Danielle Sonnenfeld, a”h, performed her National Service in the framework of Ezer Mizion, an Israeli health support organization offering a wide range of medical and social support services for Israel’s sick, disabled and elderly. Danielle volunteered in the Oncology Department in Schneider’s Children’s Hospital and Oranit Guest House, a special center founded by Ezer Mizion directly outside the hospital for cancer patients and their families.  As one of many charity projects undertaken to perpetuate Danielle’s legacy, the Danielle Sonnenfeld Foundation is supporting Ezer Mizion’s Bone Marrow Donor Registry, founding a special pool in Danielle’s memory.

In 1998, Ezer Mizion founded its Bone Marrow Registry. The Registry was created in order to help cancer patients and victims of other serious illnesses identify a matching bone marrow donor and thus save lives.

Over the years, the Registry achieved significant results:  Ezer Mizion’s National Registry is the sixth largest in the world as well as the largest database of potential Jewish bone marrow donors in the world. Since being launched in 1998, over 870,000 potential donors have registered to donate bone marrow in case a match is found. Every year, the Registry receives thousands of search requests from patients in transplant centers around the world. To date, over 2,600 life-saving bone marrow transplants have taken place in Israel and countries around the world as a direct result of the Registry. The percentage of Ezer Mizion’s donor response and availability once the advanced stage of the process is reached is 94%–the highest in the world.