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Editorial Much to See & Celebrate
f you are looking for a tiyul to celebrate ing the same language and living in the same Israel’s 60th, visit the City of David outside region are Jews? Ithe Old City. In recent years, the site has Fast-track to the present and we celebrate undergone extensive excavations and for this year the 60th anniversary of the rebirth all who thought they knew Jerusalem, will of modern Israel - No mean achievement! discover another - beneath its surface. In our Cover Story, we speak to former A one-hour walk through a labyrinth of Southern Africans of varying ages in hi-tech, ancient stairways and narrow passageways, academia, culture, scientific research, volun- passing natural water pools and even ancient teerism and Israel promotion, tapping into toilets – one emerges out of the darkness their perspectives of Israel at sixty. – enlightened. The 3000 year-old masonry provides tangible historical testimony of our An aside: Southern Africans often tend to religion, heritage and sovereignty cemented be reticent about their achievements. This was to our ancient capital. One wonders that if the comically highlighted at the recent Telfed Kfar Egyptian foreign minister should pay a visit Saba AGM, when sitting in the front row was he would care to repeat his flippant remark 90 year-old Sissy Harris who had travelled made recently on an Al Jazeera talkshow, all the way from Haifa on a bus. “The Jews say they have been here for 4000 When this was revealed by the MC from the years…… we don’t see it.” podium, Sissy remarked, “What’s the bloody What is it that they “don’t see” - that the fuss, I rode on the bus; I didn’t drive it!” same people, with the same religion, speak- David Kaplan Editor
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In The Mail Timorim, circa 1950 Timorim - The Unfinished Symphony Dear Editor I was disappointed reading the article on Timorim, which gave the impression that it Dear Editor, was founded in 1951.No article on Timorim is complete without telling about those earlier I would like to take exception to Les years in the Western Galilee, and the settling Sheer’s story of the early days of Timorim. on that hill in June 1948. I believe that there I first made the acquaintance of Kvutzat is enough interest in those years to warrant Timorim when they were on Hachshara on an article of its own. Kfar Glickson in 1947, and I was a member of As written, the article does an injustice to the second Machon, then based in Ra’anana. those of us who experienced those difficult I later joined them at Ain Sarah, between and sometimes dangerous times. Shavei Tzion and Nahariya where they were a Machane Avoda while waiting to be given Issy Egdal, Karmiel a place for hityashvut. They made Aliya in Dear Editor early 1948. At the time the group was made up mainly of South Africans, Sabras and Established in 1951? So how was it that Romanian and Polish Aliyat Hanoar. During I visited Lionel and Essie Narunsky there 1948/9 more South Africans arrived from during a short leave from my army base Hachshara in South Africa, among them near Haifa, at the end of February 1949, my husband, Mordecai Schwabsky, who walking up the hill in the winter “botz”? joined the Kvutza. Actually it was in June/July 1948 that the orig- inal pioneers left their temporary farm “Ein- I was married in Timorim in 1950 and find Sara” near Nahariya, and established Kibbutz it hard to accept that the initial three years Timorim on the above mentioned hilltop. are completely neglected. The book “South Africa’s 800” by Henry Zmira Schwabsky, Kfar Monash Katzew lists the names of all the original members of 1948 that were posted to Timorim. Les Sheer replies: The few guys you referred to who had been Dear Editor sheet metal workers in South Africa, were not Many thanks for your article on my first ‘just guys’ but special people - the brothers four out of fifty-nine of the most wonderful Mottel and Chaim Chait of Pretoria had and eventful years of my life in Israel. Your served in active fighting units in 1948. Chaim title “Life at the Top” was exactly right. arrived in 1947 as a crew member on the However, in the light of certain criticism that vessel “Drom Africa 1.” has emerged, at no time did I intend to relate Joe Woolf, Ilaniya a complete history of Timorim, but to present
a taste of our “roots” tiyul celebrating Tsippy’s 79th and my 80th. It was my h i s t o r y o f Timorim in the way I was involved in it. As a matter of fact there were three attempts to e s t a b l i s h Timorim. The original group not a part and that I did not experience. No that moved to the hill from Yad Sara dis- offence meant to any of the people who came banded in early 1949. The second attempt before me. On the contrary, I am sure that was described in the article and the 3rd if she supplied the details for an article on attempt, in 1953 with the move to Kastina her experiences in Israel, it should be no was highly successful - Timorim has now less interesting than mine. been in existence for the last 55 years. Haim (Les) Sheer, Kfar Bilu If I gave the date as 1951, I apologise. I remember that our 1st winter on the hill was Yakir Zion Awards one covered in snow. I also remember Dear Editor being at the wedding of Max and Zmira Congratulations to Telfed and to the National Schwabsky, which I am reminded was in Events Committee for 1950. I agree with Joe Woolf that Max and a wonderful evening. Chaim Chait were special people. There were Those who received many others too - Karl Silverman, Dov awards are a very spe- Senderowitz, Abe Isenberg, Joe Jarzin, cial group of people. We Eugene Schneider (Yoel Tamari today) are privileged to have to name a few. I see no reason why Zmira them in our midst. should take exception to my story of my early days on Timorim. They were after all Recipients Harry Phella and Niel Hirschson, Tel Aviv Hurwitz & Smoky true events in my life. There was no intention Simon with Telfed on my part to discuss an era of which I was Director, Sidney Shapiro (centre)
People facilitated the killing of the three soldiers and kidnapping of two others and which sparked the Second Lebanese War. The Barr family was in the thick of it, never leaving town. “There was a constant Morris and Joyce Barr and family. thundering and pounding of cannon fire day-in and day-out; planes flying over and of course the Katyushas. We had quite a few explode in our area.” Love & War Anyway, two years on, Shlomi is again a quiet town. “The noise these days is from a By David Kaplan mini-building boom. New homes have gone up as young families move into the area. The n April 1948 Morris Barr was all set Ito leave South Africa with his friends to place is full of kids and seeing the parents fight in Israel’s War of Independence. That in the morning taking their youngsters to kindergarten and school is the best message was, until he met Joyce. It was a whirlwind romance and three months later, the two on Israel’s 60th to Hezbollah - we’re here former members of Betar were married. to stay and grow. • In 1979 they made aliya from Johannesburg and this July will celebrate their 60th wed- ding anniversary sharing with Israel’s 60th birthday, “a double mitzvah,” says Morris. Sixty Years Later If Morris was regretful of having missed By Norma (Wasserson) Davidov, Givatayim out on the action in 1948, he has sure made up for it during the last seven years that he n March 1948, I was twenty-one years old and Joyce have lived in Shlomi, where they Iand had just moved from my small home- joined their son’s family. This northern town town, Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia to near the Lebanese border - “quiet most of Cape Town. Looking for work, I was offered the time” - has repeatedly been the target of a job by a distant relative of mine Isabel Katyusha attacks, notably on Independence Rabinowitz, who was working for Sam Day. “This was the case both in 2005 and Levin at the Cape Town Zionist Office at 85 2006,” relates 80 year-old Morris, “when Plein Street: “We are opening a recruitment Hezbollah contributed to our national holiday office of the League for Haganah and signing by providing their own fireworks”. up ex-army pilots and soldiers to go and fight in Palestine. We want you to run it.” A few months later, July 12th, Shlomi was again the target of Katyusha salvos. History It was exciting, but we had to be careful. records that this was the diversion that The United Nations charter was clear - no
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People Singer and Wally Friedman, who were Editor’s note: also frequent visitors to our office, as were Sam Levin would become Director of Telfed many of the volunteers who would ‘pop in’ serving from 1949 -1962. On the 9th September, 1948 the Benny Skou dropped anchor off Tel Aviv, to find out if there were any developments having left Cape Town three weeks earlier. Amongst about their departure. the foodstuffs for the Jewish refugees who arrived Alarm Bells from Europe with little more than the clothes on their backs, were dehydrated vegetables, medical One day I received a phone-call and after supplies, linen, clothing, toiletries and cigarettes. a pause I heard someone say, “This is the On board to meet the ship, was a reception com- Police”. Before I could answer, the phone mittee from the SAZF (Israel), not yet known as went dead. We never found out if it really Telfed, led by its first Chairman, Joseph Janower was or someone playing a joke. But it was and secretary, Mike Udwin. scary. The two mine-sweepers referred to in the article On another occasion, two tall blonde had been converted during WW II from fishing fellows with very Afrikaans accents came trawlers and were renamed the Drom Africa 1 and into the office wanting to sign up to go to 2. Both these vessels would sail into the history Palestine. Sure that they were two plain- books, adding further chapters of the contribution of the SA Jewish community in its support for the clothes policemen, I told them we could only fledgling State. take their names, but were not permitted to send anyone to the area. They argued with me saying they knew others who were being sent and stormed out of my office and hurried to Sam to complain. It turned out they were First Lady two Jewish brothers who looked and sounded Former South like South African policemen. African, Sylvia The League for Haganah Office closed Duran was hon- in October 1948 and I moved to 85 Plein ored for her contri- Street acting as Sam’s secretary until his bution in fostering departure on aliya to Israel in January the Spanish culture in following year. Israel and abroad, Sylvia Duran (ctr) with I still remember all the names of the the Spanish Ambassador at a reception held volunteers I signed up and whenever I see and his wife. at the residence them mentioned in the Telfed Magazine I of the Spanish always become so nostalgic about that very ambassador Don Eudaldo Mirapeix. Born exciting time in my life during which, in in Johannesburg “to a family of musicians,” May that year, Israel was born. Sylvia is regarded as the pioneer of Spanish dance in Israel and is affectionately called the “First Lady of Israeli Flamenco.”
