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Shalhevet news online: When we know it, you'll know it

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Benjamin Zaghi

Benjamin Zaghi, Senior Editor

Benjamin Zaghi has been on the Boiling Point all four years of high school. He was a staff writer for the first two, then was the editor of multiple sections, and now is Senior Editor. Benny leads the Sephardic Minyan and plays on the Boys Varsity Basketball team. If he isn’t writing stories, you would probably see him shooting in the gym.

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CANVAS: Outside in the parking lot, students spray-painted and decorated a large white wall in honor of Israel’s 68th year of independence.

Spray paint, dancing and kavanah to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut

By Benjamin Zaghi, Staff Writer
June 7, 2016
When you see Israeli flags waved in the air, kids jumping up down and listening Israeli music being blasted in the gym, you know its Yom Ha’atzmaut at Shalhevet. March 12, students wore blue and white, matching the blue and white balloons and paper streamers that covered the decorated gym, and forgetting the competitive Just Community elections that had been consuming the student body that week.
BUSY: Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space, Ofir Akunis, spoke to an all-school assembly Feb. 8, as Consul General David Siegel looked on. Minister Akunis was in the U.S. to work on research and space agreements.

Israeli Cabinet Minister tells assembly of joint stem cell research with California

By Benjamin Zaghi, Staff Writer
April 13, 2016
Feb. 8 was a busy day for Israel’s Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Ofir Akunis. In the afternoon, he signed an agreement on stem cell research between Israel and a California bio-tech firm. After that, he was heading to Washington, D.C., to meet with NASA in hopes of sending an Israeli astronaut to Mars. But before that, he had a date to speak with the student body at Shalhevet.
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