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so i foreign oh i oh i'm so is foreign i am jm in the am and last week when we made a commitment during fundraising marathon 2015 to increase our bond with the state of israel for our wonderful listeners boy did we mean it here we are on the very first jm radio program after the marathon in stay wrote believe it or not with our friends from the jewish national fund we're actually broadcasting today from the indoor playground of the jnf here in stay road as we highlight some of their incredible work in the state of israel not a foreign concept for our listeners so many of them are already familiar somewhat with the great work of jnf and here we are on a monday morning broadcast at jm and the am the weather in israel just beautiful and a big thank you to everybody who helped support us again during fundraising marathon 2015 a very very big thank you we had an amazing finish on friday if you heard the last few minutes you can't help but agree that it was an amazing finish and i thank everybody who participated during the two weeks and now it's great to be back into our regular format jm and the am to acknowledge um uh before we do anything else uh the uh tremendous tragedy of the sassoon family of brooklyn new york over the weekend many are familiar with what happened uh very late friday night very early shabbos morning in brooklyn and those seven funerals believe it or not are taking place it took place yesterday in brooklyn and are taking place here uh in haram new hot the yerushalayim today on a monday and um there's nothing to say the entire community the collective jewish heart around the world not just in brooklyn and not just in israel but around the world as we like to refer to it is in tremendous pain from this terrible tragedy this horrific episode and let us hope that there is some comfort down the road for those family members who remain and for all the friends and relatives who are in so much pain after this tremendous tragedy so that's happening today in yerushalayim and obviously it'll be thousands and thousands of people there this has soon family before brooklyn actually lived in the holy city of jerusalem so here we are on a monday broadcast we're with our friends at the jewish national fund down in the state road as we talk about the things that are happening all around the country and we'll be here of course until nine o'clock this morning until the israel show with mayor weingarten and plenty more the video is up if you go to homesickle.com you can actually see the video up right now with the live stream zk tells me that today's miracle was provided by travel cell without that emergency backup system he would have a lot of trouble getting that video up and the audio as well so a big thank you to josh melman everybody at travel cell for not just keeping us connected to the united states but keeping us connected to our radio home as well at wfmu it's much appreciated and we'll meet a lot of interesting people here today i want to give an early morning shout out to mikhail marmary who introduced herself earlier to us of the foreign press consulting service here in israel uh just one of the people who's helping us here today at the jm am radio program and of course i am joined by miriam alwaleck and zk and pc guy as our team is on the road in the holy land for this very special trip more coming up monday morning theme song then we'll meet some of the guests who are going to be speaking with today on a very special monday edition of jm in the am open your eyes colors streak the horizon you take one step into sunshine the beauty of nature around you marvelous oneness around you it's all very clear and all through history open your eyes you'll realize take a look and you'll see a world so full of confusion you know attempted to guide you when you smile we hope for that day i believe how lucky we are open your eyes you'll realize special day it's almost here it's all for you myself oh open your eyes your real life is it's all for you myself hero they is grace me the king is me jm in the am as we broadcast from the holy land we're in state road with our friends at jnf and i thought that that was an appropriate selection as we uh as we take pause uh after the tragedy of the sassoon family knowing that those funerals are taking place in uh yerushalayim this morning our state this afternoon we should all think of our own families and the blessings that we have and not take any of it for granted it's a very important message obviously in the aftermath of this terrible pain that the collective jewish heart is feeling it's a monday morning broadcast jm and the am my thanks to everybody who again proved to be great supporters of ours during our big fundraising marathon we're here in israel today we are believe it or not instay road in the indoor children's playground of stay road which has uh a few um shelters attached to it it's a pretty amazing facility to say the least you could see it in the background if you're watching now at knockhamsequal.com and uh miriam mel wallick is here good morning miriam good morning how are you do i am i own your honor now i hear myself hello so what do you ever see a playground like this in your life it's pretty incredible it's really incredible and it's full of youth and it's full of fun and it's full of just life and you would never know you would never know well in addition to that the way it's built been built with the design and the the forethought um just on the appearances that it serves as a bomb shelter and there are secluded rooms where you can have a birthday party in the event of an attack everything buddy is safe in there and um it's really just it's a phenomenal space where's the didn't we have a oh there it is there's a rocket behind us i'm not kidding a real rocket that was or a piece of a real rocket that was shot here at the people and stay road at some point thank god we're talking about peaceful times right now and speaking to you from a peaceful stay wrote the last time we were here in august you may recall was a little bit of a different type of atmosphere and thank god today it's here it is right next to me that is authentic uh and you can see that if you're on the video right now at the home page of nothingsequel.com and this is what the the folks they wrote during rocket attacks go through this type of uh of rocket is um showered upon them and they are in dire need always of facilities to make sure that everybody can be safe and that's what's been happening over all these years facilities have been built to make sure shelters have been built to make sure they're able to run where they need to get to as soon as possible and here attached to this indoor playground you have some of those shelters as well to protect the children that's what it's all about this is not a prop no this is the real deal it's got actual it's even got writing on it i mean it's a little bit yeah there's some charm to it there's some charm to it you have to admit one once it got into the hands of people here they were very creative it was um yeah so that's just that's just one of the uh the thousands that have fallen here in this town over the years uh we'll be speaking with um many representatives of the jnf and speaking about some of their projects around the country coming up here at the jm and the am as we mentioned earlier travel cell gets a very big shout out also i want to thank our friends at the imbal hotel in jerusalem who again are serving as our home base as they always do stan is in our studio a big thank you to him of course pc guy and zk are here on the spot pc guy in fact was here to make sure way in advance that things would work out well for us in terms of connecting back to the states i thank him for that and a special hello to jody bodner from jnf very helpful in this whole venture yes she's been great and to shakhar if i have it pronounced right chairmalin i think that that's his last name am i right ceremony hermelin hermelin shakhtar tatarabatsu for all your help so far and there's a gentleman who's extremely helpful to us here today was the on johnny on the spot or as they say in israel well on the spot when it came to setting up our show here today from stay roads i thank him very much go to some music more coming up ariel cutler is going to join us plenty of guests on a monday morning from israel at jm in the a.m shalom is we are is shalom is da no is oh is monday morning broadcast from state road you can watch everything at knockholmseegle.com the video is up uh also the um uh we're here in israel throughout the entire well actually throughout uh through wednesday we're gonna be in israel through wednesday tomorrow and wednesday from the dear shoe world serum today we are in stay wrote with our friends at j f arielle cutler is here jnf jewish national fund development officer involved in many projects a pleasure to welcome you to jm in the am thank you naham great to be here you had an observation which we should remind our listeners about i'm sure we've mentioned this before and that is as as the rocket was sitting here you pointed out that every rocket is labeled with where it fell and when it fell so people remember where and when it fell here in state road or anywhere else right unfortunately too many rockets and uh i think the reason they write the date and the location where it fell teaches us a lot about how they're advancing their development of the rockets how far they're reaching how precisely they're hitting the targets and that's kind of why they use it um i mentioned the story that i was uh with friends from cherry hill the abramsons and uh we were at the gavin junction we went to see the police station and when we got to police station we saw the rocket that had fell less than 24 hours earlier fell in the gavin junction so it's uh unfortunately it hits too close to home too unbelievable chances are we're speaking to some jnf supporters because you've noticed that a lot of different communities in the united states are there on the front lines when jnf needs new projects or even old projects funded well for sure first of all uh jf of america built this playground uh j f of america raises 80 to 100 million dollars a year that all comes to israel uh we are your voice in israel we make israel a better place every single day and this playground is just one example and just to give some statistics some ideas of this playground it's had over 300 000 children through the doors of this playground and then several of my own and i've been to the playground while the sirens went off with my own kids here and i could see the fear in my wife's eyes having to run and and there's always a lot of staff for making sure within seconds everybody's in the bomb shelters and it's a scary thing i mean everybody remembers jnf from the original days of the blue boxes the pushkas and that's why when we finished building this building you can see we painted it all blue we call it the biggest blue box in the world and just instead of putting quarters inside our entire goal is putting smiling kids inside giving kids the opportunity to be children just even got the right shade it seems yeah pretty much that was the goal so uh very nice ariel cutler is here jnf development officer um one of the things that we always talk about is the is how jnf and you encourage others to partner with you concentrate on different regions of the country blueprint negev is a project that obviously is there to help expand population negative uh we see what's happened in bereshova you'd love to replicate that i'm sure in many other areas give us an update on what's happening in the nega well so you know the negative 60 land of israel only 8 to 10 of the israeli population live on it right the 20 80 rule the the rule of 80 of the people living on 20 of the land can work fine in any other place but in a state smaller than you know the same size as the state of new jersey we can't afford to give up 80 of the land right and that's why jnf put at the forefront at some very important you know missions today our vision is is to get a half a million israelis to move to the negev and 300 000 israelis to move to the galil and to develop those areas and you know just between us here okay as as the orthodox uh community in america we concentrated many many years on the west bank which is very important which you know jnf there's all these theories jennifer has done fire trucks and and reservoirs and parks all over israel there's you know we're building a museum and fire teo now for two million dollars so it's not about that it's about making sure we don't forget about other areas and we forgot the orthodox community about the negev we forgot about the galil and when you fly you know from tel aviv to the negev to a lot at night once you go past bear chef it's black it's pitch black there's no lights and if we're not there we know who will be there and that's why we wrote a plan for the israeli government called blooper nega 15 years ago and put very clear milestones along the way to measure success perishable was a declining population a success story for mother in beer sheva is that her son goes to the army goes to college and moves to tel aviv there's no future in bershev etc and that's something we're trying to change and you know what this playground hashem there won't be one more rocket if there's not one more rocket was this a waste of five million dollars and the answer is no we interviewed a kid here from steroid named stav who said i was he goes to regional school he said i was always embarrassed to tell my friends i live in steroid today my friends want to know when they can complain at my playground because this place you know for those of you who haven't been here on your next trip to israel please come visit the state road indoor playground and you know the jainfender playing around state road by the way we have a weekly tour that leaves you shalim every wednesday from slo-mo and comes here this is one of the stops along the way we go to the island institute the underground bullet factory we go see bear sheva and we cut this playground and great way to spend the day in israel come spend it on on the jnf weekly tour it's on our website you can find out more jewishnationalfun.org and then you'll come and and you'll see kids playing here and having a good time and really enjoying it and then you talk about milestones and success in the negev how do we judge that how do we achieve those milestones what can you tell our audience in terms of the progress that's been made bear shava it's obvious and as you just indicated plenty of people visit there and see it what would we see in other areas in the negev so if you go visit haluta halut is an area that wasn't touched you're going to hear later from you did you harush from kaluta he'll tell you he used to live in gus katif and i don't want to you know really steal everything he's going to say but i'm sure he's going to talk about the fact that