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Sunday in the Park with some of our amazing athletes, David Roher, Albert Galatan and Allison Unger. Training together for the upcoming 2015 NYC Marathon. They would love for you to join them on their next run!

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Join Team OneFamily in the NYC Triathlon on July 19th, 2015 and NYC Marathon on November 1st, 2015.
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Register today to join us in the Tel Aviv Marathon (February 27th) or the Jerusalem Marathon (March 13th). Be part of the most inspirational team in Israel, run as OneFamily, and together we will overcome terror! Register at www.teamonefamily.org and don't forget to ask your friends to run with us too!

We run for those that cannot move forward alone.

Light a candle tomorrow for Kristine Luken.

Four years ago, Kay Wilson and her Christian American friend Kristine Luken Z”L were brutally attacked with machetes by Palestinian terrorists. Kristine was murdered because they mistakenly thought she was Jewish.

We ask you to join us in lighting a candle tomorrow in memory of Kristine - may G-d comfort her family and may we continue to be there for Kay on her life-long journey of recovery. Am Israel Chai.

December 18, 2010

It was a beautiful autumn Sabbath afternoon. The sun was not too hot, the skies were deep blue and the pine trees seemed somehow extra fresh and clean. It was an ideal day for hiking. I had been working as an Israeli tour guide for four years and cherished opportunities like this. I loved to take tourists somewhere a little different, somewhere off the beaten track. Kristine Luken was one such candidate for the ‘something different.’

Kristine Luken, a Texan living in Nottingham and a ministry staffer for the Church's Ministry among Jewish people (CMJ), a Christian group based in the United States and the United Kingdom was visiting Kay Wilson for the Christmas holiday. They had met just a few months previously in August on a trip to Poland where they visited concentration camps.

Kay took her friend Kristine on a hike through the Mata Forest, between Tsur Hadassah and Beit Shemesh. They had been enjoying the afternoon when two Arab men asked Kay for water in Hebrew. After they disappeared from view, Kay became uneasy about their intentions, and began walking in return to Mata. As they walked towards the village, the men attacked.
Kristine screamed.

I turned around to see what was wrong but didn’t make it. I was thrown to the ground by the weight of a man who was trying to pin me down.
Kay Wilson was held at knife point for 30 minutes, tied up and gagged only to be stabbed 13 times with a machete while watching her friend, Kristine Luken be murdered a few feet away.

Kay survived by playing dead as the stabbing continued. She sustained 13 perforations in her lungs and diaphragm, over 30 broken bones, 6 open fractures to her ribs, a crushed sternum, a dislocated shoulder and a broken shoulder blade.

The knife plunged through my side with ease and I felt it rip through my organs. My insides were on fire. I knew it was fatal. “Shema Israel…” I prayed under my breath. I waited to die a painful, prolonged and messy death.

During the attack, she stabbed one of the terrorists lightly in the arm with a small penknife. When the murderers left the scene she heroically managed to stand up.

My hands were tied so I could not hold her [Kristine Luken] in her last moments. I was gagged and unable to utter the simplest word of comfort… I knew that if I knelt beside her I would never get up, ever again.
I started to slowly walk away and as I did the sound of her breathing faded away forever into the forest.

Kay struggled to return to the path, walked more than a kilometer while gagged, broken, bleeding, bound, barefoot and dying, until she found help.

As Kay Wilson describes: There is a million miles between being alive and knowing what it is to be alive.

Due to growing security concern, the Youth Division staff came to the difficult decision to postpone the summer therapeutic camp. The camp was to brings together 350 bereaved and injured children for seven days of therapeutic support, relaxation, and togetherness. It acts as a keystone to monthly therapeutic programs and workshops, bi-weekly contact by counselors, and meetings between the children throughout the year. The decision was made together with parents, the children, and our staff.

The team met last night to discuss alternative therapeutic support we will provide our youngest victims of terror during Operation Protective Edge. Twenty-five of our staff members have been called up for reserve duty.

Emergency Appeal: Our country and our homeland are under attack. Rockets continue to fall at an escalating pace, aimed farther and deeper into Israel – reaching beyond our Northern Center in Hadera.

OUR FIRST PRIORITY is to move as many of our families in Southern Israel from the impacted areas and take them to Northern Israel to escape the mortars, rockets, and attacks.

Please SUPPORT our Emergency Campaign, https://secure.onefamilyfund.org/operationprotectiveedge7-9

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With a breaking heart we are sharing the news that Gilad, Naftali, and Eyal are no longer alive. May the Shaar, Frenkel, and Yifrach families be comforted with the mourners of Zion. BDE.

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