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AMIT "PROJECT SID KATZ" BENEFITS ISRAELI SOLDIERS
New York City, December 1, 2003......AMIT has launched Project Sid Katz (Spirituality for Israel's Defense) to help make available basic religious articles for soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces. This new AMIT project provides protective wooden cabinets - designed and built by students at the AMIT Religious Technological High School in Beersheva - which are then filled with religious articles supplied by the Israeli army. These cabinets travel with IDF units, even under combat conditions.
"Soldiers are strengthened by faith," commented Jan Schechter, president of AMIT, "no matter what their backgrounds. AMIT Project Sid Katz makes it easier to have religious articles, such as tefillin and prayer books, available on site for their use. And these strong wooden cabinets," she noted, "protect and bring these articles directly to the 'field' for the soldiers' religious needs."
Project Sid Katz was named for Sidney Katz, a religious Zionist who was a devoted supporter of Israel. The project was dedicated in Mr. Katz' memory by Rabbi Joseph Renov and Blanche Katz Renov.
Donors are invited to participate in Project Sid Katz with a gift of $1800. A Project Sid Katz cabinet will be dedicated in the donor's honor with a handsome plaque affixed directly on the cabinet.
For further information, please call the AMIT Development Office at 212-477-4720 or 1-800- 989-AMIT.
AMIT is the world's leading supporter of religious Zionist education and social services for Israeli youth. Since 1925, AMIT has nurtured and educated Israeli children to become productive, contributing members of society. Its 60 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs constitute Israel's only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies. A majority of AMIT's 14,000 children come from economically disadvantaged and/or troubled families; significant numbers are new Ethiopian and Russian immigrants.
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Media Contact:
Barbara Goldberg
Director of Communications
212-477-4720, ext. 127
barbarag@amitchildren.org
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