Students from the elementary school of the Sha'ar HaNegev region have collected Hebrew books from among their personal libraries, and are sending them to the Chabad Hebrew Academy in San Diego. Twenty classroom trailers of the school burned down in the huge wildfires that blazed through southern California two weeks ago.
Some of the books have already been sent, and the second installment of the donation will be made tomorrow. Sha'ar HaNegev students will meet tomorrow with representatives of the San Diego Jewish community; the latter are visiting Israel in the framework of the General Assembly of Jewish American organizations.
Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council head Alon Shuster told Arutz-7's Moshe Priel, "At a time when Jewish centers around the world are attacked and threatened, and when former Jewish Agency head Avraham Burg eulogizes Zionism - the 'working settlement' enterprise in Israel continues to strengthen its wide-ranging ties with Jewish communities around the world.
In other Chabad news, the movement has decided to add extra safeguards to its many missions and Chabad Houses all around the world, following the double bombing in Turkey and assorted Al-Qaeda threats against Jewish targets. The worldwide Jewish movement is in contact with the Israeli defense establishment on the matter.
Some of the books have already been sent, and the second installment of the donation will be made tomorrow. Sha'ar HaNegev students will meet tomorrow with representatives of the San Diego Jewish community; the latter are visiting Israel in the framework of the General Assembly of Jewish American organizations.
Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council head Alon Shuster told Arutz-7's Moshe Priel, "At a time when Jewish centers around the world are attacked and threatened, and when former Jewish Agency head Avraham Burg eulogizes Zionism - the 'working settlement' enterprise in Israel continues to strengthen its wide-ranging ties with Jewish communities around the world.
In other Chabad news, the movement has decided to add extra safeguards to its many missions and Chabad Houses all around the world, following the double bombing in Turkey and assorted Al-Qaeda threats against Jewish targets. The worldwide Jewish movement is in contact with the Israeli defense establishment on the matter.