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Join us for an AP Broth Hour with Gilad Skolnick, Regional Director of Advancement: American Friends of Leket Israel.
Gilad Skolnik, the son of the recently retired and beloved Kerem Shalom Hebrew School teacher Avital Skolnick, is the New England representative of Leket Israel, Israel’s National Food Bank.
He has been involved in the Greater Boston Jewish non-profit field for over a decade. As the Executive Director of Northeastern University Hillel, one of his focuses was on food rescue, installing a community fridge outside the building to provide leftover Shabbat dinners to hundreds of local people in need. His earliest childhood memories are of picking fruit on a kibbutz in Israel.
Leket Israel is believed to be the largest gleaning operation in the world, rescuing and distributing 330,000 meals every week to vulnerable Israelis of all backgrounds including single parents, Israeli Arabs, new immigrants from Ethiopia and Ukraine, and Holocaust survivors.
Join us to hear about the current state of agriculture in Israel, challenges beyond the headlines, and the latest innovations in food rescue.