Day by Day Photo Gallery

Solidarity Mission to Israel
August 12-19, 2001
23-30 Av, 5761

Day 2-3 - Tuesday-Wednesday, August 14-15
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OU Board of Directors Member Stanley Rosenberg
introduces Mateh Binyamin Mayor,
Pinchas Wallerstein, to OU/RCA Solidarity Mission

OU President Harvey Blitz looks on as Michael Salzbank presents a check for $15,000, which he raised from his business associates, towards the purchase of the region's first bulletproof wheelchair accessible van.  The remainder of the purchase price - totaling over $30,000 was raised immediately by other mission participants and presented to
Pinchas Wallerstein, Chairman of Mateh Binyamin

Stanley Rosenberg with other Mission members trying on 70 pound Bulletproof Vests at Mateh Binyamin High School Yeshiva, Beit El

Mission participants view Beit El's Arab neighbors in Ramallah,
from key IDF army position

Moshe Ayal, Director of the Mateh Binyamin Yeshiva High School welcoming Harvey Blitz and Rabbi Moshe Krupka

David Wilder, Hevron Spokesperson, addresses the OU/RCA
group in the courtyard of the Ma'arat HaMachpela

L-R - Harvey Blitz, David Wilder, Steve Savitsky and Rabbi Moshe Krupka inside the Ma'arat HaMachpela

Outside the Avraham Avinu neighborhood of Hevron,
at the foot of the Abu Sneneh hills

Outside Beit Hadassah in Hevron

Inside Ma'arat HaMachpela

Seymour J. Abrams, OU Vice Chairman, Board of Directors,
and Jessica Grossman recite Tehilim inside Ma'arat HaMachpela

The OU/RCA Mission, over 150 strong, outside the Ma'arat HaMachpela

OU/RCA Solidarity Mission giving "chizuk" to the soldiers at a Ramallah Observation Post on the roof of the Yeshiva in Beit El

David Wilder, Hevron Spokesperson, addresses the OU/RCA
group in the Ma'ara

The OU/RCA Solidarity Mission participants in the Ma'ara

The group entering Beit Hadassah

Young children playing in Beit Hadassah

David Wilder in the Avraham Avinu Shul in Hevron

Rabbi Benjamin Yudin in the Avraham Avinu Shul in Hevron

Seymour J. Abrams inspecting an old Sefer Torah in the ark of the Avraham Avinu Shul in Hevron

Seymour J. Abrams with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin outside the Yeshivat Hamivtar in Efrat

Betty Ehrenberg, Director, International Affairs and Communal Relations, introduces Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to the OU/RCA Solidarity Mission with Harvey Blitz and Stephen Savitsky, Mission Chairman,
at the dais

Foreign Minister Shimon Peres with Harvey Blitz,
addressing the OU/RCA Solidarity Mission

Rabbi Moshe Krupka, OU Director of Synagogue and Community Services with US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer and his wife Sheila, with Steve Savitsky and his wife Genie

US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer Addresses
OU/RCA Solidarity Mission

Photos provided by Avi Dobuler, one of the OU Mission Tour Guides.
Land arrangements were facilitated by the OU Travel Desk at the Seymour J. Abrams Orthodox Union Jerusalem World Center in cooperation with Modiin Tours.  

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