Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Haifa Communication Center
Updated 06/08/06

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Communications Center is able to assist
foreign press with obtaining human interest stories.

Highlight stories-

1. Prof. Mully Lahad and his teams are treating the inhabitants of the north
suffering from Post - Trauma - Syndrome (PST).
More than 2500 persons - including children and youngsters - have been
reported suffering from pst.
For a special briefing with Prof. Lahad and a tour of shelters where the
teams are treating civilians - please call the Haifa Press Center for
registration.

2. Dr. Michael Kafka, Director of the Bnai Zion Emergency room (ER), whose
house was hit twice by katusha rockets is available for interviews through
the Press Center. Please call.

3. Israeli refugees: since the 12th of July, almost 250,000 Israeli citizens
were forced to leave their homes and move south.
Hundreds of Israeli families volunteered to host them and NGO`s arranged
special camps.
- Regarding special camps for Arab and Jewish children who had to
leave their homes, contact Michael from the Jewish Agency, 052-xxxxxx.
- Regarding families who live in "Nizanim" beach, near Ashkelon,
contacts of evacuated families available at the communication center.
- Regarding families from Kiryat Shemonah, separated and spread out
all over Israel, contact Shosh Peretz, 052-xxxxxxx.
- For an interview with a person who had to abandon her home,
contacts available at the communication center.
- About "Israel Together", a NGO that helps families and children
who had to leave their homes, contact Tamar, 052-xxxxxxx.

4. Israeli former captive soldiers - describing their experiences of
captivity, and their feelings in light of the kidnapping of the three
Israeli soldiers, contacts for former captives available at communication
center.

5. Convent "The Sacred Heart" in Haifa takes care of disabled children and
needs to deal with their anxieties during the missile strikes. Contact Neta,
spokesperson of Haifa municipality, 054-xxxxxx.

6. Second generation to suffer from Katyusha Rockets- in Kiryat Shmonah, in
some families the parents have suffered Katyusha attacks as children and now
they are facing the same experiences as parents with their children. Some
families are even third generation to the Katyusha attacks. The story is
available in English, French and Spanish. Please contact the Communications
Center for details.

For further information, please contact the MFA Communications Center at the
following numbers:

04-8100697
04-8100657
04-8100630