when they got out of gushkatif the government they went to the government and said what's the next national mission and the government pointed at the triangle of borders egypt and uh in gaza right and that's where they relocated and they turned the page and today we have over 250 families i believe living there it's the in the census that was done at the end of 2014 by the israeli census uh bureau khalooz is the highest growing area population wise in the entire state of israel and we believe that in 10 years we're going to have 30 000 people there and there's an area that had nobody there before and you go there and it's real t.o new it's real halluciut by the way many of the trogan that you guys bought in new york and new jersey this year came from haluta the first thing they did when they got out of gushkatiff is they planted a trogan for all the purposes you know to wait to four years until they could actually sell the itrogum all over and um i think we were in one of those orchards back in august i'm not mistaken so so they're the biggest exporters of carrots and potatoes organic to europe and and they turned the page and there's a lot of yeshiva there and and the pre-army rafi paris is yeshiva atsumona is there uh raveli adler who's from the egypt is very involved in what we do at jnf he's kind of the leaders there who helped us make a difference and get involved and we spent millions of dollars there bringing people to live there and to call it their home and how do we judge uh success up north in the go north building initiative so so the gordon north building initiative is actually in its early stages last week we had 85 um major donors of jnf of america visiting israel we called it our task force mission and then we spread ourselves out around israel groups of 10 12 15 people all over israel one of the groups was the irc which i'll mention in a couple seconds but the go north task force mission went up north and we were discussing projects projects that are going to help bring jobs going to help bring population to come live in in akko in ma alot in carmiel in in the in the beijing i really have how do we get israelis to call that their home how do we get them to consider living there because it's not just about living in in your shame yehuda shomeron tel aviv there's a a another very large chunk of israel that we have to go and settle it's not just go to good to go to a timber for the night it's it's good to call it your home and and put your roots in and that's really what we're about you know putting our roots in you know everybody thinks of jnf back to the early days when when we really put just our roots in with the trees and uh you know it's it's a misconception that that's all we do and when you uh when people fund these projects are you then able to i don't know give incentives or help people along whether it be with education or job placement i mean they're able to do that with that uh well last week we dedicated in beersheva the new ronald louder at employment center in beer shava there you go the idea of the employment center is to keep the great minds that go to ben green university in beersheva to keep them in the negative and it's a partnership between jewish national parks because normally they'd go to other air other major areas of israel of course right of course everybody wants to live in tel aviv right that's where that's where we work there and work there but we're working on making them want to stay here not forcing them to stay here and we actually see at the op the opposite um we see people who live in tel aviv commuting to work in beer sheva and we're hoping we're going to be able to help them find a home in barcelona and when they find the home we have to help them have the right education the right job the right school for their kids uh a park etc etc etc and that's really the full package of what we're doing it's it's you know nephesh benefits which we'll hear later which is another one of our partners helps you make aliyah but once you made aliyah we want to help you make aliyada the negev so we do that in partnership with with nephesh but we also have other organizations in israel that help you make that step and make sure it's a successful step how long have you been living in israel so actually i was born here and um after i served in the army for four and a half years i moved to springfield new jersey and uh we moved back to israel uh five and a half years ago i don't miss anything about the gullis except james and the a.m because you know you can't listen to jamming the aim in your car at 12 o'clock in the afternoon in israel and here you sing mode right it just doesn't work at 12 o'clock in the afternoon but it's a treat to be here with you today and it's um great to listen to jam online but being back in israel in jnf really gives me an opportunity every day i wake up i know by the time i go to sleep israel is going to look a little bit better and that's really what we do and it happens day by day every single day it can't happen in one fell swoop it's got to be a yeah yeah it's a process and a very thought out process so we're running a marathon not you know it's not a sprint sometimes processes can take years until they come true but um that's really what we do we we try to take the vision and turn it into actuality and and again i said it's measured and that's why i said the irc mission that was here last week the irc is our israel review community review committee they come to israel these are accountants and lawyers who are jf donors who come to israel and they go into every single one of our partner organizations and they rip them apart they open their books and they want to see where the money went the money that came from you guys in america and we're spending here in israel we want to make sure we're accountable for and we have a fiduciary responsibility to do that and that's why we get the highest ratings from charity navigator and guide star and better business bureau and something we're very proud of it makes it very easy to you know ask somebody to make a donation to jewish national fund of america knowing that his money's protected and we're doing the right thing we should be doing with his money as you know a week from now there will be a uh a nice influx of tourists uh coming for pesach to israel will those tours that you just mentioned be happening yeah of course of course and i've got many emails from people all over uh shout out to the israelis and west orange who sent me an email that they're coming on the jnf tour but but but really if you haven't signed up and you're in israel looking for something to do go on to the jnf website look up our our tours over pesach we're going to have several of them and besides the tours you know go visit ammunition hill we're going to have many activities i mean it's not just good to go to the hotel and walk through the mamilla mall remember that 45 years ago you couldn't go to the hotel and it's about the battle at ammunition hill that was the reunification of your slime you'll hear later from yo rasbi a little bit more about what we're doing at ammunition hill and how you could come and bring your kids so we're going to have challenging activities over pesach for people to come rock climbing and a zip line and i'm sure people anybody who goes there i'll have a good time ariel thank you for welcoming us here today and for being here today thank you very very much i appreciate it ariel cutler everybody he is jnf development officer and spending time with us in our first hour this morning at jm in the air we're in israel we're in state road with the jnf indoor playground in state road uh inviting everybody to come and see this amazing facility as you just heard you could do so all through the year and if you're coming for pesach you have an amazing opportunity to come and spend some time here with the jnf tour you can go to their website for more information more coming up keep it right here at jm in the am ah thank you is oh m my oh all year me jm in the am video up at knockholm segal.com if you want to see the video from israel that's right we're in the holy land with a big thank you to everybody who helped get us to our amazing total last week during our big fundraising marathon we told you we'd keep you connected to the holy land and sure enough here we are in our first jam in the m radio broadcast after the big fundraising marathon instay road in the um indoor children's playground the jnf indoor children's playground is where we're hanging out and where we're doing today's radio show uh hoover holland is with us head nurse at la negev and a state road resident ahuva welcome to the show thank you thank you for being here what's it like living in stay road what would you tell people in the united states who are listening right now about what it's like to live in stay roach this is absolutely our natural place to live i live here around 30 years wow some of my kids were born here in kibbutz giving he mentioned a few minutes before and we have some we have some very and some very nice times when everything is quiet and we have the opportunity to live our our life so you have a lot of very good days and some challenging days some very challenging days i can only imagine um the challenging days make some uh more attached to this one there's no philly that's okay and the challenging days make you more you're more attached to the to this region and we don't see ourselves leaving other places uh this is our home and it will remain that it will remain that way most people are not thinking of running away from steroids not a chance not at all not at all even if we experience here some very very hard days like the last last war when i came out from my house it was the day when the the terrorists came out from the tunnel 500 meters from my house every every ammunition that was in the area was shooting the helicopters was above my head above my house shooting at the terrorists who came out from the tunnel it was very scary and he said what am i going to do now so the most the most natural thing to do is to go back home go into the shelter and stay there but i've i am i felt that i can do that and i went into my car and i tried to get out from this dirt and the roads were blocked but i i thought that i have to to go to a la negev and to be there and these are very very hard days explain to our audience with what a lay negev is and why it's so important for for you to have been there at that time um native is a village we have residents they live there and all of them are suffer from mental activation in a few levels and some of them are bedridden we have also a world of a little hospital that there are a hide we have their high dependency residents that they need constant take care of nursing and doctors like like hospital we refer to them as low functioning and very low functioning and therefore in need of high dependence yeah and 135 residents like that in la negev and obviously doing a tremendous hesitate for them i mean one can only imagine what goes on every single day when the people who are who are working with them and you felt at that time that with everything happening that was the place for you to be that you should have been with the uh always with the residents there how long have you been there how many years um five and a half five and a half years and what's the experience like does it change your life the same way you're changing and helping so many other lives it changed my life absolutely i feel um totally devoted to this place um we are like um it's total it's a it's a total job you if you don't if you are not there you think about the place you are being i am in a co a constant connection with the staff there um i leave it 24 hours day night shabbat if there is a need to go there by night or to be there by uh from any kind of reason we are there how far or how close is it to state road it's about uh 40 minutes uh drive and it's all and it's in the negative obviously you say yeah sometimes when can you can you please fix it for me yes there you go um and you know i have to say that during these times that we have a very high tension uh sometimes we on the way there you have to go out from the car on to the tunnel going back this is the reality sometimes it's not the easiest place to live not very easy but you would not move i would not move i have grandchildren here in this uh kibbutzki film and i come i come here with them for the indoor playground yeah yeah ahuva tadaraba for being here today ahuva holland is the head nurse at la negev for physically disabled adults and children and as you heard would never think of leaving state roads yeah and i want to thank the jnf for the for the tremendous support here in the world and also in atlanta fantastic thank you very much a pleasure thank you very much j f doing great work all over israel and as you heard our hoover holland say in stay wrote and an alley negative for sure it's jm am on a monday we'll continue with more nine minutes before seven o'clock as we broadcast from israel for these three days tomorrow from the nokia center where we'll be with the dershow world serum uh for both tuesday and wednesday's programs and of course then back in the studio in jersey city on thursday i want to thank our friend the pc guy many of you know him already in just five years and you were shalom he's become the leading support for all pc and internet needs if you need a new pc or your existing pc needs a tune-up you call him if you need a brand new printer scanner fax copier or have trouble with your existing one you call him if you're new to a smartphone or ipad you call him to integrate your contacts and email if you don't back up your pc call the pc guy he has an advanced cloud-based backup service that is available worldwide if you want internet israeli phone and us phone service all from one source with one number to call for support in english you speak with pc guy and if you own an apartment in new zealand i want to have support for your internet when you're not there call the pc guy it's thepcguy.co.il thepcguy.co.il or six 054943-6109-054-943-614 o nine more coming up from stay road israel on a monday here at jm in the am me la la la la la foreign ah day foreign da foreign my oh m is foreign oh is um you done by the group revelation this is america's one and only jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored wfmu east orange wmfu mount hope rockland county at 91.9 on the fm dial and around the world in the web jmdm.org we're not going to do our news from israel this morning but i can tell you that uh the funeral unfortunately this terrible tragedy in brooklyn of the sassoon family the funeral in israel takes place at 3 30 israel time later today as our thoughts are with friends and relatives of the soon family and of course the survivors of the terrible tragedy in brooklyn new york that seems to have really of course caused tremendous anguish to collective jewish heart around the world