[RBS] aLIYAH fAIR IN lONDON

[Silverman Family]

Harley,
While I feel the issues here do involve the entire Beit Shemesh community, and you have only cced RBS on this, I will address each point with you off line, rather than have a public running dialogue. The points you raise here only strengthen my initial concerns, as well as introducing others- 
Why did we, the taxpayers pay for so many representatives to be a fair in England, when other cities each only had 1 representative(including Jerusalem, the capitol city with the highest rate of Anglo Aliyah in the country)- 
Why was our mayor , who is not an English speaker one of the representatives (no other city sent their mayor)?
From: harley 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 6:42 PM
To: aviditz at netvision.net.il 
Cc: rbs at cs.huji.ac.il 
Subject: aLIYAH fAIR IN lONDON

Avi and Ditza Silverman Shalom 

I organised the Beit Shemesh delegation to the Aliyah Fair in London.

I feel you should IMMEDIATELY retract your statements about the City paying for a double booth. What you are saying is based on hearsay evidence and may be libellous. Beit Shemesh paid for a single booth and the organiser of the event, the Aliyah Chief in the UK Mr. Rafi Nasi GAVE us the double booth AT NO EXTRA COST. If you do noot believe me then please contact him.

As to your other points - I received approval from the Municipal Council to arrange our delegation which included: Mrs. Tami Elmaleah  Co-ordinator for English speaking Aliyah at the Municipality, and Mrs Miri Shalem the director of the RAMBASH MATNAS who while living in the UK was a youth aliyah Bnei Akiva co-ordinator. I myself made aliyah from the UK.

Mayor Abutbul does not speak English but he spoke Hebrew to former Israelis living in the UK and who expressed interest in possibly living in Beit Shemesh. He also spoke in 7 synagogues between Friday morning when we landed and Sunday. The mayor also answered questions from parents of people living in Beit Shemesh who are concerned about the situation here. I translated for him. Since our Foreign Minister did not for a very long time speak English that is why he has translators.

You may not like or agree with the policies of the Mayor, but these fairs are important to ensure the city attracts young, educated professional people and families who work for a living, otherwise they really will go to Modiin, Jerusalem and Haifa and we will be left with the rest.

Harley Stark
Acting Director, Dept. of International Relations
Municipality of Beit Shemesh
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