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Many hundreds
of children from all parts of Israeli society get otherwise-unaffordable
access to quality home-care, home-care equipment and the best available
therapies. We have funded more than 28,000 para-medical therapy
sessions in the past four years (data updated as of December 2008).
Keren Malki, the foundation's Hebrew name, is one family's effort to
honor the memory of a
much-loved
child. Malki's
life ended in an act of murder, driven by hatred and intolerance. She
was 15. This website and the Malki Foundation's work are a loving
memorial to her life.
Please support
our work.
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Mail:
Keren Malki, PO Box 2151,
Jerusalem 91023 Israel
Email:
To reach us by email
now,
click here
From Israel
Our main office located in
the center of Jerusalem is open Sunday through Thursday between 9 and 5.
Phone 02-567-0602. Fax 03-542-3783. Or email office@kerenmalki.org
From United States
call us in
Jerusalem via this toll-free number: 1-888-880-1561. To check the
current time in Jerusalem,
click.
From Australia
Call the Australian Friends of Keren Malki
on 0412-382935 (Joseph Roth) in Melbourne. Or email
oz@kerenmalki.org
From the UK
Call Keren Malki UK via its chairperson Daniel
Mann on +44 (0)7950 177 909 or email
UK@kerenmalki.org
Feedback:
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comments or ideas,
click here.
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and criticism are always welcome
on our Visitors' Page
(anonymous if you like and if it's not offensive. To email
your feedback,
click here.
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latest developments at the Malki Foundation, and
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receive Frimet and Arnold Roth's occasional published articles,
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A plaque at Sbarro
 On 23rd September 2003, after prolonged efforts by the Roth family and others, the Jerusalem municipality
finally arranged a formal unveiling
and dedication of a plaque on the outside wall of the Sbarro restaurant
in the heart of Jerusalem. The plaque commemorates the massacre carried
out on the premises of the restaurant by Palestinian Arab terrorists a
little more than two years earlier.
No explanation was ever offered as to why
the process of arranging for a plaque to be created and affixed was so prolonged and so painful.
From various individuals on the staff of the
municipality, the Roth's heard suggestions
that there had been obstruction by the owner of the building and a
general lack of co-operation by all concerned with the obtaining of the
necessary permissions. But in the end, the staff of the municipality's
Commemorations Dept. were helpful and supportive and the plaque was
finally created and mounted.
(Sbarro subsequently moved its local
restaurant operations to a different
address on Jerusalem's Jaffa Road in the summer of 2004, long after this
ceremony.)
The modest
unveiling and commemoration took place at the Jaffa Road/King George Ave
corner on the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd September 2003.
Frimet
Roth, Malki's mother, spoke briefly in Hebrew about the importance
of remembering. Her words, rendered into English, are here.
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The
original Hebrew text of Frimet's address is here
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So
far as we know, the Australian
Jewish News is the only publication to publish a
report of this event.
Their article is here
and the photo accompanying the story is here. |
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Frimet
Roth's
earlier published essay about the failure of the municipality to honor
the memory of the dead at the Sbarro massacre is here. |
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The
names and brief background information on all of the innocent civilians
murdered in the Sbarro massacre are
here.
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Click on the thumbnails below to see larger pictures
snapped by Arnold Roth.
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Speaking:
Frimet Roth. In the front row: Mayor Uri Lupolianski, chief of the Jerusalem
police Mickey Levy, the heads of the fire and rescue squads in Jerusalem, and
Rabbi Rabinovich, the official rabbi of the
Kotel. |
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An
armed IDF sniper stands guard on the rooftop next to the gathered guests...
sad commentary on life in Israel's capital city today. |
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Frimet
Roth addresses the assembled family, friends, dignitaries and guests
briefly about Malki and about the significance of memory |
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The
Jaffa Rd frontage of the Sbarro restaurant. The plaque was mounted on
the left-most column of the building's facade. |
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The
memorial plaque with fifteen names. |
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When the Sbarro Israel management
reconstructed their restaurant and re-opened it in Sep. 2001, thirty days
after the terror attack, this is the advertisement they ran in all the
local Jerusalem newspapers. The Roths felt this was a disgrace. No mention of why the restaurant needed to be
rebuilt; no mention of the murders, or of the victims
alive or dead, or of the pain of the families. The headline reads:
"For you, the best!" The sub-heading: "The
Jerusalem Sbarro branch which opens on 12 Sept. is the fanciest in the
country, and you're invited to come along and get a 50% discount". |
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And on an entirely different note... |
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The scene outside
the Sbarro restaurant in the center of Jerusalem, the early afternoon of 9th August 2001 |
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Not everyone has the same opinion about
acts of barbarism... |
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A
month after the murders, Hamas and its supporters in Nablus at the
notorious
An-Najah University erected a crude reproduction of
the destroyed Sbarro restaurant to
celebrate the massacre, and to rejoice in the deaths and the maiming of
innocent civilians |
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