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__ What’s the Importance of Giving in Israel? __ =Rationale =

__What's the importance of giving in Israel?__ In this project we were given the assignment to find a person that in our opinion is a true Israeli, A true Israeli that gives to the community. I was trying to think of a person, I started my search looking far from my life, a resident of Efrat or someone who lives in the neighborhood. All this time I wasted. Due to the fact that the true Israeli who contributes so much to this community, to this country is living under the same roof as I do. In my opinion my father is the ideal giver. He never stops giving whether it’s putting in time and effort helping organizations like “Yad Eliezer” or “Ayeka” being on the board of “Or Torah Stone” gathering money to help 12th graders throughout Israel go to Poland. These are a few examples of a day in my father’s life, as well as being a lawyer and owning partneship in FisherKahn, and of course giving and helping his four children, who learn from him and try to follow in his path. I’m very excited to do this project. I think I’ll get to learn new things about someone who is really a part of my life I just never had the time or effort to discover. Well now’s the time. =Profile-David Kahn =

"Share yourself with others" quotes business consultant, lawyer, David Kahn. David Kahn was born on Friday evening, the 29th of June, 1956 to Asher and Miriam Kahn at St. Johns hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had one sister, Shani, who is five years older than him. The fact that David's father was the rabbi of the Jewish community of Tulsa which is a metropolitan city of 350,000 people with a small, but vibrant Jewish population of 2,700, didn’t make his childhood easy: kids picked on him and laughed at his unusual traditions, but that didn’t stop David from his ambition to become a rabbi when he grew up just, like his dad. As a teenager, David's hobbies were bike riding, playing football, acting, piano, reading and writing.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David went to a Chicago yeshiva for high school which was 1,000 miles away from home because it was the closest decent high school for Jewish boys. He then continued to New York after spending a year in a yeshiva in Jerusalem, attending Yeshiva University where he studied political science as an undergraduate and then law at Cardozo Law School. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1987, after practicing law for several years, David began to have involuntary hand and leg movements. Then he started blanking out, getting very tired and falling asleep a lot – even during the day and while at work. One day, he passed out on the floor of his office. Luckily, his secretary found him and rushed him to the hospital. After many advanced tests, like brain scans, CTs and MRI’s, the medical staff discovered a tumor in his pancreas which was making him severely hypoglycemic (low blood sugar). The only way to deal with the tumor was complicated surgery. The operation was long, but went well. However, as a result of the surgery, David got a severe case of pancreatitis which required that he stay in the hospital for weeks following the surgery. He couldn’t eat and could barely walk. He was fed by a tube into his chest. Many friends and family members came to visit him and he tried to do as much work as he could from his hospital bed. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After six weeks, David finally left the hospital. But no sooner than he left he returned – six times - after having one complication after another. Finally, a few months, David had a second surgery to correct what had gone wrong during the first one, and eventually he got better. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the entire period he was ill, David wondered why this was happening to him. He became very dependent on others, and being in a cancer hospital with a lot of people who did not survive their illnesses, made him think a lot about the value of life. At that time, he had become a hardworking partner in a Wall Street law firm. decided that he wanted to try some other type of work and after he got better, interviewed with a financial firm to become a financial analyst. He was offered a position and decided to go on a vacation before starting work. He booked a trip to Israel, Turkey and Greece with a good friend of his in October 1988. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A couple of days before the trip, his new employer called and said that they had decided to give the job to another more experienced person. All of a sudden, David found himself without a job to come back to after his vacation. He went on the trip anyway, and while he was in Israel over Sukkot, he thought for the first time about staying in Israel for a while to see what it would be like to live there. He thought it might be a good way to create more balance in his life. As a busy corporate lawyer in New York, he didn’t have much time for anything else but work. Israel might be a good place to do something besides work. He enrolled in an ulpan, found a job and an apartment, and even a girlfriend. More important, he found a chevra that was into doing acts of chesed: they created a shul in Katamon that became Yakar, delivered chickens for Yad Eliezer every month, visited people in hospitals, etc. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David was happy with his decision to move to Israel and a year later made aliya. He met Nicci Green in 1988, who had made aliya the previous year and was doing her residency in Jerusalem hospitals to qualify as a specialist in Family Medicine. They were married in January 1990. Together with their two young children, they moved to Efrat in 1993 because it was considered a great place to raise a family. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After near 20 years, David and Nicci have four children aged 13 to 19. For the past 7 years, David has had a partnership for providing investor relations and financial communications services to large and small companies in Israel. For example, he works with international companies like Delek and Israel Chemicals, but also with small high tech startups in the communications, biotech and medical devices sectors. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apart from his work, David devotes a lot of time to helping non-profit organizations in the education and social services areas, as well as private individuals. For example, he is on the Board of Directors of Ohr Torah Stone, where he helps the organization that operates a chain of high schools and post high school institutions with business matters. He is Chairman of Ayeka, a non-profit in the US and Israel that has developed a new model of spiritual education. He is helping the founder of Ayeka, a well know educator, to launch Ayeka groups throughout the US and Israel. He is also actively involved in raising funds for Yad Eliezer. For instance, every Pesach, David raises enough funds to enable YE to purchase and distribute several tons of frozen chickens which are included in food baskets that are distributed before the chag. He also helps them with their strategic direction. David also raises funds to enable kids who cannot afford to go on class trips to Poland. He is also on an Amuta that is building a new Bet Knesset in his neighborhood. David also tries to help people find jobs in the business and high tech sectors. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David has tried to be an example to his kids, and they have followed him in his footsteps. His daughter, Yael, serves in an IDF unit that prepares olim for army service. His son, Adiel, who is learning in a mechina before entering the IDF, volunteers to teach kids in his yishuv. His other two children volunteer to pack food at Yad b’ Yad in Efrat which delivers food for Shabbat to families and also collect food for Yad Eliezer. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When you ask David why he spends so much time on non-profit work instead of just working more for his business, he will tell you that he thinks that it is important to help other people improve their lives, increase their understanding of Judaism and their spirituality, help them financially. He will say that he feels very blessed with everything that he has and wants to be an “instrument of God for doing good in the world. We’re all in this together and we have a responsibility to help each other.” <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In David’s opinion, you need to share yourself with others. Each of us is blessed with many talents and we have to use them to improve the lives of other people. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David has been thinking about putting together a ‘supermarket’ of charitable projects which could be ‘marketed’ to  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">companies that have corporate giving programs. Many companies today not only want to contribute to charitable <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">causes, but are also prepared to have their employees volunteer some time to helping others. However, most <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">companies won’t spend the time to find a charity that their employees can participate in. David’s idea is to offer a <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">variety of charitable projects that companies can select from to both donate funds and get their employees involved. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end of the day, David believes the right way to live is to live a balanced life: family, work, tefilla, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">communal activities, sports, learning Torah, friends and helping others.