from Europe. I was a little girl and was taken to the Hairraising docks in Cape Town to iving in Sderot these meet my grandparents. Ldays is scary. Ask the My Zeida, a slightly local women. “We don’t built and short man, could like to blow-dry our hair Lynn (4th from left) with her sister Dale Shwartz from Or only manage to bring Yehuda (left), together with hairdressers from Sderot by ourselves anymore in and clients from Kfar Saba. one of the Sifrei Torah case we don’t hear the with him. It was his most Colour Red siren,” remarked one. It would valued possession and it found a new home in appear they are also frequenting their hair- the Muizenberg shul where they settled. dressers less. Times are tough and hairdressers, With the passage of time and with no family like other small businesses, are suffering. left in Muizenberg, the Torah was transferred It was against this backdrop that former to my sister Bella Slasky’s shul in Yeoville. South African Lynn Bortz of Kfar Saba I and my family had already immigrated to offered her apartment to three hairdressers Israel. Years would again pass when Bella’s from Sderot for one Friday. “I phoned my son, Phillip, now a rabbi in Israel, requested friends and they called theirs, and the entire the Torah be brought to his yeshiva in Bet day, women of all ages were streaming in Shemesh. Two weeks after its arrival, the to have their hair blow-dried. They did a Yeoville shul was gutted by a fire. roaring trade.” Having survived the Shoah, fate had again There are many ways to show solidarity stepped in. Years of use had taken its toll and as well as help practically. May Lynn’s the Torah was in initiative inspire others! need of restora- tion. Now it was the 4th genera- tion that came Travelling Torah to the rescue as Reports Lily Levite from Neve Monosson Arie Avraham Rabbi Phillip Slasky with the Torah Slasky, named he Silberstein’s came from ‘Dusat, a shtetl after his great- Tin Lithuania where they built a synagogue grandfather Avraham Moshe Silberstein, and acquired two Sifrei Torah. Sons David sponsored the delicate repair work. and Max were the first to immigrate to South In February this year, emotions ran high when Africa, settling in Muizenberg. They were Bella and I and our families - including now followed by their sister and finally, when the the fifth generation - attended the ceremony writing was on the wall, they brought their of the Hachnasat Torah to the Yeshiva Or parents who arrived on the last passenger boat L’yesharim in Bet Shemesh.
Book Nook By David Kaplan A 36-year-old woman with post- Analyse This responded by email discussing traumatic stress disorder, consulted their clinical work and enjoying with clinical psychologist and the collegial support and feedback. former South African, Dr. Stanley Rabin. “Had “Our dialogue reflects how important it is it been an ordinary day, the issues would hardly for clinicians to consult with each other on a have raised any internal struggle.” However, it regular basis,” says Stanley, who read for his was no ordinary day. It was Yom HaZikaron - Day doctorate at UCT before making aliya from of Remembrance for Israel’s fallen. Cape Town in 1975. When the siren went off, the therapist and Cross-Pollination the patient arose and stood in silence. “She was If the process of inter-active discourse helped already in tears as she had been telling me about these two medical practitioners, it can help the loss of her childhood friend, the cause of others too. Their “conversations” were recently her trauma. Then I too shed a tear flowing from published in a book, “Behind the Consultation: my thoughts - unconnected with my patient, Reflective Stories from Clinical Practice” and yet, connected. We were both displaying emotion relating to loss. There was a fusion of Directed at health and social care profes- issues, not infrequent in Israel where external sionals, as well as academicians and educators and internal events can so often overlap.” with an interest in medical humanities, “the book is a must for young professionals and Think of a therapist’s reaction during a aspiring graduate students who need to learn consultation “when he or she suddenly learns how to deal with their own emotional reac- of a suicide bomb going off in an area where tions during the therapy hour,” writes Gary there are close friends or family.” How does B. Kaniuk, a US reviewer of the book. Each a professional react in this situation? “We are case offers glimpses of everyday issues and not impervious to the forces and stimuli - from lessons. Although the authors practice in Israel, the mundane to the major - that confront all the issues they describe and the dilemmas they people daily.” confront are universal. The cases and situations If the life of a clinical psychologist and are heavily disguised or significantly changed family physician “is lonely”, Stanley and his out of respect for privacy and confidentiality. good friend and colleague, Dr. Andre Matalon, A Hebrew translated version will also shortly discovered an antidote by using the internet be on sale. to share thoughts and experiences emanating And as for the layman, ‘Matalon & Rabin’ is from their casework. no less heartwarming. It imparts a humane depth Over a five-year period, Stanley, and breadth beyond the confines of a private practitioner and senior a doctor’s room as we all stand to lecturer at Ben Gurion University learn much about ourselves as well. of the Negev, and Andre, a family Dr. Stanley Rabin and Dr. Andre Matalon, physician for 25 years and lecturer collaborators on the book: “Behind at the Sackler School of Medicine the Consultation”. The book can be of the Tel Aviv University, cor- purchased through www.radcliffe-oxford. com or amazon.co.uk 10 Nuptials Yishai, son of David, son of Cecil Dubi and Packy & Riva Migdal Goldflam (formerly of Tzur Yigal of Johannesburg), (formerly of Cape married Shira, Town) married Lisa, daughter daughter of Alan Miriam and Meir & EIana Rudnick of Jerichower. Cape Town
Uri, son of Dubi and Packy Goldflam (formerly of Johannesburg), married Yona, Yaron, son of Ethne and Cobi Caspy daugter of Ruth and David Cymerman. of Ariel, married Nili, daughter of Pnina and Noam Shimoni of Carmei Yosef Mazal Tov! Michelle, daughter of Michael and Renee Penn of Modi’in married Assaf David son of Nili and Tebetchnik Ilan Egozi of married Amira Hertzlia. Meron of Petach Tikva
Ora , daughter of David and Lynne Conroy of Beer Sheva, married Ron, son of Fanny and Shaul Shem. Feature Passing Pioneers knew a thing or two In recent months four formidable South Africans who about. came to this country either before or shortly after In 1944 together with independence, have passed on. Telfed Magazine covers his wife Ida, the new- briefly the lives of Julius Kaplan, Dov Sender, Prof. lyweds were running an Harry Bank and Shmuel (Moeki) Katz. underground press in the basement of their home in Orange Grove, a suburb of Johannesburg. Julius Kaplan Young members of Betar “were busy until the early hours of the morning printing Etzel material and arranging for its dispatch.” One of those ‘busy’ youngsters was Julius’s brother-in-law, Leon Charney, who within a few years would become national head of Betar and many years later Chairman of Telfed. “It was mostly anti-British pam- Julius and phlets and posters, calling for the British Ida marry to leave Palestine,” relates Leon who was in South well aware that “the pro-British Smuts Africa. Government would not have taken kindly to our activities. We knew they were watching Julius Kaplan reveals in his autobiography us.” No less angered, was the local Zionist ‘The Kaplan Saga’ - written some years ago establishment. but only published shortly before his recent On one occasion while the basement press passing - that Jabotinsky’s visits to South was working furiously preparing material Africa in 1937 and 1938 were the most for an upcoming Zionist Conference, Ida defining moments in his life. “His captivating was teaching Hebrew upstairs in the living voice, modesty and hadar couldn’t but impress room to one of her ‘opponents’ in the Zionist anybody who came in contact with him.” leadership. “Who do you think is responsible Julius laments being left “ideologically for printing and disseminating this Etzel orphaned” by Jabo’s passing in 1940, and material?” he asked, clearly exasperated asserts that “it has been one of my greatest with these pesky Revisionists. Little did ambitions to help perpetuate his memory and he realize they were busy at work directly spread his teachings.” beneath him! Ida could hear tell-tale noises below and excused herself for a moment “to Spreading the word was something Julius tell them to be quieter.”