and our thoughts are with them in the good news department the israeli elections are over that's the good news and uh those the the jockeying and the negotiating about the next government is has already begun and also we thank all of our listeners who got us to a great total during our big fundraising marathon last week we're in state road with our friends at the jnf and they've introduced us to major general daron almag who is the founder of alain negev iran he is a a military hero he was the first idf commander to land on the runway during the famous 1976 operation and tebby i'm going to ask every parent in our audience to now turn to their children in carpool and explain the significance of being the first idf commanding officer to be on the runway uh at entebbe uganda uh major general darron almog welcome and thank you for joining us here this morning thank you very much good afternoon i was also the last israeli soldier in interview and not only the first the first and the last now that means what first obviously means first to land last means it's your responsibility to make sure everybody else is out no no no that that's mean that uh no uh my responsibility was to mark the runway for more three hercules we landed four at the end we came number one by surprise according landed on uh international light that uh at that time was operating but immediately after landing they switched off all the lights and we assumed that there will switch off so we landed with some bright lights and four soldiers on the microphone continue running along the runway and every 100 meter put battery light and six other with me continue to the new control tower we killed four london guards near the control tower and took over the uh the control and then get back uh to the new terminal as a matter of fact there were two terminals sure the old terminal with 105 israeli ostriches were kept by seven terrorists and the main force of uh yoni netanyahu brother of our prime minister bibi netanyahu meant for under command of lieutenant colonel leon netanyahu with one mercedes and two land rover we landed together by the way we departed a few few minutes before yoni was killed my force the first hercules after landed reduced speed to about 20 kilometers per hour and we then israeli soldiers but jumped outside and then as i described four continue marking the runway and six with me continue inside taking over the new control tower and and then the hercules can accelerated the circle is until the runway which is more two and a half kilometers stopped at the end and um disembarked the mercedes and two jeeps the two land rover with johnny netanyahu 21 soldiers of his unit they continue another three kilometers until they arrive the old terminal which our ostriches were kept by the seven tourists and simultaneously they penetrated from all sides to this building killed the seven terrorists and it was over and unfortunately yoni himself on the run from the mercedes to the building was shot by a ugandan sniper from the old control tower not this one that uh i took over so it was about three kilometers away so we learned a couple of things first of all some of the facts in the movie are correct because some of the things you're talking about i remember seeing in the recreation of the uh of the episode and um and it seems much larger than any observer like myself or anybody else at the time it seems like a much larger area than any of us would anticipate it's airport you know airport the size of airport it's a runway is about three and a half kilometers there must be a way a z uh runway a z figure we landed on the new runway and then they continue driving with the mercedes and two jeeps on the other side of a connection tarmac road from the new runway to the old runway as a matter of fact the old terminal was a part of the military part as for instance a bengalian airport which is in international airport but you got also they passed a military party so many international airport divided between a civil party and into a military part so in entebbe as a matter of fact the one who built the entire airfield was solel bonne a few weeks earlier which was very helpful right it was helpful because we got the the program of uh the blueprints yeah now yes the engineering program but also we got 24 hours of no 24 hours before the operation there was another clandestine operation by a mossad agent who arrived by light airplane and landed at daytime i'm speaking about friday july 2nd the operation started july 2 shabbat saturday we took off from the military part of benguyon but a day early july 2nd friday yeah one most of the agent landed on with the light airplane cessna something like that and you run along the runway and did many pictures ground pictures nobody ever cockpit nobody ever no no nobody interrupted no he got caught while ending but he did pictures many pictures and first time we got land pictures before the operation we flew from bengal and shabbat 11 a.m we took off from ben gurion and then we landed in charmanshire about it was 12 30. p.m and then in charms last preparation last briefing taking over the ugandan uniform and black in the face and and pep talk and then we got pictures real-time pictures were real not real-time but but much different from soldiers point of view much different between engineer program 10 years earlier which is nothing you know it's a paper and some lines but pictures you see the terrain you see uh the cliffs and you see the bush you see the building you see how it looked like it and from the ground because you know you fly four thousand kilometers will end in a peach dark in a place you've never been before never been before and then you need pinpoint navigation arriving and you know on you need to be very accurate without wasting one second and very well coordinated between the force we did the preparation of course when the friday july 2nd we did exercise all the forces on the ground coordinating and you're looking at those last minute photos on the plane obviously yes on the hercules yes yes major general doron almog founder of the la negev iran and he was the first idf commander on uh the runway at entebbe so what do we learn about preparedness from the enteby raid what do we want to learn about i want to shift from entebbe to what we are doing here in south near the earth not far away elena give nahallah right our prime minister visited a few years ago at the end and you know ali negev is is about the most severely disabled people disabled children in israel maybe in the in the world it's hard to see but that's what we do we give them the highest life standard and and quality of life and uh when bibi ended his visit to elena he said what can i do for you i said prime minister i flew with your brother yoni to enter yoni gave his life for one reason saving jews that were kept as ostriches one week from their life one week that's all but here in israel we have people like my son for instance iran who passed away eight years ago but uh born with severe brain injury we have here in israel people who are hostages of our society some from birth some from accidents some from disease we need to stretch and we need to save them we don't need hercules we don't need special units we need compassion we need our heart and we need a social and tab operation that's what we need to do for these people and elena is all about he was moved and he continued assisting us many times i think last time was the graduation of a new israeli pilot here not far away in hachirim air base and the first time chief of air force uh major general emiratial a friend of mine sent 20 40 uh invitation for a lenega to bring first time severely brain damage to sit just behind the stage in this graduation ceremony of a new israeli pilot on the stage four people that's all the prime minister minister of defense chief of staff chief of air force behind them 20 brain damage children together with me and uh and staff and a caregiver one-on-one right and then the parents and then the audience and after this ceremony was over it was very moving ceremony new pilots you know you see the f 16 f-15 a robotic and you know that the most powerful ceremony that the idf the israel defend force can produce and the parents and so on and then it's over and the prime minister came and bent on his knee on his knees you never seen i can show you a picture here right now the prime minister with a tie on his knees like asking um pardon from these children the purest in our society those children and people never done wrong to anyone the most righteous people the purest on our planet and uh and he took some pictures and later the chief of office and chief of tough benny guns that was very moving ceremony there on the same date at night same night uh prime minister netanyahu wrote in his facebook today i saw the most powerful event of the state of israel from one side the graduation of new pilot right and the top technology of the state of israel and from the other side i saw the commitment to the weakest members in our society that's ill and he put some pictures including this picture that uh and as leadership has said before the way we treat the weakest is an indication of the type of people we are absolutely no question about it um why is this project so important in general to the southern part of israel because the there's now a partnership between it's a partnership between the jnf and alenega foundation it's negative you know the ben gurion our first prime minister vision was flourishing making the desert bloom and negev in the state of israel is about sixty percent of the land only eight percent of our population right living in the desert uh we need to bring more people we need to populate the negative we need to conquer the desert that's what ben gurion said ben gurion said if we do not conquer the desert the desert will conquer the state of israel so it's about uh bringing more people it's about the national effort which the israeli government doing right now three military big bases are shifted from the center of israel to the south about 30 000 soldiers about 7 000 families moved from the center of israel to the south our prime minister speaking many times about bercheva as the capital of the cyber why the cyber because the computer base of the idf is moved from the center to the server right so we are going to enlarge the negev a la negev which started as a village for severely disabled children but today giving rehabilitation right now for about 4 000 people ordinary people coming from all over from steward from bishopville native all the kibbutzimo shavim if suddenly happen to a family member broken leg accident or whatever they need the hydrotherapy physiotherapy computer therapy all right they arrive to all energy so alain africa is the center we give right now 230 jobs and we're going to increase it in the next few years to about one thousand we're going to build rehabilitation hospital the gnf is a partner the genif with the same vision the desert they're talking about a 25 million dollar hospital yeah a project 25 as a matter of fact it's it's more a 25 it's a matching deal it's a matching with the government half of the money coming from the israeli government the land negative as a matter of fact is based on a matching funding deal formula between the state of israel or the government of israel and our foundation the lenega foundation so we need donors to bring half of the money and the government so the government did the first governmental decision just few months ago giving the 36 the first 36 million shekel by matching i need to bring which is about 10 million dollars i need to bring with together with the gianfs and jews all over all over the world not only in the united states but united states the most powerful and wealthy community so we call the jnf our partners come on join us let's make it it's about negative it's about bringing more people it's about make the desert a better place for the state of israel but of course it's about expanding the health services right for the world community of south of israel it's going to have a major effect on this area that's for sure a an absolute honor to meet you and to have you on today thank you so much thank you very much major general daron almog founder of the uh alain negev iran as you heard somebody who has a tremendous effect on what goes on in terms of the present and future of the negative region and was the first idf commander to land on the runway at the famous 1976 operation in ted i am begging every parent out there to please tell your children how significant it is that major general darron almog was on jm and the am this morning i am asking you to please um let them know just how significant it is because many of our children do not know about the uh operation and tebby and how important historically the operation was and we would hope and we really enjoy if you would be able to tell your children all about it all right we have a we have a another uh guest with us live this time via telephone oh sorry about that we will get that guest live by telephone in a moment voicemail wanna take this opportunity hang on with that the zk sorry about that i want to take this opportunity to thank everybody who made today's show possible the video is up at homesegal.com you can watch what's going on and a big thank you to all of our listeners for the great success of our fundraising marathon last week over the last two weeks in fact a big shout out to danny goldberg who's taking care of our social media and really helped plan our visit here today and i thank him for that really worked on today's lineup a big thank you to our friends at the inbal hotel who are serving as our home base again as they always do and we're in the holy city of jerusalem or when we're based there a big thank you to our friends at travel cell josh melman and company they're going to be providing phones an internet service for a lot of people as they head to israel for pesach and he is responsible for us being connected to the united states and in this case really being connected it was his miraculous backup system that got us a great secure line today all right uh we have with us uh live via telephone dorit friedman of nephesh benefish uh director of strategic partnerships for netfish dorit welcome back to uh jm and the a.m thank you for having me a pleasure nice to speak with you uh we of course uh just did a great show with nephi's benefits from their big aliyah mega fair in uh in new york city and a lot of our listeners are familiar with what's going on i wanted to speak to you about two areas uh this morning one is the lone soldier program and the other the physician aliyah program first explain to this audience why the lone soldier program has been such a success with nephesh benevish okay the lone soldier program started as uh an organic idea to help individuals who were making aliyah yep and were serving in the idf for the full course of service yet we're completely