8 Beit El St. Old City Jerusalem, Israel Tel: 02-628-2634 Jeff's Cell 052-286-7795 US Fax:206-333-1134 Isr. Fax 02-628-2639
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8 Beit El, Jewish Quarter Student Center Director Ezra Amichai Batya Israel Miriam Pitterman Daniella Warren
Hours 9am-3pm Cell 052 286-7795 Office (02-628-2634) US (765-734-3356) US Fax #206-984-1067 Isr. Fax #02-628-3629 |
The Old City Student Center is the main office and “springboard” for the JSIC’s diversified activities throughout the country. In order to meet the needs of JSIC’s rapid expansion, construction has begun on a new building in Jerusalem, which will serve as a nucleus for the varied activities.
Activities include in-service counseling, yeshiva classes, regular lectures on topics like Jewish Philosophy or Halacha followed by a basketball or football game or even a movie, tours of the western wall tunnels and Shabbat Hospitality. Students are welcome to make themselves at home in the spacious lounge or browse in the Center’s library which includes video and audio tapes on a variety of Jewish Topics.
Students and Tourists seeking to expand their studies are referred to various yeshivas and programs, according to the individual’s needs and desires.
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
