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Job Vacancy: PA for JNF UK Chairman and CEO
JNF UK seeks a PA for its Chairman and CEO to work at its offices in North West London.
The ideal candidate will have experience in the following:
- Excellent diary management
- Excellent organisational and communications skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Initiative and self-motivation
- Patience, sensitivity, discretion, and confidentiality.
- Excellent spoken and written English
- Advanced MS Offices skills
- Knowledge of Israel an advantage
Salary dependant on experience, to include 20 days holiday per annum and Jewish Holidays.
For a job description and application form, please contact Caroline Silver on 020 8732 6120 or email caroline@jnf.co.uk
Closing date for applications is Friday 17th February 2012.
JNF UK is a registered charity number 225910
Jewish Living Expo
Come join JNF UK at the Jewish Living Expo on Sunday 18 March. At Wembley Stadium from 10.30am, we will be found in the community section, at stand 147.
Green Sunday 2012!
Will you help us turn the Negev green? Give two hours of your time to help us find the support that our projects to make the desert bloom require...
JNF-KKL Christmas Trees
In keeping with its annual tradition, KKL-JNF Israel is distributing Christmas trees to local churches, monasteries, convents, embassies, foreign journalists and the general public as the holiday approaches.
KKL-JNF foresters grow Arizona cedars, which have been selected as the variety best suited to serve as attractive Christmas trees, in a special plot adjacent to the KKL-JNF offices in Givat Yishayahu in central Israel. The trees are brought over from KKL-JNF’s Eshtaol nursery as year-old saplings, and are carefully tended for another two years until they grow to a height of around two meters.
Sderot Park Opening
The unusual nature of these happy, normal park scenes is that they are taking place in Sderot, an Israeli town on the border with Gaza. Over an eight year period, more than 10,000 rockets rained down on the town. When the ‘Code Red’ warning sounded, as it would do several times a day, you had 15 seconds to get to a shelter. 15 seconds is not very long. Some people died, many were injured, all were affected psychologically. In the year since Operation Cast Lead, there has been a lull in the rocket attacks.
The people of Sderot have been attempting to reclaim a sense of normality in their lives. In 2009 and 2010, your support raised the funds to build a beautiful park, which is playing an important part in the new life of the town.
The second phase of our commitment to Sderot, to create a striking entrance to the town with a tree-lined boulevard leading to the JNF Park is almost complete. We have also begun to build a wonderful new playground and skateboard park for the young people of the town to enjoy. With 85% of children suffering from Post Traumatic Stress, this latest stage of the project will make a huge difference to their lives.
Continue readingJNF Presents Chief Rabbi with Halutzit Etrog
JNF UK presented an etrog from the Western Negev community of Halutzit to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the eve of the festival of Succot.
Halutzit is a new community of more than 85 families located in the Halutzah Sands (western Negev) on the Egyptian Border. Most of the families were originally from Atzmona in the Gaza Strip, and were forced to leave their homes in 2005 in the hope of a peace that never came. 40% of Halutzit's citizens work in agriculture, 40% in education and 20% in other businesses.
Continue readingWalk for Water 2012
This is no stroll in the park but an adventurous trek in the southern Negev to raise funds to help turn the Negev green. If we are lucky we will experience the brilliant colours of the Negev in bloom and you will have the opportunity to walk and make friends with previous trekkers and first-timers.
We will fly out on the night flight on Saturday, 10 March 2012 and return on Sunday, 18 March. This adventure is suitable for ALL ages and families are welcome.
The 2012 Walk for Water is the 18th organised by JNF and we guarantee you a memorable experience. The walk will take place in the Eilat area, where we will spend the last weekend.
Registration is £250 per person (non-refundable) and sponsorship is £2,000 per person. Email Melanie or call her on 020 8732 6100 option 2 for more details or to put your name down.
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