Lauder Employment Center lights up pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The Lauder Employment Center, run jointly by Jewish National Fund-USA and  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, will remain lit in pink until the end of the  month.

 Lauder Employment Center lights up pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (photo credit: LAUDER EMPLOYMENT CENTER)
Lauder Employment Center lights up pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
(photo credit: LAUDER EMPLOYMENT CENTER)

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Lauder Employment Center in  Be'er Sheva, Israel was lit up in pink. 

The lighting ceremony, hosted by Avi Balashnikov, Chairman and CEO of the  Lauder Employment Center, was held with the honor of Be'er Sheva's mayor,  Ruvik Danilovich, President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor  Daniel Chamovitz, and the CEO of JNF-USA in Israel, Eric Michaelson.  

At the lighting ceremony, Avi Balashnikov, Ronald Lauder's representative in  Israel, remarked that the issue of raising awareness of breast cancer is very  important to the Lauder family, who have also established one of the largest  foundations in the world to promote awareness of the disease. 

Michal Grayevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Lauder Employment Center, said  that raising awareness for breast cancer is a necessary task of the State of  Israel and of the entire world and that we must do everything in our capacity  to increase awareness and save lives. 

The Lauder Employment Center, run jointly by Jewish National Fund-USA and  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, will remain lit in pink until the end of the  month.