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Chabad's Terror Victims Project Rushes to Area Hospitals Following Gaza Rocket Attack on IDF Army Base
(September 11) CTVP teams spent much of the day visiting with families and with most of the 69 wounded soldiers.  |
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Rosh Hashana Campaign Under Way
(September 1) Through your generosity, Chabad's Terror Victims Project will make sure that widows and widowers, orphans, and injured Israelis and Israeli soldiers, will mark the holidays with dignity.  |
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Bar Mitzva for Boy Wounded by Gaza Mortar Shell
(August 23) Three years have passed since that terrifying moment, when a mortar shell fired from Gaza landed in Neveh Dekalim in Gush Katif, critically wounding 10 year-old Roni.  |
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CTVP Continues to Aid Sderot Victims
(August 9) During this week's visit to Israel's hard-hit, southern city of Sderot, Chabad's Terror Victims Project dispatched aid to some of its residents injured and traumatized by the ongoing spate of rocket attacks.  |
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A Katyusha Victim Returns to Site of Bombing to Thank His Rescuers
(August 8) A Katyusha attack left Michoel Fuks fearing for his life, but thanks to the help of onlookers and Chabad’s Terror Victims Project, he’s able to look forward to at least a partly normal life.  |
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'To Sderot's Children, From South Africa'
(July 2) Scores of Sderot children who were injured in Kassam rocket attacks and who lost their homes have received toy-filled gift baskets from the Jewish community of Durban, South Africa.  |
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From Milwaukee With Love
(June 24) The generosity of Chabad of Downtown in Milwaukee, WI, will be felt this summer by victims of terror throughout Israel.  |
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CTVP Lauds 'Big Sisters' to Young Terror Victims
(June 14) At a year-end celebration, Chabad's Terror Victims Project feted scores of young women who served as "Big Sisters" to children whose parents and siblings were murdered in terrorist attacks.  |
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Chabad's Terror Victims Project Holds Special Event for Sderot, Ashkelon Families (June 13) Tens of families from Israel's southern cities of Ashkelon and Sderot who have fallen victim to terror attended an emotional event highlighted by the inscription of letters into a Sefer Torah.  |
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Amid Raining Rockets, CTVP Distributes 1,500 Challahs and Food Packages to Sderot Residents (May 27) As five Kassam rockets rained down over the city of Sderot, volunteers from Chabad’s Terror Victims Project went out into the streets and distributed food packages for Shabbat to 1,500 residents.  |
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CTVP Rushes to Hospitals to Aid Wounded Sderot Residents (May 17) Chabad’s Terror Victims Project has rushed to the hospital bedsides of Sderot residents wounded in the ongoing Kassam rocket barages on Israel's southern town.  |
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CTVP Holds Bar Mitzvah for Boy Orphaned by Suicide Bomber (May 16) Chabad’s Terror Victims Project has made possible a special bar mitzvah ceremony for a boy whose mother was murdered by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv.  |
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On Memorial Day, Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder with the Families of Israel's Fallen
(April 23) On this emotionally wrenching day for Israeli families, CTVP emissaries participated in memorial ceremonies throughout the country.  |
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An Urgent Call to Participate in CTVP's 'Shmurah Matzoh' & 'Maos Chitim' Campaign
(March 21) With only days to Pesach, Chabad's Terror Victims Project reminds you that you can help Israeli families victimized by terror in one of two ways:  |
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Pre-Passover 'Journey of Chesed' Bolstered by American Delegation
(March 20) CTVP's pre-Passover 'Journey of Chesed' visit to scores of terror victims received a special boost from a visiting American delegation.  |
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CTVP's Pesach Campaign in Full Swing
(March 20) Chabad's Terror Victims Project is well into its Pesach Campaign for Israeli families victimized by terrorism.  |
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From Los Angeles With Love
(March 15) A community in Pacific Palisades, CA, has come to the aid of a Jerusalem father who lost his son in a terror attack and who, himself, must undergo a serious operation.  |
