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Michigan Region Breakfast
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Guest Speaker: Itai Freeman
Project Director of the Be'er Sheva River Park
Date:
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Registration: 7:30am
Place:
Breakfast:
7:45am-8:45am
Adat Shalom Synagogue
29901 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills
Leora Bar-Levav, Event Chair
Don Benyas and Iry Gastman, Event Co-Chairs
Kosher Dietary Laws Observed
Please RSVP by June 12, 2009
For additional information please contact Tai Gutkovitch at (248) 324-3080 or e-mail tgutkovitch@jnforg
Itai Freeman is overseeing an effort to turn the dry river bed in Beier Sheva into a lively park that will contribute to the economic
growth of the Negev. The project is based on the highly successful riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas and also has comparisons with
the effort in Detroit to revitalize the Detroit river front.
A true Chalutz (Pioneer), in 2006 Freeman took it upon himself to establish the Be'er Sheva River Park Authority in an effort to
bring together a myriad of agencies and government bureaucracies in developing an action plan. Freeman is considered one of
the young rising stars among Israel's leadership. He is responsible for coordinating all aspects of this $100 million project that has
already made a significant impact on the landscape and quality of life in Be'er Sheva, the capital of the Negev. Freeman lives in
Kibbutz Shoval, north of Be'er Sheva, with his wife and their three children.
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June
2009
• The Palestinian Authority
named its latest computer center
after Dalal Mughrabi, who led
the deadliest terror attack ever in
Israel. Her 1978 bus hijacking killed
37 civilians, including 12 children;
American photographer Gail Rubin
was among the dead. The new
center is funded by P.A. President
Mahmoud Abbas' office, which is
supported by Western aid.
America provides no funding to
Hamas. But $200 million of the U.S.-
proposed $900 million aid package
to the P.A. is supposed to go directly
to the Abbas government, which
regularly uses its budget to honor
terrorists, reports the PMW.
I like the thrust of this PMW
pitch: Congress and President
Obama can send a message to the
P.A. that America will cease fund-
ing until the P.A. stops promot-
ing terrorists as heroes and role
models. The message must require
Abbas to say — in public, in Arabic
and in the P.A. news media — that
murdering Israelis is terror; that
terrorists are neither heroes nor
holy martyrs; and that terrorists no
longer will be honored.
"Or," argues the PMW, Congress
and President Obama "can send a
different message to Abbas: that rais-
ing another generation of Palestinian
children to the values of hate, mur-
der and martyrdom is acceptable to
the U.S.; so acceptable that the U.S.
is even willing to fund it."
Obama challenged the Arab
world to move beyond its obsession
with Israel and solve its humani-
tarian nightmare. But he barely
alluded to its incitement against
Jews, its anti-Zionist drumbeat and
its shunning of peace initiatives.
I pray the president uses his
Cairo speech as a springboard to
full disclosure that the Jewish peo-
ple value life as a God-given gift to
be cherished and preserved while
the radical Islamists who have infil-
trated Arab leadership diminish life
to a means toward indoctrination,
takeover and control through "mar-
tyrdom in Allah's name." ❑
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Can we really expect
current Palestinian
leaders to accept
Israel?
Is the president
leaning too far in
trying to engage
Arab leaders?