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Later, armed with their handiwork, Ida’s resonance? “It was a small indifferent hotel brother Leon and his Betar cohorts would whose only occupants were the wives and sneak in through the windows of the hall children of British troops stationed in the where the conference was to be held and place vicinity. Ida has never forgiven me for that the ‘provocative’ pamphlets on the chairs. choice.” The enfolding drama of pre-state Zionism While Julius writes that “We Revisionists was in full swing. were elated” when Begin came to power, disappointment soon set in as he describes All in the Family “The Hollow Peace” - the title of his former There is a delightful section on ‘uncle brother-in-law Shmuel Katz’s book - becom- Hyman’ who as a youngster had a promis- ing “even hollower” over the ensuing years. ing boxing career which ended not by a Nevertheless, he writes, “despite its shortcom- knockout, but “by his mother dragging him ings, Israel is the only country for Jews.” out of the ring during a fight in Kroonstad.” Not a profession a Jewish mother envisages for her son! Dov Sender Nevertheless, he went on to establish for Border Crossings himself a solid reputation as a womanizer The recent passing of Dov Sender - a and gambler. His undoing, writes Julius was Chairman of the Jerusalem Telfed Committee that he got it the wrong way around - “fast in the 1980s - recently brought to a close a women and slow horses.” journey that crossed not only physical bor- Julius’s description of life in Ramat Gan ders but spiritual and political boundaries shortly after aliya in 1949 is illuminating. as well. The deeply religious octogenarian Abba Hillel Street of the late 1940s “was who ended his days in Jerusalem was a far little more than a lane running through bushes cry from the secular young member of Bnei and an old citrus grove. There was a small Zion in the Johannesburg of the early 1940s military camp in the grove, which was fre- and soon thereafter, a pioneer with his young quented by jackals whose howling could be wife Fanny as founding members of Kibbutz heard at night.” Today, this area is the nerve Timorim. “He was not religious then and was centre of Tel Aviv’s commercial a member of the General Dov Sender with son Dan, first Zionists,” says son Dan might, attracting a new pack of child born on Timorim, 1951 predators. Sender of Ra’anana. Julius’s family was synony- For the last 12 years mous with the Revisionist move- of his life, Dov used ment. Is it any wonder that his to daven each Friday description of his honeymoon morning in Hebron. in the small resort on the Natal “He organized a bus coast enjoys a certain humorous which left 5:00 a m
13 Feature Dov Sender in recent years. At his How exclusively focused passing he left over 30 children, grandchildren and great grand Dov was on Israel, was evident children, all in Israel in the son’s revelation that apart from returning to South from Jerusalem and very often Africa for reasons of business included overseas visitors. Even or family, “he never visited during the intifada, when the another country. He had no situation was dangerous, he interest; his world was Israel would go.” While the family and the Jewish People.” was always worried about his safety, “he was more concerned about the spiritual health of the country. He Harry Bank defined his Judaism in terms of Am Yisrael, When Harry Met Myra Torat Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and if he was steadfast in his views he was one who acted “Harry was 15 and I was only 12 when we on them.” started dating in Cape Town,” Myra (née Schweppe) told Telfed magazine. Both active Born in Kimberley in 1925, Dov matricu- in Habonim, little did they know at the time lated at age 15 having played 1st team cricket that they would later sail into history. at school. His love of cricket would come in handy a few years later after he immigrated After qualifying as a doctor at UCT and to Palestine in 1947. accepting a top position in Cape Town under the illustrious Prof. Frank Forman, Harry “Accompanying his fellow kibutzniks to suddenly in May 1948 had other ideas. “He Haifa harbour to off-load from the ships, Dad had been one of the leaders in the Movement, used to keep the British soldiers occupied influencing its new direction towards Zionist with animated talk about cricket, while his socialism. After the Arab countries declared friends sneaked in supplies of arms and war Harry wanted to leave to fight without ammunition,” says Dan, who was the first delay.” child born on Timorim. After breaking the news to Forman, parents Although the Sender family returned to and a rushed marriage, the newlyweds were South Africa in 1951, Dov remained com- off on their honeymoon - a three week voyage mitted to Israel and Zionism. “He immersed in the ‘presidential suite’ on the Benny Skou, himself in fundraising and was chairman of a Danish vessel commissioned by the SAZF the JNF for many years before returning to to sail to the newly independent Jewish state Israel in 1980,” relates Dan. “Two years after with a special cargo of food and clothing. he returned, the first Lebanese War broke out, and Dad organized food parcels for the “Not only!” according to Myra. soldiers and accompanied the trucks to the While not found in any of the written northern border.” accounts of the Benny Skou’s voyage, Myra
14 Shay Shadletzky, Adv. Traffic Law says “that we were told on a few occasions Representation in all traffic courts all over the country by the Chief Mate that secretly tucked away *Drunk Driving *Speeding *Accidents in the hold was gelignite, used for the manu- *Driving on a Suspended License *Reckless & Negligent Driving facture of explosives.” Including all traffic felonies Amongst the nine other passengers was an Fluent in English Ethiopian. He had learnt about the rebirth of Initial Consultation Free Israel and the ingathering of the exiles and Mobile: (054)7320 001 wished to return to the land of his forefathers. Email address: [email protected] “We used to call him ‘Menashe the Falasha’. Somehow he had heard they were recruiting thick of it in the Upper Galilee. During one in South Africa and he walked most of the engagement, “I believe in Safed, his column way there from Ethiopia.” was strafed by an enemy plane. He did not have time to run for proper cover so dived Recovered from his pil- under his ambulance. Bullets penetrated the grimage, he soon found tire from where his head lay perched only a himself on the Benny few centimetres away.” Skou and in three weeks he not only reached the After the war, he began working at Tel ‘Promised Land’, but Hashomer Hospital as Chaim Sheba`s “crossed from the 12th deputy. establishing himself as a renowned to the 20th century. We diagnostician and physician. An original taught him about toilets thinker, “he chal- and how to switch on lenged the con- a light.” ventional wisdom at the time, intro- The Danish cuisine “was ducing an anti- the best, but because the boat coagulant treat- was small and tossed around a lot, ment for ischemic my Harry was the only passenger heart conditions, a who did justice to the daily smor- practice that later gasbord. He put on so much weight,’ Harry Bank standing became standard she laughs. in front of his ambulance during therapy,” reveals his son Ilan, He would soon lose it. Israel’s War of who has followed in his father’s Independence. No sooner had they disembarked in footsteps becoming a professor Tel Aviv, Harry was drafted as a medical as well at Sheba Medical Center. officer to the 72nd battalion of the Seventh Following his retirement in 1990 as Head Brigade. While Myra became the first teacher of the Department of Medicine at TAU, of English at the newly-founded soldier’s Harry was nominated to direct the medical rehabilitation centre in Jaffa, Harry was in the committee of the national insurance agency
15 Rabco property management & consultants ltd. Betar movement that propelled him on a Jack Rabin journey that kept him active either in politics or commenting about politics for the rest of • Property Consultants his long life. • Property Portfolio Management In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine and Toyota Towers, Yigal Alon St. Tel Aviv joined the Irgun. Sent by Jabotinsky in 1939 POB 20395, Tel Aviv 61203 Tel: 03-624-1718 Fax: 03-624-1798 to London to represent the Revisionist cause, he founded and edited The Jewish Standard, - a work he continued with until six months a Zionist Revisionist weekly. before his passing. In 1946 Moeki returned to Palestine and joined the Irgun High Command. He acted He is survived by his wife, Myra, two as the Movement’s spokesperson on Foreign sons (Ilan, a professor of medicine at Sheba Affairs and was the last commander of the medical center, and Ronnie, a practicing lawyer) and seven grandchildren. Irgun in Jerusalem. In 1977 Katz became Adviser of Information Moeki Katz to Menachem Begin and accompanied the Prime Minister on two trips to Jabo’s Recruit Washington in his discussions with President Carter. He quit in early 1978 The only South because of differences with the Cabinet African to be elected over the peace proposals with Egypt. to the Knesset, Shmuel (Moeki) Katz died the A prolific writer, essayist and histo- day after Israel cel- rian, Katz had a regular column in The ebrated its 60th anni- Jerusalem Post and continued to publish versary. He was also op-eds until shortly before his death. the sole survivor of Among his most important books are that first Knesset. “Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir When Ze’ev Jabotinsky visited South Jabotinsky; “Battleground: Fact and Fantasy Africa in 1930, “he changed my life,” Moeki in Palestine”; and his most recent, “The told the writer in a recent interview for The Aaronsohn Saga” about the Nili spy ring, Jerusalem Post. As a 15-year-old youngster the courageous family from Zichron Yaakov “I sat mesmerised for two hours listening that operated against the Turks during World to him address the Jewish community. I War I. went home that night and repeated to my In March, 93 year-old Moeki received a mother each point he made.” The line that Telfed Yakir Zion Award at Beit Hatefutzoth most moved him: “Don’t be spectators; be for his lifelong devotion and contribution to players.” The next day Moeki joined the Zionism and the State of Israel.
