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JUSTICE FOR JONATHAN
POLLARD
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Bible Champion to Netanyahu:
Free Pollard!
Sapir Malka, a student of Yeshivat Yerushalyim L’Tza’eerim
is the champion of the 46th annual World Bible Contest, and at its
conclusion he handed a personal letter about Jonathan Pollard to the Prime
Minister. Malka dedicated his win to his friends who were murdered in the attack
at Mercaz HaRav. At the event, Netanyahu made a commitment: “We shall give the
Bible and Scriptures the place that they deserve amongst the most meaningful of
school subjects.
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Kobi Nachshoni - YNET [Hebrew Language News] - April 30,
2009
Sapir Malka is the 15 ½ year old winner of the World Bible
Contest for Jewish Youth for the year 5769. Malka, a resident of Kochav Yaacov
and a student of Yeshivat Yerushalyim L’Tza’eerim, beat the National champion,
Ori Lovish, a resident of Beit Yatir and a student at the Bnei Akiva School of
Comprehensive Education in Sussia, at the traditional World Finals which took
place this morning, by a margin of 2 points. Forty-seven boys and two girls from
24 countries competed in the contest. The final round was narrowed down to16
contestants.
After his win, the champion said that he had studied for the
contest by learning the Bible and doing intensive review for a year and a half
as an elevation for the souls of his friends who were killed in the terror
attack at Mercaz HaRav, and that he is dedicating his win to their memory.
As he was handed the prize by Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, Malka handed the PM an envelope which contained a personal letter,
which has become something of a tradition at the Bible Contest in recent years.
He told YNET that in the letter he had written asking the PM to work to free the
Israeli agent, Jonathan Pollard from prison in America.
The Prime Minister said at the event: “Education in the home
is important, but it is not a replacement for education in school. It is
incumbent upon us to do a lot more to promote learning the Bible in our schools
and indeed we shall do this. It is up to us to give the Bible and Scriptures the
place that they deserve amongst the most meaningful of (school) subjects, and
also in this area we shall do more.”
The head of the panel of judges, the fifth president of
Israel, Yitzhak Navon, turned to Netanyahu at the end of the event and reminded
him that his predecessor had not had the time to fulfill his promise to hold a
Bible Contest for adults. “That is one of the promises made by the former Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert that I will keep,” Netanyahu promised in retort.
The forty-sixth World Bible Contest was held under the theme
of social justice and the value of mutual responsibility in the
Nation of Israel; and also marked the 100th anniversary of the city
of Tel Aviv, featuring, amongst others, an appearance by the Tel Aviv Youth
Band. Navon blessed Israel’s first Hebrew city, but as a Jerusalemite he pointed
out that Tel Aviv is mentioned in the Bible only once, whereas Jerusalem is
mentioned 656 times.
He continued by turning to some of the contestants from the
Diaspora who do not speak Hebrew and needed translators and called upon them to
learn the language, saying:
“To read the Bible in translation is like kissing your loved
one through a veil.”
The World Bible Contest for Jewish Youth is organized by the
Chief Officer for Youth and Education of the IDF, the Chief Rabbinate of the
IDF, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education, the Jewish Israel and
the Jewish National Fund.
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The original Hebrew article can be read at: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,
L-3708219,00.html
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