 The Foundation was born on 1 June 2001, on the night of the Palestinian Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.When Michael Cherney learned the number of victims – twenty-one dead and over 150 wounded – he realized that rendering assistance required a systematic organized effort.Besides direct money grants to and paying the bills for survivors and families of the deceased, the Cherney Foundation undertook a media project that included publishing a book called "Dolphinarium