alone in israel alone without family and it's one thing to come to israel alone but it's unforgivable for a soldier to be lonely so just as we were helping olin in general with a very customized family approach to aliyah we were approached several years ago by an individual in california who called us up and said i know what you do for olim in general there are several boys from my neighborhood who are coming to israel to serve in the idf in combat units and they have nobody in israel could you help them and at the time we sat as my husband was a lone soldier in the first lebanon war and i sat with him and i said how would you build something that would be the most wonderful um answer for a soldier who's coming to serve by himself so he said first of all you know when soldiers get out on thursday nights israeli soldiers they go back to be with their families to be with their girlfriend the lone soldier has to look for a laundromat often shabbat they're alone um there's qasim their army ceremonies many of these lone soldiers actually get distinctions um for their heroic acts or their outstanding soldiers in their units and then people do not come to their ceremonies so it's very lonely here comes the israeli families with their food and the festivities and whatnot and the soldiers by himself so we set up a program that would dedicate whatever we can to help the soldier from the moment but even before they entered service so when they after they were released and for that we started out with sending packages and arranging for buddy family for those soldiers that want it and we do social events so then when soldiers get out on thursday nights they have events that they don't have to look for other ways to connect the events are there for them we uh we create programs around hageem and anything that a soldier would want we're there for them we send them sms's we created a department that's made up of former lone soldiers themselves and this program was addressing um 350 to 400 north american and british um hyaline bodhidhim oleem lone soldier or lim every single year well this the quality of the program um caught the attention of uh the idf and they came to the to our offices and they checked us out and we are audited from the israeli government from the u.s government and there's a tremendous amount of accountability which they really liked and they looked at us and they checked us out and they said we want you to do this for all lone soldiers from around the world you know it's one thing for the american and the north american soldier to get this type of service but the ideas is all about equality of service and we want soldier from moldova from ukraine from south africa from guatemala to get the same love and attention that you give and now our program has jumped to caring for between nine hundred to a thousand new idf soldier olym every single year that hail from 62 countries from around the world and as that number goes up you're prepared to do even more right we are prepared to do even more and and to that effect we've also arranged that we hired a multilingual multicultural staff we have former lone soldiers who were from the ukraine from russia from france from south america and of course from english-speaking countries because it's not just that you have to be able to give them what they need you have to understand where they're coming from uh doreed friedman is with us nevis benesis of course jnf and that has benefits our nation building together we focused on how the two organizations work on so many different things together we are asking you in addition to the loan soldier program about the physician aliyah program because this is really uh and it's funny how much of today's conversation already has been about medicine hospitals etc and medical programs your goal is to bring physicians to every area of israel north and south well let me even backtrack before that let me just tell you that probably something that's an unusual thing to say is that a jewish country is actually experiencing a shortage of doctrine who would believe it this is something you can't believe so the situation went in waves in the 50s there were too many physicians and there were physicians that could not find jobs in israel well now after a million uh the aliyah a million um you know individuals from the former former soviet union and a hundred thousand of them were infused into the medical system those doctors are now retiring and they're moving on israel does not have a sufficient number of medical schools to produce the number of graduates to attend to the growing needs of the population and so there are certain specialties which are actually acutely shortage and we are looking to try to change that you know now in the 13 000 year 13 years that we've been around we've brought 43 000 individuals to israel and just like the lone soldier program grew out of out of an organic national need so too did the physician alia fellowship um we have very close connections with the ministry of health and we are in the knesset all the time uh whispering in lawmakers ears to try to make the situation better and we have a very healthy relationship with them they turned to us and they said we perhaps you can partner with us to help us infuse into the israeli medical system qualify trained and skilled physicians in 2009 all of israel's medical schools at the time four of them produced 400 graduating med students in our 10 years of working in this program we have brought over 400 skilled trained physicians many of them specialists already to israel and like you said we're looking to attend to specific national needs they can be found in almost every hospital in almost every clinic across the country and in the idf medical corps and we are specifically looking to send physicians to the frontier communities in the galil and in the negev you bring one doctor to the south you are transforming the area one anesthesiologist one neonatologist you are transforming the whole area the arava does not have an ob gyn so you can just imagine that the impact of an individual who decides to say i'm going to come to israel to build my life but wow what an impact i can have unbelievable uh you guys are doing tremendous work it seems no matter who you call for in this case the physicians no matter who you call for they're always there to answer and in the hundreds they've answered in this case uh kala kavod it's amazing the work you're doing uh our best to everybody at netflix banette fish and continued success with all these types of programs can i just say one thing the relationship between j and f jewish national fund and nephesphenesis is absolutely natural jewish national fund has been the caretaker of the homeland for the past 113 years and they have helped build this country into the thriving country that it is and now partnering with nephesh benefits to infuse skilled talented idealistic individuals to build these communities is what it's all about and we together are owning our destiny darite well said thank you so much for joining us today thank you so much for having me there she is and thank you very very much dorit uh friedman of netfish benefish with some important words about some really important programs that are going on with nefesh beneficia and jnf much appreciated well we're going to wrap up this half hour with amit cohen young leadership of beit shawn how many of us have visited beijon how many of us know people up in the bay shawn area but believe it or not people in beijing as they grow older did not always want to stay in the beijing area and the jnf and people like the young leadership of h on under the leadership of amit cohen are trying to change that i'm meet welcome to jmd a.m welcome it's my first time on radio so so far you're doing very well i must say let's starting starting off very nicely uh so explain the situation people grow up in beijing or the surrounding areas until now they were not always anxious to stay there and you describe our major problem basically i came here all the way from beijing right in order to explain and to emphasize you how our dream has become a reality thanks to first of all to jnf and our mayo and i mean that um one and a half years ago our group was our group young adult group it's in in hebrew it's like was established as a as a result of a meeting between our mayor and jnf representative and um they want to examine why um why there is a process of brain drain in beijing a process of the talented young adults and residents that don't consider is a place to live in as a place to raise a children and a family right and i'm talking about most of the residents don't consider which one is the place and we asked ourselves after several meetings between our core group members why why nobody since beijing is a place to to live in and we traveled all around israel we met young adult groups from fula from tiberias and we heard lectures from professor about the consequences of what we want to build in beijing and we realized after we succeeded to formulate our vision to improve the quality of life in beijing that in order to improve the quality of life we need to give a basket of services and meaningful tools for the young adults in order to keep him in beijing right and our dream is to build a young adult center that will be a comprehensive platform for the needs of young adults aged 18 to 40. and our target population is actually when the young adult reached to the age of 18 he's going to the army then he had three two or three years then he hesitate and decide what it's going to do with his life after it he became a student and after he became a young parent and especially in batian the average age of wedding is 24 so we need to take it in so we think that in order to keep this young adult in beijing we need to give them those meaningful tools and what do i mean what it includes first of all we want this center contain an enrichment and enrichment center and learning center for students like so a place that they can prepare for the tests a place that young adults can meet sharing ideas like a hard place that can create a networking we don't have it in beijing right now second thing that we want is social cinema club because the nearest one located in haifa it's like one hundred that's the closest the normal nearest one and it's 100 kilometers from batian and you think about that a family needs to take a day off from work to only like to see a movie and we don't want them to spend a lot of money on gas and tickets we want them down the road here in our young adult center and we had a lot of ideas of um like a coffee shop because in the long term we want to be economical independence and we don't want to rely just on donations and social involvement because we need to find a way to stretch and the connection with the community and we did it in the last one and a half years our big success is like um half years ago for the first time and we were able to produce an opening academic event for students and we did it in restricted resources and minimum budget and we think that it was a big success more than 250 students came to this event we explained to them about how meaningful this young adult can be for their lives and we want to keep them in beijing so they're interested they just have to realize that there's some future there yeah and what is amazing about it that we were exposed for data about beijing and for last year and it's amazing because beijing um like we were exposed for data about um apartments new purchased apartment in 2014 and betjan located the last in the list and also in second and apartment and what is absurd about that is bhan is almost the cheapest place to buy an apartment so why if bechan is almost the cheapest place to buy an apartment why nobody is blind of course they should be and we realize that it's not all about the money we need to give a meaningful tools to the young adults to enrich his social life and we think that we have a rail station next year no yeah there you go and we have tax incentives for workers and uh and if also the cheapest place and if we will give those these young adults the meaningful tools we think that we can make them stay in batian we can make them things once again amit cohen young leadership of beit shawn maybe there's somebody listening today who wants the fun day project in beijing it sounds like you're very sincere in your effort and that you're making a lot of progress up there yeah and i want to say i want to say thanks to all our group we are comprising 14 members we are volunteer group all of us are our residents of beijing and all of what we have done in the last one in helfis is because we love beijing we care about our city and we want to change this reality that we are facing right now kanakova thank you so much a pleasure meeting you today thank you amit cohen here at jm and the am so far a very interesting program as we continue from state road we're in the indoor children's playground here in state road courtesy of our friends at jnf i will of course dedicate her by goldwasser's words to the memory of those members of the sassoon family who perished over shabbat that funeral takes place here in yerushalayim at 3 30 this afternoon and of course so many of our thoughts are with the friends and relatives of the satsun family after this terrible tragedy here is rabbi david goldwasser with morning good morning we learned the talmud says that if two people come into schulten and one finishes first and leaves without waiting for the other one then the tamu tells us taraf histophila is ripped up the banished high comments that in ancient times many shoals were located in isolated areas if an individual would leave his fellow jew alone he would be placing him into danger therefore if two people enter the shoal and one left without waiting for the other to finish his theolos then his prayers are ripped up what is the idea that the tv is ripped up why isn't it merely discarded or pushed away there is a lesson to be learned the letters of the word taraf which means to rip are the same as the letters for the word parrot which means an individual grape a parrot is a single grape that has been cut from the vine as opposed to being part of a cluster of grapes vinay israel are compared to a cluster of grapes because all of claudius royal are linked together like it says in shirashirim we are compared lash coils to clusters the people of the nations of the world though are separate they are compared to individual grapes when a jew is in danger solemn fellow jews also feel the danger and will never leave him if one does abandon his brother then the person shows that he sees himself only as a parent just a soul grape who is apart and separated from the vine during these times each of us in claudius knows that we are part of the cluster our hearts and our treeless go out to our brothers and sisters in steroids an israeli border city located less than a mile from gaza it has really borne the brunt of the