Israel Tennis To Build Bomb Shelters

Written by: Staff on 13th March 2013

Israel Tennis To Build Bomb Shelters |

Israel Tennis Centers Foundation International Chairman, Larry Greenspon, announced an emergency program to build bomb shelters in 11 centers. “Just last week rockets were launched once again into the heart of Israel, putting our centers, children and staff at risk. We have an obligation to make sure that within 15 seconds of the sirens going off everyone can get into a shelter,” he said.

Alan Goldner, President of the Israel Tennis Center Foundation said that in November when rockets were launched that were able to reach Tel-Aviv that they needed a plan to keep their Centers open and safeguard their children. “We can’t tell the kids to go home,” he said. “We need to protect them where they are and do everything possible to stop the rockets from disrupting the lives of our children. Our national program is about providing safety, normalcy and routine for the kids. The children as well as their parents need to know we can protect them during these uncertain times.”

One of the fund raising ideas the Tennis Centers plans to implement is to provide donors with the opportunity to support both the building of the bomb shelters and placing their photographs in the shelters so they will be present in the shelters with the children.

The forthcoming Israel Tennis Center Exhibitions in South Florida will focus their efforts on raising funds for the building of 47 bomb shelters. The “Shelter our children with Love from America” campaign is projected to cost $500,000.

During Thanksgiving while many Americans were sitting down for dinner, Israeli children were listening to sirens blaring and running to bomb shelters if they were available.

The Israel Tennis Centers were forced to close three centers in the south of Israel and bussed hundreds of children including to Tennis Centers in the north where they were housed with Jewish families. Once they arrived the children were provided with a variety of fun activities to help take their minds off the situation in the south.

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