"I felt bad during the war for the children of Sderot who had to go to school and come back with the constant thought they could be hit by a Kassam rocket at any given second," - Benjamin Davis (13 year old who donated $40,000, i.e. his bar mitzvah money, to the town of Sderot to build a playground.Last week there were two high profile stories of chutz l'aretz Jews donating and raising money for Israel.
Mysterious 92 year-old Woman Donates 100,000 to Hebrew U
Her name was Ida Fischer and she was a holocaust survivor. Her will specifies that Hebrew University gets half of Fischer's $250,000 estate. Her family got the rest. She never attend Hebrew University. She was Born Ida Blumin in Vienna and her mother, Louisa, escaped the Nazis in 1939, Szanto and university officials said.
When "the Gestapo came to take her and her mother away," she told them the people they were looking for lived two floors up, Szanto said. Fischer fled to Paris, then New York.
(Source: Vosizneias)
A Bar Mitvah Boy Donates $40,000 to build a park in Israel
Benjamin Sternklar Davis, 13-years-old and from New York, decided to give the money he received for his bar mitzvah to the town of Sderot.
"I felt bad during the war for the children of Sderot who had to go to school and come back with the constant thought they could be hit by a Kassam rocket at any given second," Benjamin said.
David Buskila, the mayor of Sderot, thanked Benjamin and gave him a decorated prayer shawl as a token of appreciation for his donation.
(Source: JTA)
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