larger than life USA - a non profit organization for Israeli children battling cancer


Uri Cohen		Shalom. My name is Uri Cohen, and I'm 15 years old. Until 2 years ago, I was just like every other kid: an 8th grade pupil that only thought about things surrounding my school, neighborhood, good friends, games, soccer and especially surfing on the waves, which I loved the most and was really excellent at! I couldn't have been further away from worries about health, and certainly not life-threatening or terminal diseases. Even when pains started attacking my left thigh and pelvis, I thought it was growing pains or cramps caused by sports - which is what the doctors thought when they examined me. read more >


Pazit Rotman		Pazit Rotman can look back today and say, "I did it!" * After two months of treatment, the cancerous tumor vanished from her body, and she got back to a life of routine. * In the course of the difficult treatments, there was an episode which she describes as "a ray of light within the terrible darkness I was in" - the Dream Trip to Orlando and Miami. *** "When you understand that life can be beautiful, you also understand that it's something worth fighting for," she says. read more >


Eyal Turtz		Eyal Turtz of Kibbutz Yagur is only nine years old, but the cancer that he contracted - and from which he was cured after long months of difficult treatments - transformed him into an emotionally mature child. There is no other way to understand the insight that he...... read more >


Koral Veeder		An Israeli born, Koral is 15 years old now. About four years ago, she began to feel pain in her right thigh, which was diagnosed as cancer. It wasn’t easy for her to accept that she has cancer, and in one moment her life changed. School stopped, and there was only the hospital, which was all she saw for a year. read more >