Gisha L’Chaim-Life’s Door was founded by renown Oncologist, Benjamin W. Corn, MD Professor & Chair of Radiation Oncology and Deputy Director, Shaare Zedek Cancer Center, and his wife Dvora Corn, a family therapist.
With divisions in Israel and the USA, Gisha L’Chaim-Life’s Door is a not-for-profit with a mission to empower hope and well-being throughout illness, aging, and at the end of life.
We advance platforms that offer hopefulness and meaning to tens of thousands of people annually, and have developed innovative training models, interventions and programs impacting patients, the elderly and their caregivers/health care providers
Training programs and workshops to health care professionals, providing tools for empathic listening, communication and shared decision making
Volunteer training programs to provide comfort, care, connectivity and hopefulness to seniors throughout these lonely times, in spite of physical distance
Breakthrough research in the science of hope and the role of hope among patients coping with serious illness
Development of Digital platforms for learning and implementation of tools
For the past 17 years we have worked and partnered with agencies and institutions in Israel and internationally, including geriatric and medical facilities, academic/research institutes and other NGOs/social organizations in the health care and
aging space.
We have been recognized in the US and Israel for our achievements and were the recipient of the Presidential Award for Volunteerism, and the Sylvan Adams Bone Zion Award for Medicine and Science in the Israeli Knesset, the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration's Award of Appreciation to Olim for Extraordinary Contributions to Society and the State, and most recently The American Society of Clinical Oncology 2021 Humanitarian Award.