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Zichron Menachem offers a light at the end of the tunnel for cancer patients in a unique way, but it is the hard-working volunteers who truly provide the energy boost.

Zichron Menachem
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The first thing I notice about the group of campers and counselors at Zichron Menachem’s winter camp at the Magic Palace Hotel in Eilat is the noise. Standing on chairs, they sing, shout chants and tease each other good-naturedly over whose group is “better,” as a counselor bangs away on a bongo drum.

The idea behind the noise lies in the fact that for most campers, much of their time is spent in lonely hospital rooms or at home while their parents work. They are used to being surrounded by beeping machines and general silence.

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