Jesner award winners are well suited to model roles

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has told award-winning young volunteers that they are role models for the future of the community.

Rabbi Mirvis was addressing the latest ceremony for the Yoni Jesner Awards, established in memory of a dedicated young Glaswegian volunteer killed in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in 2002 at the age of 19.

“Boys and girls, I’d like to ask something from you,” he said. “That this evening should not be a graduation, the conclusion of what you have done for your Yoni Jesner Awards, but rather the beginning of an entire lifetime through which giving selflessly will always come naturally.

“Try to become role models yourselves. People who will inspire others, people who set an example for others to follow. You will be just as Yoni Jesner was.”