tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587615673809768872024-02-19T10:56:21.418+02:00Focus on AshkelonUpdate on events and interesting things happening in Ashkelon from the Ashkelon-Baltimore Partnership.
Two main subjects are covered in the blog: 1) Ashkelon-Baltimore Partnership activities 2) Ashkelon Security Situation & Missile and Rocket Attacks. Some Ashkelon events/issues are also covered.Focus on Ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441377520152047802noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-64725535736490032542012-03-19T11:55:00.006+02:002012-03-20T10:41:08.199+02:00Follow my new blog on the BAP website<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is just to inform you that I have now closed this blog and I have opened a <a href="http://www.qmarkets1.org/live/baltimore/subdomain/sigal-arielys-blog/end/home" target="_blank"><b>new</b> <b>blog</b></a> on <b><a href="http://www.qmarkets1.org/live/baltimore/node/524" target="_blank"> <span style="color: purple;">the <span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Baltimore-Ashkelon Partnership website</span></span></a></b> . I hope you will follow me there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">a very </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Happy Hannukah !</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Shani Yamin, <a href="http://ashkelonblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/our-new-shinshinim-in-baltimore.html">our shinshinit</a>* in Baltimore, is staying with the Abbott-Caplan family in Baltimore, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her adoptive parents visited the Yamin family in Ashkelon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rebecca Abbott, the Abbot-Caplans daughter, visited Ashkelon as part of the Baltimore Diller delegation and all her friends here welcomed her parents with open arms.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">They toured the city, and had fun in Ashkelon.</span></div>
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* Shinshin - Abbreviated "Shnat Sherut" which means "year of service". ("shinshinit" is the female version).Two Ashkelon Shinshin teens, ROI DOR and SHANI YAMIN are in Baltimore for a year, doing volunteer work in the Baltimore community, before they start their compulsory army service back in Israel in 2012. Read more and see photos of ROI DOR and SHANI YAMIN <a href="http://ashkelonblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/our-new-shinshinim-in-baltimore.html">HERE</a></div>
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A Social work crisis intervention (first response) delegation from Ashkelon visited Baltimore on Sept 7th for a week in order to receive training and consultation on how to develop and implement on-going Bereavement support Groups for those who have lost loved ones in Ashkelon.</div>
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At the same time the Ashkelon crisis intervention staff provided training to the Baltimore professionals in crisis intervention. </div>
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The Ashkelon delegation received home hospitality which helped to strengthen the bonds between people and create life long friendships. </div>
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The week was full of "hard" learning and "hard playing including a visit to Washington and the famous sites in Baltimore. We also had a chance to do some shopping !!! and also a lot of good eating!!!!!! </div>
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We from Ashkelon had a wonderful experience and are looking forward to on-going connection with the JCS workers in Baltimore in order to share our experiences, get feedback and consultation while we begin to implement the Support Groups in Ashkelon, scheduled for Jan. 2012</div>
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3rd day that the kids are home, the schools and kindergardens are closed since they are not protected. The kids are quite happy with the unexpected extra vacation they got and the parents feel safer that they are at home close to shelters and safe areas. It's hard to belive that this is our routine now - every few weeks rockets from Gaza that creat balagan in our lives. In a way it's like snow storms in other places that mess up life- schools are closed , people are asked to stay home if they can , and you don't know how long this will last , But here , out of the blue, literaly blue sunny sky , no wether forcast , rain of rockets starts! I hope that today is the end of this round of rockets, who knows till when ? I miss a good night sleep when you really sleep , not like the past night when your body sleeps but your mind is wild awake , waiting for a siren to interupt your sleep....<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anav-silverman/ashkelon-rocket-_b_1068642.html">PHOTOS Grad rocket attack on Ashkelon</a></div>
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More rockets late last night and early wake-up at about 4:00 am this morning. It seems that calm is nowhere in sight. Thank goodness for the Iron Dome system that so far intercepted most of the rockets before they could hit the population.</div>
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See below a car that was standing between two houses on a kibbutz near Ashkelon, and received a direct hit from a grad rocket fired from Gaza last night.A baby in an adjacent house was hurt in this attack, but luckily the car itself was empty. Another miracle.</div>
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ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16804706546167690260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-53575587909322891752011-08-21T08:49:00.002+03:002011-08-21T12:34:52.182+03:00Sunday morningUpdate: It is apparently Beersheva's turn with almost constant rockets all day today. see photos below<br />
Since this morning's siren it has been quiet in Ashkelon.<br />
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7:15 am another siren wake up... I didn't hear it till Shay elbowed me, and I grabbed Gily , ran under the staircase . We heard nothing. I then saw on YNET that Iron Dome intercepted 3 rockets.<br />
