6th & Final Summer
Flight of US Jews
Over
1800 New Citizens for
Israel
(JERUSALEM: Sept. 2005):
Tuvia Grossman, the survivor of a brutal terror attack while
learning in Israel at the outbreak of the latest round of
Palestinian violence in Israel —will join 200 other American
Jews on the sixth, final summer flight of new citizens headed
to live in Israel.
Tuvia was born in
Chicago,
learned for a number of years in
New
York
where he resided as
well.
This
week’s special flight will arrive on
September 7th at
Ben
Gurion
International
Airport,
marking a breakthrough summer of over 1800 newcomers
from the
US
and
Canada.
The EL-AL flights will bring 3,200 North Americans to
Israel
this year through Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish
Agency for
Israel.
Greeting the newcomers at
a welcoming ceremony at Ben
Gurion
Airport will be hundreds of
family, friends and supporters, along with the Israeli
Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Deputy Director General for Media
and PR, AMB.
GIDEON MEIR; Rehovot Chief Rabbi SIMCHA HAKOHEN KOOK; and
Jerusalem City Council leader MINA
FENTON.
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STUDENT'S ART WILL
FLY ON JET ALONG WITH 250 NEW
OLIM
On August 17th, the winning design of a
national logo contest for Nefesh B'Nefesh will be painted on a
special EL Al flight, bringing with it some 250 North
Americans moving to Israel.
This flight
marks the fifth out of six specially designated flights
bringing nearly 2000 North Americans to Israel
this summer through Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for
Israel.
New
Orleans-born Chaviva
Sands ' design entitled "Aliyah"
was declared winner in the unanimous decision by an
international panel of judges who called the entry an
"outstanding logo design by a young person." The 12-year-old
budding artist's design-based on the theme of "Homeward Bound"-has been
painted onto a chartered plane. The first prize included round
trip flights for the winning artist, her parent and school
principal. The
winning logo and the finalists can be viewed at www.nbn.org.il/logocontest.
Welcoming
the newcomers will be Vice Prime Minister,
Minister Of Industry, Trade and Labor, and Acting
Minister Of Finance, EHUD OLMERT; Director
General of the Ministry of Absorption and Immigration, MIRLA GAL;
Founder and Chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone
Colleges and Graduate Programs and Chief Rabbi of Efrat, RABBI SHLOMO
RISKIN and Deputy Director of Western Aliyah of
the Jewish Agency for Israel, URI
BAR-NER.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17th,
2005
BEN
GURION
INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT
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Christian
Allies Caucus MKs to meet with Asian Christian leaders in
Korea at the
second Jerusalem Summit Asia
Summit expected to
draw over a thousand religious, political, and business
leaders, from ten Asian countries, to
Israel’s
side
Jerusalem,
Israel –
Over a thousand Christians from ten Asian nations will gather
in Seoul,
South
Korea for the second
Jerusalem Summit Asia, 2005 on August 10-11. Following the
success of the first Jerusalem Summit Asia last year in
Manila, the
Kingdomizer Mission Aliance of Korea,
Asia’s largest church, and the city of
Seoul offered to
jointly sponsor and underwrite the
Summit in 2005 in
cooperation with the Christian Allies Caucus and Jerusalem
Summit officials.
Reverend Yong-gi Cho of the
Yoido
Full
Gospel
Church and
Seoul’s Mayor
Myung Bak Lee will host the event. The Christian Allies Caucus
will be represented by its chairman, MK Yuri Shtern, caucus
member MK Chemi Doron, and Josh Reinstein, Caucus Director.
Dmitry Radyshevsky, Executive Director of the Jerusalem Summit
will lead a delegation of Israeli academics that will present
at the Summit.
Last year’s
conference succeeded in establishing a cooperative working
relationship in support of
Israel,
and a Christian commitment to playing an activist role in
petitioning their governments to support the State of Israel
in the international arena. “Building Peace on Truth:
Truth-Based Media” will be the theme of this year’s Summit,
which will focus on strategies for defending Judeo-Christian
values in the face of the growing threat to western
civilization posed by radical Islam.
The Asian Jerusalem
Summits were inspired by the annual Jerusalem Summit held in
Israel.
Dmitry Radyshevsky, Executive Director of the Jerusalem
Summit, has announced plans for a Jerusalem Summit Africa and
New Europe for the coming year. “The threat of terrorism
driven by radical Islam is global and so the response must be
international as well. Christians and Jews, together, will
meet this challenge to our way of life, and with God’s help,
we will prevail”, said Radyshevsky.
Speaking of
relations between
Israel
and Asia, MK Dr. Yuri Shtern, Chairman
of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus said, “Asia
is Christianity’s sleeping giant. The importance of an
alliance between Asian Christians and the people of
Israel
cannot be overstated.”
