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Acknowledgements
This booklet could not have been created without the assistance and professional efforts of the
current staff of the Dual Diagnosis Unit at Beit Issie Shapiro – Lital Raveh, Galia Shaya, Hava
Shem-Ari, and Ongi Kaplan. In addition, I would like to thank those who established the unit and
turned the vision into reality – Shosh Kaminsky, Lili Levinton, Bonnie Amrami, and Yitzhak
Hirschberg.
Finally, I would like to offer my deepest appreciation to the Department of Psychological
Medicine at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, and in particular to Dr. Mike Stavsky,
who has been a very significant support in the establishment and operation of the unit.