=Backround Research- Yad Eliezer:=

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 5; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__<span style="direction: ltr; font-size: 120%; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed;">Do you know how many Israeli families are under the poverty line, and are hungry constantly? This is how Yad Eliezer helps those people: __ <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 5; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I searched to find out about the standard of Israel's poverty line, I was shocked to find these unfortunate statistics about the level of poverty in the past few years in Israel. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 5; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In an article “Poverty in Israel”, a researching website about Poverty around the world is says "Despite the economic growth in Israel s in ce 2003 the majority of Israel i wage earners (over 60 percent) earned less than $1,450 a month last year. In 2004, 1.3 million Israel is lived below the poverty l in e, a number which in 2005 in creased to more than 1.5 million Israel is. In spite of grow in g economic prosperity the proportion of families belong in g to the work in g-poor, i.e. families with at least one family member in paid employment, in creased from 11.4 percent in 2004 to 12.2 percent in 2005. The percentage of poor families in the work in g population in creased from 40.6 percent to 43.1 percent. (Michel, Schertges, Social work and society, 1) <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 5; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 80 percent of Israel is regard themselves as poor. 23 percent of the pensioners are liv in g below the poverty l in e. Poverty among children in creased in 1988 to 2005 by about 50 percent. Approximately one fifth of all under-age children (714,000) in Israel are suffer in g from hunger. 75 percent of the poor families cannot afford medic in e and 70 percent are dependent on food donations." (2)  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 5; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That’s where the organization Yad Eliezer steps in. Yad Eliezer is Israel's Largest Poverty Relief Agency- Yad Eliezer began in 1980 in the kitchen of the Weisel family of Jerusalem. They prepared a food basket for a neighbor who could not feed her children, and were soon delivering monthly food baskets to hungry families. Yad Eliezer has now grown to bring about nineteen primary economic and social service programs that impact tens of thousands of people.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and responsibly they utilize donations, and to what extent the charity is growing in terms of programs and services. (“Yad Eliezer”, Israel organizations (1) <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yad Eliezer's mandate is to help families cope with financial difficulties and to empower them to break through the cycle of poverty and achieve self-sufficiency. Thanks to job training and other assistance, many families who were recipients of Yad Eliezer's food programs are now donors to Yad Eliezer. All this is made possible through the donations of caring individuals around the world.  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to the Yad Eliezer website Yad Eliezer helps needy people in Israel in all sorts of ways, it includes:  <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Food boxes-** Yad Eliezer delivers food boxes ** to 3,500 families **. Food boxes contain: rice, beans, pasta, sugar, flour, oil, laundry detergent, and other necessities.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Big brother/sister**** - ** Yad Eliezer’s Big Brothers and Big Sisters Program steps into the breach for some 4,500 children in Israel today. Many of these children lack positive role models, but Big Brothers and Big Sisters are carefully selected married adults who are fully prepared to open their hearts and their homes to their “little brother” or “little sister” - almost all under age thirteen - before they are Program commitments include several hours a week spent playing together, going on outings, and preparing homework together. However, program expectations and results go far beyond that. Yad Eliezer Big Brothers and Big Sisters regularly have their “little brothers” and “little sisters” over for Shabbat meals, advocate for them in school, take them on day-trips with their families during vacations, and welcome them into their personal lives. An article online told a story of a mother who got kicked out of her husband’s house for religion reasons. This mother could barely buy bread and margarine to eat, but that wasn’t what was bothering her. What was

bothering her was the fact the her son needed help with learning "Gemara" (Talmud) and she couldn’t help him and needed a man to go to shul (synagogue) with him. Dov Wiezel stepped in and decided to make this happen and that’s how this program began.

