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County will reclaim 5TCC site on July 3 (the “County”) and Five Towns Community Center Inc. as Tenant (“Five Towns”) expires on As the expiration date of the July 3. Please be advised that Five Towns Community Cen- the county shall take back poster’s lease with Nassau County session of the Premises on such approaches, it remains unclear date.” what will become of the The letter also states that the 5.7-acre-site in Lawcounty Department rence. of Public Works Gwynn Campwill do a final walkbell, president of through on the surthe community cenrender date. ter’s board of direcAsked about the tors, was informed letter, Campbell in a letter obtained responded in an by the Herald that email, “We have not the county will take heard any final possession of the decisions on the property, at 270 Lawlease,” and added rence Ave., which it that there is a need has leased to the for the center to center for 50 years, stay in the commuon the lease’s expinity. ration date, July 3. The county “Thank you and issued a request for the Five Towns proposal for the Community Center MURRAy FoRMAN facility in January Board for your years President, Lawrence 2023, seeking peoof service at the Board of Education ple or entities to Premises,” Kevin lease the property Walsh, the county’s to provide youthchief real estate negotiator and oriented activities. special counsel, wrote in the letThe Marion & Aaron Gural ter, which was sent by certified JCC, in Cedarhurst, submitted mail and email on June 17. “As a proposal in March 2023. you know, the Lease between the “Unfortunately I don’t have county of Nassau, as Landlord
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Israel Defense Forces Commander Jonathan Benhamou, 23, is recovering from the amputation of his left leg, and nerve reattachment surgery, at the Five Towns Premier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Woodmere.
Rehabbing at Five Towns Premier By MELISSA BERMAN mberman@liherald.com
Jonathan Benhamou, 23, a commander in the Israel Defense Forces’ D-9 unit, made his way via Hatzalah — a volunteer ambulance corps — to the Five Towns Premier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Woodmere, earlier this month. Five Towns residents and facility staff awaited his arrival with big smiles, and greeted him with songs and Israeli flags. Last Nov. 2, while Benhamou was on a mission in Gaza, a rocket-propelled grenade exploded 30 feet from the vehicle he was driving. He jumped out the front window to save his life, but when he was rescued, he felt
numbness and tingling in his legs. He ended up in a hospital in Tel Aviv, where doctors removed shrapnel from his legs and had to amputate his left leg. Benhamou had five months of physical therapy, and was discharged in March. Before arriving in Woodmere on June 10, he underwent special surgery at the Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey, to reattach the nerves in his amputated left leg and to transplant nerves to his right leg and foot. “This surgery was done here by a specialist, because in Israel they don’t have advanced medical treatment,” Ellen Benhamou, Jonathan’s mother, said. “They did a transplant of CoNTINueD oN Page 9
y understanding is that the county has not moved forward on any of the proposals that they received pursuant to their RFP.
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