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Gilla Gerzon ((ヘブライ語:גילה גרזון)), known to many United States military personnel as the "mother of the 6th fleet,"〔Brill, Arthur P., Jr.,("Expeditionary USO," ) Sea Power, Oct 1997, retrieved September 20, 2012〕〔 is an Israeli who served as director of the Haifa, Israel USO for almost eighteen years, from the time it opened in December 1984〔Siegel, Brett,("Gilla Gerzon: Mother of the Sixth Fleet," ) All Hands, March 1998 (Issue 971), retrieved September 19, 2012〕 until it closed in September 2002 when U.S. security concerns for the region led to a sharp decrease in U.S. ship visits. In 1993, she was brought to Somalia to establish a temporary USO for U.S. service personnel deployed in support of Operation Restore Hope.〔(Minutes of USO World Board of Governors meeting ), Washington, DC, September 29, 1993, retrieved September 19, 2012〕〔Pomeroy, Gary, "USO Center to open soon in Mogadishu," Stars and Stripes, January 8, 1993〕 Gerzon is the first Israeli citizen to receive the United States Navy Commendation Medal.〔Kolb, Richard K.,("Armegeddon: The Holy Land as Battlefield," ) VFW magazine, September 1, 2000, retrieved September 19, 2012]〕 ==Background== Gerzon first began working with U.S. military personnel during her time as director of public relations at Haifa's Dan Carmel Hotel in the 1980s.〔 She worked with the hotel to host holiday parties for officers and sailors from visiting U.S. ships, and then tours of Israel.〔 She saw her actions as an "ideal way to repay the American people for all the warmth and comfort she and her daughter had received while in the United States."〔
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