<span style="background: white; direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Bar mitzvah projects**- Yad Eliezer has been sponsoring modest celebrations for bar mitzvah boys from poor families since 2004. The popular Bar Mitzvah Project program allows thirteen-year-olds from around the world to ** share their special day ** with a fellow bar mitzvah boy from an impoverished home in Israel. <span style="background: white; direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discounted prices from participating clothing and shoe stores allow Yad Eliezer bar mitzvah boys to purchase a new suit and a new pair of shoes for their special occasion. This may be the ** first new set of clothing ** these boys wear in their lives. Participating // tefillin // suppliers provide ** brand-new tefillin ** for sons of the poor at a fraction of the going rate. <span style="background: white; direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are many stories of young boys of the age of 13 who decide to make another boys bar mitzvah memorable as well as theirs one story is about Yisrael Rohn who donated a bar mitzvah to boy who's father had been seriously injured while fighting in the Israeli army and was permanently crippled with seven children in the family and with a monthly income which was insufficient to shoulder the extra expense of a set of tefillin ( phylacteries). As well as donating 10% of his bar mitzvah money to the organization. (Rigler, Sara Extracting the significance behind the party, bar mitzvah highlights, 1) <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed;">These are just a few programs out of many which help the low class citizens of the State of Israel.

As the government safety net continues to shrink, and the ranks of the poor continue to swell, the number of families turning to Yad Eliezer increases with each passing day. According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, __one-third of Israel's children now live below the poverty line!!!__ ( Yad Eliezer, 6)

And through it all, Yad Eliezer continues to renew programs to l ighten hunger, and give each Israeli the dignity and self-reliance they deserve. As Yad Eliezer's executive director, Dov Weisel says: "Each month is its own miracle." (“Yad Eliezer”, 5)

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed;">**__Yad Eliezer facts and figure of 2009:__**

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over 100,000 People Receiving Help From Yad Eliezer <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// Over 20,000 Families Receiving Yad Eliezer Aid //

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">96.3% Given Directly to Those in Need <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// 3.7% // Overhead Costs <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">40,700 Food Boxes Delivered <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// 13,000 // Yad Eliezer Weddings Made To Date <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 19 Yad Eliezer Programs <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// Over 12,000 // Yad Eliezer Volunteers <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.75pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">// Over One Million Dollars of Goods and Services Donated to Yad Eliezer for the Poor // =Creative Connection- Israel a place of giving:=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In my project I pointed out all the important organizations there are in David Kahn’s life. After that I wrote about a specific organization –Yad Eliezer. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">However, there are many amazing charitable organizations for different kinds of people who need help in different categories. For example, “Shalva” helps kids and teens with problems and offers a warm house for them after school and dozens of volunteers who help them with homework or to just have fun. There are also organizations for disabled kids, or for families that have been through hard times and need help financially and physically. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">I tried to emphasize how much our country cares about those who need help and created a map which shows some of the many charitable organizations that exist throughout Israel. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">It means so much to live in a country like Israel whose citizens care so much for others and do so much to help others in need. I find that to be very special and rare in other countries.

=Reflection:=

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%;">Looking back at all the hard work I put into this project make me feel a sense of accomplishment.I’m so happy I got the opportunity to learn so much about the life of giving of David Kahn (aka my father), about the wonderful organization “Yad Eliezer” and how much it does for the community, and about other charitable organizations in Israel. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">I find it fascinating how much certain people contribute to others throughout their lives. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">My favorite part of my project was interviewing my father, because I never actually got to sit and listen to his amazing story. As well as making a map of the charities throughout Israel was so cool to actually see so many of them. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">All in all, I really enjoyed this project and I feel like I’ve learnt a lot from it.

=Work Cited:=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Zuroff, Avraham "Big brother is watching you", article in cite ww.mishpacha.com 14.2.11 <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- "Yad Eliezer", Volunteering in Israel. Article in internet site. 17.2.11. <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__ @http://www.ivolunteer.org.il/Eng/Index.asp?ArticleID=195&CategoryID=128 __ <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 16.2pt;">- Michel, Dirk and Schertges, Claudia. "Poverty in Israel", SW&S. // Danish School of Education/University of Aarhus, Department of Educational Sociology and University of Wuppertal, Department of Educational and Social Sciences. // Article in web site. 14.2.11 [] <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- "Yad Eliezer" Web site. 14.2.11 <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- [|Yoheved Rigler] , Sara. "Extracting the significance behind the party". Bar Mitzvah highlights. Aish web site article. 17.2.11 <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 16.2pt;">http://www.aish.com/f/p/48938647.html