Share in the excitement and joy this project is bringing schools in every sector of Israel.

The photos below are those sent to us by flagship coordinators.
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Students from Bueina Nujidaat hold up a special message to their donors. Together, their joined efforts are helping to get donated books sorted and distributed as needed to schools throughout the area. But their efforts would be impossible without the donations...	The boys immediately dig in to some amazing books on subjects as diverse as science and sports.	Together with Widad Slieman, flagship coordinator for the area, some of the girls discover new worlds between the covers of pages.	Everyone pauses for a good read before the bell rings. With such fine opportunities of choice, reading becomes fun as well as educational	Samir Suede, school principal of the elementary-junior high school in the nearby Christian town of Eilabun joins  to say "Thanks" before picking up hundreds of books and learning materials that were donated by Mary Magdalene school and distributed through the Bueina Nujidaat flagship

Thanks to an incredible donation of hundreds of books from the Denver Colorado book drive -- and particularly to a boost of Christian school learning materials from Mary Magdalene school, the Bueina Nugidat flagship has enriched its own library and expanded its distribution pool to include the Christian town of Eilabun.
This project is doing so much to help improve peaceful cooperation between diverse populations throughout Israel.

Thanks so much to all the wonderful people in Denver Colorado who are making such an incredible book drive,
to book drive coordinators Tami Knopping, Lynne MacDowell, and Joan Baronberg
for their tireless, selfless, and loving volunteer work on top of their own responsibilities,
and to Widad Slieman, flagship coordinator at Bueina Nujidaat for all her coordination efforts
on behalf of schools of different populations throughout the local geographic area.
 

Iris Jacobs explains to the class why Temple Beth El decided to run a book drive on behalf of Israeli school kids	Iris and Dan Jacobs sit in on an 8th grade English lesson.	Yosefa Kafri - the JHS principal thanks Iris and Dan for everything they are doing on behalf of schools in Rehovot and for visiting us.	Iris Jacobs, Yosefa Kafri, Leah Daskilovitz (principal of De Shalit Kiryat Hachinuch) and Amanda Caplan, the flagship coordinator for Rehovot schools and English teacher at DeShalit Junior High	Posing with the 8th grade class -- smiles from everybody!

Iris and Dan Jacobs, representatives from Temple Beth El in East Windsor, New Jersey
visit DeShalit Junior High, the Rehovot area flagship.

Some comments from students following the visit include:
'It was cool that they came to visit'.
'It's good to meet people who want to help'.
'It shows their lack of fear - they believe they can change something'.

Our profound thanks to everyone at Temple Beth El, to Iris and Dan Jacobs for making this visit,
to Trudi Perlman, Beth El's incredible book drive coordinator,
and to Rabbi Jay Kornsgold for his support on behalf of this project!

After the first few thousands of books arrived, the postmen literally began to give up -- but Hanna Friedman and her team of dedicated volunteer students unflaggingly continued hauling books up to the English room for sorting.	The joy is contagious! Students have a hard time not reading cover to cover when they have to help sort out which books will remain at Ulpana Tiberias and which will be distributed to other schools according to levels and needs.	Over twelve thousand books arrived from the amazing North Shore drive, supplying libraries for schools of various sectors throughout the Tiberias area. Not surprisingly, volunteer work at the Ulpana has also done much to develop stronger arms and shoulders...	More smiles as friends join together to register the books that will remain at Ulpana Tiberias. All the books will experience many hands as they help enable generations of readers to benefit..

Hanna Friedman, at Ulpanit Tiberias, flagship coordinator on behalf of schools throughout Tiberias and the surrounding area, is joined by Ulpanit students in hauling, sorting, and previewing the wonderful
flood of over twelve thousand books donated by the North Shore Coalition of synagogues.
Thank you, thank you, thank you -- to all the incredible people who helped to make this massive
donation possible. Words cannot describe what good the future will hold in this otherwise depressed area
because of your concern and care!
 

In the first round of sorting, volunteer students work out which books should remain in the school library and which, by general levels and type, should be packed up for distribution to other schools throughout the area.	Working with a scale that notes such items as type size and vocabulary complexity, volunteer students help sort the books by levels. Even this sorting work involves reading, reading comprehension, and evaluation.	Every week, students on the Books for Israel English Room Development Committee at Kfar Vradim sort tens of books, registering those that will become part of the school library.	A volunteer joins Francine Widerker, flagship coordinator, and Shoshana, a fellow English teacher. Francine spends hours every night preparing activities for this project. Students volunteering on this project are guided towards increasing independence. Francine finds student responsibility in building school libraries highly educational.
Kfar Vradim engages in a serious and exemplary "boot-strap" operation as flagship coordinator, Francine Widerker, guides students to handle evaluations, sorting by levels, registration, and literary critique. Everyone is awaiting final word as to the location of the long-awaited English room, where students, parents, and other volunteers from the community will build bookshelves and comfortable reading corners with donated supplies. In addition to its own library, the Kfar Vradim flagship is distributing books as far as Nahariya and Pek'kin, bringing together diverse communities around a shared desire to improve English language levels.
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