Expand cancer institute

Israel's Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) has been granted $8.8 million by the Helmsley Charitable Trust to rebuild and expand the hospital's cancer institute. The funds will help transform the cancer institute into a cutting-edge facility, which will be renamed the Helmsley Multidisciplinary Oncology Center.

The current cancer institute is a one-story building built in the 1980s and is considered outdated, especially considering that cancer is one of the world's most widespread diseases.