After the attack in Beer Sheva last night , and 2 direct hit with a man killed (he had a 9month pregnant wife) , inspite of Iron Dome system , you can't avoid the tought " what if ....' Gily , 9 and half , doesn't want to stay here , so we are going to Cinema City with friends for the day , it;s near Tel Aviv .<br />
My 2 older ones contiuing thier routine : Shir studies hard for the university entering test , Ron doesn't study hard for a test in bible<br />
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Focus on Ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441377520152047802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-55452435888387464202011-08-20T14:11:00.004+03:002011-08-20T20:15:25.891+03:00Oh well ...<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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Well , it didn't take long...1:20 pm as we were sitting down for Shabat lunch at my in -laws , the siren went on . Since they don't have a shelter nor safe room , we run to the corridor between the 2 bedrooms , heard the boom , and went back to the table . On the news they said Iron Dome intercepted a rocket above Ashkelon , 4 out of 4 , good odds !<br />
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<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/30-rockets-strike-israel-day-after-coordinated-terror-attacks-kill-8-1.379518">Article in Maariv- Link</a> - How did it start, and then escalate<br />
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234599">Article in Jerusalem Post</a>: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234599">Over 45 rockets pound the southern region</a></div>
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Focus on Ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441377520152047802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-7290206693240876642011-08-20T07:49:00.004+03:002011-08-20T17:30:25.063+03:00Escalation in the south<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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How many rockets have been fired from Gaza in the past couple of days ? We are losing count. And this time the range is broader - not only the areas immediately surrounding Gaza but all over the region, to Be'er Tuvia region, Lachish, Kiryat Malachi, Beer Sheva and Ashdod. They are not kassams but the larger Grad rockets, with a longer range. They are also more deadly and filled with sharp metal shards.<br />
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Ashkelon had a quiet night , <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111254,00.html">but all around us rockets fell </a>. You keep waiting to hear the siren that is yet to come ....<br />
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Focus on Ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441377520152047802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-56978332115128809792011-08-19T17:50:00.002+03:002011-08-20T17:33:52.878+03:00Shabt shalom...<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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We had 3 sirens since last night , and thank God , for Iron Dome who was placed back in Ashkelon 3 weeks ago , and itercepted sucsefully 6 grads . Not that it is not scary to hear the sirens and the booms of the interception , but it's a great feeling to know we are protected . Asdod is less fortunate . 2 Grads hit the city earlier this morning and few people were hurt .</div>
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Last night the Municipality planned ia free beach conceert of Hadag Nahash that the teens were looking forward to . The concert was canceled shortly before it was suppose to start because of the esclamation in the south . A lot of teens came , not knowing it was cancled and there they were caught during the 1st siren and rockets . My son who was there with friends, called right after the siren , they saw the inerception ... a few minutes later he was home ... We had one more siren and the 3rd one woke us up 6:45 am...we got to sleep through the night . Gily put a matress next to our bed and slept on the floor, she wanted to be next to me .We are all praying for a quiet Shabat and go back to normal life , Shabat Shalom .</div>
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On Friday 12th August 2011 a group of soldiers from Ashkelon decided to celebrate the birthday of their friend Or Abu in an original way – by carrying out a volunteer project! In honor of Or's birthday, they decided to finish the painting of the perimeter fence of the brand new Ashkelon Volunteer Center. Happy Birthday Or! </div>
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The Ashkelon Volunteer Center is a new venture, and will centralize and promote volunteer activity in the city among local residents and also for overseas visitors wanting to volunteer in the city, The Ashkelon Volunteer Center was recently renovated by the city with the help of contributions from the Blavatt and Greenebaum families, under the auspices of the Ashkelon-Baltimore Partnership.</div>
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The initiative of the young soldiers to paint the fence is exactly the kind of volunteer spirit and commitment that the new Ashkelon Volunteer Center represents and inspires.</div>
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31.7.11 Matt Freedman and his wife Laurel and their 4 kids came to spend a day in Ashkelon. </div>
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They started the day by visiting Mayor Benny Vaknin, where they bumped into one of the most important personages in Israel, Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger !</div>
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The Freedman kids joined the judo summer day camp and enjoyed working out with the Ashkelon kids. Matt and Laurel and the kids met the new shinshinim Shani & Roi, and Hadar, last year's shinshin joined them for a reunion at the Marina. After a visit to the Michael Lapidus Baltimore park and the Lynn Stacie Getz Playground, the rest of the day and evening was spent reconnecting with dear friends in Ashkelon.</div>
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Over the last weekend in July, along with the 20 Diller Teen Fellows, we also hosted about 70 Maccabi kids aged 13-17 yrs old.The Baltimore Maccabi kids were in Israel to participate in the Maccabi Artsfest competitions along with teens from Jewish federations all over the world. Ashkelon families welcomed them into our homes for the weekend.</div>
