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MAYOR ELI MOYAL OF SDEROT, ISRAEL TO BE SPECIAL GUEST AT AMIT SCHOLARSHIP FUND DINNER
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AMBASSADOR ARYE MEKEL CONSUL GENERAL OF ISRAEL IN NEW YORK TO BRING GREETINGS
New York City, October 28, 2004...... Mayor Eli Moyal of Sderot, Israel, will be AMIT's special guest at its 2004 Scholarship Fund Dinner, scheduled for Sunday evening, November 21, 2004, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. Hundreds of members, friends and supporters of AMIT from throughout the tri-state area are expected to attend.
Ambassador Arye Mekel, recently appointed consul general of Israel in New York, will bring greetings from the Israeli government.
Recently called "the Rudy Giuliani of the Israeli south," Eli Moyal has served as Sderot's mayor since 1998 and has gained national recognition for his leadership. Sderot, a development town bordering the Gaza Strip, is the frequent target of Kassam rocket attacks. Since April 2001, some 400 rockets have hit Sderot. Two young children, ages 2 and 4, were killed on the day before the start of the Succot holiday.
Born in Morocco, Mayor Moyal came to Sderot as a young child with his parents and nine brothers and sisters in 1957. He completed a law degree at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and also studied at Brandeis University. In 1994, after several years as an attorney in Jerusalem, he returned to Sderot to live and continue the practice of law. Four years later, he was elected mayor.
For further information and reservations for the 2004 Annual Scholarship Fund Dinner, please call AMIT at 212-477-4720, ext. 137.
The dinner will pay tribute to several local leaders of AMIT. Fay and Rabbi Yitzchak Sladowsky of Forest Hills, New York, will be honored with the AMIT Guardians of the Children Award. Michael Foley, a resident of Dobbs Ferry, New York, will receive the AMIT Humanitarian Award. The New Leadership Award will be presented to Joyce and Daniel Straus of Englewood, New Jersey.
Norma and Rabbi Emanuel Holzer, residents of Flushing, Queens, have agreed to serve as honorary chairs of the 2004 Scholarship Fund Dinner. Mrs. Holzer is an honorary national president of AMIT. The event is being chaired by Barbara and Jules Nordlicht of Long Beach, New York. Mrs. Nordlicht is the organization's national fund raising co-chair.
Dinner co-chairs include Peggy and Philip Danishefsky of Manhattan; Adele and Lawrence Diener of Englewood, New Jersey; Adina and Dr. Jeffrey Rubin of Woodmere, New York; and Zahava and Moshael Straus, also of Englewood.
Brenda and Albert Kalter are chairing the 2004 Tribute Journal. Mrs. Kalter is an AMIT senior vice president and resident of Woodmere. Tribute Journal co-chairs are Mindy and Jonathan Kolatch, residents of Englewood.
AMIT enables Israel's youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing children from diverse backgrounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values and Zionist ideals.
AMIT educates and cares for the most vulnerable children in Israel. More than three quarters of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 60 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel's only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.
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Media Contact:
Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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