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Events Around the World
Brave Miss World
Purim Party!
BIS is expanding activities for
English Speakers in Israel – Join us!
New friends joined with American Friends
of Beit Issie Shapiro, West Coast, in
March 2014 for a Purim Party celebration.
Hosted at the lovely home of Stacy and
Uri Blackman, more than 75 people
attended with special remarks and
greetings from Benjy Maor, Director of
International Resource Development.
Former Miss Israel and Miss World,
Linor Abargil, gave an inspiring
talk at BIS, Ra’anana, about her
(L-R) Naomi Stuchiner, Founding
new film, “Brave Miss World”, in
President of BIS and Linor Abargil
which she recounts the trauma of
her rape in Milan just weeks before winning the Miss World
crown in 1998. Before an audience of over 200 Beit Issie
Shapiro supporters, Abargil said, “It’s very easy to feel sorry
for yourself. But no matter how many times you feel down, it’s
how you get up that counts. The kids at Beit Issie Shapiro feel
happy because they don’t look at what they don’t have. They
look at what they do have.”
(L-R) Ariella and
Ariel Shandling,
Uri Blackman
Yoni Rechter
A Smile of Hope
Arab community raises
unprecedented funds for BIS
The Arab city of Kalansua held a
Nawaf Zmero and Jean Judes
fundraising event called “A Smile of Hope”
to support Beit Issie Shapiro’s Sindian
Center, which serves the Arab community in the Southern Triangle.
The event raised a record breaking 300,000 NIS (USD $85,000)
and was attended by 700 people. It is believed to be the largest
fundraiser of its kind in an Arab community for an established Israeli
charity.
Nawaf Zmero, the organizer of the event and recipient of the
President’s Prize for Volunteering said, “As someone with a disability
myself, I have a great appreciation for Beit Issie Shapiro and our
Sindian Center. The social change needed is already being felt in a
very impressive way because we have been working for so long and
so hard on inclusion! In addition to raising funds, we are creating
an unprecedented cross-cultural dialogue between Jews and Arabs
and between people with disabilities and without. We all have a
common goal and want our children to be
healthy and happy.”
“Beit Issie Shapiro is a wonderful
place and I’m excited to be here
with you tonight,” began Yoni
Rechter, a musician, singer and
composer, at his gala evening held
in support of BIS at Zappa, Herzliya.
Rechter, an Israeli cultural icon,
whose song, “Atur Mitschech”
won the 66th Yom Ha’atzmaut
competition for most popular Israeli
song of all time, drew a crowd of
over 300 supporters and friends of
Beit Issie Shapiro. All enjoyed an
evening of music and fun which was
generously donated by Rechter.
(L-R) Yoni Rechter, Tal Eisner – BIS Board Member,
Caron Bielski – BIS Chair of the Board, Israel, and
Ze’ev Bielski, Mayor of Ra’anana
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