rocket attacks since the beginning of the year to date official records indicate that over four thousand in forty eight rockets and four thousand and forty mortars have been fired against sterot in the western negev it is especially poignant at this very moment that eloquent spokesman for claudius royal nachm siegel is in steroid we know that his presence there is a source of great inspiration and encouragement for our brothers and sisters who face such a difficult situation daily israel around the world stand in support of the brave and heroic jews of stay wrote nahum is a shliyak sibor for all of us with him he brings the thelos the heartfelt wishes from jews throughout the world for success in victory may we soon see in the days that are spoken of in yeshayowa navi of laissez when nation will no longer lift up sword against nation nor learn the art of war anymore this has been rabbi david goldwasser bringing you morning physic may we hear of the surah stavas about all of claudius royal thank you very much for my goal washington as we said we dedicate our regulator's words this morning to those victims of the terrible tragedy in brooklyn the sassoon family that funeral takes place in haram neuko those funerals i should say at 3 30 this afternoon we're in israel as we promised last week during our fundraiser we continue to strengthen the bond between our audience and the state of israel and our friends at jnf i want to thank russell robinson jody bodner shakha hermalin everybody who's been so instrumental in getting this radio show put together here on a monday in stay road at the jnf indoor playground in state road i want to thank everybody moshe geffen is with us moshe geffen is an ole from boston massachusetts he's a firefighter in ashkelon israel many of you are are familiar with the practice of donating equipment and donating funds for equipment for different israeli rescue services and we're very good at that in many areas but sometimes in this area we need to address the issue of aging fleets of trucks and inadequate equipment which makes the firefighters job even more difficult here in israel many of you are not aware of the fact that the equipment has to be state of the art and up to date and all donations of course are welcome um for that uh for that effort moshe geffen welcome to jm in the am thank you for having me here nice to speak welcome to steroids i appreciate that are you familiar with how much snow there was in boston this wednesday i've heard about it i spoke to my family there heard what went on in new york ashkelon had more snow than boston or less snow than boys i say thank you i live in israel i hate snow it is too cold for me it is not for us firefighters you didn't answer my question was there even a centimeter of snow in oshkolon yes there was i i work usually in kirat and ashko and i worked and we had major winds there a little bit of snow i wouldn't even give it an inch but uh it was cold it was cold and we went flying blowing off buildings we couldn't use our crane but uh we worked hard those couple days uh yes well in boston it was a few months anyway uh thank goodness it's melting everywhere at this point this is one of the and i say it this way because i hope this is not taken the wrong way when it comes to certain types of emergency equipment it seems that world jury is very good at providing it and funding it for israel but when it comes to other types sometimes it's forgotten and it comes i believe to fire equipment fire fighting equipment sometimes we're a bit neglectful and we don't realize how it has to be kept up to date and state of the art it has to be at the top of the line um i'll give you an example uh right after the carmel fire uh the jnf asked if i could fly to states since i speak a good english and help raise monies for the fire department uh i came back to israel and uh helped arranging a couple of trucks and we're not talking about the small pumpers we're talking about a large regular american pumper trucks and one of the trucks came to a city i was working in at the time now part of the new equipment that came in now that's something that's standard in all trucks in israel is part of our breathing unit we have a mask we have our own personal mask we have one for the person we have to rescue something that we didn't have too many in israel basic equipment for instance in the u.s exactly and a week after this truck uh came in uh if the truck was donated by dr verturby from california a week after the truck came in my uh friend had a fire now we're not only short on equipment we're also short on manpower at the time a city of steroid or the city of malachi there were two firefighters on shift try and imagine a fire four-story building and you're two firefighters you got to do all the jobs that in the states now with uh the fire of the sun family uh let me just tell you we heard about a multi-shabbis and there was nothing else but all firefighters were at the screen looking at pictures that were on youtube and on the different uh broadcast the news channel the news channels and the thing that's going through our head is that little prayer that goes through every firefighter's head when he goes into a burning house it's nothing to do with his safety uh i have on the inside of my helmet i was thinking the whole time what can i put in there and one of the things i put inside is ana that's what goes through every firefighter's head it's let me if there's someone trapped in there let me get them faster let me get them out fast and i can only imagine what those firefighters went through but on that fire fire there there were the israeli media said there were 100 firefighters working the same type of fire first 20 minutes would be two to three firefighters in israel and go back to what happened with the vertebrae truck uh a week after the truck came in we are learning stole equipment it's a touch screen pump in the back all right all high tech and we're different than what you were used to exactly i'll soon get to the truck we used to have beforehand and they go in and they rescued three children and for adults there was a fire in one of the electric boxes in the building and the thick smoke went up the firefighters didn't see a thing but because they had these masks they got to rescue these the kids now they said they went into the apartment the apartment is just as full smoke as anything else now there's two firefighters they're running up and down the steps they did not take out a drop of water until they got everyone out and at that point they had already changed their air balloons they saved because of the new equipment this is i'm talking about right away within a week you're already saving people and this is with a truck i know about i can't tell you about all the rest of the trucks but you can imagine and all over israel obviously these are needed yes yes yes uh it's equipment there's a top of the line if it's uh for example uh one of the women working for j f uh is yale she arranged uh donations for equipment for volunteers for teenage volunteers and these volunteers turn later on into firefighters the station i'm working right now they're two firefighters they used to be volunteers before well where are you based i'm based but i belong to the ashkelon region which means you could be here anywhere if something happens is one place they always send me uh during battle all right all operations i was based in this uh city here uh the excuse i give my officers if i is i have the experience from gus katief i was bombed there let me keep on being bombed here my wife doesn't agree with that but uh they accept your strategy if they they're always looking for someone to volunteer for something stupid no i'm kidding uh but most firefighters will be always on the first line doing these things right uh just that most live in ashkelon and they want to be closer families if something happens there so if you did this in the united states it's obvious that our listeners or anybody who's in the u.s or anywhere around the world could do the same thing i mean you're essentially raising money to keep the equipment and every firehouse in israel as advanced as possible simple as that and if someone wants to donate for that purpose let me tell you about i told you before i'll tell you about the truck i used to have before this year what was that like it was a mercedes first of all we used to see it in silent movies maybe oh close uh first of all is a mercedes just from the year of 83 84. more advanced yeah let me just ask you a quick question what type of car do you drive i drive a honda odyssey horsepower oh i have no idea over 130 i have no clue all right more than 130 because usually for example all the electric cars hang on a moment zk over it's got to be right yeah all right this truck had 130 horsepower and it's supposed to drive three tons of water not including equipment and men and women we remember two firefighters okay uh the joke about it is that it had air conditioning system it was called a 2x44 45 two windows 45 miles per hour okay this was a truck we had to drive you're laughing but now try and think about it running to a car accident and everyone is passing us of course all right we were ashamed to turn on that siren we'd get there faster okay uh these new trucks save lives on a daily base all right uh during the operations here in israel if it was a tsuketan or fertitsuka excuse me for translating that to english there's a limit how good my english is uh what do we have cast lead and uh what do we call them i forgot already i don't know i like the missile the rocket system the irony and uh protective edge protective actually called it all right i don't know i i like more the the name of the keypad iron yama that was a good one yeah that was a good one uh and also oh here and still the two trucks that are here are jnf trucks and they run from call to call saving lives again between because of the top of the line equipment that is on them it's like equipment that before and they could only dream of in that in a way uh one of the times i flew to the states the first time flew with ariel cutler and uh he arranged for me a couple hours and the rescue two uh teams of uh what's uh fdney oh in new york yeah all those guys are they're amazing they're amazing swear like sailors but they're great people and they i see the equipment they're using and i comparing it to what i have now that's good stuff but again not all trucks are that way all right all right we're still some of the newer trucks are the are have the new equipment the older trucks we're still stuck a century behind all right when it comes to ladders every ladder it's they're very expensive and buildings uh the prices of uh apartments in israel's and cheap so everyone builds high kirat gut for example we have five buildings with 14 floors and we don't have a ladder in the building all right which means we all have to keep in shape running up steps but now this is full gear and you have to hope the elevator works you know what one of the problems is with the the pr in this in this area is that americans or other people around the world never look to israel as a big firefighting place you know whether it's the stone of jerusalem or whether you know what the way the way buildings are built here or the impression that you know firefighters are in their firehouse and barely ever have to come out here they can sleep in their pajamas that type of thing that's always been the oppression here and you're telling us this is not true at all exactly the opposite uh firefighters in israel first of all you have to remember that 80 of people are injured in fires it's from smoke so it doesn't matter if your house is made of stone or wood right the first respond has to be to smoke and you got to save the person and you have to save the person's life two weeks ago i had the fire and kirat and kiragat same story like with the viterbi truck just that my partner that was with me did not have the mask on his breathing unit and he did something that someone called stupid someone called brave and he took off his mask and gave it to to save the person the adult that was running down with him the steps all right he's back to work thank god all right but on one side hand that you have the parents the person that he saved giving him big hug and thanking him and then you have the officers which are right what did you do you risked yourself here okay i was running up and down the steps and i see that we lost one manpower off the manpower remember how many people i told you we aren't shift we were three people on shift to that night okay so it's also manpower it's equipment but we're working our best to do better mosha geffen he's from boston massachusetts a firefighter in oshkolone carryout gots many other areas of this area of israel in this neighborhood of israel uh it's interesting that we're having this conversation just after the the news that you spoke about which really affected the collective jewish heart around the world this has soon tragedy and maybe who knows maybe there's somebody out there who would actually dedicate fire fighting equipment to their memory to israel would be an amazing and they used to live in israel by the way the families this family is from israel yes and uh that would be quite adjusting something quick um while i was in the states one things i told people there i would end uh my uh spiel with the last couple words of saying usually when someone comes to you with a business offer he's offering you you give x amount you get x amount i said exactly i'm also i was also offering an investment but just that mind you don't see a dime back but they do there are they are part of us in saving lives when we go into the fire it's with their equipment it's with equipment that they helped us uh help us use and by us having that equipment we could save more lives and i would really want to thank from here everyone that helped us until now you just described why it's such a good investment yes it is yes it is uh we earn uh and you want people to keep investing yes you know what no i want i want all the credit for myself i'm telling you straight i want all credit for myself but since it won't happen without help so yes i have to ask for uh partners and the people of jnf are just amazing uh if it's a from russell that gives you the best feeling in the world and helps you out any way possible if it's a real that it was always there and uh yael alon from israel also all these people from jnf do an amazing job helping out not only uh the firefighters but everyone else i want to take them from here call it and we thank them as well coach thank you so much my pleasure pleasure meeting you moshe geffen everybody he's a firefighter in this region of israel and has great praise for the jnf and as you heard for very good reason uh watch our video right now live at alcomsegal.com we continue with more from israel right here on a monday at jm in the a.m is ready i ah see my me he me