Bank Law, the Health Ministry is allocating money to actually carry it out. Its ultimate aim is to make cord blood, derived from umbilical cords and placentas, available to all.

Transplant May Reverse Type 1 Diabetes

A minimally invasive transplant could reverse type 1 diabetes in millions of people. Only a few medical centers in the world do this experimental procedure, including one in the Bay Area.

Two units of umbilical cord blood 'reduce leukemia recurrence risk'

Washington, Nov 14, 2010 : If patients with acute leukemia are transplanted with two units of umbilical cord blood (UCB), their risk of the disease recurrence is significantly reduced, according to a new study from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota.

Israel National Cancer Registry - Leukemia

Cancer - Leukemia Incidence Tables. 2000-2007.

Professor Eliane Gluckman visit

Professor Eliane Gluckman of France, one of the leading hematologists worldwide who pioneered cord blood transplanting in 1988, visited the Bedomaich Chayi Cord Blood Bank.

A salute for the public cord blood banks in Israel

For the first time, the public cord cell banks of Israel were saluted in a special ceremony at the Knesset.

Or Yosipov

The national search for a bone-marrow donor for Or Yosipov - underscores the dire necessity of national cord-blood bank.

Tissue Typing Matches in 2010

In the year 2010, over 50 ! matches were found in the Bedomaich Chayi Cord Blood Registry, for patients around the world.

Unable to find bone marrow match

A Sacramento teenager, Katie Cramer (16), with a fatal blood disease has died despite her mother's unsuccessful efforts to find a bone marrow match in China.

The Presidential Award for the year 2010

was awarded to the Executive Director of ICBB.

Summary of Transplantation Results 2008

Summary of Activity and Transplantation Results of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in 2008.

The Shield of the Ministry of Health for the year 2010

was awarded to the Board of ICBB in the Knesset.

State finds funds for cord-blood banks

Transplant May Reverse Type 1 Diabetes

A minimally invasive transplant could reverse type 1 diabetes in millions of people. Only a few medical centers in the world do this experimental procedure, including one in the Bay Area.

Two units of umbilical cord blood 'reduce leukemia recurrence risk'

Israel National Cancer Registry - Leukemia

Cancer - Leukemia Incidence Tables. 2000-2007.

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Or Yosipov

The national search for a bone-marrow donor for Or Yosipov - underscores the dire necessity of national cord-blood bank.

Katie Cramer

Katie Cramer, 16. A Sacramento teenager with a fatal blood disease has died despite her mother's unsuccessful efforts to find a bone marrow match.

Amit Kadosh

In 2008, Amit Kadosh, 7 years old, was diagnoised with leukemia. She was flown to the U.S. where she received a stem cell transplant. Amit is now healthy and back home.

Hi, I'm Hodaya.

I have acute leukemia. My mixed descent and rare ethnic group make for a very rare tissue type. Project Hodaya was born after The Public Cord Blood Bank stepped forward to help me.

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The public cord blood bank "Bedomayich Chayi" was founded as a humanitarian universal voluntary organization. Our goal is to provide bone marrow transplants to those who are not represented by public international cord blood banks. In addition, we provide a parent's guide with all the necessary information about the cord blood and its donation. All data is for informative purposes only. A doctor should be consulted for medical guidance.