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Working together, eating together, living together The dining room was the first public building that was built at the Kfar Saba site. When the dining room was built, the plant only had around 70 workers. The employees brought breakfast and lunch from home or they bought their meals from a nearby eatery. The dining room had only 180 seats. For many years the dining room was the life of the site, where workers ate their morning and afternoon meals together. The dining room was more than just a place to eat - it was also the social and cultural center of the plant. The company’s social, spiritual, cultural, and political life was conducted here. The cultural events in the dining room were an important part of the formal and informal life at the site: employee meetings took place here, Kabalat Shabbat, film screenings, dances, and sing-alongs. During the Mondial, a huge screen was set up and the workers would sit together and watch soccer games with drinks and snacks, and on election days, the polling stations were set up in the dining room. During the 90s, self-service was introduced in the dining room. 46,000 meals per month As the site grew and the number of employees increased, the old dining room became increasingly more crowded, which led to the management in 2010 to build a beautiful and state of the art dining room, with an investment of 3 million shekels. The new dining room employs a clinical dietician and a catering company that serves delicious and diverse meals, which are just as appealing to the eyes as they are to the palate. The new dining room has 400 seats and serves 46,000 meals per month in 3 shifts. Good nutrition at Teva Kfar Saba Like many other topics, a huge development in nutrition occurred over the years and things that may have seemed correct or new in the past, seem completely different in retrospect. For example, Isaac Pasternak, one of the plant’s veteran employees, recounts: During breakfast a lecturer was invited to speak to the employees about proper nutrition. One of the recommendations was that people over the age of 50 shouldn’t eat more than 200 grams of chicken per week (!) In the late eighties, it was decided to conduct a study at the site, together with the Wingate Institute, on “sport for industry”. For that purpose, the workers were divided into two groups and during lunchtime, half of them sat on the grass, played cards, and read the paper, while the second group left the plant and went on a run with a fitness trainer. After six months, all the employees were examined and comparisons were made pertaining to the health of the members of both groups. You can guess the results... Chocolate milk, a roll, and a smile Every day at 10:00 a.m. a ritual took place at the plant - Ester, a full time Teva employee, used to walk around and hand out chocolate milk and a roll to every worker at their work stations. Obviously, as soon as the site entered the GMP and FDA approval era, food was removed from the production site, but the sweet memories remain. From right to left: Doron Asis, Uzi Sharon, Avraham Ben Muha, Eli Peretz Maintenance Department employees: Haim Widal, Alon Agam, Avraham Hamabi, Eli Kadusi and on the left - Eli Menachem 56