Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce our “Connecting” project – a new initiative of the Israeli Medical Association World Fellowship (IMA WF) as part of the activities for bringing together physicians who wish to strengthen the bond with Israel and Israeli medicine.

We believe the most significant activity to bring people together is person-to-person contact resulting in a genuine link, commitment and affinity. Although we will begin this venture adjacent to the19th ISRAELI MEDICAL ASSOCIATION WORLD FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, this will be an ongoing project for any of our members who visit Israel in future.  Initially the project will offer personal companionship of an Israeli physician to each participant who so wishes, coming to the IMA WF conference, during his/her stay in Israel. The accompaniment will include social and/or professional interaction, a visit to the Israeli colleague’s workplace for a first hand impression of the Israeli health system and other activities, taking into consideration both the guest’s and host’s needs and desires.

We invite you to take part in this unique project, to take the opportunity to meet new colleagues and hope it will help to create more meaningful relationships and develop true partnership and collaboration between physicians in the future.

Please let us know if you’re interested in taking advantage of this wonderful initiative aswell as your preferences and send your full details, including email, field of medicine and interests to Esti Sherbelis, Foreign Affairs Officer estish@ima.org.il.

Dr. Tzaki Siev-Ner Chairman, IMA World Fellowship	Dr. Itsik Kreiss Head, “Connecting” project, IMA WF