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20 Focus On Telfed Compiled by Sharon Bernstein
A couple inspecting a model of a kibbutz as part of a housing options module of the Johannesburg SA Today, Israel Tomorrow? Aliyah Expo. Report by David Kaplan A commentator on South Africa recently wrote, “If Zimbabwe today is akin to the boiler room of the Titanic, Cape Town is the top deck.” If until six months ago, the photo: Ilan Ossendryver prognosis for South Africa and its Jewish always see kids in the streets at any time of community was promising, it is less so the day, in Johannesburg you just don’t see today. it. Also, no mothers pushing prams!” Only Unsurprisingly, the number of aliya in the shopping malls, “did I see youngsters, files opened at the Israel Centre in South and mostly with their parents.” Africa has increased dramatically in recent Interviewing potential olim, Susan says months. “The questions they asked concerned mainly Telfed Magazine spoke to veteran Telfed income and expenditure. They all said that staff member Susan Sharon, Klita Counsel- despite what was happening in SA, they lor and who recently returned from South nevertheless live well and that they needed Africa having being part of a Jewish Agency to know whether they could do so in Israel.” sponsored delegation to the Israel Expo in She says she was surprised to see “how Johannesburg and Cape Town. many youngsters were enquiring about study “Johannesburg is a city without children,” options as well as seniors looking to follow said Susan. “Coming from Israel, where you their children.” These are all issues to be seriously addressed. “I found the youngsters left: crowd at the Aliyah were well clued-up about the International Expo in Johannesburg. Programme at the IDC, Herzliya, where below: Telfed’s they could study for a degree in English.” Susan Sharon at the This observation reflects the dramatically interviewing table. increased number of South African students this year at the IDC, Herzliya. “People considering aliya are highly quali- fied,” says Susan. “They are accountants, teachers and directors of companies. Many of them have already bought apartments in Israel. I gained the impression of a com-
photo: Ilan Ossendryver
21 Focus on Telfed munity that was restless - of people making plans for life outside of South Africa.” Showing Support Susan’s insights regarding the youth gels Some 100 former Southern Africans with what Mickey Glass on a visit from Cape within missile range from Gaza gathered for Town recently told Telfed Magazine. a Telfed Solidarity Brunch at a restaurant in Recently retired as Executive Director Ashkelon. While most of the guests were of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues of locals, “others came from nearby moshavim South Africa, Mickey reveals that “Jews and kibbutzim,” said Barry Kornel, Telfed’s have partly come to terms with escalating new Chairman of the Klitah Committee, crime, but what was lurking in ambush was which organized the event. the collapse of higher education. Youngsters Chairman Maish Isaacson brought greet- are leaving school with an excellent general ings expressing the organisation’s commit- education from our Jewish Day Schools ment to helping Southern Africans living but are concerned that a degree from a under the constant threat of rocket attacks. South African university will not get them Following a Power Point presentation very far in the outside world.” on Telfed activi- He advocates that “we need ties by Dorron to aggressively promote study K l i n e , l o c a l options at Israeli universities,” resident Shmuel and says he “addressed this Pivo enthralled issue with the shlichim at the the audience with recent Zionist Congress in Cape his one-man dra- Telfed’s Solidarity Town.” matic piece on Breakfast in Ashkelon. the dynamics be- Fair MInded tween a mother Israel interest was clearly evident in “the and her aging son over “old flames” that number of people attending the Israel Expo come to visit. in Johannesburg and Cape Town. They were substantially up from the last Aliya fair in With fresh flames the unwelcome reality November 2007.” What Susan also found of daily life these days in the western Negev, interesting was the bus tour in Cape Town, Telfed’s visit was most welcome. where the tour guide - non-Jewish - related how “Hamas and Hezbollah are known to Remembering Our Fallen have cells in South Africa and are operating Reports Dorron Kline training camps. Whatever the extent of this, “The memorial service for the 80 Southern it is most certainly worrying to the Jewish African fallen was the highlight of our tour,” community. ” said Chonnie Romm, one of the participants Susan concludes that “we need to come on the Israel Now Tour (INT). Chonnie has up with solutions regarding employment, attended four of the thirteen Israel Now housing and education.” Tours to Israel, since their inception during the Intifada in 2002.
22 Focus on Telfed left: Maish Isaacson, Chairman of Telfed, The first INT/Telfed lighting the “Flame of Remembrance”, memorial service for the together with Israel Now Tour Director, Southern African fallen Reeva Forman . below: Janine Gelley, who was held last year and represents Telfed and WIZO on the Kfar Saba municipality, laid the wreath on Yom filmed by SATV. This year, Hazicharon for over 150 people, including Israel’s fallen members of South African on behalf of all bereaved families, crowded the voluntary organisations in the memorial site at the Kfar Saba. JNF South Africa Forest situated near the Golani Junction.For a full report on the memorial service, and 35 years visit www.telfed.org.il in the greater Tel Aviv area. Regional Roundup: This is an opportunity TEL AVIV to network, touch base and socialize.” The newly established Tel Aviv Regional Dorron Kline brought greetings to the Committee held its first get-together in new committee on behalf of Telfed Chair- Park Ha’Yarkon in April. The well attended man, Maish Isaacson. For further information picnic of new and veteran South African contact Hayley Rabie on [email protected] Olim included residents from the Telfed MODI’IN complex in Tel Aviv. The Telfed Regional Committee recently Hayley Rabie, a new Olah from Cape held a welcoming evening at the home of Town and provisional chairperson of the Danny and Renee Kingsley, for the newest Tel Aviv Regional Committee told Telfed arrivals in Israel’s fastest growing city. Magazine that “we aim to hold monthly get- Modi’in is also today the city of choice togethers to provide a support system for all for Southern African families. “In 2003, South African Olim between the ages of 25 thirty Southern African families resided in Modi’in. Today there are more than 230,” The Young Ones :Tel Aviv’s Telfed Regional Committee picnic on the banks of the HaYarkon, with Dorron says Telfed’s Projects Director, Dorron Kline and daughter Hallel, and Chairperson Hayley Kline. Rabie.(behind Dorron) “I want to thank Telfed and their amazing committee here in Modi’in. Without them I’m not sure how we would have managed during our first few months of Aliyah!” said Lynn Lipchin. With Modi’in not having an absorption centre, Telfed initiated ‘Dirat Kelet’ - an “Initial Absorption Apartment”, where the immigrant family can stay up to a month.
23 Focus on Telfed Kfar Saba: top: Descendants of Ochberg orphans living in Israel together with Sissy Harris (center), aged 90, the sole surviving Ochberg orphan in Israel. right (l-r): Janine Gelley, Chairperson of Telfed Kfar Saba, Guest speaker from Cape Town Lauren Snitcher and MC Hilary Kaplan.
This commu- nity is likely to grow. Following a RA’ANANA record sale of Are you looking for an opportunity over 100 apart- to volunteer in your community? How ments in Dimri about joining Telfed’s Lev Lara’ev Towers to pur- Committee? A voluntary food assist- chasers referred by Telfed, Dimri Construc- ance project initiated by Telfed’s Chairman, tion have once again agreed to extend these Maish Isaacson in Ra’anana, “we hope fol- special conditions to the Southern African lowing our success in Ra’anana, to extend community, in a new project, “Dimri Towers our project to other areas in Israel,” says Max on the Park” in the Kaiser neighbourhood Grunberg, who heads the committee. of Modi’in. For further information see Dimri advert “We’re looking for volunteers to promote on page 29..or contact the Telfed office. our food drive in supermarkets, schools, KFAR SABA offices and synagogues,” says Max. Telfed’s recent AGM, where Janine “Whether you’re a teenager, student, adult Gelley was re-elected Chairperson, turned or senior and have organizational, public into an emotional evening for the 110 former relations and/or educational skills, call me,” Southern Africans who came from all over says Max. Israel. “It is amazing that I did not know of “Lev Lara’ev” is a charitable organization this chapter in our community’s history,” said that works with the support of the Municipal- Dunney Rabinowitz from Rechovot. ity of Ra’anana, Mishne Lechem, Ra’anana Guest speaker Lauren Snitcher from Chessed Committee, Meatland and Trel- Cape Town spoke of the 170 Jewish orphans lidor. For further information, contact Max Grunberg - one being her grandmother - that were at 052-8365500. saved from certain death in the Pale of Set- tlement and brought to Cape Town in 1921 by businessman and philanthropist Isaac Ochberg. Her talk was followed by her documentary with interviews of surviving orphans. For a full report on the evening as well as a slide show and video clip of Lauren’s lecture, log onto www.telfed.org.il.
Young volunteers in Telfed’s food project.
