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Thursday, March 3,2005
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NEWS ANALYSIS
Bombing creates
quandary for all
sides seeking peace
By Leslie Susser
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The late
February suicide bombing in Tel
Aviv shattered a three-month lull in
terror and brought key Israeli-
Palestinian peacemaking issues into
sharp relief.
The terror attack, which came
just three weeks after Israeli and
Palestinian leaders declared an end
to more than four years of hostili-
ties, forced both sides to define their
new relationship more clearly
It enabled Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon to clarify his policy
toward the Palestinians, finger Syria
and the Hezbollah as potential
spoilers, and re-emphasize his view
that there can be no real peace-
making until the Palestinians
dismantle their armed militias.
It also highlighted Israel's vulner-
ability to suicide terror attacks and
rekindled the d ebate on the security
fence.
Lastly, it underlined the core
Palestinian dilemma: How to stop
rogue terrorist cells from subverting
the peace process without actually
taking them on.
The bombing last Friday night
killed four Israelis on the Tel Aviv
beachfront. A fifth later died of her
wounds. Israeli military intelligence
traced the orders for the attack to
the Damascus headquarters of the
radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Lebanon-based Hezbollah,
which has dozens of agents on the
West Bank, also was said to be impli-
cated. According to military
intelligence, the Jihad in Syria used
Hezbollah channels in Lebanon to
convey instructions to Hezbollah
agents in the West Bank, who, in
turn, operated a small Jihad cell in
the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
In a pre-bombing video, the
bomber identified himself as a
Tulkarm-based Jihad operative. A
few days later, Israeli forces found
and dismantled a huge car bomb
between Tulkarm and Jenin. Again
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Two competitors face off during Sunday's Points for Peace tournament that brought 240 players to the J.
Photo: Benji Cheirif
Donors top Super Sunday goal
Jews of Greater Dallas answered
this year's Super Sunday call
resoundingly with pledges well above
the $350,000 one-day goal set by
planners of the Annual Campaign.
A total of 2,095 donors pledged
an unofficial $462,189 toward the
campaign, said Carol Aaron, Annual
Campaign Chair.
"I want to thank the community
for their generosity in making this a
successful Super Sunday for the
campaign and all the organizations
- here, in Israel and around the
world - that will, as a result, con-
tinue to provide their worthwhile
services," Aaron said.
Aaron added praise for the Feder-
ation staff and some 400 phone
solicitors and other volunteers - led
by co-chairs Jordana Bernstein,
John Lacritz, Laura Lacritz and
Shani Romick - all of whom "gave
of their personal and professional
time to make this happen."
Federation staff members Becky
Slakman and Beletsh Ashebir and
the JCC staff were also heavily
involved in the planning and execu-
tion of Super Sunday.
Super Sunday gifts boosted the
Federation's 2005 Annual Cam-
paign to $7,182,000, said the
Federation's Annual Campaign
Director Debbie Estrin. There were
184 new gifts and 649 increase gifts.
"On March 2 last year, we were at
$6,691,677," Estrin said. "We are
now well ahead of last year's pace
and we're well poised to surpass last
year's total of $9.5 million."
As happens each year, some
donors chose to give at the same
level as last year while others
increased, decreased or declined to
give at all. "One donor who gave
$600 last year increased to $10,000
this year," a gleeful Estrin noted.
The buzz of dozens of phonathon
volunteers' voices filled Zale Audi-
torium at the Aaron Family Jewish
Community Center from 9:30 a.m.
until 7 p.m., the day's third shift.
Several volunteers' young sons and
daughters paraded "Quiet" signs to
muffle some of the unofficial con-
versations. Co-chairs periodically
announced prizewinners in a solic-
itation incentive effort.
After last year's successful intro-
duction of a 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
"Family Extravaganza" shift, it was
repeated this year.
More than 100 children took
advantage of organized play and
entertainment activities in the
JCC's Tween and Taglit Pre-School
wings while their parents worked
the late shift, said co-chair Jordana
Bernstein.
The youngsters rotated among
song, sports, science, scavenger
hunts and pizza, guided by 100
teachers, coaches, local entertainers
and teenage students from youth
groups, religious schools and day
schools.
see DONORS p. 12
$1.00
240 score
points for
Camp Koby
Nothing but net for SAT's
third annual tournament
By Steve Israel
Staff Writer
DALLAS — Koby Mandell "would
have loved to participate" in the
2005 Points for Peace basketball
tournament that brought 240
players to the Jewish Community
Center gymnasium on Sunday, said
his father, Rabbi Seth Mandell.
But tragedy stole Koby's life. This
year's tournament hosted 61 teams
to honor him and to support Camp
Koby in Israel, a summer program
that eases the psychological and
physical wounds of nearly 700
teenagers who have lost an imme-
diate family member to terror.
Koby was one of those terror vic-
tims. The exuberant and athletic
13-year-old - who made aliyah
with his family in 1996 - was
abducted and stoned to death near
the family's Tekoa, Israel, home in
May 2001, along with his friend,
Yosef Ishran.
Koby's story touched the Jewish
high schoolers of Students Against
Terrorism (SAT) here, and they
selected Camp Koby as beneficiary
of the third annual basketball
matchups, which brought in
$33,000, including $17,000 in gifts
from community organizations.
In a Sunday afternoon of bitter-
sweet moments, Mandell - who
came to Texas to witness and give his
thanks - watched many boys Koby's
age play their three-on-three games.
"There has been nothing like this
[fundraiser] anywhere," the rabbi
said. "It's student-run, with commu-
nity involvement, giving this level of
financial support...."
He reflected on the first-born
of four children he and wife,
Sherri, have.
"Koby loved sports, and he loved
see CAMP KOBY p. 2
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