Irwin S. Field, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, announced today the names of the three Israeli UJA 40th Anniversary Essay Contest winners. They are Yosef Zaguri, 17, third year high school student from Tel Aviv; Galia Bernfeld, 16, second year high school student from Arad and Moshe Blockerkovski, 17, fourth year high school student from Kiryat Bialik. Field said the essays “demonstrated the success of the contest as a way of introducing a new generation into the process of understanding and awareness of Jewish communal life which creates a continuity of UJA leadership, ” and said that the 10 American winners will visit Israel this coming August and be hosted by the three Israeli winners.
Dr. Eliezer Shmueli, the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Education and Culture, who served as the chairman of the UJA 40th Anniversary Public Committee in Israel, said that while the American part of the contest, which produced 10 winners was aimed to make today’s youth aware of on going Jewish humanitarian and philanthropic efforts throughout the world, the Israeli contest emphasized the. Talmudic injunction of Jewish unity — “All Jews are responsible one for each other.”
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