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Atlantic Beach appoints a new mayor meeting said they were cooperating fully but could not provide further details. Frohlinger is the only remainAfter more than a month of leadership uncertainty, the Vil- ing board member from the prelage of Atlantic Beach has cho- vious administration. Trustee Patricia Beumont did not seek sen a new mayor. Barry Frohlinger, who was re-election, Trustee Anthony elected to the board of trustees Livreri resigned on May 28, and in June 2024, was sworn in as Nathan Etrog lost his seat in the mayor at the village’s monthly June 17 election, when new trustees Laura Heller and Joseph meeting on Aug. 4. Pierantoni won seats The office on the board. became vacant Frohlinger said when Mayor George he looked forward to Pappas resigned on serving the village July 2. Pappas, who and providing resihad overseen village dents with steady government since leadership. 2014, stepped down “We put out a just hours after message to the resiAtlantic Beach dents, and there are agreed to settle its the six guiding prinongoing lawsuit ciples that are going with the Chabad of KEvIN KELLEy to guide everything the Beaches for Atlantic Beach we do,” he said. “I $950,000. think the fact that The new board now faces several unresolved we will be reviewing the guiding issues, including an 87 percent principles all the time, I think property tax increase announced the residents are going to feel by Pappas’s administration at a comfortable when they read and special meeting on April 30, and understand the guiding princia preliminary civil investigation ples that guide us as we go forby the U.S. Department of Jus- ward.” The message he referred to is tice into the village and its bylaws, following the receipt of a a statement from the village notiletter from the department on fying residents of the leadership June 18. Village officials at the
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IDF Commanders Jonathan Benhamou, left, and Noam, and reserves soldier Ilan, talked about the injuries they suffered in the war in Gaza.
IDF veterans receive advanced prosthetics, rehabilitation locally By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Israel Defense Forces Commander Jonathan Benhamou is seeing his vision come to life, with other IDF soldiers getting the chance to come to the U.S for properly fitting prosthetics and rehabilitation, just like he did last year. A rocket-propelled grenade that exploded 30 feet from his vehicle during a Gaza mission on Nov. 2, 2023, seriously wounded Benhamou, 24. After doctors at a Tel Aviv hospital removed shrapnel and amputated his left leg, he underwent five months of physical therapy before being discharged in March 2024. He initially came to the U.S on vacation, and ended up receiving additional surgery and
rehabilitation. Dr. Oren Michaels, of Cooperman Barnabas Hospital in New Jersey, performed nerve-reattachment surgery on Benhamou’s left leg and nerve transplants on his right leg that June. He rehabilitated at Five Towns Premier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Woodmere, where he formed close bonds with the staff, and received a free prosthetic from Dr. Michael Nadata, in Valley Stream. “I needed a new prosthetic, and he made for me a prosthetic like a Ferrari — then I started walking, running and playing basketball,” Benhamou said of Nadata. “Here they are very professional and technologically advanced.” Over a year later, Benhamou has helped a number of IDF soldiers receive proper care CoNtINueD oN paGe 13
think it has all worked out as well as you could possibly hope for it to work out.
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