From: goldberg@techunix.technion.ac.il (Jacques Goldberg)
Subject: KNOW EL-AMI, HELP EL-AMI!
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:47:27 GMT
Summary: El-Ami's educational program at Ma'aloth needs support.
Keywords: education

EL-AMI is an Israeli Zionist O-religious organisation which you may want to
get to know and help.

Ma'aloth is a small underdevelopped city in the north of Galilee, close to
the Lebanese border, where EL-AMI has a branch serving the city and the
surrounding area.

I am aware of their activities and difficulties because my younger daughter
is working for them as national service (Sheruth L'eumi) since 6 weeks.

1-EL-AMI.

TNUA ZIONIT L'HA'AMAQAT AHDUT HA'AM, 'ERKAV VEMUNATO.
"Dedicated to the Unity, Values and Heritage of the Jewish People"

EL-AMI performs a wide activity in Israel in all spirit and Torah related
fields: Thora classes, seminars, spriritual integration of immigrants, after
school children and youth education, complementary education of school
teachers, community centers, Shabbath study days, loan tape libraries,
adult evening classes, development of study material , publications.
EL-AMI works at bringing Judaism with Zionism to all layers of the population,
"seculars" as well as "religious", new immigrants, members of kibbuzim as well
as development cities citizens, children, youth, adults and senior.

2-MA'ALOTH.

A small city in the hills of Galilee which was "discovered" in 1974 when
children from Safed, on a Galilee tour, hosted in a Ma'aloth school, were
taken hostages, and many murdered or wounded. The tragedy brought in the
media, and the media revealed the city and its problems to all Israelis.
This city was then taken as a kind of lab about how to raise it on all grounds.
Among many achievements:
-Stef Wertheimer's work to create jobs.
-RAFAEL's (DOD) employees massive residence move from Haifa and suburbs to   
 Ma'aloth and vicinity.
-The NA'HAL OMRI nucleus educational effort (this group has ceased activity
 several years ago, mostly short of funding by the Army---NA'HAL is one form
 of military service. My older daughter served NA'HAL with OMRI at Ma'aloth
 and the Kfar Giladi Kibbuz, by the way).
-A now large HESDER YESHIVA.

3-EL-AMI at Ma'aloth.

Better than proclamations, here is what my younger daughter is currently
doing:
* 2 or 3 mornings per week, teaches Torah/tradition in low grades of non
religious schools as assistant to the regular teacher. Of course, she has
to prepare her classes.
* twice a week, leads a young boys layer (?, "SHEVETH") of Bney Aqiva.
* complementary classes in a religious school.
* 4 afternoons a week, helps child at his home with general school studies
in family where parents cannot function (one blind, one sick, hardly can
handle each other)
* spent last Shabbath in nearby smaller Shlomi development city, handling
kids while El-Ami was instructing adults.
* free time left, devoted to hearing Torah classes.
* lives with 5 more girls in a 1-living+1-bedroom appt, 6 more in next appt.
* will receive 200$ per month, G-d willing, for subsistence from the AMINADAV
organisation (she does not pay any rental, AMINADAV pays for them).
* while she happens to have been assigned to a Ma'aloth school, many of her
mates teach around the city as far as Naharya and surrounding Kibuzzim. The
next equivalent center is, I believe, in Qiryath Shemona.

4-WHY IS SUPPORT NEEDED?

So far, AMINADAV and EL-AMI were funded by State grants. At this time though,
an "Odd Couple" have joined forces to combat the "unity" and "heritage"
contents of EL-AMI's motto which I have reproduced above (thus displaying
no concern for its "values"). The EL-AMI activity at Ma'aloth may have to cease
short of oxygen. As every reasonable person knows, it is infinitely easier
to stop such a project than to start or restart it.

5-IF YOU WANT TO HELP...

* for sure, even a letter of encouragement is important. Write to Yossi
Eltaouil, eL-Ami Maalot, POB 389, MAALOT 24952 , Israel.

* If you add a check, write it to order EL-AMI MAALOT.

* Instead of home mail delivery, Maaloth exclusively uses mail boxes. The
address above is not a black box. Yossi Eltaouil teaches for the Ma'alot
Hesder Yeshiva.

* There also is a bank account for direct transfers: Israel BANK HADO'AR
(Postal Bank) account 7-08914-4 EL AMI MA'ALOT.

6-CAVEAT.

My daughter does not need support, BARUCH HASHEM. But a few families cannot
support the whole project, even with the fabulous salary of a typical Israel
university professor.

GMAR HATIMA TOVA !

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