b'WeareveryimpressedwithTJIslong-time ExecutiveDirectorDavidPortowiczandhisstaff, and we are very comfortable supporting a wide array of TJIs programs. Over the last five years, we have made over $300,000 in grants to purchase computers (including$30,000wherewemetanexpiring challengegrantand$25,000foruseinacourse teaching work skills to unemployed single Moms), anindustrialoven,playgroundequipment,speech therapy for special needs children, an equine therapy program,furnitureandequipmentneededforan after-school program for disadvantaged teenage girls who are at risk of dropping out, help for Holocaust survivors as well as grants for a portable chair lift, and incremental therapy for their programs where the participants get a hot meal, both one-on-one and group therapy, academic support in Hebrew, English, Mathematics, and other core subjects, and purchased a pallet truck, storage unit and refrigerators.During the 2014 Gaza War, HOT gave TJI $46,500 towards recalling their teachers and other key personnel to reopen their dormitories to 230 children from Ashdod and other townsinthesouth.Thechildrenhadabalanceofenrichmentclassesandcamplike activities in the comparative safety of Tel Aviv.TJIs very lengthy wish list for Youth at Risk includes: $7,174 for a counselor for disadvantaged teenage boys$15,494 for 17 miscellaneous computers @ average cost of $911 per computer $22,600forJumpStartProgramforAt-RiskYouthinthesummerbetween middle School and high school (20 students @ $1,130 per student) $23,644 for recreational equipment at 6 program locationsFor Seniors: $9,039for50WifiEquippedTabletsand1-yearconnectivity(for50seniors including Holocaust survivors) @ $180.77 each Unfortunately, half of our $50,000 June 30, 2016 fiscal yeargrantstoTJIhadtobeusedtofortifyand increase the height of the perimeter fence around their BetShemeshschool.Howwonderfulitwouldhave been to have made this grant for one or more of the items that have carried forward on TJIs wish list, but the Palestinian terrorist who killed an innocent Israeli, a block away, in October of 2015, did not permit that. Lookatthepicturetotherightforsureitlooks morelikeanArmybasethenaschool.Thisisthe reality Israelis have to deal with every day.24'