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CTVP Celebrates Purim With Terror Victims
(March 13) Chabad's Terror Victims Project celebrated Purim with 2,500 families of victims of terror throughout Israel.  |
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Israel's Channel 10 Broadcasts CTVP Interview
(February 12) Israel's Channel 10 broadcast an interview with CTVP Director Rabbi Menachem Kutner and the mother of a slain Israeli soldier.  |
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CTVP Holds Public Memorial One Week After Eilat Terror Attack
(February 6) Seven days after Eilat suffered its first terror attack, relatives of the victims, local residents and diginitaries visited the site of the tragedy at a memorial planned by Chabad's Terror Victims Project.  |
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Planting Hope for Tu B'Shvat
(February 2) CTVP spent Jewish Arbor Day visiting orphans and terror victims who once lived in Gush Katif.  |
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Suicide Bomber Kills Three in Eilat Terrorist Attack
(January 29) A 21-year-old suicide bomber killed three people when he detonated a belt with about eight kilograms of explosives in a bakery in Eilat. It's the first ever suicide attack in Israel's southern resort city.  |
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Hamodia Newspaper Profiles CTVP (January 11) Hamodia, the Jewish Orthodox daily newspaper published in the U.S., U.K. and Israel, has profiled Chabad's Terror Victims Project.  |
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Computers Link to Terror Victims in Israeli Hospitals
(January 4) For two Sderot teenagers who nearly lost their lives in a December 26 rocket attack, two laptops donated by Chabad will make it possible for them to communicate from their respective hospitals during what will be many months of rehabilitation.  |
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Dramatic Lightings From Kotel, Sderot and Nahariya Broadcast Worldwide
(December 24) For the 19th consecutive year, Chabad broadcast internationally its Chanukah lightings. This year's ceremony included terror victims from Jerusalem and the besieged cities of Sderot and Nahariya, all for the world to see.  |
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Remembering Our Soldiers in Captivity
(December 24) At a Chanukah lighting sponsored by Chabad, more than 1,000 Israelis stood in solidarity as Tzvi Regev, father of kidnapped IDF soldier Eldad Regev, lit the seventh candle.  |
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Chanukah Lighting: Beit She'an (December 20) It was exactly four years ago -- one week before Chanukah--that Chabad Shaliach of Beit She'an, Rabbi Yaakov Shmuelevitz, erected the menorah on the roof of the Beit Chabad in preparation of the holiday.
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Chanukah Lighting: Petach Tikvah (December 20) During the last five years, the city of Petach Tikvah has been struck by terrorist attacks. Chabad's Terror Victims Project, wanting to bolster the strength and spirit of the families ravaged by these acts of terror, planned a Chanukah celebration in their honor.
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Chanukah Lighting: Gush Katif (December 20) On November 27, 2001, Mrs. Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani, was killed, and three Israelis were injured, when a Palestinian terrorist threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.  |
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Chabad Launches 'The Light Will Triumph'
Chanukah Outreach & Solidarity Campaign
(December 15) Chabad's Terror Victims Project is once again showing solidarity with survivors of terrorist attacks and victims' families by placing them at the center of this year's Chanukah lightings throughout Israel.  |
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Netanya Officials Praise CTVP as 'First Responder'
(December 10) At the dedication of a memorial to terror victims in the hard-hit coastal city of Netanya, officials praised Chabad's Terror Victims Project for consistently being the first to offer assistance to victims and their families.  |
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Kfar Chabad Magazine Profiles CTVP
(November 2) The Magazine describes CTVP's efforts during the recent war and its continued outreach efforts to date. (Transcribed from the Hebrew.)  |
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From Uruguay's Children With Love
(October 18) Young Israeli children victimized by terror received a special gift for the holidays from their peers at Uruguay’s largest Jewish schools: flags for Simchat Torah.