i am is oh foreign is jam in the a.m before 8 o'clock on a monday morning and we are live in state road at the jnf indoor children's playground which has uh shelters attached to it it's pretty amazing facility frankly built by jnf to help with the situation here in state road because they always seem to be when the rockets fall it always seems to be stay road first and most often as we know from past experience here um joelle rosby is here yoel is uh liaison for the jnf ammunition hill project ammunition hill of course this is another thing that parents out there could discuss with their children just like in debbie ammunition hill was featured prominently in the six day war became the historic site of the battle for the reunification of jerusalem jnf along the municipality of jerusalem and the government of israel is assisting in development and renovation of the ammunition home memorial site and there's a lot of stuff going on there joel rosby welcome to jm in the am hi thanks great to be here let's start uh before we talk about the historical aspect let's keep in mind that a week from now a lot of people are going to be landing in israel a lot of our listeners to spend pesach here what can they do at ammunition hill during kolomoi then we'll go back a little bit to the history of the area right well uh to talk a little bit upon that is the fact is is ammunition hillary is after all a memorial site we talk about the reunification of jerusalem the fact that you came to the mamilla mall and there was a barbed wire over there you couldn't pass imagine going down broadway and right before times square you can't pass you have to stamp your passport and we're still talking about that but we want to keep it relevant we want to keep it alive we want to keep kids not just going to another museum so we have guides going through the trenches talking to the kids and then we fit them with laser tag gear and we say you know what you're the jordanians and you're the idf side and i want you guys to come and start working through the trenches and then they have a great time and they enjoy but most of all they open up to listen we bring them down afterwards we talk to them we say you know how it felt when you were coming around that corner and you were scared you were gonna get you know shot by the other side and they're saying yeah it was a little scary so it's a real combination of history and modern day activity yeah and by the way when you have a large family visiting who gets to be the jordanians and who gets to be the israelites yeah i leave that i leave that to the parents side over there how do they choose up sides i'd like to know i'm usually for some reason i play i'm always on the jordanian side with them what am i gonna do imagine that all right so now how do people get information about joining you on colomoid so we are on facebook ammunition hill memorial site on facebook we also have our website www.g h dot org dot il but mainly facebook ammunition hill memorial site everything they'll find they'll find it all right uh some of the things and projects that are part of the initial hill ammunition hill a project the wall of honor uh plaques honoring uh or memorializing people who serve or have served in the military of any country what does that mean ah that's a very interesting project it was a vision of russell robinson the ceo of jewish national funds basically the story of ammunition hill is a story of heroes it's a story of values and there's a common denominator all over the world a jewish combatants that fought for their respective homelands and that's what they fought as jewish combatants so ammunition hill being a symbol of those values is a place that any jewish combatant that fought from the indian army to the u.s marines to the royal jordania to the royal canadian air force i'm sorry can honor his loved one or himself or any honoree it's a wall of uh honor not a memorial wall a lot of live honorees there that are on the wall that can honor their service as a jewish combatant in their respective homeland very interesting point because not everyone had the privilege not every one who wanted to be a soldier had the privilege of being a soldier for the israel defense forces both my grandparents were in the u.s army in the world war ii time and uh it's something very very special it's a project very close to my heart for that reason because when they fought they fought overall as jewish combatants there will be a commemoration memorial hall in addition to that right yes yes there will be uh it's opening jerusalem day may 17th uh this year this year in a few a few short weeks uh that will include the name of every of who ever the 182 idf soldiers that fell in the reunification of jerusalem you know when david melech came to jerusalem he had a bigger idea than getting a good iced coffee in mamila mall having a hotel named after him you know what i mean and one for his son and one for his and what we're trying to do is uh is show everyone that comes to jerusalem it's a short light rail drive or a five-minute drive from the old city you should see what it means to be there what it means to walk through and not just see gap in aroma but rather that you see how we got here 47 short years ago and how there's no barbed wire anymore and the jordanian bunker what's that all about ah the jordanian bunker it is a phenomenal story it's unbelievable against all odds we still studied in commander school on idf reservist we still study that exact battle till today we don't understand it uh there was academic who really had a hand there that's all i can say but the fact is is that uh it's in the movie you're gonna come to ammunition you're gonna hear it but it's an unbelievable story of how two two soldiers they didn't speak a word of anything but hebrew got in and got through the over 16 jordanians that were barricaded in that bunker unbelievable it's in the movie you're going to come you're going to see it and it's a great time invite everyone ammunition hill the i guess we can call it the centerpiece of the battle for jerusalem it is it is and it is uh and it continues to be a project that can it sounds like it continues to expand you're adding more both on the fun side and the historical side right right for people to enjoy and for people to learn about and it's uh all of course with jnf and um information about spending part of your hola muy pesach at ammunition hill and some of their fun activities you can go to their facebook page you can go to the facebook page ammunition hill you can search for it and you'll find there all the activities that will be uh offered during uh this coming column just a couple of weeks from now i thank you very much for being here yeah thank you very much thank you and uh yoel rosby he'll be seeing everybody all of our american friends at ammunition hill this colavoid it's america's one and only jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored wfmu east orange wmfu mount hope rockland county at 91.9 on the fm dial around the world in the web it's jmnam.org normally broadcasting from the sonia and robert gold studios in jersey city new jersey today we're in stay road at the indoor children's playground which has um shelters attached to it uh for the children and adults who might be here during a uh a rocket attack we know of course this past summer when we were here there were many of those thank god it's been relatively quiet recently baruch hashem so everybody out there hopefully is uh paying careful attention this morning and learning about some of the projects that the jnf is involved with including this one where we sit today i also wanted to thank some of the people responsible for today's broadcast a big thank you to jody bodner and shakha hermelin russell robinson the ceo of jnf to our very own danny goldberg for keeping track of things over the last couple of weeks and of course today as well a big shout out to josh mellman and our friends at travel cell who i am told are responsible for us being able to uh finally broadcast today and to make the connection that we needed in order to speak to you today from stay wrote so a big thank you to um to josh and everybody at travel cell you can go to travel cell's website to check out what you need and uh and get what you need for the upcoming uh a trip to israel that you might have scheduled for pesach i want to thank everybody at the inbal hotel our home base in jerusalem whenever we come here to israel a big thank you to stan in our studio to zk and pc guy who are on the spot with us here pc guys available to you at the pcguy.co.il the pc guy dot co dot il and a reminder that the israel show with mayor weingarten including all of the election coverage and explaining how the polls got it wrong and all that other stuff is coming up with mayor starting at nine o'clock this morning right after jm and they am tuned into the israel show live on jmnam.org and where you could see the video right now in nakhon siegel.com simple as that you did yaharosha's with us you did yeah is the j and f liaison located in northwest negev on israel's borders with egypt and gaza khalooza was founded in 2005 by a group of families evacuated by the gush katif communities of atsumona and nitsarim during the disengagement from gaza you did yeah welcome to jm and the am thank you so much a pleasure shalom what was it i i assume you were you part of that group that was thrown out of gushkatif correct and you were living in what city then um the community of watsomona what was it like the last few days there good question it wasn't it wasn't so easy it wasn't good um it felt like uh we're being in a dream and not reality and especially after having to leave after so many years our community in our home uh especially in such a place where we were fighting against the terror all these years it wasn't so easy how old were you then if i may ask um it was my 17th birthday what a way to celebrate huh yeah yeah now at that time i would guess that every family that was thrown out of gushkatif had to make a decision if they were either going to i don't know you know be sad and depressed or try to you know build things in a different area of israel obviously we know what your decision was because it sounds like immediately you and others like you went ahead and decided to build another area of israel so right after the disengagement we say after we got out of those gates of gush katie the people had the decision to make like you mentioned and uh some took the negative side some chose not to be part of a this country and some chose to go to hotels and cry for five or six months and uh we chose to see ourself moving in a building as soon as possible and uh like they say in jnf we decided to turn the page and then what area of israel describe to our listeners i know it's near gaza near egypt but where is it a triangle border near egypt and gaza if you look down on the map of israel right below the gaza strip where the egyptian and the gaza border meet and the israeli border so so you're how many how many miles or kilometers from gaza from gaza i would say we are about a three miles from egypt we're less than a mile and how large less than a quarter of a mile and how large is the community now we started off with 30 families back in 2005 and uh the government didn't give us much hope we had uh two preconditions with the government one was uh that uh it would would not be just a refugee camp for people from gus katie if we had the vision when we went there it wasn't just buildings or it was building an area and the second uh was that it's not going to be an isolated community in israel and we started off with 30 families today where 250 families in three different communities uh mostly not from gus katif and that's our idea we're the fastest growing area in the negative today what are the three communities called nave with a hundred families half of them live in permanent houses already wow and benin and zarim another 100 families with 50 families who moved into permanent houses and the benin sarim and lomit which is the newest community with 50 families that just broke around three years ago it's going to be the biggest town of the area how large can it get um we're hoping that in 10 years we'll be 30 000 people it's pretty amazing it's amazing with with how many families now we're 250 200 2 000 people with large families and you think you can get to 30 000 people we we're sure we will get because if we got from 30 to 250 in less than five years of being in uh permanent houses because as you know to build the whole new community from the ground up takes a lot more than uh just few days it took us a few years so we believe because we have a vision and we're not alone by by saying we're not alone i mean that we have jnf on our side and how have they been helpful um well they've been involved with us since day one helping us develop the ground and then helping us build the synagogue and then helping us build the parks and the kindergartens and the schools and our flagship project on the moment is a building a new brand new medical center that will give services to the area you have to understand if you want to get the family from ranana to move down to the negev and you bring the mom and she gets to the community and she looks around and she sees that there is a an education system for her kids and health service for uh for the family and beautiful park she knows this place as a future that's what it is and um i can tell you that uh the people in hallows are very very passionate very very optimistic and very very enthusiastic about building the negative and we know that this is israel's is is um today's uh big biggest national mission and i gotta tell you when we and i say we the modern orthodox community always focused on yudasha moan and aza which is important very important we forgot about the negev which is 60 percent of the land of israel with only five percent of jewish population and we're changing it we're changing it and we're making the dream come true and we're the new pioneers of 2015 uh you're doing quite a job at it i'll tell you that much and the vision that you have for the future is pretty remarkable that's for sure and it seems that every time we speak with anybody from any developing city in this country it seems that jnf is either behind them or partnering with them or doing something giving them some type of project help the thing is about gnf that they are not donors they are partners facilitators when jennifer comes in and our partners meaning they come in and they say we think your medical center your planning is too small because if you think big you got to think ahead for the next 10 or 15 years so we take the plans and we change them we had a meeting with the ceo of jnf couple weeks ago and uh we showed them the plans and he said uh i'm not a big doctor i'm not into the health system but i think it's too small if you want to be if you if you want to think big you can be just practical and we