Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship: What's New

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For Immediate Release (1/26/07)

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Daniel McGowan
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First Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship Awarded

The inaugural award for the Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship of $2,500 was granted to Reem Ibrahim ali Khalifa of Al Walajah, a small village near Deir Yassin on the west side of Jerusalem.

Reem is enrolled at Al Quds University in Jerusalem where she plans to study medicine.

The DYR Scholarship is open to all students, Israeli or Palestinian, under age 25 who live and study in Israel/Palestine.

A DYR Scholarship is renewable for up to four years. Application may be made through DYR Scholarship Committee, c/o Steven Beikirch, 22066 FM 244, Iola, TX 77861-5081.

DYR Scholarship Committee is actively raising funds to expand this worthy project to enable DYR to afford more and greater scholarships. Steve Beikirch chairs the current DYR Scholarship Committee. Susan Abulhawa (Playgrounds for Palestine) and Henry Herskovitz (Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends) are also on the committee.

Deir Yassin Remembered is a charitable and educational not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation offering opportunities for public discussion and remembrance of the history of the creation of the state of Israel and the destruction of a Palestinian community that lived and continues to live there, in an effort to foster better understanding between Jews and Palestinians.

Donors and volunteers are invited to contact steveb@suddenlink.net or mcgowan@hws.edu.

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For Immediate Release (8/24/07)

For More Information Contact
Daniel McGowan
315 891-3418
mcgowan@hws.edu
www.deiryassin.org

Second Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship Awarded in Honor of Mordechai Vanunu

Mordechai Vanunu is a Prisoner of Zion. After serving 18 years in prison for telling the world that Israel has nuclear weapons, he is still denied freedom to leave Israel and join his adopted parents in America. Both Israel and the United States seek to prevent him from speaking against nuclear proliferation. He is being further punished for speaking with foreigners and for his active participation in the Deir Yassin Remembered commemorations in Jerusalem.

In honor of Mordechai Vanunu a second Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship of $2,500 is today granted to Reem Ibrahim ali Khalifa of Al Walajah, a small village near Deir Yassin on the west side of Jerusalem.

Reem has been enrolled at Al Quds University in Jerusalem where she is studying medicine.

The DYR Scholarship is open to all students, Israeli or Palestinian, under age 25 who live and study in Israel/Palestine.

A DYR Scholarship is renewable for up to four years. Application may be made through DYR Scholarship Committee, c/o Steven Beikirch, 22066 FM 244, Iola, TX 77861-5081.

DYR Scholarship Committee is actively raising funds to expand this worthy project to enable DYR to afford more and greater scholarships. Steve Beikirch chairs the current DYR Scholarship Committee. Susan Abulhawa (Playgrounds for Palestine), Henry Herskovitz (Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends), and Israel Shamir are also on the committee.

Deir Yassin Remembered is a charitable and educational not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation offering opportunities for public discussion and remembrance of the history of the creation of the state of Israel and the destruction of a Palestinian community that lived and continues to live there, in an effort to foster better understanding between Jews and Palestinians.

Donors and volunteers are invited to contact steveb@suddenlink.net or mcgowan@hws.edu.

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For Immediate Release (11/2/07)

For More Information Contact
Daniel McGowan
315 891-3418
mcgowan@hws.edu
www.deiryassin.org

Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship to Honor the Memory of Issam Nashashibi

The Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce its third $2,500 award this year. The committee has selected Aya Bustami, a graduate of Dar al Tifl al Arabi, a secondary school started in 1948 with orphans whose parents were murdered at Deir Yassin.

This particular award was funded by a long-time patron of DYR and is dedicated to the memory of Issam Nashashibi, a DYR Director and tireless advocate of Palestinian human rights. Issam died August 28, 2003, just prior to the dedication of the DYR memorial in Geneva, New York.

Please consider supporting Deir Yassin Remembered either with a contribution for our annual commemorations (of which this coming April will be the 60th) or with a specific bequest for the DYR scholarship fund. We are a 501(c)(3) organization and your contribution will be tax deductible.

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