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CTVP Completes Rosh Hashana Campaign
With tears and with thank you cards, families are thanking Chabad's Terror Victims Project for bringing gift baskets, honey bottles and good cheer into their homes for the new year.  |
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Chabad Campers Make Care Packages for Israeli Soldiers
(September 26) In a joint program with CTVP, children from Orange, County, NY, enjoyed decorating beautiful cards and packaging them for soldiers in Israel  |
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Acre Mayor Lauds CTVP War Effort
(September 26) Acre Mayor Shimon Lancri has praised Chabad's Terror Victims Project for its assistance to the besieged city during the Second Lebanon War.  |
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CTVP Launches Pre-Rosh Hashana Campaign
Chabad's Terror Victims Project has launched its pre-holiday campaign to bring gift baskets and honey bottles to more than 2,500 Israeli families whose lives have been forever changed by terrorism.  |
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LA Residents in Good-Will Mission for Israeli War Victims (August 29) Chabad's Terror Victims Project-which continues to bring aid, comfort and encouragement to Israelis ravaged by the Second Lebanon War-led a special three-day mission to hard-hit northern cities last week with three prominent benefactors from Los Angeles.  |
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Jerusalem Post Homefront Coverage Mentions CTVP (Aug. 11) The Jerusalem Post mentioned of Chabad's Terror Victims Project in its coverage of the Hizbullah war against Israel.  |
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The Media Line Profiles Chabad's Terror Victims Project
(August 10) The Media Line has profiled Chabad's Terror Victims Project.
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CTVP Holds Bar Mitzvah for Boy Orphaned by Hizballah Barrage (August 10) Chabad’s Terror Victims Project has made possible a special bar mitzvah ceremony for a boy whose father was murdered last month in a rocket assault over Haifa.  |
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Emergency Support for Israel’s Wounded Citizens in the North (July 27) Representatives of Chabad’s Terror Victims Project are disbursed throughout Israel on the vital and sensitive mission to give strength, support, and assistance to families whose loved ones have perished or sustained serious injury in this escalating conflict.  |
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A Dispersed Family From Safed (July 27) During last week’s rocket barrage in Safed, Meir, a 54-year-old father of eight, tried desperately to get to an emergency bomb shelter. Tragically, he did not make it in time.  |
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Chabad Couple Gives Thanks for Surviving Terrorist Attack (July 24) A Chabad rabbi and his wife who recovered from injuries sustained in a recent terrorist attack were feted by Chabad's Terror Victims Project.  |
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Chabad's Terror Victims Project Rushes to Besieged Nahariya (July 19) Officials of Chabad's Terror Victims Project and Tzeirei Agudat Chabad-Israel rushed to Israel's northern city of Nahariya after it sustained several direct hits from oncoming Katyusha rocket fire.  |
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Jerusalem Post Homefront Coverage Mentions CTVP (July 19) The Jerusalem Post mentioned of Chabad's Terror Victims Project in its coverage of the Hizbullah war against Israel.  |
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Ynetnews.com Profiles CTVP
(July 18) Ynetnews.com, the Israel-based internet news site, has profiled Chabad's Terror Victims Project's assistance to war-torn Israeli children.
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Chabad's Terror Victims Project Responds to Hizbullah Terror Barrage
(July 17) "Entire Family Hit By Katyusha," read the weekend headlines in Israel's newspapers, describing the fate of the Mor family of Safed after a Hizbullah-launched Katyusha rocket struck their home.  |
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CTVP Holds Kotel Bar Mitzvah for Orphan
(July 17) Nir Chai was only eight years old when his father was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in South Hebron.  |
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A Call to All Jews to Pray for the Welfare and Safe Return of Kidnapped IDF soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit
The parents of kidnapped IDF soldier and Cpl. Gilad Shalit (Gilad ben Aviva) have asked a visiting Chabad Shaliach to urgently issue a call to all Jews to fervently pray for the welfare and safe return of their son.  |
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Encino, CA, Delegation Visits Partially Paralyzed Terror Victim
(July 3) The delegation, headed by Rabbi Yossi Malka, Director of Development and Youth Director of Chabad of Encino, CA, visited a young man still recovering from a brain injury he sustained five years in a Jerusalem terrorist attack. |
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CTVP Holds Memorial on 4th Anniversary of Jerusalem Bus Bombing at Patt Junction
(July 2) Relatives, friends and survivors of the 2002 suicide bombing returned to the site of the tragedy and inscribed letters into CTVP's Sefer Torah.  |
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CTVP Holds Memorial on 4th Anniversary of Megido Bus Bombing
(June 29) Time has neither healed the wounds, nor the scars, for the dozens of relatives, friends and survivors of the June 5, 2002 suicide bus bombing at Megido Junction, near Afula, who gathered to remember their loved ones on the fourth anniversary of this brutal terrorist attack.
