Received this email today with an appeal for help for Moshe and Rachel Saperstein, former residents of Neve Dekalim, Gush Katif.
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:09:43 +0200
Subject: Please act on this for a Gush Katif couple
Many of you know the Sapersteins. Rachel has served as a spokesperson for fellow former-Neve Dekalim residents since the expulsion and has been collecting money to help them. (Before the expulsion she was a spokesperson inside Gush Katif.) Moshe is disabled because of a terrorist attack. They are very special people and deserve a lot better than they’re getting. It takes just a short time to send an e-mail or fax. And please send this to everyone you know, and put it on your lists. Of course, draft your own message as fits you and is appropriate.
To read more about the plight, click here, here and here.
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ACTION, PLEASE by Moshe Saperstein, Jerusalem Gold Hotel
Time for action, friends. Two days ago we were informed by an
Expulsion Authority worker that the promised repairs to our shanty –
the protruding pipe that the lady fell over, and the sprinkler going
directly into the air conditioner – would not be made. Today we were
formally served with eviction papers stating that we have to leave the
hotel in five days.
We are going to be fighting it at this end, but we need your help.
Please send a fax and/or e-mail [fax is preferable as it clogs up
their machines] to the following. I am including suggested text –
don’t fall down laughing — but you can let `er rip as you see fit.
And please send us a copy to; ruchimo@netvision.net.il
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Prime Minister’s Office
SELA Administration
Fax# 972-2-5001141 or e-mail: sela25@sela.pmo.gov.il
We are outraged that Moshe and Rachel Saperstein, an elderly couple of
Gush Katif refugees one of whom is a severely disabled veteran, are
being forced to move into a building that has such serious structural
defects as to be life-threatening. Equally outrageous is that when all
others are given ten to fourteen days to move, you are demanding the
Sapersteins move in five days which include Friday and Shabbat.
We will be expressing our displeasure to the nearest Israel Consulate, the
United Jewish Communities fund-raising organization, and our local Jewish media.
Thank you, friends
It is very disturbing to hear that Moshe and Rachel Saperstein are being mistreated after they have already been though so many terrible things.
Whomever is responsible in the Israeli government to see to it that these vulnerable people who had been forced to leave their home in Gush Katif, should be taken care of with great kindness and consideration, especially considering all that they have for the benefit of Israel and Jews everywhere, should be heldsacrificed accountable, and forced to act to do the right thing.
The fact that the Sapersteins are not being adequately helped is an enormous moral blight. It is shameful for Jews to treat other Jews in such a horrible way.
It is important that the Israeli government be aware that Jews all over the world are aware of this terrible injustice.
Nechama Goodman