Shomriya

To cement the JNF's commitment to helping to create communities in the Negev, we have helped to complete a school (at a cost of £400,000) in the new town of Shomriya, in the northern Negev, home to some 100 families previously living in Atzmona in Gaza.

On 10 August, 2009, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Science, Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz and JNF UK Chairman, Samuel Hayek participated in a ceremony dedicating the School in Shomriya in memory of Ruth and Harry Lewis of Hove, England.

This religious community are relishing the opportunity of beginning their lives again in a place that links our biblical past with the challenges of the future. To quote one of their community leaders, "every day more and more bricks are coming and building Shomriya, more and more ways are paved, more families are coming and more and more hopes for a big future comes to reality."

The JNF, with your support, are proud to have helped to make the school in Shomriya a reality.

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