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Michael
Cherney Foundation Supports Israel Paralympics
By
Herb Brandon Jerusalem, Israel ---- July 10, 2009 ...... Supporting outstanding Israel sportsmen, especially new immigrants, is one of priorities for the Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy) Foundation. For this reason the Cherney Foundation has granted financial aid to Yakov Benenson, who hasn’t received his salary in Israel since January. Thanks to swimming trainer Yakov Beneson, the Israel team took 5 silver and 1 bronze medals in Paralympics in Beijing in 2008. On June 2, 2009, world para-swimming championship came to a conclusion, with 487 participants from 28 countries. Three of those participants, all trainees of Yakov Beneson (Inbal Pizaro, Iyad Shalbi and Irel A-Levi) took home 2 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze medal. Yakov Beneson made Aliya 10 years ago from Orenburg (Russia) where he graduated from the Sports Institute. “I started to train invalids by chance," says Beneson. "In 2000 I was invited to the Ilan-sport center for the handicapped, which has a fantastic pool, purely to entertain those that were using the pool. But then I met Inbal Pisaro who was then 12 years old, and immediately recognized her pure talent for water, even though she is totally paralyzed below the waste. Today she is a world champion in brass style and trains 8-9 times a week." Beneson continues: "Another trainee that I have is an Israel - Muslim Arab from Shfaram, Iyad Shalbi, who is deaf, mostly paralyzed – making him the hardest case in the world for swimming. In the beginning it was impossible to get through to him, he couldn’t understand what I wanted from him. But today, like Inbal, he trains 8 times a week. How uplifting it is to see him compete with an Israel flag on the cap and roll out to receive his medals draped in Israeli flag, while his father stands at attention during Israeli anthem. My third trainee, Iral A-Levi who is on crutches, just won 7 medals in Germany." Following his repatriation to Israel, Michael Cherney has maintained business interests in Russia and post-Soviet states, while developing new commercial contacts between Russia, Europe, Israel, and the US. In Israel, Michael Cherney spends much effort on charity and humanitarian projects that reinforce cooperation between Israel and Russia in fighting terrorism. Michael Cherney established a Website for his Foundation on June 1, 2001, the night of the terrorist bombing outside the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv. When Michael Cherney learned the number of victims - 21 dead and over 150 wounded - he realized that rendering assistance required a systematic organized effort. Prior to 2001, Cherney was engaged in charity work in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Bulgaria, the US - wherever he did business. He made valuable contributions into Jewish philanthropy in Russia. Following the Dolphinarium terrorist tragedy, the Cherney Fund became the helping hand for all its victims. In a misfortune like this, emigres from the former Soviet countries are even worse off than those born in Israel: they don't have a support system or savings. The Cherney Fund, therefore, renders help mostly to the new arrivals, victims of catastrophes and terrorist acts that continue to bleed Israel, as well as to the low-income victims of terror in other countries. Another equally important task assumed by the Cherney Foundation is the media effort in war on terror. Shortly after the Dolphinarium attack, the Foundation published a book called Dolphinarium: Terror Targets the Young. The Michael Cherney Foundation has established grants for students from the former Soviet Union in all major Israel universities with an annual endowment of 1 million shekels.
This year’s
18th Maccabiah kicks off with an opening ceremony at the Ramat
Gan Stadium on Monday night, July 13. Three time Gold medal Olympian
swimmer Jason Lezak of the US team, will light the flame. As the world’s
third largest sports event after the Olympics, the Maccabiah Games
plays host to 3000 junior Maccabiah athletes, aged 15 -18; 5,000
open athletes, 2,000 masters and Paralympics. Sports for
which competitors will be going for Gold include: artistic gymnastics,
badminton, baseball, basketball, beach volleyball, bridge, cricket,
chess, fencing, golf, gymnastics, handball, half-marathon, field
hockey, judo, karate, netball, lawn bowls, rowing, rugby, squash,
soccer, softball, swimming, table-tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon,
track and field, ten-pin bowling, volleyball, water polo, wrestling
and windsurfing. The 18th Maccabiah Games will be utilizing powerful Web 2.0 new media social networking to connect in real time with millions in Israel and worldwide. There are Twitter channels: wmu, maccabi, israelmaccabiah and #maccabiah and two official Facebook groups. A state of the art Web 2.0 Maccabiah Web site is expected to be launched within the next 48 hours.
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