Come and join us for the second year runnning, on Friday 13th March, 2015.

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We were very lucky to have a great team and generous sponsors that resulted in 200 new donors being added to the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry during our inaugural participation in the Jerusalem Marathon in 2014. We're hoping to improve on that this year.

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. And for over 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 recuiting 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.