Petition on Behalf of Ibrahim to the President Reuven Rivlin & Call for Donation to Pay Ibrahim"s Fine for February
ibrahim abu el Hawa
Good day Ibrahim's friends and supporters!
1) On your request, we started a petition campaign on change.org to ask the President of Israel, the only person who has a power to drop charges against Ibrahim, to pardon him.
The President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, can overturn the court ruling, which sentenced Ibrahim to pay the fine of 288,000 NIS for building two additional floors on top of his house without the permission of the Israeli government, which is very difficult to obtain.
We now ask you to support this campaign, to sign the petition on change.org .
Please share the campaign among your friends on facebook and twitter!
2) Additionally, if you know Ibrahim personally and could write more than a sentence on his behalf, please send us your personal statement about Ibrahim’s activism, his health condition, his lack of funds to pay the fine and about the hardship imposed by the court on his shoulders.
Please send your email to busof...@gmail.com (Peace Bus Project, which helps to coordinate the campaign) and write your full name, your address, nationality and country of residence.
Remember, this petition will be directed to Israeli President Rivlin, who has the legal power to grant a pardon to Ibrahim based on his life-long history of peace activism, his poor health and age, his low income and the high sum of the fine. Your emails will be printed and submitted together with the petition and lawyer’s application to the President.
3) We would like to thank you for your generous contribution to save Ibrahim from prison. With the overwhelming success of the indigogo campaign, Ibrahim is extremely grateful to all of you who have given him renewed hope.
We paid the monthly payment for December and January and additional 30.000 NIS to keep Ibrahim out of prison. But WE NEED TO CONTINUE HELPING HIM to pay the fine in order to buy us more time until we can get an answer from the President.
His lawyer is now trying to reduce the amount of monthly payments based on Ibrahim's low income, as it would be very difficult for us to support him with 5300 NIS every month. The original fine was 4800 NIS per month and now there is an additional 500 NIS monthly for the time he could not pay according to the new ruling of the court. This fee must be paid monthly until 2018!
We are collecting for this February monthly payment of the fine 5,300 NIS. PLEASE DONATE! Thank you
From Israel
Account Holder: Ibrahim Abu El Hawa
Bank Name: Discount Bank
Bank Address: East Jerusalem, Israel
Bank Number # 11
Branch #: 068
Account #: 11050723
International
Account Holder: Ibrahim Abu Alhawa, Ahmad, Samira
Bank Discount Jerusalem
IBAN IL48 – 0110 – 6800 – 0001 – 1050 – 723
SWIFT IDBLILITJLM
PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL REUVEN RIVLIN
"Haj Ibrahim Ahmad Abu El-Hawa is known to many as a Peacemaker who has lived his entire life on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. He has spent over 70 years being a walking symbol of hope, peace and generosity. Bringing peace has always been his way of life – from speaking at massive public gatherings to milking cows with local peace groups. He is a dear friend to all faiths: Muslims, Jews, Druze, and Christians.
Haj Ibrahim is one of the founding members of the Jerusalem Peacemakers, an interfaith organization working towards interreligious understanding in Jerusalem since the late 90s, with the late Rabbi Menachem Froman from Tekoa and Rabbi Metatyahu from the USA. He has assisted with educational and religious tours -- including countless peace activities -- as a guide, teacher and friend. He “lives to give” and his mission is to “love your neighbor as yourself.” He is a truly rare soul and has given his life and his life savings to help others through this philosophy, working tirelessly and speaking to millions worldwide through his work with people of all religions, cultures and faiths.
