Volume 8, Issue 3 / Adar I 5765 / March 2005
Jewish Agency News
Marching for Israel's Defense
Jonny is a chayal boded, an oleh who came on aliyah alone and serves in the army without family in Israel.
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On Your Marks, Get Set, Go - Cross Country!
Asher and his thirteen cross-country runners, who have won five trophies in recent competitions, live at the Ben Yakir Youth Aliyah Village, a short distance from Hadera off of Israel's coastal road.
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"A Country to Live In"
"I always knew I didn’t want to live in Russia," says Nadia Levinson, "but I didn't have a country I want to live in. Now I feel that Israel is my home."
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Firefighters
Their very first week as volunteer firefighters in the coastal city of Ashdod, Ruth Newman of Dublin, Avital Jacobs of London, and Ari Sherr of Melbourne, found themselves aiming active fire hoses, extinguishing flames at the front of a burning building, and trying not to be blown back by the enormous pressure of the water.
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