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NECHEMIA MEYERS

Special to The Jewish News

hough the town of Kiryat
Shmoneh is best known as a
target of Hezbollah rockets, it
also has the same problems as
other parts of Israel, including sexual
violence against women.
This problem is so significant, in
fact, that a regional Rape Crisis Center
has been set up in the Galilee commu-
nity. Run entirely by volunteers and
financed by contributions, last month it
handled 33 calls for help from towns,
kibbutzim and moshavim in the area.
The volunteers follow a standard
procedure when the telephone rings.
Before anything else, they identify
themselves. Then they ask a number of
questions, the first of which, as might
be imagined, is whether the woman at
the other end of the line is in a safe
place and can speak freely.
' The caller is afterwards gently asked
for details about what happened, about
the person who assaulted her and about
her physical and emotional condition. If
the woman agrees, the police are called.
If she doesn't, they aren't. At the end of
the halting, painful dialogue, the volun-
teer suggests a face-to-face meeting
where future measures can be discussed.
A handful of the volunteers are used
to working with people in distress, but
the majority are in fields far removed
from counseling. So before they begin
work at the Center they participate in
14 three-hour sessions on how to han-
dle callers with sympathy and tact. They
also visit the local police station, and
meet with gynecologists, social workers,
psychologists, lawyers and others who
- ; typically come into contact with victims
of rape.
There are eight Rape Crisis Centers
in the country. They include a Center
in Nazareth for Arabs (among whom
incest is a particular problem), and two
in Jerusalem, one of which deals exclu-
sively with the Orthodox (who, perhaps
surprisingly, have their share of sex
crimes).
The number of victims contacting
' the centers has increased dramatically in
recent years, mainly because the prob-
lem of violence against women has
come out into the open and the tele-
phone number to call when it takes
place — 1202 — has been widely pub-
licized by the media.

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In Loving Memory of

DR. MAX
ROSENBERG

Who passed away
December 26, 1991.

Always in our thoughts. Forever in our
hearts.
Missed by loving Wife, Anne; Daughter,
Marji;
Sons, Dr. Harvey
and Sheldon;
Daughters-in-law,
Dianne, Debbie;
7 grandchildren;
1 great grandchild.

In Memory of Beloved Sister

BELLE (GELIEBTER)
ESKOW, BASSIN

December 28, 1989
Her memory is as dear today
as in the hour she passed away.
Sadly missed by sister
Ida (Geliebter) Schwartz,
brother Jack Geliebter
and families.

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