24 Focus on Telfed BEIT SHEMESH the Southern African community since his Over 30 former Southern African families days as a young shaliach in Johannesburg. from Beit Shemesh and Modi’in descended Telfed Chairman Maish Isaacson wel- on the shady lawns of Kibbutz Tzora for the comed the guests and honorees and expressed annual Pesach Chol Ha’Moed braai. While his privilege at being at the helm of an the kids enjoyed organisation which had existed since the the jumping castle, creation of the State of Israel. Telfed, he said, soccer, cricket and would continue to help Southern Africans petting zoo, their successfully absorb into the country and he parents reveled on referred to the 27 honorees as examples of a tour of the Tzora how Southern Africans had excelled in many winery. Returning fields. Each of the honorees was presented in ‘good spirits’, with a framed certificate. they were enter- Ariel Isaacson playing the tained by the music keyboard. Married to Gila, Ariel is a new oleh from Leadership Training Course of new Oleh, Ariel Johannesburg, where he had Reports Naomi Heim Isaacson. his own band. Celebrating its 60th year of service to the Southern African Community, Telfed Telfed Yakir Zion Awards can look back with pride at the sterling Sharing a 60th birthday with the State performance of its volunteers. But Telfed of Israel, Telfed held in May its Yakir Zion is not about looking back but preparing for Award ceremony where it the future. honoured 27 members of the In May 2008 Telfed held a Leadership Southern African community Training Course for 15 hand-picked new for their outstanding contri- leaders to augment the growing cadre of butions to Israeli society and Telfed’s lay leadership. Telfed will be Zionism. enriched by the dynamism, energy and Held at Beth Hatefutsoth, Telfed Yakir Zion Honorees Freda Keet the ceremony drew Speaking on a crowd of over behalf of his fellow Miriam “Mickey” Blumberg Sam Levin, z’’l 300 people and recipients, Harry Mark Cohen Annette Milliner-Giladi included guest of Hurwitz, Chairman Jackie Diamond Jeanette Ordman, z’’l of the Menahem honor Chairman of Michael Fisher Maurice Ostroff Begin Heritage Colin Price the Executive of Center, expressed Merle (Michal) Guttmann the Jewish Agency the hope that for Michael Heim Walter Robinson Riva Rubin Zeev Bielski, who the South African Alan Hoffman Jewish community Solly Sacks gave a heart-warm- Harry Hurwitz once again on Michele Shapiro ing speech about Avraham Infeld the move “that Harold “Smoky” Simon his strong connec- Israel would be Morris Kahn Naomi Stuchiner tion to Telfed and the preferred Mendel Kaplan destination.” Hertzel Katz Ann Swersky Shmuel Katz David “Migdal” Teperson
25 Focus on Telfed abilities of these new, Fifty three stu- younger volunteers, dents participated in some of whom are new the project for the immigrants. 2007/2008 academic year. Single Parenting Registration forms available on the Reports Telfed’s Social Telfed Leadership Training course ( l-r, back row) Dorian Worker, Louise Geva Hatchuel; Jodi Carreira; Tanya Weil; Margo Sugarman; Telfed website: www. In response to a Johnny Klompas; Hayley Rabie; Mike Ellis; Vaughan telfed.org.il. Kindly Margolias; (l-r, front row)Maish Isaacson; Dave Bloom; Neil growing number of complete and email Kaye (not pictured): Marcelle Kornel; Danny Kass, Paul Tzippi at: tzippi@ single parent families, Slier, Nechama Keynan; Gordon Bloch Telfed recently held telfed.org.il. For further information contact Tzippi at 09-7446110 a session on single parenting for English- ext. 205 or [email protected]. speakers in its moadon in Ra’anana. The program included a lecture on the TOMORROW’S TEACHERS rights of single parents as well as a lecture “While nurturing the next generation of by Diana Finzi, a South African child Israeli teachers, Telfed is happy to be sup- psychologist and psychotherapist on the porting the development of the Negev,” subject of single parenting. said Adele Basin, Chairperson of Telfed’s The twelve participants have requested that Telfed Endowment & Scholarships Committee. follow up this event with a short-term support group Of the many Telfed Scholarships bestowed for single parents. For further information contact on students nationwide, some are for those Louise Geva at 09-7446110 ext. 221 or Louiseg@ studying at the acclaimed Kaye Teacher’s telfed.org.il Training College in Beersheba. Miki Israel, the head of the Student Forum Telfed and Education of Kaye College writes: “On behalf PRAS PROJECT of all the stu- Reports Tzippi Gever dents at Kaye Registration for the Telfed PRAS Project Miki Israel, head of the College, who will commence from the end of June to the Student Forum have received end of August and is open to any student of Kaye Telfed schol- who is registered for the academic year of College in Beer a r s h i p s , I Sheva. 2008/2009. would like to PRAS students receive extra assistance thank the SAZF for your support enabling us with their tuition fees for valuable service in to fulfill our dreams to become teachers. the Southern African community coordinated I promise that my thanks to you will not by Telfed. In the six years the project has end here in words only - it will be fulfilled been running, some 125 family units have in the classroom in front of a new generation been assisted. of Israeli students. Focus...continued on page 28
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A unique formula based on royal jelly can help keep you young in mind and spirit, says its creator Irene Stein / Sara Lavie /
ack in the early magnesium, potassium, zinc, 16th century there an array of vitamins and was an Indian glutamic acid, which is known B legend doing the to delay the aging process. rounds of Puerto Rico that a Irene Stein, who is credited magical Fountain of Youth with introducing the West to existed somewhere in the the health benefits of royal jelly environs, whose curative in the ‘70s, has dedicated a powers would restore the lifetime to her passionate health and youthful vitality of pursuit of the benefits of royal any old person who bathed in jelly and to creating her Irena it. An explorer Ponce de Leon formula. For the better part of was so entranced by this myth 30 years she has worked that he got together three huge closely with eminent sailing ships and set out in biochemists, herbalists and Irene Stein, right, aged 44, and her mother, Sophie, aged 75. Youthful vitality. search of this supernatural alternative health doctors to spring, braving foreign waters produce what she calls “the and hostile locals and ultimate health supplement – ’Irena combines all the vitamins, minerals and eventually ending up 100% natural and amino acids we need and even acts as a discovering Florida. Your non-addictive, and more search need not be so potent than anything else natural hormone balancer, making it an dramatic, for if Irene Stein is to currently available.” excellent supplement for women going through be believed, an elixir of youth is “Throughout my entire career available to you direct to your with various royal jelly the menopause,’ says Stein. doorstep – and its name is formulations, and we’re talking Irena. According to Stein, about more than 30 years Irena is a unique formulation here, I have never had one work on a cellular level to Generally as we get older, the that blends a myriad herbal instance of an ill health normalize the function of every body’s immune system and natural ingredients that side-effect, from any of my cell, so stimulating the healing weakens leaving us more work independently and customers, who have included process to boost the body’s susceptible to ill health and synergistically to optimize the celebrities, sports stars and natural defenses and helping disease; energy levels drop, overall effect of the compound even the British royal family,” the body to function normally, especially if combined with on the body. The formula is says Stein. “Irena is not a cure especially in difficult illness; mental sharpness is based on royal jelly, the in itself,” she adds, “it is an circumstances, such as, for known to deteriorate in old nourishment of the queen bee adaptogen, which means it is a example, the aging process. age, all of which can have an that in itself is lauded for its food that helps the body to “Old age is the only thing that adverse effect on quality of life multiple health benefits and help itself, and creates a comes to us without effort,” and lead to depression and has been used for healing in balance.” According to quipped American writer Gloria general lack of joie de vivre. China for centuries, and medical literature, adaptogens Spitzer. And indeed it comes But anyone who flicks through includes among many others are naturally occurring to us all, bringing with it a Irene Stein’s publicity material Korean ginseng, known for its substances that enhance the variety of health problems, can see a different picture of energy-giving30 properties, body’s ability to cope. They both mental and physical. old age in the photograph of number of supplements out completely dependent on her there that can work very well family to cook and take care of for individual afflictions, but her. But when she started on they have to be taken in Irena, “the response was different ways and at different almost immediate. She is back Holding back times, and many people forget to her daily walks and cooking to take them. I offer them the and shopping for herself. Her whole lot in one little phial that attitude now is that she would works 10 times more prefer to be independent and powerfully than the individual get on with life,” she writes. ingredient.” This demonstrates that Irena can also have a positive effect the years Treatments A-Z on mental outlook, attitude and general mood, which can also In her books, which became affect how the body fights best-sellers in the industry, disease. Irene believes that a Stein runs an alphabetical list huge percentage of illness of disorders that the Irena comes simply from the wrong A unique formula based on royal formula is known to alleviate attitude of mind. Age doesn’t Irena. A myriad of natural ingredients. and even why. So for example, just bring with it the physical jelly can help keep you young Stein claims Irena is effective effects on the body; the mind against angina as the royal jelly and the “spirit” also wear with in mind and spirit, says its creator her mother, Sophie, taken was so stiff, he couldn’t look and ginseng in it increase time. Mental clarity often Irene Stein / Sara Lavie / when she was 75. The picture up at the ceiling. The pain kept haemoglobin levels and becomes clouded, energy shows a bright-eyed lady him awake at nights and drove enhance blood flow through levels drop. brimming with good health, him into a long deep the body and the inositol in Clients of Irene Stein, glowing skin, and a healthy depression, and he even Irena lowers cholesterol, however, have written her ack in the early magnesium, potassium, zinc, head of hair. “When I started ended up in a psychiatric ensuring the arteries leading to hundreds of letters telling 16th century there an array of vitamins and my mother on the royal jelly hospital. And then he started the heart do not become her how Irena has also was an Indian glutamic acid, which is known formula,” Stein recounts, “like on a three-month course of blocked. Both of these sharpened their mental B legend doing the to delay the aging process. 