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On Friday, two full busloads of Maccabi kids arrived at Ashkelon's Delilah beach where their Host families anxiously awaited them. Unfortunately Maccabi changed the arrival time and the full program of sports and beach games that we had prepared to welcome the Maccabi kids had to be cancelled at the last moment as their final arrival time in Ashkelon was very close to the start of Shabbat. The beach area that one minute was full of excited Maccabi kids and Ashkelon hosts, was clear the next minute as the Maccabi pairs were collected by their hosts and taken home for Friday night Shabbat dinner and a weekend of warm hospitality, Ashkelon style!<br />
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During the weekend, the kids relaxed with their host families at the beach or at the pool, some were taken on tiyulim or to movies, some went sailing - each family hosted their guest in their own special way.</div>
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On Saturday evening, after Shabbat, everyone met up for an interactive Havdalah event at Beit Vosk, and it was clear that close relationships between the Ashkelonis and their Baltimore guests had already been formed. Everyone was in high spirits and very happy. The event ended with everyone dancing and singing.</div>
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Early Sunday morning, after a fun-packed weekend, the hosts delivered their young guests to the collection area for the trip to Jerusalem and the continuation of their Maccabi activities.</div>
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Sigal <em>"Hosting such a big group over the summer vacation when many people are away, and while the Dillers were also in town, was a real challenge. My staff Nicole and Einav outdid themselves coordinating the host families for this weekend. It was a real team effort, and I would also like to thank Marcelo Burdman, Liza Aharon and the Ashkelon sports center coaches, for arranging the welcome activities: the beach games, climbing wall, zumba and sports that unfortunately had to be cancelled at the last minute. "</em></div>
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Reactions from everyone involved in this super weekend were very enthusiastic, everyone enjoyed themselves, host families and Maccabi teens alike. The close relationships that were formed will last a lifetime. Facebook and emails are already being exchanged.</div>
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At Michael Lapidus Park and Lyn Stacie Getz Playground in Ashkelon<br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The<strong> Shatzkins</strong> were on a family trip in Israel. Parents Richard and Jill and their children Sammy and Rachel <span style="color: #20124d;">wanted to spend a day volunteering in Ashkelon and connecting to the people and </span></span><span style="color: #20124d;">city of Ashkelon. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Their first job was painting the fence of the new Ashkelon Volunteer Center.</span> <span style="color: #20124d;"><strong>Dafna Biton,</strong> head of Amen, and kids from the Youth Council (including Sigal's son Ron) joined the Shatzkins to get the job done.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">Dressed in aprons and gloves, working hard in the baking hot sun, everyone had a good time chatting and getting the job done in true partnership!</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">After washing up, the family and the Youth Council teens took part in a sweet workshop held at the Volunteer Center- preparing specially designed parcels of sweets on skewers, to be delivered to patients at Barzilai Hospital. After they had packed up enough sweet parcels, we went to the hospital. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It was heartwarming to see Sammy and Rachel handing out their sweet parcels to the kids in the pediatric ward </span><span style="color: #20124d;">and to the new moms in the maternity ward.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">This was my first group of volunteers, and my first opportunity as the new Ashkelon overseas-volunteer coordinator, to plan their day in Ashkelon and their volunteer activities from start to finish. It was another opportunity to see first hand how strong the Baltimore connection is to Ashkelon and to experience the warm connection first hand.</span><br />
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Diller teen fellows, one of our partnership flagship projects - a year long leadership program for 11th graders! The Diller teens from Baltimore leave tonight after 3 intensely busy weeks in Israel. They have toured and volunteered, they have worked and played, and laughed and cried. This last week they spent in Ashkelon, home-hosted by their Ashkelon Diller partners, working in the Ashkelon community.</div>
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</div>ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16804706546167690260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-12468204755876351292011-07-26T10:05:00.003+03:002011-07-26T10:12:56.005+03:00Pre-Maccabi Group Visit to Ashkelon<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty Maccabi teens from Baltimore came two weeks earlier to travel in Israel and together with their counselors, spent an afternoon in Ashkelon.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Einav Koren, our new overseas coordinator, organized a special volunteer activity for them. First they visited the Ashkelon teen Center and met Dafna Biton and the Youth Council teens, and then together the Baltimore Maccabi teens and the Ashkelon teens ran a fun arts and crafts project at Halperin Senior Center. The seniors decorated useful tin containers, for their rooms, with the help of the teens. </span></div>
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We are having a busy summer as we welcome many teen visitors from Baltimore to Ashkelon. </div>
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After we said goodbye to the <span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #ffd966;">BEIT RJ</span> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">t</span></span>eens, a group of over 30 <b style="background-color: #ea9999;">BZD</b> teens arrived in Ashkelon. Days filled with fun, beach, social events and various volunteering activities. The teens were home hosted by Dafna Biton and the Ashkelon Youth Council. </div>
