Weekly Bulletin of The Jerusalem Rotary Club Club # 13459, District 2490 19 June 2013

Club Officers President: This Week’s Programme P/P Rafi Aldor Secretary: R/ Zvi Sharoni Menashe Amir, expert on Iranian affairs: Treasurer: P/P Sandi Darmon "Any Change with the Iranian elections?” President Elect 2013-14: P/P Sandi Darmon Menashe Amir is a long time Persian language broad- Immediate Past President: caster on the Israel Radio International, a channel of Kol P/P Elly Kenner Yisrael ("Voice of Israel"). He is a former head of the Israel Board Members Broadcasting Authority's Persian language division. He is P/P Rafi Aldor also a leading Iranian expert in Israel and a chief editor of R/ Yaron Amitai R/ Art Braunstein the Foreign Ministry's Persian web-site. (Programme Chair) Menashe Amir was born in , Iran, in 1939 in a secu- P/P Richard Fain lar Jewish family. He has grown up in the ancient Jewish P/P Marilyn Farber P/P Elly Kenner quarter called "Mahaleh". His primary education made in a christian mis- P/P Shlomo Khayat sionary school called "Nour-Va-Sedaghat", and continued his secondary R/ Michael Mertes education in two Jewish schools named "Etehad" (Alliance/Unity) and R/ Mike Rand "Kourosh" (Cyrus). He began his Journalist profession at the age of 17, in R/ Zvi Sharoni "Kayhan" evning newspaper. Amir made aliyah to Israel in 1959. He has P/P Kern Wisman been working as a journalist and a broadcaster for over 55 years, and PDG Irene Lewitt (ex officio) broadcasting to Iran for over 52 years. Amir became popular in Israel dur- ing his coverage of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Currently retired from his Upcoming Programme post in the Israel Broadcasting Authority, he continues to host his radio June 26: program. Michael Bavly, Senior UN- Presidential elections were held in Iran on 14 June 2013. HCR Consultant: “Asylum was victorious, elected in the first round Seekers in Israel” of voting with 50.71% of the vote. Tehran Mayor Moham- July 2: mad Baqer Qalibaf finished second with 16.56% of the No meeting—see Change- vote. Nearly 36.7 million Iranians voted, 72.7% of eligible over on July 3 voters. Future Events The screened 680 registered candi- June 19 dates, approving just eight to run in the election; Moham- Whiffenpoofs Concert, mad Bagher Ghalibaf, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, , YMCA Concert Hall, 20:00 , , Mohammad Gharazi, Hassan Rouhani and July 1 . Haddad-Adel and Reza Aref later withdrew from District Governor Change- the race in the days leading up to the election. Incumbent President over Dinner, Natanya Col- did not run for re-election as he was limited to lege. two terms or 8 years in office under the Iranian constitution. July 3 JRC Changeover Gala Din- Lunch meeting on be Wednesday 19 June at 14:00 in the Jerusalem YMCA ner, Beit Ticho, 19:00 Auditorium. .

Good evening Sir! How are you and your family? I hope you still remember me. We have been in contact last year regarding football management. Dear Editor, Please,what is your own area of business? In case you or any of your friends has business interest in I wish to appeal directly to your commitment to Rota- Nigeria, do not hesitate to let me know. ry and to one another with regard to attendance at My kind regards to fellow Rotarian in your Rotary meetings. Club. I wish you all the best in your own area of Recent attendance has varied somewhere between business. dismal and disastrous despite the avowedly interest- Yours in Rotary, ing topics and speakers. The next two weeks will be Victor Ikechukwu no exception in terms of important subjects. International Service Chairman 2012-2013 This situation is highly embarrassing to our club and Rotary Club of Owerri, Nigeria to your program chair in particular.

And it's not that Mike Rand and I didn't try to rectify this lacuna and other club failings through the erst- while Buddy System. Since I am on the front line vis-a-vis our speakers, I appeal to you personally: COME TO OUR MEET- INGS, BRING FAMILY, FRIENDS, ASSOCIATES AND OTHER GUESTS. You will have all realized BY NOW that Rotary is an excellent and most inexpensive way to repay a favor and entertain someone!! Art B.

France, and Luxembourg meet. Schengen Castle International Toast dates from 1390 but was almost completely re- built in the 19th century. It is now a hotel and conference centre. Schengen, France Although Schengen has only 1,500 inhabitants, it houses, together with nearby Mondorf-les-Bains, June 19th is the anniversary of the Schengen a Rotary Club with 50 members, men and wom- Convention, also known as “Schengen II”. It was en. Schengen Rotary Club was founded in 2002 signed in 1990 and has led to the abolition of in- and chartered ternal border controls and a common visa policy in May 2003. among the participating states. Their current The so-called Schengen Area operates very president is much like a single state for international travel Marianne Na- purposes with external border controls for trav- ti. They meet ellers entering and exiting the area. It currently on Friday at consists of 26 European 12:15 at the countries covering a Mondorf Parc population of over 400 Hôtel in Mon- million people and an dorf-les-Bains. area of 4,312,099 The Club’s home page doesn’t inform us about square kilometres. philanthropic activities, but it testifies a vibrant Some of them – such as club life, including open-air meals. Norway, Iceland, Swit- zerland and Liechtenstein – do not belong to the Michael M. . EU. Schengen is a small wine-making village and commune in far south-eastern Luxembourg, near For more information about the Rotary Club of the tripoint where the borders of Germany, Schengen see http: http://rotary-schengen.lu/).

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Tickets can be purchased on-line at http:// This Week !!!

Whiffenpoofs Concert

The Whiffenpoofs are coming! The Yale gradu- ate choir will be stopping in Jerusalem on 19 June at 20:00 in the Jerusalem YMCA Auditorium (See attachment) as a part of their 2013 World Tour which will have them visiting 24 countries from Iceland to New Zealand and Japan to South Africa with several stops in between. www.whiffenpoofs.ticketbud.com/jerusalem. The world renown The proceeds from the concert will be applied to “Whiffs”, who have in Rotary Community Projects. the past sung in the White House and Car- Kern W. . negie Hall among oth- ers have again been busy this year and were recently fea- tured in the American singing competition TV show “Sing Off” as well as making a cameo ap- pearance on the season finale of the Emmy Award winning TV show “Glee”. The Jerusalem performance will feature the add- ed appearance of the YMCA Jerusalem Chorus. Tickets are ILS 85 for General Admission with discounts to ILS 75 for pensioners, students, and soldiers.

Changeover Dinner

The Jerusalem Rotary Club will hold its annual Changeover Dinner at the garden of Bet Ticho on July 3, 2013.

*** cocktails *** good food *** wine *** fun comedy *** music ***

Please contribute prizes to the FABULOUS RAFFLE !!!

Cost per person: ILS 200. Come and bring family, friends and future members!

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Happy Hour

Meanwhile, in Jamaica...

Sent in by Colin Barcant, Trinidad & Tobago .

Jerusalem Rotary Club Luncheon/Dinner cost: NIS 60, students and lone soldiers: NIS 20. For Kosher meals please book in ad- Meeting at the YMCA, 26 King David St, Jerusalem vance. For this and other enquiries e-mail the club Sec- Wednesdays at 13:00, last Wednesday of each month retary: [email protected] at 19:00. Meetings are conducted in English. Visiting Rotarians and other guests are welcome. Visit our website: www.JerusalemRotaryClub.org

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