When you build, you appreciate design.
When you learn what it takes, sequentially, to create, you sometimes marvel at the seeming simplicity of the end product.

I marveled at this ugly green roof.  It’s just amazing.

The roof is the top of a building for children’s programs in Kibbutz Erez, one of our partnership communities. In fact, in Erez, you would be hard pressed to find a corner where Greater MetroWest has not had an impact. From the Goldklang Medical Clinic to the renovated bomb shelters, to the playgrounds, to the Murnick Library to... and I kid you not... the golf carts that enable one to get around the kibbutz quickly, it’s all being done with the help of GMW.  And those are just some examples, hardly all.

But I marveled at the roof.  

The ugly green roof is made of mostly steel and metal.  Most important is that it has two layers. And it’s those two layers that underscore its genius.

The first layer of metal allows a ketusha rocket to penetrate. The second layer acts as a protective shield and destroys the rocket. So I asked the question: Why not just make the whole thing from the second layer?

(The comedian George Carlin z’l used to ask, “If you can always find the black box, why not just make the entire plane from that material?”  May George rest in peace.)

Answer:  Because the two layers sandwich the shrapnel of the exploding rocket within the roof structure.

Omg. Brilliant

If someone, God forbid, does not make it into a bomb shelter, how do you protect them from flying debris?

Brilliant design

Jeffrey Korbman, Campaign Director, is participating in a JFNA National Campaign Directors Mission to Israel with Maxine B. Murnick, UJA Campaign Chair, Joan Schiffer Levinson, Women’s Philanthropy President, and Sarabeth Margolis Wizen, Women’s Philanthropy Director.