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flotilla incident.
"People going on regular tours in Israel
are completely safe,' she said. "If they are
not looking for trouble, they will not find it.
My family is in Israel; my friends are there.
There is no fear in the streets:'
A more pressing issue for Gil is the exis-
tential threat from a nuclear Iran. She credits
the United States and the United Nations
Security Council for taking steps to force
Iran to make a choice: between its economy
and the bomb.
"Iran is not Israel's problem',' Gil said.
"It is a Western problem. [Iran President
Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad says his missiles
are pointed at Jerusalem and Rome."
The real target of Iranian Islamists is the
Western world, she said.
She said much more had to be done by the
international community to rein in Iran. Its
most vulnerable area is oil, she said, because
Iran is dependent on exporting oil and on
importing refined oil products.
As for the subject Gil would rather be
talking about, she pointed to Israel's 62 years
of achievement since her independence in
1948.
"Think about Syria, Jordan, countries in
Southeast Asia and Pakistan',' all created
about the same time as Israel, she said.
"Where are they now and where are we?"
She pointed to many Israeli achievements:
• Despite all the threats throughout her
existence, Israel has never called off an elec-
tion.
• Israel has thousands of organizations
committed to democracy and is one of the
most advanced countries in the world in
terms of rights for immigrants, gays and
women.
• Israel has a strong army, but there has
never been talk of a military coup.
• Israel, a country of 7 million, is the world
leader in book publishing, with approxi-
mately 15 new books published each day.
• Israel is No.1 is the number of cultural
(not sports or movie) tickets bought per
capita.
• Israel and Canada are the only non-
American countries with stocks listed on the
NASDAQ exchange.
•Israel is No. 2 in the world in the number
of technology startup companies.
kosher meal and holiday programs
already offered. Community partners
include the Flint YMCA and the Flint
Public Library.
• $15,000 to JFS to support out-
reach and part-time staffing to con-
nect Jewish women who are newly
diagnosed with cancer with profes-
sionally matched, one-to-one mentor-
ing relationships with Jewish women
who are cancer survivors.
• $12,000 to the Jewish Federation's
Alliance for Jewish Education
"Madrichim Training Program for
Religious Schools," to develop a
training manual and to train a cadre
of teen girls to work in seven area
religious schools with special-needs
students.
• $5,000 to Congregation Ahavat
Shalom in Traverse City for "Lomedet:
The Learned Jewish Women's Project,"
to build a Jewish educational program
for women in the Traverse City area.
• $9,000 to JFS for a fourth year
of support for the Jewish Coalition
Against Domestic Abuse. This year's
funding will be used to build a pro-
fessional advisory board, develop
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The Bloomfield Township-based Jewish
Community Relations Council of Metropolitan
Detroit arranged Orli Gil's June 23 visit to the
JN.
subcommittees for teens, college stu-
dent organizations and elder adults;
and for an educational outreach
training video.
• $5,000 to National Council of
Jewish Women, Greater Detroit
Section, for Safe Place, the area's only
kosher domestic violence shelter.
• $4,900 in a third-year disburse-
ment for "Women Promote Health
in the Central Galilee," a community
center based women's health and
leadership project in Israel.
The following critical needs alloca-
tions total $20,000:
• $7,600 to JFS for emergency
financial assistance for families with
children to support basic and imme-
diate living expenses.
• $6,600 to the Jewish Community
Center's "Kids All Together" and
"Teens All Together" inclusion and
main-streaming programs for chil-
dren with special needs for summer
day-camp and on-the-job training
opportunities.
• $5,800 to the JCC's Pitt Child Care
Center, to provide day-care scholar-
ships for the children of needy work-
ing mothers.
For information about the Jewish
Women's Foundation or its events,
go to www.jewishdetroit.org/jwf
or contact Helen Katz, (248) 203-
1483 or katz@jfmd.org .
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