16 million other people in Irena. The turnaround didn’t conditions are also improved agility and lifted their energy rounds of Puerto Rico that a Irene Stein, who is credited Britain, 80 percent of whom take long, he says. His spirits as a result of many other levels and general mood. magical Fountain of Youth with introducing the West to are over 70, she suffered from started to lift and the pain ingredients that are present But the true testimony can existed somewhere in the the health benefits of royal jelly crippling arthritis. After only a lessened. He became more within the formulation, says be seen in Irene herself. environs, whose curative in the ‘70s, has dedicated a short time on the formula, the active, more socially involved, Stein. Back pain is reduced as At the age of 66, Irene Stein powers would restore the lifetime to her passionate pain began to diminish, until it fitter and more flexible. Best of Irena oxygenates the blood has the vibrant looks of a health and youthful vitality of pursuit of the benefits of royal disappeared completely and all for Albert, now that he is in and speeds the healing of torn woman many years her any old person who bathed in jelly and to creating her Irena never returned.” great spirits, he has met Anne ligaments and fights junior, her hair is thick and it. An explorer Ponce de Leon formula. For the better part of and they are now a very happy inflammation, she says. The glossy and not one of them was so entranced by this myth 30 years she has worked Beating arthritis couple enjoying the fruits of a formula also deals with is gray. that he got together three huge closely with eminent full and loving relationship. Vast digestive problems as the But it’s her energy that sailing ships and set out in biochemists, herbalists and Stein attributes this result to improvements in general calcium, sulphur magnesium has most people who meet Irene Stein, right, aged 44, and her mother, Sophie, aged 75. Youthful vitality. search of this supernatural alternative health doctors to Irena’s ability to reduce pain health were also recorded in a and bismuth in Irena combine her quite astounded. 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Vitality 23 32 over tory “Israel is the only nation in the C S world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same Quite Some Achievement religion and same language as it did 3000 years ago.” Barbara Tuchman American author and ISRAEL AT SIXTY historian The Community Speaks: Telfed Magazine speaks to former Southern Africans both demographically and in terms of Jewish on their take of Israel at 60. intensity.” This has been the challenge of Alan’s depart- ment responsible for Jewish education in the Diaspora. It is in this sense that he feels particularly Alan HoffmanA former Secretary-General of proud of the Jewish Agency’s partnership with the Habonim in the 1960s, Alan Hoffman is today government of Israel in the MASA initiative “to the Director of the Education exponentially increase the number of young Jews Department of the Jewish who come to Israel for between a semester and Agency for Israel. a year - any time between the ages of eighteen “When I made aliya, Israel and thirty.” was 20 years old. The big While the MASA programme “will ultimately issue we used to discuss in impact positively on aliya figures in the future,” the Movement at that time was Alan Hoffman Alan believes, it “will no less help to create future what we called “The centrality cadres of Jewish leadership, committed to ensur- of Israel in Jewish life.” As I look back today, forty ing the centrality of Israel in Jewish communal years later, the battle for Israel’s centrality in Jewish life globally.” life has primarily been won.” Particularly demographically he asserts. “Today, Tessa Snitcher an absolute majority of all young Jews world-wide Tessa Snitcher from Cape Town is under the age of 18 live in Israel.” studying for her Masters However, the issue that Hoffman grappled in music at TAU having with in South Africa in his youth, confronts him completed her Honors no less today as an adult in Israel. “While Israel last year at UCT. She is is today a vibrant Jewish society and cultural specialing in opera. centre, Jewish communities throughout the “I’m just stunned world over the past 40 years have waned, Tessa Snitcher with fellow by the incredible high music student..
33 Cover Story standard of education and opportunities in Israel.” our company’s achievement from little more than Her talent quickly recognised, Tessa was snapped an idea to becoming a global market leader.” up for the part of the “Contessa” in Mozart’s It all started when Barry was a Computer Sci- ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ at the Buchman Mehta ence student at Bar Ilan University while working Academy of Music. “Israel at 60 part-time as the night manager at the Burger is bursting with opportunities!” Ranch branch in Ramat Hasharon. “My wife came beams Tessa. to me one day and said someone at her work needed help with his computer set-up.” Asher SusserBorn in the farm- That request began a journey that today “15 ing community of Pietersburg out of the top 30 retailers in the world, use our software, amounting to 15 billion consumers a in the Transvaal, Prof. Asher Asher Susser Susser is today Director for year. This means that more than three times the External Affairs and Senior Research Fellow at people on the planet are passing checkouts, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and serviced by our software.” African Studies at TAU. Barry reflects that “if our little Israeli company “Defying the odds, Israel is the fulfillment of the can achieve this, then one can understand how a Jewish people’s inalienable right to self-determina- little country like Israel has managed to achieve tion after centuries of persecution and humiliation. what is has in 60 years.” Integral in this achievement of national sovereignty, has been the cultural revival of the Jewish People Maureen FainAt the time of the interview as a Hebrew-speaking nation.” renowned Jerusalem artist Mau- Highlighting “Israel’s world-class literature, reen Fain was preparing for three theater, press and its institutions of academic upcoming exhibitions. She tells excellence” Asher takes pride in participating Telfed that “despite the situation “in this great story.” in Israel or maybe because of it, Israel at 60 is a cultural oasis. Barry ShakedContributing to Israel’s boom- Maureen Fain The public understands and ing economy have been the new pioneers appreciates art, visits galleries operating with laptops rather than shovels. A and attends exhibitions. I find Israelis by nature major player in the global software revolution is creative and if not, they are interested in the Barry Shaked (nee Mandel) creativity of others. This says much for a country President and CEO of Retalix that has to cope with war and terror as a part of - a provider of food retail its every-day life.” and distribution software worldwide. Merle GuttmannFormerly from Zimbabwe, Merle “Israel’s phenomenal suc- Guttmann, the Founder and Life President of ESRA, cess causes me to reflect on Barry Shaked has been the recipient of both the President’s
34 Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize Bernard LererIn full agreement with Gary Suss- for her contribution to volunteerism man is Bernard Lerer from Alon Shvut, a professor in Israel. of Psychiatry at the Hebrew University as well as “With Israel celebrating its 60th, Director of the Hadassah Biological Psychiatry we note that ESRA is only one year shy Laboratory. of half the age of the State of Israel. Merle Guttman While praising Israel’s achievements in sci- With no government or Jewish Agency ence and medicine as “being remarkable”, he too funding, we are proud of our independent role laments “the incremental erosion of state support in not only easing the absorption of immigrants in scientific education. Israel Prize winners have from English-speaking countries, but in building repeatedly drawn attention to frameworks for helping other olim communities this. While Israel has produced such as the Ethiopians and Russians as well as our remarkable Nobel laureates, we ongoing daily work in assisting the needy, distressed could produce far more. The talent and victimized in Israeli society.” here is boundless, but to harness “While we do what we can in contributing to this it, we first have to nurture it.” amazing society, on a personal level, my greatest Bernard also draws attention to hope is for Israel to finally achieve the peace it so Bernard Lerer Israel’s impressive pharmaceutical richly deserves.” industry, but again, while praising “its achievements in the development of generic Gary SussmanBorn on a farm near Vryburg in the drugs” he feels “there is insufficient investment North-Western Cape, Dr. Gary Sussman is today on developing new medicine, where we could be Director of Research and Programme Development a global powerhouse.” at the Harold Hartog School of Govern- While no less proud of Israel’s achievements ment & Policy at TAU as well as being the in the sciences and medicine, Bernard applauds University’s new Vice President. the achievements of his fellow Southern Africans While praising Israel’s achievement in developing Gush Etzion. “Our Bnei Akiva garin in education as “having been the driving that started Alon Shvut has been a huge success. force in steering the county’s remark- Efrat followed later and of course is much bigger able achievements,” he adds a somber than Alon Shvut with many more South African Gary Sussman note in that “the government has been families today.” falling back in recent years in investing sufficiently in research universities. Jonathan DavisWhile not a former Southern “We need to increase not decrease our educa- African, Jonathan Davis has a strong connection to tion budget. The intellectual abilities of our young the community, having served in Cape Town as a people are our greatest assets and so my message shaliach in the 1980s and who as Vice President of at Israel’s 60th is while celebrating the past, we the Raphael Recanati International School of the IDC, need to invest wisely in our future.” Herzliya, has embarked on an aggressive campaign
35 Cover Story enrolling students from South Africa. It Ronen GreenNeither is it for 28 year old has yielded impressive results. Ronen Green, whose school is far south “This being Israel’s 60th year, we from Herzliya. Once a town people out- are aiming in the near future for 60 side of Israel could hardly be expected students from South Africa. We already Ronen Green to have heard of, Sderot today is well have considerably more South African students known globally. “Yes, we are quite used to the daily than any other university in Israel, a far cry from barrage of Kassams,” says Ronen, who is studying the three students we had only four years ago. It Soundtrack Design at the Sapir College. is our aim to reach the 100 student mark within While proud of the unity of the Israeli people, a few more years.” “or this country would not have got this far,” Ronen Noting the contribution of Southern African laments that beneath the veneer, “Schisms have volunteers in Israel’s War of developed that are rupturing our society - divi- Independence “where they sions between the rich and the poor, between far outnumbered the USA, Tel Aviv and Sderot. Beneath the surface, we the UK and other nationalities are not as united as we once were and these proportionate to their Jewish issues need to be seriously addressed.” populations, you will soon see As more than gestures, Ronen advocates the same phenomena at the that “the government should move some of its IDC Herzliya. Only this time we Jonathan Davis offices out of Jerusalem and into the Negev, like are not talking about soldiers Beersheba and Sderot. It would send such a but students!” strong message to the people living in the so- called periphery.” Gabi CharnessGabi Charness from Johannesburg is finishing her first year in Government at the IDC, Barbara Meltz-Kahn“It was the most awe Herzliya. “I came to Israel as a student, but I am inspiring 36 hours of my life,” reveals Barbara here to stay. This is now my country.” Meltz-Kahn, the Director of Western Languages She asserts that if Israel Publication at the Jewish Agency. She was at 60 can boast of a private referring to the final countdown of Operation university only some 10 years Solomon, “where in 36 hours, non-stop flights old “where its graduates are of 34 Israeli aircraft, transported 14,500 being accepted at Ivy League Ethiopian Jews to Israel.” Barbara, who says universities in the US, then “I was only a small cog in the wheel,” recalls this is a sure indication of the the call she received telling her to be wait- rapid pace of this place.” ing at 4.00am at the entrance to Jerusalem One thing “for sure about Gabi Charness and “to keep it a secret.” She would be part Israel,” says Gabi “It’s never dull here.” of the welcoming committee at Ben Gurion Airport and her work would begin the moment
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37 Reunions Reuniting to Celebrate Israel’s 60th It’s a year for celebration. Telfed Magazine reports on four reunions.
