EDITORIAL

Lately we have faced a personnel change in the editorial board of IJVM. Prof. A. Shimshony has resigned from his post as co-editor and Dr. Trevor Waner has replaced him.

Prof. Shimshony served as co-editor for the last 3 years, but as of late his professional obligations, mainly in the international organisations have prevented him from full scale activities on the editorial board, and he requested to be released. As his co- editor I enjoyed his collaboration in editing the journal. His professional and critical advice was of utmost

importance both in our mutual work in IJVM and also previously, when Prof. Shimshony served as the director of the Israel Veterinary Services and I served under him as head of the Kimron Veterinary Institute. I do hope we shall continue to benefit from his knowledge whenever it will be required.

On behalf of the entire editorial board I express our deep gratitude to Prof. Shimshony for his contribution and wish him many more fruitful years of activity.

His successor, Dr. Waner is well known to readers of the journal as an author of many scientific articles. Now, in his capacity as co-editor, his additional role will surely contribute to the quality of the journal and its recognition internationally.

In the current issue you will find a report written by Dr. B. Sharir et al. concerning the medical treatment of farm animals which were injured by rocket blasts in the Second Lebanon War (July-August 2006).

In a letter to the editor, Dr. H. Yadin et al. describe the epidemiological, diagnostic, and clinical features of the recent outbreak of EHD in dairy cattle in Israel.

In addition to the review and original articles we have included selected abstracts from the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology.

I do hope you will find the current issue interesting and enlightening.

Zeev Trainin, editor