Hockey Teams Win Big For Charity

An email from Israel to the members of the "Unite for Israel Hockey Project";

This email was originally written in Hebrew, and I did my best to have it translated for distribution.

It is sent to us by the director of the Avukat Or Rehabilitation Center in Jerusalem. Avukat Or is the beificiary of funds being raised in this year's "Unite for Israel Hockey Project". To date Avukat Or has already recieved over $20,000 in donation from our efforts.

With the recent events in Southern Israel we felt we needed to once again turn focus and give some support to families in Sderot. Ashar Hockey's Unite for Israel project was proud to sponsored a "Day of Fun" in Jerusalem for 2 Sderot classes. At the conclussion of the day, we had the Sderot children visit the Avukat Or Center .

At Avukat Or the children enjoyed assisting in the preparation of over 1,000 bags of candy. These candy bags were taken back to Sderot for distribution to other young children in their community.


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Greetings to you hockey teams,

Today the students from Sderot visited us. They came to us after they were at the exhibit "Dialogue in Darkness", and enjoyed an outdoor lunch. We greeted them as they heard about Avukat Or and met our kids (Shlomi spoke a bit himself, Hadas the teacher from Sderot is his sister). Within an hour they helped us packaged 1,000 candy bags for delivery. They received bags (the ones in the picture - with the hearts) and on each note in the bag was written: "to our guests from Sderot, with wishes for quiet and tranquility, from friends in Monsey and Westchester NY, and from Avukat Or".

I am sending the first pictures. Hadas will hopefully send more soon. As Steve requested, they took many many pictures throughout their day of fun in jerusalem. We wanted to thank you for allowing us at Avukat Or to experience part of this special day with the children of Sderot.

"Each man shall help his brother and they will remain strong."

Thank you.

Ruti
Avukat Or