The some 3,500 Machalniks from 46 countries “played a pivotal role in win- ning the war as well as in establishing the foundations on which the IDF was founded Chairman of – Ground Forces, Air Force, and Navy.” World Mahal, There have been too many wars since Smoky Simon 1948, but had Israel not won its first, it addresses former would have been its last. Mahalniks. WORLD MACHAL REUNION Most in their eighties, these warriors who volunteered from abroad to fight in Israel’s War of Independence congregated in Israel this past May to celebrate the country’s 60th anniversary as well as to pay homage to their fallen comrades - 121 in all, four of them women. Machon 1957-58. They came from the USA, Canada, UK, France, Scandinavia, Belgium, South 1957/58 MACHON REUNION Africa, Australia, and South America to join How many South Africans in Israel can their Machal comrades living in Israel. trace their decision to settle in Israel from Smoky Simon, Chairman of World their year-long Machon experience? By the Machal, reminded his audience what they number of bogrim (graduates) that reside had been up against. “Listen to the Arab in Israel, it is evident that the programme League’s Secretary-General, Abdul Rach- established in 1946 primarily to provide man Azzam Pasha on 1st May 1948: training programmes for the members of “If the Zionists dare to establish a State, Zionist youth movements from abroad the massacres we would unleash would - has been a huge success. dwarf anything which Genghis Khan and Of the 12,000 graduates that have Hitler perpetrated”. Such role models! passed through the gates of the Machon With many of Israel’s fighting force Lemadrichei Chutz La’aretz since incep- survivors of the Shoah, there was little tion, 14 of the 23 of the 1958 intake, gath- doubt; it was a war “To be, or not to be,” ered for a 50th reunion at Kibbutz Givat said Smoky.
38 Oz. One was Shirley Peled of Jerusalem, of Ashkelon, the keynote address at the originally from Krugersdorp. “Over half reunion was given by Sinai Rome, the sole our group was South African, and mostly surviving founder of the Movement, who chevra from Habonim. Coming as we did served at one time as the Israeli ambassador following the Suez campaign, there was to Ecuador. such a good feeling in the country. Ideal- ism, patriotism and Zionism - we all just BETAR REUNION got caught up in it.” Well over five hundred attended the Clearly! 13 of the group of 23 today Betar reunion at Jabotinsky Park on 4th live in Israel May - one-fifth coming from South Africa, Graduate Joan Catzell has created a website. Zimbabwe, Australia, America, Canada Visit catzel.250free.com/news_about_us.html and the U.K. There were stirring moments when eve- ryone joined the Binyamina choir in singing Himnon Betar. “How he remembers the words of all those Betar songs,” remarked one wife about her 80 year-old husband. “He’s walking around with a constant smile on his face.” Beryl Ratzer, Organizing Committee Chairperson, took the audience on a trip Sinai and Beverly Rome with down memory lane. “I was able to smell the reunion organiser, Gidon Katz tents, feel the shaving cream as I turned in my sleeping bag and taste the chicken and BNEI ZION REUNION rice about to be served on Friday night,” “I saw a few people that I haven’t seen related Stephanie Haimowitz (née Alswang) for up to 55 years like Bernie Basker about her camps at Walmer. As master of and Zelig Milner,” said Les Amdur ceremonies, Morris Strauss introduced from Manof. “Thank goodness for name guest speakers Harry Hurwitz, Yechiel tags!” Kadishai and Chairman of the Executive While Bnei Zion did not last too long of the Jewish Agency, Zeev Bielski. as a movement (1945-1961), its impact was evident in the number of its graduates that made aliya and who attended the reunion at moshav Timorim. Itself a separate success story, Timorim was founded by the Movement’s members in 1947. From l-r: (all ex-Worcester, Cape): Mark Levinsohn (Holland), Mark Organised by Gidon Katz Sandler (Toronto), Rodney Sanders (Tel Aviv), Manya Shochat (Cape Town), Brian Gamsu (Cape Town), Yael Shochat (Herzliya), Laurie Shochat (Herzliya) , Rael Merson (Toronto), Stephen Shochat (Kochav Yair)
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KEREN TELFED FUND The Keren Telfed Fund was started over 25 years ago. Donations are used to assist members of our Southern African community during times of individual need or national crisis. All donations are acknowledged in this column as soon as possible after receipt thereof. Donors...... Honorees Jack and Ruth Omsky...... Bobby Kantor – special birthday Dorron Kline...... Michelle’s birthday Bella Barnett...... Mace and Ann Menachemson – 60th anniversary Dorron Kline...... Geoff and Brenda Kline–birthdays and anniversary Pamela and Justin Silver & family...... Cyril Segal – 89th birthday Chaim and Sheila Menachemson...... Mace and Ann Menachemson–special anniversary Selwyn and Nina Golomb...... Sue Donner – 80th birthday Jack and Ruth Trappler...... Bobby Lavender – 90th birthday Simmie and Yael Adar...... Buddy Efroiken – 80th birthday Leonore Shavei Zion...... Helen Levy – birthday Edgar and Joyce Kohll...... Aubrey Gien – birthday Mavis Milwidsky...... Yehuda Tamir – 80th birthday Joe Woolf...... Peggy Tobias – 80th birthday Paul and Sharon Bernstein...... Narda Korakin – 60th birthday Narda Korakin celebrates The Slevin family...... Cecil Slevin – 94th birthday her 60th with her Belle Price...... Peggy Tobias – 80th birthday grandchildren. Meira Glassman and family...... Jeffrey and Wendy Geri – 50th anniversary Freda Raphael...... Shula Braudo – 90th birthday Gessie and Belle Borok...... Dr and Mrs A. Shulman – 60th anniversary Hertzel and Lola Katz...... Itz and Shirley Shamos – grandson’s Bar Mitzvah Hertzel and Lola Katz...... Gil and Dina Nir – son Daniel’s Bar Mitzvah Lapidus family...... Willie and Honey Lapidus – 60th anniversary Menachemson family...... Mace and Ann Menachemson – 60th anniversary Zellick and Fay Sendzul...... Joe and Bella Bergman – 60th anniversary Jeanne and David Katz, Claire and David Ellman...... Ernest and Renee Samson – 60th anniversary
40 Harold and Zoe Slomowitz, Gessie and Belle Borok, Seymour and Hadassa Fisher, Ivan and Shirley Kantor, Ernest and Nesta Lessem, Luba Zuck, Ronny and Ruth Kaufman, Norman Spiro Len and Ellen Altman……………….....Norman Spiro – 2nd Bar Mitzvah celebrates a 2nd Ruth Lee...... Debby Hershberg – special birthday Bar Mitzvah Louis and Isobel Hare...... In appreciation for the good wishes from family and friends on Louis’ birthday Stanley and Sharon Epstein...... Ivan and Vivienne Maron – 40th anniversary Keith and Carol Aviv Naomi Fredman...... Dr. Michael Adler – birthday Executive, Director and Staff, Telfed.....Avi Chetrit – in appreciation Les and Iris Amdur...... Lennie Cartoon – 70th birthday Channa Eidelman...... Aryeh Gilat – 90th birthday Naty and Denise Tobias...... Phillip and Estelle Chasen, Dave and Joyce Altshuler, Ivor and Adele Brown, Kevin and Katy Kezurer, Solly and Estelle Sher...... Pesach greetings Naty and Denise Tobias...... Shula Rubinow – in appreciation Cecil and Jennifer Shevil...... In appreciation to doctor, family and friends Roy and Perla Chweidan Fonda Dubb, Becky Marock, Jack and Anita Shein, Larry and Rhona Shein………...... Bella Lipman – 80th birthday SAZF Moadon ...... Nadine Kestenbaum – in appreciation Edgar and Joyce Kohell...... Mervyn and Joyce Lasovsky – anniversary Bernard and Shelley Heilbrunn...... Joyce Morris – 80th birthday Les and Iris Amdur ...... Lennie Cartoon – 70th birthday Rael and Marianne Abel, Hilda Garrun, Renee Armel, Esther and IssyBand, Lou Franks, Elizabeth Fontana, Rosalie Gayme, Sylvia Golden, Sonia and Issy Kacev, Yvonne Kaye, Tessa Lang, Renee Lowenthal, Dot Perry, Bracha Shamron, Julie Caederon, Maureen Greenspan, Alice Robins, Steven and Rochelle Freedman...... Hilda Horn – 90th birthday Michael and Naomi Heim...... David Lewis – Yakir Yisrael HaYaffa