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'This Summer, Add CTVP to Your Delegation's Israel Itinerary'
Chabad's Terror Victims Project invites all visitors to Israel, this summer, to include a visit with terror victims and victim's families.  |
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Charlotte, NC, Delegation Visits City of Hadera Terror Victims
(June 19) The delegation, headed by Rabbi Yossi Groner, Director of the Lubavitch Education Center of North Carolina, pledged its continued support for the city and its residents ravaged by terrorism. |
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South China Morning Post Profiles Chabad's Terror Victims Project
(June 8) The South China Morning Post has profiled Chabad's Terror Victims Project.
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Cornerstone Laid for Haifa Synagogue Honoring Terror Victim
(May 28) A representative of Chabad's Terror Victims Project laid the cornerstone for a new synagogue in Haifa honoring the memory of slain First Sergeant Eli Laham.  |
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For Baby Murdered in Her Carriage, a Torah Dedication
(May 28) Chabad's Terror Victims Project, along with a large contingent of Chabad youth, participated in a Torah dedication ceremony in Modiin honoring the memory of nine-month-old Avia Malka, who was murdered in a terrorist attack four years ago.  |
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San Francisco Chronicle Profiles Chabad's Terror Victims Project
(May 22) The San Francisco Chronicle has profiled Chabad's Terror Victims Project in its May 21st edition.
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Director of Chabad of Beverlywood, Los Angeles, CA, in Israel Solidarity Visit to CTVP
(May 17) Rabbi Dov Newman, Director of Chabad of Beverlywood in Los Angeles, CA, has made a solidarity visit to CTVP in Israel.  |
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Funeral Services for 16-Year-Old Daniel Wultz of Weston, FL.
(May 14) Daniel Wultz, the 16-year-old from Miami, FL, who was critically wounded in the the suicide bombing at a crowded fast food stand near Tel Aviv's old central bus station on April 17, has died.
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Funeral Services for 26-Year-Old Lior Anidzar, 26, of Tel Aviv
(May 13) Lior Anidzar, the 26 year-old from Tel Aviv who only one week following his wedding was critically injured in the April 17th suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, died on May 13.  |
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Update: Injured Survivors of April 17th Attack Receive Critical CTVP Support
(May 10) Nearly a month following the deadly suicide bombing at a crowded fast food stand near Tel Aviv's old central bus station on April 17, the ordeal is far from over for those who were seriously wounded in the blast.  |
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Plano, TX, Delegation Visits Chabad's Terror Victims Project
(May 10) The delegation, headed by Chabad Shaliach, Rabbi Mendel Block, expressed solidarity with the organization and pledged its continued support for families ravaged by terrorism. |
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Intensive Care Doctor: 'Don the Tefilin for Daniel'
(April 25) An intensive care doctor and Chabad follower treating 16-year-old Weston, FL resident Daniel Wultz for his injuries in the April 17th Passover suicide Attack in Tel-Aviv has suggested to family members to help Daniel don the tefilin.  |
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Weston, FL, Chabad Rabbi Visits Congregants Wounded in Passover Suicide Attack
(April 23) Rabbi Yisroel Spalter, Director and Spiritual Leader of Chabad Lubavitch of Weston, FL, rushed to an Israeli hospital to be with a father and son injured in the April 17th Passover suicide Attack in Tel-Aviv.  |
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Chabad Rabbi Among 68 Wounded in Passover Suicide Attack in Tel-Aviv
(April 17) Nine people were killed and some 68 Israelis were wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd at the entrance to Falafel Rosh Ha'ir.  |
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CTVP Distributes Scarves to Children
(March 28) Scores of children throughout Israel have received beautiful scarves thanks to the Knitting Circle of Chabad of SE Morris County, New Jersey.  |
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A Mother in Mourning: 'Thanks to Chabad I had a Happy Purim'
(March 16) "Were it not for the fact that there are special people among us from Chabad who care for us and stand with us during the difficult times, I don't know how I could withstand all of this."  |
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Purim 2006: Petach Tikva
(March 16) An emotional Purim meal for families victimized by terror was held at the home of Chabad shaliach Rabbi Mordechai Gorelick, director of activities for Chabad-Petach Tikva.  |
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Purim 2006: Netanya
(March 16) Scores of children of terror victims gathered in the city Netanya for a special Purim celebration at a bowling alley and play area.  |