took the plans and yesterday actually we got the approval to uh double the size to have a dental clinic we're going to have a big yoga room we're going to have a pharmacy it's going to be the full package for a health service and and that's what we do in haluta we're pioneers and we build israel and we do good and i learned a lot of my zionism being in the states i was a i was received the basketball scholarship to uh play in a in highland park new jersey after high school and when i got to meet the jewish community in america and i saw how they look up to israel um i came back to israel a lot more zionist than i was very interesting well you're doing great work here kalakavod thank you continued success in building khalooza and the surrounding areas thank you uh that is uh is doing a lot of great work here so many are and we say kalakavod from all of us here at jm and the air more coming up we're in israel and state road on a monday at jm in the am me i don't know a me foreign yo you so is foreign with a song entitled we're in israel here at jm am and i are number three that's right we are continuing our commitment to strengthen our ties with the state of israel we just had it we just had a review of yeshiva league sports he did yaharoush wait till everybody finds out that i met him here he was reliving some of the memories of 10 years ago from the yeshiva league back home anyway rabbi leor sinai is here he is the co-executive director of the alexander muss high school in israel powered by the jewish national fund uh it's a premier teen israel experience rabbi leora sinai welcome to jm and the am thank you for having me a pleasure where are you from originally brooklyn brooklyn new york are we family brooklyn everyone if you're in brooklyn everybody's like come on the second capital either that or the lower east side guaranteed you're related to half the people out there um so what is the alexander muss high school the alexander must high school is a pluralistic international abroad program here based in israel we bring uh high school students from around the world it starts in ninth grade or no it's actually we prefer 11th 12th graders but we'll take 10th graders uh look uh they're coming here for an extended amount of time so there's a level of maturity we expect yeah uh and uh it started in miami uh 43 years ago in 1972 with their rabbi uh who said we need to have an academic program in israel not just a summer camp in israel and he organized this at the time with the jewish federation in miami and they put that together and since then over 24 000 alumni the program is spread out throughout north america we get 150 students from australia i'm now working with the jewish community in istanbul turkey and our goal is to grow from a thousand students here to 5 000 and become the premier international academic program this may sound like a crazy question but because of the qua relatively high quality jewish education in new york new jersey area do you have less of a percentage of students in that area or not i think it's more because of the competition right there's just a lot of schools a lot of schools uh parents of course are ten you know they're kind of hesitant about sending their student during high school if it's a junior year then there's sats which we provide all of that really um and at the end of the day our our students who do come during this period of time and leave as alumni they're they're our ticket they vouch for our academic standards for all the services we provide and the college prep piece right you come to campus colleges like to see that a high school student has had experience living abroad can you imagine you walk in and say you were three years in israel that i guess that would be pretty impressive rabbi leore sinai is with us um where is the school located so we have two campuses one is in hodasharon 10 15 minutes north of tel aviv depending on how fast you drive and one uh not far from here is eshel hanasi so we have these two beautiful beautiful campuses and uh it's not for more than a year actually we have a semester program so it's an abroad program they come for a semester we work with their home high schools we have 20 day school parks are they cooperative the day schools are there yeah high schools oh yeah well the day schools for sure the private schools and then we also work with the public high school system and they're all into the idea they're in as long as we well we're an accredited institution so all the general studies that any high school student takes by us is received and transferable to their home high schools so as so we we teach the same curriculum and textbooks that they have whether they're from oregon mississippi florida uh and so on are they necessarily doing it in hebrew or can they get a lot of help and and have english courses that's a great question the courses are taught in english we're known as an american high school in israel uh but for example we had a school for a day school from vienna and they requested that it be taught in hebrew so we teach in hebrew easy enough exactly it's israel after all so we're you know we're a service provider so we need to be able to provide not only all the courses not only the ips and abs and all the aps and the high level um but all the languages as well do you take responsibility for youngsters during i don't know vacation weekends etc how does that work it's uh it's a big deal it's a big deal these kids come to us for 24 hours a day seven days a week we fill their house buy it uh and everything else that they need and their teachers and their educators they're 24 hours a day with us we fill up their itinerary with part of their itineraries a trip to poland because we teach the chronology of the jewish people from avinu to i guess now it's bibi again uh all the way through that's right and poland is part of that chronology of our history and what happened in poland and the same thing goes with the whole country israel as the classroom very interesting so they get i guess a lot of field trips and a lot of experiential education just imagine taking primary sources to where things actually happened there's no better teaching than that so you walk around with the tanakh like ben gurion exactly rabbi leorcina i co-executive director of the alexander musk high school in israel how do our listeners get information about this project about this program great question so uh we are at amhsi.org am a-m-a-m-h-s like sinai.org and we are uh program of the jnf.org jnf usa we have staff around the country directors of admissions covering the entire country so they are always ready and happy to answer phone calls to come and visit to organize prospective parents meetings we have a whole marketing team and campaign in place so we are set to support any questions and failed any there must be many alumni who say that this program changed their lives there's got to be i you know we say we we skew the pew you know that whole pure result so we skew it okay and i can tell you that for a fact because we did uh have a survey out there for our 24 000 alumni and out of them i can tell you that over 75 to 80 percent of them for example married someone within the faith uh 77 percent of them are members of chules uh 65 or 70 percent sit on boards i wonder how many have moved to israel we do have alumni close i think 200 that have made a aliyah that have served in the idf that have made israel their permanent home as a result of it but that's not our main goal it's a byproduct right we want to make sure there's a next generation that is prepared and carry the mantle of jewish continuity and israel connectivity around the world how large is the program right now for the school year for we have uh 971 students that's amazing i think that is but we have a lot more to do you won't stop till you get to how many five thousand wow that's our little vote uh rob elior is it sinai or sinai well we're in israel so senate tadara robert lee arsenal executive director am hsi if you search online you get information about all this if it's in an 11th or 12th grader then certainly they're writers too and 10th also but uh you know the ninth graders can wait a year and then they can come back uh amazing stuff we're learning this morning and this high school the alexander rice high school is powered by the jnf by the jewish national fund kalakavod from all of us here at jm and the a i want to thank our friend the pc guy who's your one stop for all your technology and needs in your shalom and many of your technologies worldwide if you need a brand new pc or your existing pc tuned up you call them if you need a brand new printer scanner fax copy or have trouble with your existing one you call them if your radio show to set up you need someone to go into the field in advance to check things out you call them if you need to back up your pc even if you're not in israel but 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wrote with our friends at the jewish national fund and ben gutman is here from new jersey described to us as a jnf leader he and his family are members of the century council of jnf and uh he's president of the northern new jersey jnf board ben gutman welcome to jm and the am thanks it's nice to be here and see you in steroids i appreciate that very much and uh welcome to today uh tell us about some of the projects you've been involved with recently i know you i know that no fe prot is one of them describe it to our audience well we built a park uh our family built a park dedicated to my grandparents that were uh killed in auschwitz and they don't have any memorial to them there obviously so we decided to do something for the children of and we built a park there and that is quite a memorial to say the least here in the state of israel and every time you come to israel we try to go to norfolk not just to see the park but to interact with the people who tell us it helped change the lives of the children there how long have you been involved with jnf uh 12 years and what was the first initial uh you know entre into the organization well that's a good question uh in 2003 i told my wife that for my birthday in which is in water i was going to go to israel it was the middle of the second intifada and she told me you're crazy he said no no i'm going to go to israel and i'm going to find a tour that's going and everybody else but j f cancelled their trips to israel and jnf decided we know county people going we're going and i went with them and was very impressed by all the work that they're doing here and became more and more involved over time very nice the first impressive thing was that they didn't cancel the trip ben gutman is here the uh the biblical garden where is it and what purpose does it serve okay we're building the bible garden in an organization called lotem which makes nature accessible to those people with special needs all kinds of special needs it's in or near yokniam uh the farm is called emek shalom and that talk will help children with special needs get out in nature there's going to be a part about the uh creation story the seven days of creation so people that might not otherwise understand all those things will have an ability now not now to appreciate what do you suggest when you go back to new jersey to friends and family about what they should come and see in israel and specifically about the jnf projects well first of all i tell them if they're involved with jnf they really can't understand what jnf is doing until they come and see but we have another promise just trying to get people to come to israel so for my 60th birthday when we dedicated the park in norfolk uh we brought 50 friends and relatives with us to see what's going on in israel that's the way to do it huh one way to increase tourism increase tourism and hopefully increase zionism no question about that um how's the northern new jersey area in general doing when it comes to israel and the jnf you're ahead of the board what kind of feeling do you get from the later leadership there well i think we're doing very well but you know northern new jersey is very diverse we have a big orthodox community in teaneck angle and fail on which we're trying to attract uh we have conservative synagogues all over and reform and we're trying to reach out to all of them and we're making progress but there's a lot of competition for people's philanthropy dollars no question about it but we would think israel would have a leg up hopefully well that's what we think too right and jnf is israel so we can get people at least to understand what we're doing in israel and hopefully eventually come and see what we're doing in israel and then i think we have them uh it's a pleasure meeting you thank you so much for joining us today thank you thank you it's nice to be here i appreciate that ben gutman who has along with his wife susan and children are visiting israel and they are part of the uh uh century council of the jnf and they have a um they have uh quite a recommendation to everybody and that's come see what these projects are all about and how much uh and how amazing some of the things that are going on in israel actually are more coming up this is jm in the am hey oh is hey i told hello hey on hmm oh foreign is that says it all doesn't it monday morning at jm and the a i'm a big thank you to those who got us to our amazing total friday at fundraising marathon 2015 dedicating uh our visit to israel uh this time around of course the sasoon family who uh had such a terrible tragedy as we've all heard and a tragedy that affected the collective jewish heart in a very painful way over shabbat and that funeral takes place all the funerals i should say takes place at 3 30 this afternoon in jerusalem our thoughts with the friends and relatives of course and everybody feeling at least a bit if not more of of a kinship to this hassun family after what happened jm and the am we made a commitment to continue uh to shore up the bond between our listeners and the state of israel and sure enough we continue that commitment today by being here at the stay wrote indoor playground indoor children's playgrounds they wrote that was built by jnf if you're watching at knockhamsequal.com that's what you're seeing in the background roni flammer is with us rony's founder of the r movement we first heard of the arm movement years and years ago it was founded in 2002 by a group of young idealistic israelis dedicated to making the dream of populating the negev and galil a reality some might add the word crazy to that description because a lot of folks who were involved in the early days of the art movement really thought they were taking a big risk a big chance maybe not knowing what they were doing and maybe they were a little crazy roni flemmer welcome to jm in the a.m welcome so was it crazy or not it wasn't uh and it's still crazy but to be a jew it's a crazy thing you know it's always disagree with that so to take the challenges and the missions and always