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Wed, Jul 16th 2008, 11:40
Jordan Farmar to go on peace mission to Middle East
Like other NBA players, Jordan Farmar will head overseas this summer, only with a different mission — to facilitate peace in the Middle East.
The Lakers’ guard, who is Jewish, will travel to Israel to run basketball camps for Israeli and Palestinian children in association with the Peres Peace Center. The goal of the camps, which take place Aug. 4 to 11, is to bring Israeli and Palestinian children together through basketball and create a foundation for peaceful relations between them in years to come.
“If you can have a good time with someone you’re supposed to be enemies with, and you guys can work together, things can be better for your future,” Farmar said.
Farmar, who averaged 9.1 points and 2.7 assists in his second season with the Lakers, also participated in the NBA’s fifth-annual “Play for Peace” clinic in 2006, a little more than a month after he was drafted out of UCLA.
Comments
Barbara & Jeffrey Kelman | on 28/7/08
Jeffrey is a HUGH Lakers fan (25+ years).
We will be in Israel too.
I understand from the Peres Center that the Basketball Clilnics end on the 7th of August. Is that correct? Where can we meet Jordan in Israel, as we don’t get there until the night of the 7th?
Please advise.
Thank you.
Barbara Kelman
Vanessa | on 16/7/08
That is an amazing thing that you’re doing. I pray for your safe travels, sweetheart.
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