Dorian Paskowitz the 86-year-old patriarch of the surfing Paskowitz clan has donated 12 surfboards to a small surfing community in Israel’s Gaza Strip.
He said he was inspired after reading a story about two Gaza surfers who could not enjoy the wild waves off the coastal strip because they had only one board to share between them. . . So I said to my son, ‘Come, we’ll go to Israel and get them some boards,'” Paskowitz told AP Television News. . . . He described his mission as a “mitzvah,” Hebrew for a “good deed.”
While Paskowitz hoped to surf with the Palestinian surfers, security concerns prohibited him for getting in the water.
[Link: Metromix.com]