41 Keren Telfed Ivor and Roni Wolf, Aubrey and Leah Wolff, Brian and Andrea Armist, Ernest and Elizabeth Schneider-Kuper, Zalman and Aviva Mowzowski...... Maty Lebanon – 70th birthday Yonny and Ruth Oestreicher...... Mervyn and Joyce Lasovsky - anniversary Leonore Shavei Tzion...... Myrtle Halperin – special birthday and new home Eric and Maty Lebanon...... Aviva Mowszowski – special birthday Jaci and Yona Benedek...... Hilda Horn – 90th birthday Hertzel and Lola Katz...... Makki Struski – special birthday Hertzel and Lola Katz ...... Raphael Melmed – special birthday Anonymous...... Hayley Rabie – on being appointed chairman of the Telfed Tel Aviv Regional Committee Victor and Luba Rubin...... Muriel Chesler – 90th birthday Mayera Glassman...... Phillip Levy – in appreciation Benny and Ella Lubotzky...... Keren Telfed Brenda Kron...... Keren Telfed – in appreciation Solly and Shula Abramowitz...... Bernard Bak – special birthday Solly and Shula Abramowitz...... Freda Wolman –special birthday Harold and Ros Silver...... Justin Silver – special birthday Hayley Rabie, Chair, Telfed Isaac and Maureen Lipshitz...... Justin Silver – special birthday Tel Aviv Regional Committee Hertzel and Lola Katz...... Len and Ros Israelstam – new home Hertzel and Lola Katz...... Yitz and Shirley Shamos – special anniversary Rochi,Eli,Cyril,Shula,Mel,Lennie,Jeannie & family....Yetta Meyerowitz – 88th birthday Jack and Anita Shein, Larry and Rhona Shein...... Enid Katz – 60th birthday Beulah, Merle and Mark Levinsohn & family...... Max and Anne Wurwand–60th anniversary Stan and Olga Bergman....Hertzel Katz – congratulations on Yakir Zion award Anonymous...... Jonny Klompass and the Beit Shemesh committee – in appreciation Dorron Kline...... Benji Pushett, Marc Reiss, Andrew Goldman, Selwyn Lustman – 40th birthdays IN MEMORIAM Dorron Kline...... In memory of Shlomo Bar-ner Debby Orr...... In memory of Jackie Adelsky Alon Chazan...... In memory of his mother, Marilyn Chazan Cynthia, Arthur, Chaya and Ziv...... In memory of Cyril Rabinowitz Itzhak (Klaus) Abt and family...... In memory of Gertrude Abt Tova Dorfan...... In memory of David Marks
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43 Art Scene A NEW LANDSCAPE The Status of South African Art
Maggie Laubscher Jacob Pierneef
rom the harsh arid plains of the Karoo to the verdant farmsteads of the Cape’s Wine Dis- trict, the majestic Drakensberg mountain range of Natal to the tall grass of the Highveld, Fone can see it all. Where? Not a continent away, but in living rooms in Israel. When South Africans made aliya, many brought along their cherished art pieces. Not because they believed them valuable, but because they reminded them of home. Now the reverse may be true and many may well be ready to ditch nostalgia, choosing to cash in following the recent elevated status of South African art and the record prices such art is fetching. Aware that this would be of particular interest to former South Africans in Israel, Telfed spoke to Giles Peppiatt, a director at Bonhams, an auction house in New Bond Street London, who visits Israel frequently to inspect individual paintings and collections. Established in 1793, Bonhams is one of the oldest auctioneers of fine art and antiques and has established itself in recent years as a market leader in the auctioning of South African art. “The last ten best prices fetched for an Irma Stern, eight have been in London, while seven of them at Bonhams,” says Peppiatt. Isolated during the apartheid era, an outside world had little interest in the country’s art, “but since the peaceful transition in 1994 all this has dramatically changed and certain artists are fetching tidy sums under the hammer,” says Peppiatt In May 2006 Bonhams auctioned a Gerald Sekota which fetched £123,000, nearly 10 times its estimate at the time. Sekota, who lived much of his life in exile in Paris, was one of the first black South African artists to paint on canvas in the European manner. His work on the
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Irma Stern Giles Peppiatt, auction hammer in hand. townships of the 1930 and 1940s are of significant historical record, offering a pictorial social commentary of the period. No strangers today to fetching six figures, are two of South Africa’s most prominent white artists of the first half of the 20th century, Irma Stern and Jacob Pierneef. Stern, a German-Jewish artist taught by the Expressionist painter Max Perlstein in Ger- many, used a wide range of mediums including charcoal, pen, pencil, felt pen, oil and pastel but her preferred medium was oil, which she applied with a brush or knife. Her idealization of her African subjects and her sensuous use of colour shaped her reputation. For Pierneef, the Highveld provided a lifelong source of inspiration elevating his stature as one of South Africa’s leading landscape artists. At a January auction, Stern’s ‘Still life with chrysanthemums and a pumpkin’ topped £378,400, up from a previous high of £186,000 for The Tomato Seller, while Pierneef’s, ‘Olifants River’ sold for £108,000. Also performing was the other Grande Dame of South African art, Maggie Laubscher , whose ‘The Harvesters’ fetched £126,000 against an estimate of £25,000. This was a world record price for a Laubscher landscape painting. With the largest proportion of buyers emanating from the USA and Europe, South African art is now truly well-established on the international market. It is part of a global art boom that has seen Westerners scouring emerging markets for what was once considered ‘obscure’ art. “Most rewarding thing for me,” says Peppiatt, “is visiting former South Africans in their apartments in Tel Aviv or in their homes on a kibbutz, seeing their paintings on the walls and then revealing its estimated value. “I had no idea!” is a common exclamation.”
45 In Memoriam The Telfed chairman Maish Isaacson, members of the Executive, the Director and Staff express heartfelt condolences to families whose loved ones have passed away in recent months: Benny Shapiro (Rishon) Kate Weil (Kfar Saba) Debbie Velikson (Rishon) Maurice Kaplan (Ramat Hasharon) Esther Joselowitz Rivka Friedman (Moshav Achva) Freda Zetler (Tel Mond) Ronnie Dredzen (Ramat Beit Shemesh) Gene Bakarav (Johannesburg) Ronnie Feinberg (Ra’anana) Gideon Prodgers (Cape Town) Sara Skuy (Beer Sheva) Haig Kaplan (Bulawayo) Shmuel (Moeki) Katz (Tel Aviv) Howard Sher (Johannesburg) Tamar Sachs (Haifa) Hymie Geft Isaac Rootshtain (Ra’anana) Ivan Myers (Petach Tikva) Max Canard (Netanya- tribute in next issue)
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