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Soon the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #b4a7d6;">DILLER</span> </b>teens arrive, and the huge delegation of <b style="background-color: #6aa84f;">MACCABI</b> teens.</div>
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A delegation of educators from Baltimore visited us this week. </div>
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They had never been to Israel before and made up for it by travelling all over Israel.</div>
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Mayor Benny Vaknin, Sigal Ariely & Marcelo Burdman welcomed the educators.</div>
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Dr Alan Marcus gave the delegation an overview of Ashkelon and explained the security situation in the region.</div>
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</div>ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16804706546167690260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-33465764758959678072011-07-07T13:32:00.003+03:002011-07-26T10:13:38.560+03:00Introducing Einav Koren<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week our new Overseas-volunteer Coordinator,<b> Einav Koren</b> joined our Ashkelon team.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Einav has lived all her life in Ashkelon, has wide experience running volunteer programs and speaks excellent English. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is looking forward to working with volunteers in Ashkelon, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and her office will be in the new Volunteer Center in Shimshon neighborhood.</span></div>
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On Thursday 30th June, the NESHER Youth Center held a dedication ceremony, as the Center reopened after a renovation funded by the Russel family of Baltimore, in honor of their beloved mother Adele "Alli" Russel.</div>
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The Nesher Center was established by the ENP in 2007 for Youth of Ethiopian extraction, under the auspices of the non-profit organization Dror. The Center is located in Shimshon neighborhood, is active 5 days a week and offers inter-generational and youth enrichment programs.</div>
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Steve Russel of Baltimore first visited the Nesher Center during the Ashkelon-Baltimore Partnership Family Mission in December 2010. Steve was impressed by the Nesher program but also saw the need to renovate and improve the building. Steve, his brother Robert, and the whole Russel family decided to fund the renovation. The renovation was carried out in cooperation with the Municipality of Ashkelon.</div>
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The dedication ceremony opened with a performance by the Or Addis Havatzelet choir, and was conducted in Hebrew by Shalva Mamu- a participant in Nesher programs, and in English by Sigal Ariely.</div>
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Mr Benny Vaknin, Mayor of Ashkelon welcomed and thanked the Russel family and the guests,, and presented the Russel family with certificates and ancient medal replicas. Benny Vaknin also thanked Marc Terril and Bruce Sholk for the Baltimore Jewish Federation's continued efforts to assist the Ethiopian community and the city of Ashkelon.</div>
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At the end of the ceremony the Russel family uncovered the plaque in honor of their mother, at the entrance to the Center, and experienced some traditional Ethiopian food, dance and music.<br />
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</div>ashkelonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16804706546167690260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-558761567380976887.post-69101238382993229922011-06-12T09:38:00.011+03:002011-06-18T14:26:12.065+03:00Baltimore Diller 2008 Alumni back in Ashkelon<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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We have just said goodbye to a delegation of nine Diller Alumni, who visited Ashkelon from 26th May until 9th June, with their coordinator Elise Henry.. The Baltimore teens were warmly welcomed and hosted in the homes of their Ashkelon Diller partners from 2008. The Ashkelon teens are now all in the army serving their compulsory military service, but somehow managed to get some time off from the IDF to spend quality time with their friends from Baltimore. After all the skype, facebook and emails, a face-to-face meeting was appreciated. You can't hug via facebook!<br />
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Ashkelon's AMEN coordinator <b>Dafna Biton</b> put together a schedule that was jam-packed with activities. Among other volunteer activities, the teens packed Shabbat food parcels for the underprivileged at Matan BeSeter ("<i>give Charity secretly</i>"), worked in the secondhand clothing store for teens, volunteered with the kids at Beit Canada absorption center for Ethiopian new immigrants, at Halperin Center for the Elderly, at kindergartens for special needs kids and with "Knafayim shel Crembo" (<i>Wings of Crembo</i>) youth group for disabled kids.<br />
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The Baltimore teens connected with all their good friends in Ashkelon; enjoyed shwarma, felafel, humous and cous-cous; swam in the Mediterranean sea; volunteered in different programs all over the city; painted a colourful mural; took part in various social activities; and of course visited Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea and even the Kinneret. One highlight was a visit to the army base, in the baking hot desert, where Noy is doing her military service.</div>
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Most of all, this trip was about <b>connection</b>. Connection between Diller friends in Baltimore and Ashkelon. Connection with old friends and new friends. Re-connection with the city and people of Ashkelon, and with Israel, and with the Diller ideals of leadership, and volunteerism in the community.<br />
We hope to see you all again soon! Lehitraot ! </div>
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