Affiliation

	Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer www.sheba.co.il The Chaim Sheba Medical Center is the largest and most comprehensive medical center in the Middle East, where close to 6,000 healthcare professionals perform around four million procedures to over one million patients per year.  Sheba uniquely combines Israel's largest acute care hospital with a national Rehabilitation Hospital, alongside emphasizing compassionate patient care, innovative scientific research, and comprehensive medical training, and teaching. MSR is a unit of the not-for-profit Medical Research Infrastructure Development and Health Services Fund by the Sheba Medical Center.
	Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University www.tau.ac.il/madicine   The Sackler Faculty of Medicine is Israel's largest institute of higher medical education.  The Sackler School of Medicine, the Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, and the School of Health Professions offer a variety of professional degree programs.  Tel Aviv University medical students train at MSR at various stages of their studies: as candidates to the medical school, in their first clinical years and prior to starting their internship.
	The National Institue for Testing and Evaluetion (NITE) http://www.nite.org.il The National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE) was established in 1981 in order to centralize the preparation and administration of university entrance tests and to improve and increase the efficiency of these tests.  In addition, by providing a uniform testing program for all of the institutions of higher education, NITE facilitates the admissions process for applicants to more than one institution.  NITE has an assessment unit at MSR that has helped develop and execute the performance assessment evaluations and licensing exams that are carried out at MSR.
	The Israel Medical Association (IMA) http://www.ima.org.il The Israel Medical Association (IMA) is the official workers’ organization representing physicians in Israel.  IMA acts as an independent, apolitical, professional organization which seeks to advance the interest of physicians and medicine in Israel. The objectives of the IMA are to advance the professional, scientific and economic issues of its members; to maintain a proper professional and ethical standard in medicine, and to advance the status of individual physicians and the medical profession in Israel.
	Kolot http://www.kolot.info/en/ The students in the Kolot Beit Midrash represent the spectrum of Israeli society; they are people of influence from various fields, who engage in the study of Jewish texts along with contemporary issues that affect Israel, in a way that is open and multifaceted.