The 2011 Palm Beach Mission to Rome and Israel

Southeast Region Friends joined Co-chairs Roberta and Stanley Bogen on the Palm Beach Mission to Rome and Israel, May 20-June 2, 2011. Mission highlights included meetings with dignitaries such as Israel's president Shimon Peres, MK Tzipi Livni, Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, daughter of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Professor Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel.  The group also visited Hebrew University campuses and received an inside look at the extraordinary work being done by faculty and students.

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  The Palm Beach Mission Group

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  HU President Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson and Israeli President Shimon Peres address mission participants.

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  Israeli President Shimon Peres and Stanley Bogen, Hebrew University Governor, AFHU Honorary President and Palm Beach Mission Chair.

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  Richard Ziman, AFHU National Board Member and Western Region Chairman, and Ambassador Carmi Gillon, Hebrew University Vice President for External Relations.

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  A helicopter pilot with Lori Gendelman and Robbi and Bruce Troll

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  Bernice & Zabrina Lieberman

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  Joseph Jacobs and a student from The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) demonstrate the "virtual cane," a device developed by the ELSC's Dr. Amir Amedi and colleagues to assit the blind or visually impaired. 

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  Stanley Bogen and mission special guest Charles Bronfman, Chairman of The Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, Inc.

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  May Flach; Beth McCoy, AFHU National Director of Development;  Zabrina Lieberman; Lori Gendelman; Michelle Jacobs; Bernice Lieberman; Roberta Kozloff; Roberta Bogen; Alexandra Bogen Prosser; Elaine Miller; Monica Loebl, AFHU Southeast Region Executive Director; Robbi Toll and Faith Segal.

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  Bruce Toll, Stanley Bogen, Richard Ziman, Joseph Jacobs, Paul Kozloff, Scott Prosser, Billy Miller and Bruce Gendelman

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  Scott Prosser, Stanley Bogen, Alexandra Bogen Prosser & Roberta Bogen in front of the Kadishman statue, a gift from the Bogen family.

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  Professor Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; Stanley Bogen; and Paul Kozloff

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  Credit: Bruce Gendelman
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  Mission participants at their farewell dinner.

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  Mission Chairs Roberta and Stanley Bogen

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  Elaine and Billy Miller in the Golan Heights.