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Six Swimming For Peace
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Six Swimming For Peace is a 280 km distance relay in the international waters from Port Said in Egypt to Tel Aviv, Israel, scheduled for October 2015.
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Goals[edit]
- to promote peace
- set a Guinness World Record for an all-women's open water swimming relay.
Swimmers[edit]
- Idith Ron - 55-year-old grandmother, lives in Beit Herut. Former swimmer with HaPoel Tel Aviv. Currently an Aqvatikim team swimmer in pools and the SAFSAL team swimmer at sea.
- Vered Ben Herut - 48-year-old mother and special education teacher living in Bat Heffer. A social sciences scholar and pool and open water swimmer for 30 years, seven of which have been with the Aquatikim team.
- Einav Vered - 42-year-old mother of 3 and manager of the Centre for Cultivation of People with Learning Disabilities, and a pool and open water swimmer with the Aqvatikim team.
- Michal Tzohari Shenhar - 40-year-old mother of 3 and pool and open water swimmer who graduated from Tel Aviv University in 2000 with a degree in Physiotherapy and later attained a degree in Osteopathy from the Canadian College of Osteopathy in Toronto, Canada.
- Efrat Aloni - a 51-year-old mother of 2 and a physiotherapist, hydrotherapist and watsu therapist.
- Limor Barak - a 53-year-old mother of 3
Support Crew[edit]
- Medical Director: Dr. Deborah Blumenthal
- Safety Director: Dov Klein
