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| | Generous Endowment, in Time for Lag B’omer, Allows More Israeli Teens at Risk to Find Shelter at Expanding OU Israel ... |
 | | It is most fitting that the current endowment will be used to further the essential work done at the Zula, which started as a grassroots group — led by a concerned community member, Harel Hetzroni — that had gathered more lost young souls than it could handle and sought larger quarters. |
 | | They hear about the Zula through the street work of Hetzroni, who, with the program’s madrichim, continues to scour the hangouts, schmoozing with the kids, reeling them in, and saving their lives. |
 | | As Harel Hetzroni, the founder of the Zula, says, “With two or three times the resources, we could reach four or five times the number of youth, and do much more in-depth work with them. |
| www.ou.org /oupr/2005/zula65.htm (997 words) |
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