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Letter #4 from the RIS Provost
July 23, 2006

Dear Parents,
I am here again with you with another update. I would have liked to tell you that hostilities have ceased, and that there is no more need to send you these updates. However, I can now only pray together with you that peace shall return very soon to our area and a new and prosperous future will .

Your children are doing very well at the Rothberg School. They are not disconnected from the events, and some of them may be more anxious than the others. We are doing our very best to help these students to confront stress and anxiety, with the assistance of the School's psychologist and counselors (BULSHIT, WHAT COUNSELORS?). Your stimulating letters and phone calls also contribute to their peace of mind and tranquility. I take this opportunity to thank from the bottom of my heart the many parents who responded to my

You will be interested to know that we are hosting at the Mount Scopus dorms 150 overseas students from Haifa University, who arrived here this week and restarted their interrupted Hebrew Ulpan program. I believe that this clearly indicates that students feel safe in Jerusalem, and thus see no reason to leave Israel. (MORE THAN HALF OF THEM HAVE LEFT)

As I already informed you, we had a general assembly of students and staff, with a briefing on the situation by Elihu Ben Onn. (WITH NO INFORMATION ABOUT ANY KIND OF SECURITY OR EVACUATION PLAN)

Last Tuesday the students visited Jaffa and Nachalat Binyamin (Tel Aviv), and on Thursday and Friday they went on a tour to Masada and Nachal David (at Ein Gedi).
We also arranged an evening of Israeli Folk Dancing together with our guests from Haifa University.

A large group of students was received by Mr. Charles Goodman, Chairman of the Hebrew University Board of Governors, Prof. Menachem Magidor, President of the Hebrew University, and Prof. Haim Rabinowitz, Rector of the Hebrew University. This was a very warm meeting, in which the students expressed their feelings of safety and satisfaction with their studies at the Rothberg School. (WHO WERE HANDPICKED TO TELL THEM WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR)

Best wishes.
Prof. Jaime Kapitulnik