Gil-Ad, and Naftali Hy”d,“If programs like Kesher Yehudi were operating in secondary schools, there would be far fewer problems in Israeli society today.”,In the Merit of Eyal, Gil-Ad, and Naftali Hy”d,“If programs like Kesher Yehudi were operating in secondary schools, there would be far fewer problems in Israeli society today.”
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This coming month marks the second yahrtzeit of Eyal Yifrach Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel Hy”d the three teens who were murdered in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists. But aside from the painful memories that their yahrtzeit brings their parents made sure to bring some light into the world in their merit.
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The Jerusalem Unity Prize established in honor of the three boys will this year be awarded to Kesher Yehudi a nonprofit organization dedicated to drawing different sectors of Am Yisrael closer together. The award which is accompanied by a 100 000 NIS prize will be awarded to the organization’s founder Tzila Schneider in a ceremony at the president’s house on June 1.
Kesher Yehudi was founded in 2009 by Mrs. Schneider a 48-year-old religious mother of 11 who saw the need to bring secular and religious Jews closer together.
Yermiyahu Rock and Ron Peleg are a perfect example of what Kesher Yehudi does. Rabbi Rock from Beitar is an avreich learning in the kollel of Yeshivat Aish HaTorah while Ron 19 is enrolled in Nachshon Pre-Military Academy at Kibbutz Shoval in the Negev. The pair began learning together last Succos as part of the Mechinah Program which gives students attending pre-military academies an injection of Jewish learning and assigns each student a personal chavrusa. Since then they have developed a close relationship. They meet regularly to learn stay in touch by telephone and have visited each other on their “home ground.”
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