Sharing Fun And Business

Partnership 2000 leaders visit from Israel.

At Milk & Honey
of West Bloomfield
restaurant in the

F

li or the greater part of last
week, 17 members of the
Israeli Partnership 2000
Steering Committee met with their
local counterparts under the chairman-
ship of Marta Rosenthal of Franklin.
In between intensive meetings, the
Israelis had a whirlwind tour of the
area, including visits to Friendship
Circle's LifeTown, the Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan Detroit, Jewish Family
Services, University Preparatory
Academy in Detroit, the Ann Arbor
Hebrew Day School and a Pistons play-
off game.
Normally, the Detroit committee
travels twice a year to Israel for meet-
ings. This is the first time in six years
that the Israelis have come to Detroit.
Five in the group had never been in
Detroit before. Among the 17 were
the mayors of Nazareth Illit, Migdal
HaEmek and the Jezreel Valley.
The major theme of their summit
was "The Changing Role of Volunteers
— Cultivating and Empowering Our
Volunteers, A Strategy for Success!'

- Keri Guten Cohen,

story development editor

Jewish Community
Center, Peter Alter,

president of the
Jewish Federation

of Metropolitan
Detroit, receives a

photograph of the
Jezreel Valley from

its mayor, Eytan

Broshi.

Mayor Eli Barda of Migdal HaEmek chats with Stuart Hertzberg, first

chair of Partnership 2000.

Israeli Partnership 2000 Steering Committee mem-
bers: Moraia Tafla of Shimshit, Tami Rosh of Nazareth

Avi Aviram, education director of Migdal HaEmek,
and Michal Abercohen of Migdal HaEmek.

Florida Teen Mourned

Tel Aviv bombing victim remembered
as spiritual and inspirational.

Daniel Wultz's parents and sis-

Joshua Brannon

ter cling to his coffin after a
memorial service

Jerusalem Post

at Jerusalem's Nitzanim
Synagogue.

Jerusalem

T

he collective grief of
s ome 400 mourners
filled the Nitzanim
Synagogue and spilled into the
streets of Jerusalem's tree-lined
Baka neighborhood Monday,
as family, friends and strang-
ers inspired by Daniel Wultz's
courageous 27-day fight for life
came to pay last respects to the
American teen before his body
was flown to his home in Weston,
Fla., for burial.

The service was restrained,
but murmuring among those
assembled expressed satisfaction .
that IDF troops and elite border
policemen had shot dead seven
Palestinians Sunday — among
them Elias Ashkar, the master-
mind of the April 17 felafel stand
bombing that claimed the lives of
Wultz and 10 others.
Dubbed Israel's most-wanted
terrorist, Ashkar assembled the
explosives belt used in the attack
and is-believed to have been
behind all the Islamic Jihad sui-
cide attacks during the past year,
according to the Shin Bet (Israel
Security Agency).

"It will not bring Daniel back,
but it will send a definite mes-
sage to those that seek to kill
Jews,"•said Menahem Kuttner,
director of activities of Tzeirei
Chabad Terror Victims Projects,
who organized Monday's service.
"It is not only the IDF's duty to
defend, but to prevent and to
retaliate after terrorist attacks."
"On one hand it's poetic jus-
tice, but it also shows the futility
of it all;' said a family member.
"Daniel's still dead. Nothing
changes."
"Our biggest revenge is show-
ing that we are not stopping our
lives:' said Yuval Wultz, Daniel's

cousin.
Those who eulogized Wultz
chose to speak of the teenager's
strength of character and his
inspirational fight for life.
"Daniel was 16 years old, and
I need 16 years to tell you about
Daniel because every day was
different:' said his father Tuly,
who suffered wounds to his legs
when the bomber blew up just
yards from where he and Daniel
sat for a Passover lunch. "You
left us, Daniel. You did a heroic,
unbelievable fight, the fight of
your life. But it was too much. I
was honored to be your father,

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