JERUSALEM, Israel — At many of his stops in Israel this week, Jon Voight attracted a sea of reporters and photographers. But for the Academy Award winner, his goodwill tour throughout the country was not about him: He came for the children.
American Actor Focuses on Children During Weeklong Tour of Israel
JERUSALEM, Israel — At many of his stops in Israel this week, Jon Voight attracted a sea of reporters and photographers. But for the Academy Award winner, his goodwill tour throughout the country was not about him: He came for the children.
A guest of Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl, Chabad’s Terror Victims Project and the Chabad-Lubavitch Youth Organization in Israel, Voight – a mega-donor of Chabad-Lubavitch programs on America’s West Coast – shuttled between schools in the central village of Kfar Chabad, the streets of the Negev Dessert town of Sderot and a barbeque for terror victims in Jerusalem.
“One family told me they couldn’t sleep all night, they were so touched by his compassion,” said Rabbi Menachem Kutner, director of the terror victims project, which arranged for Voight to host 50 children and their families at a Hopoel Yerusalem soccer match at Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium. “During the game, he was giving high-fives and cheering for the home-team with the children.”
The following day, Kutner and the actor, clad in a blue football jacket from one of his movies, joined some 100 victims of terror for the barbeque at a popular steak restaurant. Voight, teary-eyed, sat down with each family.
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Very nice of Mr. Voight.
The whole medinas Israel is sick.
There was an incident at the beginning of the week north of Bet El. Some armed Hesder Yeshiva student-soldiers were hiking North of their homes.
Arabs starting shooting. The Jews took cover. One sharpshooting Jew killed one of the terrorists. He is referred to as ‘T’ in the Arutz 7 article.
Another Arab came along and proclaimed that the terrorists were hunters.
One of the Jews started to discuss the falicy of this statement!
The Arab deserves a slap or worse!
Even the ‘daati’ has the sickness of the ‘chiloni:’ We stole their land!
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