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City: West Bloomfield
Kudos: Army Helper

Do you feel you're doing your part
for Israel?
"Most of us don't have the kind of
money that's going to make a differ-
ence. I just find volunteering so per-
sonally invigorating."

Cookie Koblin recently celebrated her
66th birthday by volunteering for three
weeks at an Israeli army base as part of
Sar-El, the National Project for
Volunteers for Israel. She repaired and
replaced microphones and speakers in
helmets and repaired tank antennas.
The Keego Harbor resale shop owner
has been volunteering at least once a
year with Israeli soldiers since 1987.

I take it this is not like vacationing at
a posh hotel.
"The conditions are unbelievable.
The workplace is 100 degrees with no
air-conditioning, and you share a
room with four to six people and no
closets. But I come back very stimulat-
ed."

COOKIE KOBLIN

Do you volunteer with Sar-El every
time you go to Israel?
"Most of the time I've done Sar-El.
I have this need to help in some
hands-on way; I have a problem going
to Israel just to visit. I go there a mini-
mum of once a year, and sometimes
I've gone twice.
"The last time, we had a family
wedding and we stayed an extra week.
But I had to cut my army duty short."

How hard is it to fit the trip into
your work schedule?

— Harry Kirsbaum, staff writer

For more information about Sar-El, see
its Web site: www.sar el.org

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Cookie Koblin, right, and a friend
work on communications gear.

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Israelis, American Win Nobel In Chemistry

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The Nobel Prize Committee for
Chemistry on Wednesday awarded the 2004 prize to
three Jewish scientists.
Aaron Ciechanover, 57, and Avram Hershko, 67,
are the first Israelis to win a Nobel in chemistry.
They share the prize with Irwin Rose, 78, an
American, for their work in the 1980s on how the
human body fights off faulty proteins and diseases
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The Israelis are associated with the Rappaport
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the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Ciechanover is the director. Hershko, a professor, is
originally from Hungary.
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physics department at the University of California-
Irvine medical school.
The three men will share the $1.3 million prize.
Four Israelis have previously won Nobel Prizes:
Menachem Begin shared the peace prize in 1978
with Egypt's Anwar Sadat. In 1994, Shimon Peres
and Yitzhak Rabin shared the peace prize with
Palestinian Yasser Arafat. In 1966, Shmul Yosef
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