2024 Gala evening

Message from Nadav Chen, C.E.O. of Sanz Medical Center, Laniado Hospital

Good evening everyone and welcome Thank you for coming tonight, to once again express your support and your partnership in the construction and development of The Sheltered Emergency Hospital for Laniado . The past year was a very challenging and complex year for Israeli society, we experienced a difficult war in the south and the north. Even today, many families still have not returned to their homes in the Galilee and the Gaza Strip. Our hearts are with the hostages dying in the tunnels in Gaza, and we all salute the wounded of the IDF and the civilians injured at the Nova Festival, including our special guest, Ms Noam Ben David, in body and soul, who are on the long road of rehabilitation. Many joined the large bereaved Israeli family. Here, this evening, is a representative of the bereaved families - our dear friend, the Director of Development & Community Affairs and liaison of the Supporters Group , Mr. Eli Knoller, who recently lost his dear son, Nadav Elchanan Knoller הי”ד who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, leaving behind a widow and a small child, and of course the entire family . Mourning is very painful. Eli’s attendance this evening, and his work on this Gala, like every year, teaches us, first and foremost, about the greatness of his personal soul and that of his family. At the ceremony that we held recently at Laniado , to mark the 7th of October Mrs. Shira Glam , A Medical Laboratory worker of ours, and widow of First Sergeant Major Yohai Chai Glam הי”ד , spoke . She said that Eli found time and energy to reach out to her, to comfort and strengthen her, a bereaved person who lost the one dearest to him, just a few months before she lost her husband. Eli’s nobleness of soul is special, but it seems to me that he is not alone - the entire nation of Israel is showing wonderful mental resiliance. We are torn between the need to show military and civilian strength, between the duty of all of us to keep calm, to show empathy and compassion and strength. Along with the unimaginable personal and national pain. This duality is the essence of Israeli society's existence in the last year.

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