August 30:
UJA-Federation of New York visits Kiryat Shmona (Photo Credit: Naftali Hilger)
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August 29:
Jewish Agency sponsored city for children in Kiryat Shmona
(Photo Credit: Naftali Hilger)
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Making the Grade (Photo Credit: Shlomy Ben Ami)
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August 24:
Beauty wins! Hairdressers from Tel Aviv volunteered at the Karmiel Absorption Center during the war.
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A shattered business and family in Kiryat Shmona (Photo Credit: Naftali Hilger)
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New Immigrant Wounded by Katyusha is Treated at Rambam Hospital
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Returning to the North
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Illusionist David Blaine Entertaining Children at Absorption Centers and Hospitals up North
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40,000 Children Attended Jewish Agency Summer Camps
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August 23:
Photos for the week of August 20 (Flash slideshow 1.9 MB)
August 22:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Jewish Agency Chairman Zeev Bielski toured the North to assess the post-war needs of the citizens (Photo Credit: Moshe Milner)
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August 21:
Board of Governors Aliya Committee Solidarity Mission
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Greeting new Ethiopian immigrants at Ben Gurion Airport.
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Surveying damage at a Jewish Agency absorption center up North.
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Visting the wounded at Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
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Rabbi Marcelo Rittner of Mexico, a BOG Aliyah Committee member, recites a prayer for a speedy recovery, for Boris, a Golani soldier injured in battle.
August 20:
Solidarity Rally in Argentina
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Between rounds of Katyushas, volunteers Zipora Ne'eman and Moshe Natan, Haifa residents, made their rounds to the Karmiel and Neve Shaanan (Haifa) Absorption Centers. The couple taught the residents the traditional art of paper cutting which entertained young and old alike.
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Paper Cuts at the Karmiel Absorption Center
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Paper Cuts at the Neve Shaanan Absorption Center in Haifa
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In the bomb shelter as sirens wail
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August 18:
David Blaine with Zeev Bielski at Hadassah Neurim (Photo Credit: Shlomy Ben Ami)
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August 17:
War- fatigued in Kiryat Shmona (Photo Credit: Avi Hirschfield)
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August 16:
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington's Missions Director Visits Kiryat Yearim
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In this photo, Sima is instructing a young girl who arrived to Israel 3 months ago. The girl told me that her parents are in Nahariya and that she hasn't seen them for two weeks. She was wearing a winter scarf and placed the earphones over the scarf.
Volunteer Performance at Haifa Absorption Center
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August 15:
Photos for the week of August 13 (Flash slideshow 1.3 MB)
Tnuat Aliyah slideshow displaying support received from youth who came to Israel and stayed despite the situation. (PPT 1 MB)
August 14:
Executive Visit to Injured Immigrant Soldiers (Photo Credit: Shlomy Ben Ami)
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August 13:
Visiting-counselors from the Israeli-Arab village of Abu Ghosh, at one of the Jewish Agency's summer camps in the peaceful Jerusalem Mountains. (Photo Credit: Shimi Nachtailer)
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Alec Brook Carsani touring Haifa and the Nachlat Yehuda Youth Village
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Despite the security situation in the North, new immigrants from the Nazareth Illit Absorption Center are participating in a Mechatronics program.
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August 9:
The second UJC mission, since the war in the North, visits Hadassah Neurim.
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90 members of the Southern Lebanese Army that moved to the North of Israel six years ago are now being hosted at the Jewish Agency's Kiryat Moriah Campus. (Photo Credit: Danny Moshe)
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Bereaved families from the Ukraine meet with the minister of tourism and the Jewish Agency Chairman.
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The Jewish Agency for Israel in conjunction with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Jewish community and Israeli embassy in Hungry, initiated a one week summer program in Budapest for 40 children from the North of Israel as part of the Moving Our Children to Safety Campaign. Two additional groups are scheduled to participate in the program as well.
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Israel Crisis: Update on Jewish Agency Response
(Photo Credit: Shimi Nachtailer)
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Youth movement volunteer counselor Sharon Abir offering support to a participant at a Jewish Agency emergency summer camp
August 8:
Aliyah in the Shadow of War (Photo Credit: Avi Hirschfield)
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Lorena Gomes in the absorption center bomb shelter where she sought refuge from the rocket attacks on Karmiel.
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The newly arrived Woodward Family learning to read Hebrew
in the absorption center bomb shelter.
Bomb shelters in Hatzor Haglilit (Photo Credit: Avi Hirschfield)
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The largest Solidarity Mission visit to Israel (Photo Credit: Shlomy Ben Ami)
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The largest solidarity mission, since the beginning of the war, arrived in Israel this week. 500 individuals from over 20 countries are participating in this mission, which is the initiative of the World Zionist Organization.
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Marty Davis, director general of the Department for Zionist Activity of the World Zionist Organization, presents Zeev Bielski, chairman of the Jewish Agency, with a solidarity mission t-shirt.
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Chief rabbi of South Africa, Warren Goldstein, is warmly received by Zeev Bielski.
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Marty Davis, director general of the Department for Zionist Activity of the World Zionist Organization, visits Haifa sites along with its mayor, Yonah Yahav.
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Chief rabbi of South Africa, Warren Goldstein with Haifa mayor, Yonah Yahav.
Photos for the week of August 6 (Flash slideshow 1 MB)
August 7:
Tzahal 9 Absorption Center damaged by Katyusha on August 7th (Photo Credit: Dror Artzi)
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Solidarity mission from South America arrived in Israel to express their unity due to the situation in the North. They met with Chairman of the Jewish Agency Zeev Bielski on August 6, 2006.
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A number of major donors pay a visit to the Kiryat Yearim Youth Aliyah Village to observe children evacuees from the North.
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August 6:
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) leaders visit the North
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Aliyah at War
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Katyusha at Kfar Vradim (Photo Credit: Avi Hirschfield)
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Visiting day at Hadassah Neurim (Photo Credit: Shlomy Ben Ami)
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"Israel is our Home" say lone immigrant students caught in the hostilities.
(Photo Credit: Avi Hirschfield)
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August 1:
Bomb shelters in Nahariya - Jewish Agency workers with new immigrants.
(Photo Credit: Avi Hirschfield)
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Zeev Bielski, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel visits with parents and children on visiting day at Hadassah Neurim. (Photo Credit: Shlomy Ben Ami)
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One People - The Jacksonville Family Mission supports Israel
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Summer Camp at Hadassah Neurim Youth Village
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