Haj Ibrahim has built without a building permission (which in his case was very difficult to obtain) additional two floors above his two floor level house. The Local Affairs Court of Jerusalem sentenced him to the fine of 288,000 NIS in 60 payments and destruction of these two floors in his house. He is a pensioner and is not able to pay 4800 NIS every month (which now became 5,300 NIS because he could not pay for the last seven months until January). Therefore, Haj Ibrahim Ahmad Abu El-Hawa is facing three years of prison every time he can not pay three consecutive payments, according to the agreement between the prosecutor and his lawyer, which he was forced to sign in order to avoid a harder punishment. He has no more resources. Although, Haj Ibrahim Ahmad Abu El-Hawa made affords to pay from 2012 until now, he is not capable to continue paying the fine because of his low pension and too high monthly fine, running costs of his lawyer and his architect.
Within the volatile landscape we see in the region today, when Ibrahim’s work is most important, he is struggling to continue. His health has severely turned for the worse, having suffered both a stroke and a heart attack in the last year. He is now seriously ill and the weight of the court order continues to grow heavy upon him.
If we don’t act now, his grief might worsen his health condition and he may be imprisoned because, as a pensioner, he is financially unable to pay the high fine. As well, part of Ibrahim's newly built house may be demolished. The additions were built in order to tend to the needs of his growing family, which includes three deaf and mute sisters of Ibrahim’s wife whom his family cares for daily.
We ask for your support to prevent all of this from happening. Please consider Ibrahim's achievements, however humble, and grant him your pardon. We hope to obtain your quick response since the next court process is upon us.
Thank you for your support.
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PLEASE READ ABOUT THE CASE OF IBRAHIM
Haj Ibrahim Ahmad Abu El-Hawa requires financial help so that he can fulfill the decision of the court and pay the fine and that he can obtain a legal permission to keep the two built floors and to prevent them from being demolished. He needs to pay the fine to the court and expenses for the lawyer, architect and the application for the legal permission. According to his information, Haj Ibrahim Ahmad Abu El-Hawa needs these additional two floors to accommodate his many children and grandchildren. He regrets building his house without the permission and about grave consequences of this decision. He did not apply previously for a building permission because according to the experience of his neighbors, residents of his neighborhood A-Tur in Jerusalem, such applications almost never have been successful, and under the conditions, when no other opportunity is provided, he decided to build his house without a permission.
Ibrahim on Google - Year in Search 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwHCGAr_OE
Recent Publications about Ibrahim's court ruling
http://www.maariv.co.il/page.aspx…
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.634736
Jerusalem Peacemaker Profile
http://jerusalempeacemakers2008.jerusalempeacemakers.org/…/…
http://peaceforibrahim.org/about/
Peace For Ibrahim - A Campaign to Save a Peace House in Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Sakm7WIcM
Ibrahim and his house of peace on the Mount of Olives - Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqEt6HJ2SPw
The Beduin host on the Mount of Olives
http://www.jpost.com/…/The-Beduin-host-on-the-Mount-of-Oliv…
Shattered dreams?
http://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/Features/Shattered-dreams
The hostel that doesn't ask
http://www.haaretz.com/…/the-hostel-that-doesn-t-ask-1.3154…
If You're in Jerusalem Just Ask for Ibrahim
http://www.roadjunky.com/…/if-youre-in-jerusalem-just-ask-…/
Ibrahim of the Mt. of Olives
http://jerusalemgypsy.blogspot.co.il/…/ibrahim-of-mt-of-oli…
A Palestinian Peacemaker
Living on the Mount of
Olives
https://www.globalonenessproject.org/…/palestinian-peacemak…
A Journey to Israel and Palestine
http://www.spectacle.org/0302/igf.htmCampaign
Page Haj Ibrahim, the Peace Maker from the Mount of Olives, Needs Help!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/216720338533999/
Ibrahim Abu El Hawa Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/216720338533999/ibrahim
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אזור קבצים מצורפים
תצוגה מקדימה של סרטון ה-YouTube Google - Year in Search 2014
Google - Year in Search 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwHCGAr_OE
תצוגה מקדימה של סרטון ה-YouTube Peace For Ibrahim - A Campaign to Save a Peace House in Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Sakm7WIcM
Bets regards and Thank you all!
Ibrahim’s Support Campaign Coordinators
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!
