During his three years in an Israel Defense Forces infantry unit, there was one type of battle Ami Greener never prepared for: a snowball fight.
Still, the 36-year-old Israeli veteran held his own in the massive snowball war he helped launch in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle on Feb. 6, after three feet of snow fell on the region.
Some 2,000 people were estimated to have attended, equipped with trays to better gather their “ammunition” and trash-can lids to shield themselves from their attackers.
Co-organizer Michael Lipin, a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S. who now lives in Dupont Circle, started to organize Saturday’s encounter by inviting friends through his Facebook page.
Then Greener, who moved to Washington three years ago and runs an environment consulting business, started helping his friend get the word out through blogs and social media, including sending out his very first tweet.
Greener is now working to sell an official T-shirt commemorating the event, and hopes to use some of the profits to support an Israeli charity doing relief work in Haiti. — jpost.com