Libi, Benjo and Galia

A customer asked me if I was available to make a birthday card for her daughter, Libi, who was turning 22 in November. She sent me a recent photo of Libi, along with a picture of Polaris, a program she developed, and her favourite game, Hitster, a party game where players arrange music cards with QR codes on a timeline in chronological order. She also showed me some little yellow and pink duck soaps Libi had made.

The card I created showed Libi holding the little duck soaps in each hand. The game and program she developed are behind her.

"It's amazing. Thank you!" mum wrote to me.

Last year, when Benjo turned 13, I made him a Bar Mitzvah album showing him wearing tefillin (phylacteries). This year mum asked me to make him a 14th birthday card with his computer and the image of a product called SwiftBreak in the background.

I decided to show him working on his Mac laptop, and added the image of SwiftBreak and a big number 14 to the card.

"Thank you so much for the perfect card! It looks just like him! You're amazing!" mum said.

Finally, Galia, a medical student, was going to be starting rotations in a hospital. Hospital rotations are hands-on, supervised work assignments in different medical departments (like surgery, pediatrics, or internal medicine) that medical students complete to gain practical experience in various specialties.

Galia's mum asked me to make her a birthday card with a stethoscope, a white coat and the logo of the Shamir Medical Center, a major hospital in Israel, on it.
Shamir Medical Center used to be known as Asaf Harofeh Medical Center. It was renamed in April 2017. The change occurred after the Israeli government decided to rename the hospital after former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Asaf Harofeh was an ancient Jewish physician who likely lived between the 6th and 10th centuries in Israel. He is credited as the author or co-author of the Sefer Refuot (Book of Medicines). The text contains the first known Hebrew medical oath, similar to the Hippocratic Oath.

Mum was delighted with the card. "Great card, thanks so much." she wrote to me, then sent me some lovely photos of Galia's "white coat" tekes (ceremony), when the medical students all got their white coats and stethoscopes before starting rotations in the hospital.

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