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Agenda
Posterboard 
Month 
Week 
Day September 2023 – January 2025
Jo Burgon will talk about life in the army from a woman’s perspective and her job as the Defence Attaché at the British Embassy.She has had a distinguished career and this should be a fascinating talk.
Jill Shames is a Clinical Social Worker specialising in Trauma and Health Care Resilience and a volunteer with United Hatzalah (and an Advanced Black Belt in Shorin-ryu Karate!)
18 months ago she shared with us her experience helping children and women in Moldova and in Ukraine.
Now she is using her skills working with the soldiers and police who experienced the horrors of the Simchat Torah invasion.
In this Zoom meeting, Jill will share with us her coping techniques. We will practise them together and she will tell us of her recent experiences using these techniques.
There is no charge for this event but we welcome your contributions to the donation that HOB Rehovot will be giving to United Hatzalah to suppport this important effort.
Please register with Steve Morris,
sdmorris@gmail.com
or Whatsapp to 054-7228879
The Zoom link will be sent the day before the event.
Prof. Newman holds the research chair in Geopolitics at Ben Gurion University. Originally from London he made aliya in 1982 and has lived in the southern community of Meitar for the past 35 years. In 2013 he was awarded the OBE for strengthening academic and scientific links between Israel and the UK. Prof. Newman studied at the University of London and completed his PhD at the University of Durham before coming to live in Israel.
Booking essential: Warren@Rances.net.
Suggested donation of NIS 20 per person and all proceeds from this event will be donated to The Association for Israel’s Soldiers. Payment can be made via Paybox https://bit.ly/HOBProfNewman
Dave Rich is the Director of Policy at CST (Community Security Trust), UK.
Booking is essential.
| All British citizens living abroad are now eligible to register to vote in UK general elections, regardless of how long they have been living outside the UK.
But, should you? Ex-pat Brit, Professor David Newman OBE, holds the research chair in Geopolitics in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. Professor Newman will compare the UK and the Israeli electoral systems, their respective strengths and weaknesses, and how the different systems are impacted by citizens who are resident abroad nevertheless voting in their home countries. To attend this zoom event you must register with Steve. You can pay via Paybox or using BIT to Steve Morris 054-7228879. |
Helen Fry will talk about her new book, “Women in Intelligence”, published a few months ago. The book narrates the extraordinary role women played in intelligence during World War II, way beyond the conventions of that period.
Robyn Hoffman will talk to us about the wonderful food rescue organisation, Leket. A donation will be made to Leket.