Hi,

I'm running together with my brothers, Eli and Benaya, in the Jerusalem Marathon for Gift of Life.  We are getting ready and training, and we are excited to try and help save some lives. 

You can help us too :) !

Team Gift of Life is back for its third year of fun running for a serious cause. Show your support by clicking the red "Give" button above, and show your support a second time by cheering me on from the sidelines on Friday 18th March, 2016.

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Overall, Team Gift of Life has raised $21,000 in the 2014 and 2015 Jerusalem Marathons, which equates to 350 new donors being added to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry. Two of those donors have been identified as matches for patients seeking an unrelated donor.

The simple truth is that for some people their only hope of a cure to leukemia, lymphoma and a number of other diseases is a bone marrow transplant. All other "conventional" options have been exhausted.

The cells that form our HLA typing are inherited and cannot be replicated in a pharmaceutical laboratory. For more than 100 patients each year Gift of Life is able to provide a donor who selflessly finds the time and courage to donate their bone marrow or stem cells.

But there are patients out there who do not have a match in the Gift of Life Registry, or one of the other international registries, so we are always recruiting new donors. Each new donor represents another chance, another possibility, for a patient suffering from a life-threatening disease who is rapidly running out of options.

Recruiting new donors requires funds. The lab test for each new donor is $60. For every $60 that you sponsor one of our runners, one more person will join the registry and one more patient has the potential key to life saving treatment.