of to celebrate. Yom Ha'atzmaut.
• Support for female abuse victims in
the Central Galilee — developed in
conjunction with the Jewish Family
Service of Metropolitan Detroit
• Teen Mission Mifgash: An integral
part of the Teen Mission, the
families of the Detroit Teen Mission
participants host the Israeli teens,
who will be joining the Mission
in Israel, and share in a week of
educational and social events
together
• The Milton and Lois Shiffman Home
Hospice of the Valleys provides for
home hospice services for terminal-
ly ill Jewish and Arab patients and
their families in the Central Galilee
Did you also know...
• Since its first "Miracle Mission" which
brought more than 1300 participants
to Israel in April 1993, the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
has brought more people to Israel on
community missions than any other
city in the U.S.
• Federation's Israeli Camper Program at
Tamarack Camp, now in its third year,
sponsors the largest number of Israeli
campers of all North American
Jewish communities.
• Detroit has been sending one of the largest
contingents to Project OTZMA over the
past 18 years.
• Since 1991, the Ben Teitel Israel Incentive
Savings Plan has helped to make a trip to
Israel affordable for over 1200 teens.
• Federation's Israel Scholarship Fund assists
Israel program participants annually.
• Federation's partnership with the PACT
program in Netanya is the largest, reaching
over 1500 Ethiopian-Israeli -children and
800 families.
Stand up for Israel
• Israel has more museums per
person than any other country in
the world.
• Israel is the only liberal democracy
a Write a letter to your member of Congress,
urging him/her to support a continued
strong U.S./Israel relationship.
House
in the Middle East.
• In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a
total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at
risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
U.S House
Washington, D.C. 20515
Senate
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
• Write a similar letter to President Bush.
President George Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
• E-mail a letter to the editor
of the Detroit Free Press
(letters@freepress.com )
or The Detroit News
(letters@detnews.com )
emphasizing both the American Jewish
and Israeli support for peace, and the
U.S./Israel alliance in fighting terror.
For more information, and talking points, go to
the"Israel 101" section of the website of the
Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit,
twociewishcommunitycouncii.org ,
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