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The Jerusalem Rotary Club 1929 - 2013

The Jerusalem Rotary Club 1929 - 2013. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 . Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 . Jerusalem Rotary Club 2012-13. President, Rafi Aldor. Secretary, Zvi Sharoni. Treasurer, Alexandra Darmon. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013. Chartered 11 March 1929.

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The Jerusalem Rotary Club 1929 - 2013

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  1. The Jerusalem Rotary Club 1929 - 2013

  2. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013

  3. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Jerusalem Rotary Club 2012-13 President, Rafi Aldor Secretary, ZviSharoni Treasurer, Alexandra Darmon

  4. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Chartered 11 March 1929 Members of the first Rotary Club of Jerusalem

  5. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Cairo, Our Sponsoring Club

  6. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Bell Given By Cairo Club 1931

  7. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Club Membership Initial membership Current membership Average membership 21 36 65 Membership through the years has included members from across the full range of religious and cultural communities which live in Jerusalem

  8. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Meeting Places First Meeting Place Fast Hotel

  9. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Current Meeting Place Jerusalem International YMCA

  10. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Changes in the District District 249 1977 - 1992 District 83 1933-1950 District 199 1960 - 1977 Non-Districted Area 1950 - 1960 District 2490 1992 - 2013

  11. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 District Governors from the Jerusalem Club Lars Lind, 1944-45, District 83 ____________ Lucien Harris, 1975-76, District 2490 ____________ Irene Lewitt, 2003-04, District 2490

  12. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Sponsoring New Clubs Tel-Aviv, 1935 Nazareth, 1952 Jerusalem West, 1965

  13. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Important Transitions 1989 First woman member of the Jerusalem Rotary Club, Ilana Gerard First Woman District Governor in District 2490, Irene Lewitt First woman President of the Jerusalem Rotary Club, Ruth Harris Finally, the Arrival of Women to Rotary

  14. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Club Projects • Early projects: • 1930’s supported the establishment of a fire brigade in Jerusalem • Projects to assist with the needs of crippled children • 1942-43 Books in Hebrew Arabic and English collected for the Jerusalem Prison library

  15. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Club Projects Bicycles for Tsunami Victims Good Drivers Education Program Toys for Needy Children Wheelchairs for Yad Sarah Installation of Sewage Pipes, Neve Shalom

  16. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Matching Grant Projects In cooperation with Jerusalem West Club and the Skokie Valley, Illinois Club Playground in the Musrara Neighborhood

  17. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Matching Grant Projects Playground Equipment and Literacy Materials for the YMCA’s Multi-Cultural Gan Shalom

  18. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Matching Grant Projects Menton, France St. Vincent’s Home for Mentally and Physically Disabled Children Hadassah Hospital, Mt. Scopus Recovery and Activity Room For Children with Cancer

  19. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 • Recent Projects • 1.Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center. • The production and distribution of information and education pamphlets to raise awareness of the help available and to inform the public generally. • 2.Herzog Hospital (Jerusalem).  • The purchase of a specialized electric wheelchair for children with severe respiratory problems. • 3.Gan Rimonim.  • A special education nursery school that requires the support of a psychiatrist whose services are not covered by the Health and Education Ministries.  Support for one year. • 4.Shalom First Graders • A District project that helps needy first grade children (Kitah Aleph) purchase basic school requirements.

  20. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 • Recent Matching Grant Projects • 1.Pediatric  Oncology Department of the Sao Paulo University Hospital (Brazil). • Upgrading and expansion of the department.  • A reciprocal Matching Grant that included a District DDF contribution. • 2.Israel Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel.  • The acquisition of two Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV) units. • Participating clubs were from Hamburg and Dusseldorf in Germany. • 3.Tele-health Project in Ghana.  • A program for the training of nursing aides in Northern Ghana in conjunction with the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem.  • The Windsor Rotary Club in Canada and the Accra RC in Ghana are the lead clubs • 4.The TrudiBirger Dental Clinic.    • The project provided the clinic with panoramic x-ray equipment.  • Participating clubs were from California.

  21. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 Scholarships The Jerusalem Rotary Club’s longest continuously running project has been to award scholarships to high school students studying technical and scientific subjects from the Jerusalem Rotary Club Foundation which it founded in 1968

  22. Rotary and Jerusalem 1929 – 2013 “Go about your common tasks together, avoid discussions of dissentious subjects, and your reward will be friendship.’’ - Paul Harris

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