2024 Gala evening

A message from Ken Schwartz, Chairperson of the Supporters of Laniado Hospital

Eighteen months ago when Eli Knoller first told me that the hospital was going to undertake the project to build a Sheltered Emergency Hospital, I was OK, we are going to build a Sheltered Emergency Hospital, not understanding what that meant. After October 7th, I truly understood why we needed a hospital of this caliber. In the early days of the war we received injured from the North and the South. As Netanya was relatively quiet, we also received many evacuees from these areas with their medical issues. Our Sheltered Dialysis Department ran 24 hours a day. Then the sirens sounded in Netanya and it became quite clear that this Sheltered Emergency Hospital became emergent. In the Torah portion of Lech Lechah, that we read this past Shabbat, the Torah says, " They went to Eretz Canaan and they came to Eretz Canaan". The Chofetz Chaim says the message from this sentence is to show the importance of finishing a task that was started. We started with 2 goals for this Gala Event this evening. The first was to host 250 people or more and the second was to raise 360,000 shekels towards this project. I'm happy to report that we have received 360 reservations for this evening and have raised over 500,000 shekel. Reaching these goals could only have been met with supporters like you. I want to wish the Gala Committee, led by Rachel Shore and Sheldon Reich and the Brochure Committee led by Alan Gold and Tony Plaskow a huge Yasher Cochachem . These people and their respective committees, achieved and surpassed our goals. I want to thank All of our supporters, volunteers, and sponsors. Without you this evening could not have been accomplished. I look forward to working with all of you in the future. Ken Schwartz Chairperson Supporters of Laniado Hospital

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