Thursday, 23 February 2023

 David SOUTHWICK (Caulfield) (11:01): With Israel’s 75th birthday upon us, I want to highlight a few recent events. Firstly, the Israel for Youth program takes Jewish kids from non-Jewish schools to Israel. As I have said on a number of occasions, you do not know unless you go. To have some of those young adults go to Israel, particularly with an increase in anti-Semitism, come back with knowledge and with empowerment and be able to advocate for the community is fantastic. I want to give a big shout-out to Maxine and Ronn Bechler, the founders of this program, and the United Jewish Education Board for the fantastic work that they do.