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Bar-Han University
2009 Board of Trustees
Bar-Ilan University in Israel
takes great pride in bestowing its
Heroes
Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa
upon
Akiva to honor
two fallen Israelis
who sacrificed their
lives to save others.
Alan Zekelman
in recognition of his quarter century of philanthropic
leadership, which has significantly benefited the Jewish people
and enhanced the lives of thousands of Bar-Ilan students.
Bar-Han will honor Alan on May 12th at the University's 2009
Global Board of Trustees Meetings on its award-winning Ramat
Gan campus.
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The University thanks Alan for his generous support of its academic programs and research
work, and commends him for funding scholarships and educational projects that strengthen
the Jewish identity of its students from all socio-economic backgrounds.
Bar-Han salutes Alan's devoted service as a leader of its American Friends, President of its
Detroit Friends, and most of all for his profound commitment to Jewish continuity and to the
State of Israel.
To learn more about this spicial recognition;-
please call the AFBIU Midwest Regional Office at
248-540-8900 or email: midwest@afbiu.org
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eshivat Akiva will host
the parents of two fallen
Israeli heroes whose sto-
ries are typical of the Israeli will to
outlast repeated episodes of Arab
terror.
At 8 p.m.
Tuesday, May 5,
the Southfield
school will honor
the memory
of Major Roi
Klein and Noam
Apter. Their fami-
Roi Klein
lies have toured
the U.S. and
Canada to tell the
heroic stories of
these two young
men.
Klein was
killed at the battle
of Bint Jbeil dur-
ing the Second
Lebanon War
Noam Apter
when he leaped
onto a hand
grenade to save the lives of his
comrades. He died with the words
of Shema on his lips. His family
received the Israel Defense Forces
Medal of Favor that he earned
posthumously. He was an engineer
and Torah scholar as well as soldier
and leader.
Apter was working in the kitchen
at Yeshivat Otniel when two heavily
armed Islamic terrorists broke into
the Israeli yeshivah. His quick, for-
tuitous actions prevented the ter-
rorists from entering the adjacent
dining hall, which was filled with
teachers and students, but resulted
in his life being lost at age 22.
The program will feature the
film With All Your Soul — the Story
of Roi Klein, produced by Klein's
sister, and an Israeli television
documentary describing Apter's
bravery.
The free program is spearheaded
by the local chapter of Bnei Akiva,
a religious Zionist youth group,
with funding from the Yeshivat
Akiva PTA and the Young Israel
of Oak Park. Yeshivat Akiva is at
21100 W. 12 Mile, east of Lahser.