Zachary Weinstein Sponsors a Therapeutic Excursion for Victim of Terror

Zachary Weinstein, a recent bar mitzvah, is pictured with his generous donation to Operation Embrace.  Zach celebrated his bar mitzvah on June 2, 2007 at Bnai Tzedek Congregation in Potomac, Maryland.  As part of the Bar-Mitzvah program the kids choose a Mitzvah project to participate in or make a donation and Zach chose Operation Embrace and it’s mission to help victims of terror in Israel. Because of Zach’s generous donation, approximately 40 terror victims were able to travel from the Haifa area and participate in a therapeutic excursion to Neot Kedumim, a Biblical Nature Park Reserve.  Participating in this group were also the parents of one of the three kidnapped soldiers from last summer.  Social workers from Rambam Hospital in Haifa escorted the group and a professional guide navigated the group through the park.  Participants in the group became quite emotional when they all planted something called a “shekem” plant, meaning “recovery.”  Victims of terror attend “shikum,” or rehabilitation treatment on a regular basis which shares the same root word as “shekem.”   The guide emphasized, that each member of the group was planting new roots of recovery for themselves.

Thank you again to Zachary Weinstein for his gift of a life altering therapeutic excursion for people who in general have a hard time leaving their homes at all.