Now that I have completely bashed Ramat Bet Shemesh for having nothing to do for anyone my age, lets talk about what the good they are doing. We are the first largest city outside of the special situation range and therefore people are emigrating to us. There will be thousands of kids shuttling up daily to our little town to be hosted in schools, gyms, and peoples basements so that they can continue school as apposed to being stuck in a bomb shelter all day. Beyond that there are also 1000 refugees who will be moving into homes in and around Bet Shemesh/Ramat Bet Shemesh. This is being pioneered by a grass roots organization who was created during the second Lebanon war.
Everything is being funded by its parent organization Leman Achai. Leman Achai is an organization that is very prominent in Ramat Bet Shemesh and Israel. To donate:
Online Donations: www.israelwar.org
USA Tax Deductible: "US Friends of Lema'an Achai", PO Box 532,
Oceanside, NY 11572-0532, USA.
UK Tax Deductible: "British Friends of Lema'an Achai", c/o Nava
Kestenbaum, 96 Rigby Street, Salford, Manchester, M7 4BQ, ENGLAND.
Canadian Tax Deductible: "Shaarei Tefilla Charity Fund", C/O Murray
Shore, 31 Marvill Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3H 3L2, CANADA.
Israel Tax Deductible: "Lema'an Achai", The Lema'an Achai Center,
40/7 Nahal Lachish, Ramat Bet Shemesh, 99093, Israel.
By Phone 24/6 Donations Hotline (Hebrew): 02 99.999.33
This is what is going on close to home here in Ramat Bet Shemesh. Also, any funds donated that is not used due to the fact that B'H the war ends, will be used for Leman Achai's usual work of supporting the poor.
In other news on the other side of the border, one IDF soldier has died in the hospital from wounds he received on the ground in Gaza. Baruch Dayin HaEmet. This is the first IDF soldier to be killed in this war and Im"H should be the only one.
As of this morning there have been 30 rockets flying into the south of Israel. 2 injured but not seriously. For those of you who read the Times or CNN please note that I have noticed not only clearly photo-shopped images on both publications, but also as always being very pro Arabs. Fox News on the other hand it should be noted has been very pro Israel. For the most up to date news check back here, or go to www.israelnationalnews.com or www.jpost.com
May there be no more Israeli soldiers, or any civilians killed in this operation.
Jesse - Writing to the sound of the military helicopters and an occasional IAF Jet flying overhead.
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On behalf of everyone I know who has family members living in Beit Shemesh, you've got my deepest sympathy at having to be stranded there. I know I would go out of my mind under these conditions (it's not just people your age, there's not much to see or do for people MY age either).
Let us all hope and pray for a successful and speedy end to the war with minimal casualties, so that you can resume traveling the country (I haven't gone through them all yet, but I loved the pics from the Eilat trip).
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