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<div style="font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Calibri';display:inline;font-weight:normal"><u>Thanks
to MK Dov Lipman’s involvement</u>, Mayor Abutbul has agreed to meet with the
Benjamin Library. The meeting is set for Thursday May 2 at 8:30am at the Mayor’s
office. We hope that the Mayor’s positive response will be the beginning of good
things to come for Beit Shemesh.</div></div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Calibri'">It is still
vital that the Mayor understand how important it is to each of us that the
library remain open. At this point, it is in the Mayor’s hands alone to
determine that the library will remain a gem of this city and not a memory of
better times gone.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Calibri'">If the
mayor does not agree to support the BCL, the Beit Shemesh community will no
longer have the benefit of the following library activities:</div>
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<li>Some 8000 books will not get borrowed each month,
</li><li>daily homework help will stop,
</li><li>weekly storyhour will stop,
</li><li>weekly girls empowerment program will stop,
</li><li>monthly book club for adults will stop.
</li><li>summer reading club will not happen
</li><li>summer computer camp will not happen
</li><li>summer enrichment program for olim will not happen
</li><li>meeting authors will not happen
</li><li>Yom Hashoa programs will not happen
</li><li>special programs for Chanuka, TuBishvat and Purim will not
happen</li></ul></div>
<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffff00">Does the Mayor want to be known as
the Mayor who shut down a vibrant children’s Library?</font></div>
<div>Let’s hope not.</div>
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<div><strong>Email</strong> Mayor Abutbul at <font face="Tahoma"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:mosheab@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#f5f5f5;FONT-SIZE:10pt">mosheab@bshemesh.co.il</font></a></font></font></div>
<div>cc : <a href="mailto:richard@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank">richard@bshemesh.co.il</a>
(Richard Peres)</div>
<div><a href="mailto:agaf@hinuchbs.co.il" target="_blank">agaf@hinuchbs.co.il</a>
(Ronit Raanan)</div>
<div><a href="mailto:meirb@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank">meirb<font color="#000080">@bshemesh.co.il</font></a><font color="#000000"> (Meir
Balayish)</font></div>
<div><a href="mailto:shmuelg@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank">shmuelg<font color="#000080">@bshemesh.co.il</font></a><font color="#000000"> (Shmuel
Greenberg)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080"><span><a href="mailto:t.tov.bs@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma"><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt">t.tov.bs@gmail.com</font></font></span></a><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000080">(Eli
Friedman)</font></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080"><span><font color="#000000"></font><a href="mailto:mankal@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank">mankal@bshemesh.co.il</a></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080"><span><font color="#000000"></font><a href="mailto:dover@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank">dover@bshemesh.co.il</a><font color="#000000">
(dover)</font></span></font></div>
<div><span><a href="mailto:arie@bshemesh.co.il" target="_blank">arie@bshemesh.co.il</a> (gizbar)</span></div>
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<div><font color="#000080"><span>cc the library at <a href="mailto:benjaminchildrenslibrary@gmail.com" target="_blank">benjaminchildrenslibrary@gmail.com</a></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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