a big vision in front of us and uh or you know the meaning of this word is light right so we don't fight the darkness we just uh adding light how do we judge if the first 13 years of the r movement have been a success well it's uh quite easy to measure because we put a very clear goal which is to build new communities and to bring more than 20 000 people to live in the negev and in the gallery so after 13 years you can see that there are about eight new towns and lots of uh places that we expended by the way hand with hand with the jnf and of course there are more than 30 000 people who came and just uh it's it's getting bigger every day what would be a good example give me a good southern town example of the arm movement success so i think that the flagship is really commit it's to take a place that uh it's a new town that uh as you just said a crazy idea and to say guys they are going to live here 10 000 people in three years and suddenly against all odds and you know people for some reasons like to be pessimistic about chances and the bureaucracy of israel i don't think that this is the right way but suddenly you can say that in one year 470 lots uh were made and more than 350 families registered and started to build their homes and people are even you know making aliyah and leaving the tel aviv area and moving to this place it's amazing and i think that this is amazing maybe the craziest thing ronnie flomer is with us is there any basic service that was not there at the beginning i mean when when you and others of the young people started moving into these areas was there such a thing as water phone service and things like that well everything was in the negev but not in every place right so it's really to be pioneer and inspire on your thinking and pioneer your actions and so you remember the early days not having what what was it like in the early days so i can tell you that in the first community that we established i remember russell robinson coming with the first mission of jnf to to sansana and uh you know they are they are looking for the bathroom and and they even they dare to think that there are going to be water in this bathroom he said it's not the hour of the water at this day and they say guys it's 2000 it's not 1948. and so i i think that we were privileged even to face the the pioneering spirit of the forefathers of this nation as well and and yes it didn't start always with the electricity and phones oh i forgot about electricity of course yeah so it's not it's not it was not there from the first place but i think that this is uh let's say this these are not the big problems the real challenge is the spirit always and to make sure that there is a movement of young activists in israel that still want to build this country and are there still still and it's growing you can tell this audience that there are plenty of young people absolutely who are ready to continue to build this land absolutely more than 30 groups that so far started uh their own community or their own community in existing development town or kibbutz or moshav even in this day we are here in steroids in this uh unbelievable place and in achalas for example which was a flag of the last war in gaza right now again with jnf 18 families are making their way to live there in the coming summer and three of them already moved because they want to be part of this community and not wait till the summer so miracles are happening it sounds like it's infectious to a degree that the word is spreading and that young people are spreading that word amongst themselves and that spirit that you speak about seems to be as alive as ever which is pretty amazing absolutely we just need the courage and the sleep of faith of saying it and and call to people and say guys there are still missions and we found more and more we let's say that the demand is more than the supply right we need we need today to invent uh new products let's call it zionist products because the demand is so huge uh i'm from a family that is living uh originally from the center we don't call it the center anymore the center is in the negative but but what do parents and grandparents say to people like you especially when they left that pioneering spirit behind and you know built themselves nice homes with indoor plumbing in the center of israel what do they say to people like you when you make these decisions so i i can tell you that my grandparents at the beginning they didn't understand what we are doing they said we did it when we established and and you should make money and you should rely take care of yourself yeah you weren't you're a fighter in in in the army so do something with your life you are just throwing everything so it's it's a process that they understood in the end of the day and they were very proud after a few years that they understood what is going on and they saw the girls not just the dream or crazy dream and i can tell you that uh two of my uh my sister and my brother moved my sister is moving to the negev another brother moved my parents are considering moving to the negev and i have another brother moved to the north so the old family is in this uh pioneers yeah but you know see the housing crisis in israel see the gaps that we are all day long discussing just after the elections now in the end of the day the negev and the galilee are the vision of israel this is the future and this is where in a personal level and in a very idealistic level you can build yourself and this country at the same time in some communities the mothers and the wives are pushing everybody to do this right the spirit of the ladies of the jewish people is really giving a big pioneering push right absolutely first we know who in the end of the day takes the decisions yeah we never mistaken in this uh but you know when we started we had these paolo meetings that we came and we were the clowns with the crazy ideas at the beginning and suddenly we saw that our supporters are this men who were dreaming about camels and four wheel drives tours etc but we understood that they are not taking the decisions so we have a condition if they are not 50 women at the room we are not coming and this is the real decision makers and they know and they have their checklist and once they have you know a a good uh a good direction and so then you know man i have i have five daughters i have another what does it say about the ta'arez right it's really the women who love the land of israel even more than the men of the jewish people absolutely absolutely and if they but you know at the first time i remember again jennifer and us we we had a meeting with the group in gevodbar and they were asking them guys what will make you take the decision to really move not only to come for these tours and then they said one of the women said i want to see a park i want to see a kindergarten i want to see a synagogue and that's how we started to develop this jnf or movement methodology of all the public facilities in these communities and it really works build it and they will come or build it and the decision of the woman will come because they know what's important to raise to raise children um can you name a couple of other people that were instrumental at the beginning with you was it a lot was it 30 people or were there just a couple that were uh we started it was a phil fisher and his father doodoo is always very involved you know uh not only singing for us but open lots of doors uh and it was near bluestein and it was uh kobovich the four of us and four people four people uh you know just came back in the age of 17 back from you know there is a tour for uh uh 17 years old the kids in israel going to the camps to see what happened in the holocaust marginal living yeah and we came back and said not that it's only not that it's not going to happen again but we are going to dedicate our life for something that is much bigger than us and to make sure that israel is going to be the best country to live in we never thought of the negev and the galilee when you live next to tel aviv you are not aware of it but yeah the four of us started it but thank god today uh it's a huge movement when do do fisher on this show first told us about his son's involvement so i i looked at him like you know how did this happen and he saw the amazement on my face and he looked at me and he said rebecca i don't know where i went right most people say they don't know where they went wrong he doesn't know where he went right but he was laughing at us on shabbat after dinner we came to the fisher's house and we were dreaming about this day after the army that will do something and he was entering with dover into there and say guys you are crazy i don't believe it happy it is happening in my living room and he's a dreamer and he says he's a dreamer unbelievable yeah uh roni it's a pleasure to meet you a real jewish hero in my opinion thank you very much thank you for what you're doing thank you so much ronnie flemmer uh they're doing incredible work with the arm movement and it's something that jnf jnf's proud of all their projects but this one they are really off the charts proud every single time i see russell robinson at some point we get into a conversation about the arm movement it's really amazing uh ready to wrap things up on a monday morning at jm in the am i thank you all for tuning in and of course uh tomorrow we're at the dear shoe world see them at the nokia center in tel aviv we'll be there actually for two days officially i guess because we'll be doing the show live before the event tomorrow morning and wednesday's show is going to be during the event that takes place tomorrow night so make sure to um tune in and join us for that before we get back uh thursday with mayor ferdigan studio uh mayor weingarten is coming up mayor weingarten has the newest edition of the israel show coming up at nine o'clock this morning why were all the polls wrong he'll ask in his post-election wrap-up analysis the unintended consequences of president obama's pre-election actions a survey of reaction in israel and what happens now plus always the best israeli music featuring a new pesach song by aaron rozelle it's all happening on the israel show coming up next between nine and ten o'clock on our stream at jmdam.org is um do do you still believe in one another there's nothing in this world i wouldn't do what if i'm far from home there's nothing in this world i tried carrying the weight of the world but i only had two i hope i hands a chance to travel the world but i don't have any plans foreign i'm older all this time i was finding myself uh ahenu great song from the maccabeats jm am on a monday uh some thank yous for the programming today and for this week big thank you to miriam wallach general manager of the nothim segal network um big thank you to a igal siegel who continues to be a great assistant whether we're in the united states or in israel a big thank you to shakha hermelin to joey bodner jody bodner rather than thanking joey now i should thank joey as well why not i'm sure he enjoyed the jnf show jody bodner to russell robinson the ceo of jnf usa uh danny goldberg our very own i thank him for all his help in advance of this show the pc guy who you could find just search him on the web for god's sake you don't have to call his phone number just search his name he comes up like almost instantaneously for the pc guy uh big thank you to zk big thank you to stan in our studio the israel show comes up next with mayor weingarten big thank you to our friends at um travel cell contact travel cell for your trip to israel for pesach and um they are responsible for getting us connected to the usa today and i thank them for that thank you josh mellman everybody at travel so thank you to the imbal hotel our home base you heard alex hermann on during our big fundraiser last week they love donating uh they love donating their facilities to us for both studio and lodging i thank them the in-ball hotel who am i forgetting anybody am i forgetting anybody uh travel cell the inval a big thank you to all of them from all of us here at the jm and the am radio program uh as we said the uh a big thank you to all of our listeners for getting us to an amazing total last friday during our j m fundraising marathon tomorrow will be at the menorah mev tachem arena that's the brand new name what used to be called the nokia arena we're told it's the menorah miv tahim arena that's where they're going to be doing the deer shoe world cm we'll be there tomorrow live then of course wednesday's show will be from the actual cm tuesday night so you're able to hear all the action thursday mayor ferdick will be back in studio at jm and the am in jersey city and of course our hearts continue as we've been saying all morning long and i cannot say it enough times because the collective jewish heart has been uh affected so deeply by the tragedy of the sassoon family of brooklyn new york uh they they lived in israel before they lived in brooklyn and the funerals the burials of the uh seven members of the family are going to be taking place at 3 30 this afternoon just about a half hour from now at haram and you shall i am our thoughts and prayers with friends and relatives of this assumed family of this horrific tragedy which has affected really the jewish world collectively not just people in brooklyn or their immediate family and friends but everybody was affected by this terrible tragedy on shabbos um and that's that we will uh continue tomorrow from tel aviv as we said with the dear shoe world serum and that'll be tuesday and wednesdays jm and there miriam walk thank you very very much thank you we continue to meet incredible people every time we come here this was i this was an unbelievable list of people today yeah we met real jewish heroes here today and subjects of some very interesting shiva league uh news from the past as well we really covered the gamut i could tell you that much that's for sure and then there were heroes okay right yeah and we had met people who were in tubby exactly we had yeah brothers and sisters in israel we are with you it's your favorite america's one and only jewish moments in the morning radio program heard of listeners sponsored wfmu east orange wmfu mount hope rockland county at 91.9 on the fm dial around the world on the web jmdam.org and that will close out our broadcast from the children's indoor children's playground and stay road thank you jewish national fun tomorrow from the menorah miftahim arena in tel aviv for the dear shoe world see them a world event that is probably going to have over a hundred thousand people participate in all different locations will be the main one tomorrow in tel aviv uh mayor weingarten is next with the israel show and a lot of post-election analysis stay with us on the stream all day long at jmdm.org till tomorrow from uh the menorah in marina and tel aviv it's not home single reminding you remember to pass live the present and trust the future so you