During his official visit to the United States, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman also met with philanthropist Sheldon Adelson to speak with him about promoting the establishment of a proton center in Israel. Minister Litzman visited the proton center in Philadelphia and decided to work towards establishing one in Israel.

Litzman is making this a national project to permit precise advanced radiation treatment for victims of cancer, primarily for children. There is a limited number of these centers in developed nations. After learning of the importance of such a center from the professionals on his staff and from the National Council on Oncology, the minister decided to begin pushing the project for Israel, aware the successful establishment of such a center would permit advanced treatment for hundreds of patients annually, mostly children, and it would place Israel at the forefront of technology in treating cancer patients.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)