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CTVP Holds Memorial on 3rd Anniversary of Haifa Suicide Bombing
(March 10) Relatives, friends and survivors of the suicide bombing returned to the site of the tragedy and inscribed letters into CTVP's Sefer Torah.  |
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Milano Mayor Lauds LYS & CTVP in Historic Visit
(March 8) In a landmark visit to Kfar Chabad, Milano Mayor Gabrieli Albertino praised Chabad for its work with victims of terror.  |
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A Decade After Dizengoff, Stunned Silence and Poverty (Feb. 23) This March 4 will mark the 10th anniversary of the suicide bombing outside the popular Dizengoff Shopping Center in downtown Tel-Aviv. For one woman, the attack she witnessed has left her speechless.  |
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Miracle 'Baby Asher' Returns Home
(Feb. 16) Chabad had a surprise for seven-month-old Asher (ben Bat-El) Amar--the baby who two weeks ago sustained serious head wounds after a Kassam rocket crashed into the Amar home in Kibbutz Carmia.  |
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Traveling Sefer Torah Reaches Zichron Yaakov
(Feb. 16) The special Sefer Torah commissioned by Chabad's Terror Victims Project arrived this week in the northern city of Zichron Yaakov.  |
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A Personal Plea From a Bereaved Family (Feb. 16) The parents of slain First Sergeant Eli Laham wish to establish a synagogue in his memory.  |
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CTVP Visits Victims of Petach Tikvah Attack
(Feb. 9) A CTVP delegation visited the six Israelis wounded during the Feb 5th stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist while traveling on a the #51 service taxi from Petach Tikva to Tel Aviv.  |
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'I Saw My Children and Recited the Sh'ma Yisrael'
(Feb. 2) Chabad's Terror Victims Project held a special Seudat Hodaya for Moshe Z. of Moshav Tekumah one year after his heroic struggle with one of the Palestinian terrorists at the Karni Crossing. |
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'Angels' of Agoura Hills, CA, Aid Families
(Jan. 26) Some 20 young women of the Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills, CA, have found an innovative way of raising much-needed funds for survivors of terror attacks and victims' families. |
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CTVP Featured at Annual Chabad Parley
(Jan. 26) Chabad's Terror Victims Project was front and center at the Annual Gathering of Israel Chabad Emissaries at Kibbutz Nir Etzion. |
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Suicide Bomber Wounds 30 Near Tel Aviv's Old Central Bus Station
(Jan. 19) Chabad is responding to today's suicide bombing near the old central bus station in southern Tel Aviv, which left some 30 Israelis wounded.  |
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Families Inscribe Letters in 'Special' Sefer Torah
A centerpiece of Chabad Terror Victims Project this year is the commission of a Sefer Torah with letters inscribed by survivors of terror attacks and victims’ families throughout Israel.  |
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University Students in Solidarity Visit to Hadera
A large group of University students from the United States has expressed its solidarity with the city of Hadera by visiting the site of the suicide attack in Hadera’s open market Oct. 26, 2005.  |
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Chabad of Orange County, NY, Brings Light to 30 Israeli Families
Thanks to the generosity of Rabbi Pesach and Mrs. Chana Burston of Chabad Orange County, CA, children from some 30 Israeli families ravaged by terror received teddy bears, toys and beautifully wrapped gifts for Hanukkah.  |
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Chabad Completes Hanukkah Campaign
Chabad's Terror Victims Project showed solidarity with survivors of terrorist attacks and victims' families by placing them at the center of this year's Hanukkah lightings throughout Israel.  |
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Mother, Child Scathed & Scarred By Netanya Attack Her grandmother was killed and her mother was burned over 70% of her body. For three-year-old Lee-El, her family will never be the same. |
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Kindling a Flame for Hadera Bombing Victims Chabad's Terror Victims Project held a memorial for victims' families at the site of the October 26, 2005 suicide attack at Hadera's open market. |
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'Twin Simcha' Program Links Diaspora & Israel Supporters of Chabad's Terror Victims Project can now "twin" their family simchas with those of terror victims throughout Israel.  |
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Lending a Hand to a Young Orphan A Chabad volunteer lends an extending hand to five-year-old Devorah Ben-David, whose mother, Hadassah, was murdered during the Nov. 21, 2002 bombing of bus #20 in Jerusalem.  |
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