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Shavei Israel

The Sino-Judaic Institute

SIGNAL

The Australian Jewish News

Israel Asia Center

Igud Yotzei Sin – Assoc of Former Residents in China

One to One Interview

Jill Samelson's lessons from the heart

What started with the need to educate their own children will soon grow into a foundation designed to aid special needs children throughout Asia.

Jill and David Samelson, members of Hong Kong’s Jewish community, founded the Children’s Institute of Hong Kong (TCIHK) in 2005. TCIHK is a non-profit school dedicated to providing quality education for students with special needs who currently are not capable of being mainstreamed.

Abraham Israel hungry to make a difference

Abraham Israel was a successful accountant turned businessman who made a good living making shoes in China. He made aliyah. One day, he helped a woman – a total stranger – cross a busy street.

The woman needed more than a little help. As it turned out, “R” had multiple sclerosis. When Israel had gotten her across the street, he felt he needed to help her up to her flat. When they arrived there, he was shocked by its emptiness. R had no food.

Dr. Robert J. Aumann, 2005 Nobel Prize laureate

Many people who accomplish great things in life have stories from their youth of people who vowed they’d never amount to much. Robert J. Aumann may be the only Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics to have been told by a high school guidance counselor to consider a career as an auto mechanic instead of academia.

Dr. Aumann was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1930, and moved with his family to the US in 1938. He holds degrees in Mathematics from City College, New York, and MIT. He made aliyah in 1956.