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Contents Notice Board ............................................................... 2 Telfed South African Zionist Federation Editorial .....................................................................3 (Israel) Focus on Telfed.............................................................4 19 Schwartz Street, Ra’anana 43212 tel.: (09)790-7800 fax: (09)744-6112 4 [email protected] www.telfed.org.il Entertainment ........................................................... 14 In The Mail .................................................................15 Cover Story ................................................................ 20 21 Production New Arrivals .............................................................. 28 Editor and People ....................................................................... 32 Chief Correspondent: David Kaplan Design and Layout: Becky Rowe Keren Telfed .............................................................. 37 Editorial Committee Chairman: Dave Bloom Media Committee: Dave Bloom (Chair), Nuptials .................................................................... 39 Sharon Bernstein, Gershon Gan, Pearl Reunions ...................................................................40 Feldman, David Kaplan, Neil Schwartz, Maurice Ostroff Proofreading: Sharon Bernstein, Marvyn Hatchuel, Jack and Rae Galloon, Ralph Lanesman, Harriet Levin, Leon Moss, 42 Sidney Shapiro, Marcelle Weiss Advertising: David Kaplan (09)7672404, In Memoriam .............................................................44 [email protected] Extra or back copies of Telfed Magazine are Classifieds ..................................................................47 available at NIS 15 per magazine. Contact Sharon at (09)790-7801. Views and comments expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. SAZF (Israel) is not responsible for articles and advertisements which appear herein. 1 otice oard HOWZAT! Telfed’s own N B The Israel Cricket Association is starting a regular cricket on-line magazine chug in Ranana. If anyone is www.telfed.org.il interested in joining, please For topical, up-to-date contact the ICA Development information on aliyah, klitah, Officer Herschel Gutman special projects, the com- Course for Companions to [email protected] munity and much more. the Elderly or 0527409287 Pop in and see for yourself! Telfed has organized 5 courses to date, Ex - Namibians Reunion Alzheimer’s Therapists all of which have proved A reunion is being planned for all ex- extremely interesting Suidwesters (Namibians) in October. 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With your help, we can help other Southern Africans. 2 Editorial Personal Contribution 1947 to help lobby for world support for an independent Israel. s we celebrate the new wave of As Israel recently Southern African immigration, celebrated its 60th year, A we applaud the over six decades our country’s diplomats of our Southern African community’s are still in the thick of contribution towards Israel’s enrich- it - making the case for ment, stability and security. In our Cover Israel. With an increasing Story, ‘The Ambassadors’ we tap into Ambassador number of Southern African the lives of some of these immigrants Michael Comay students studying Government and with his wife Joan. who serve or have served in Israel’s Diplomacy at Israel’s universities diplomatic corp. - eight at the IDC, Herzliya this Threatened by enemies determined to year alone - we can expect future either physically expunge us from our leaders in this field following in ancestral homeland or undermine our very the illustrious tradition of those former legitimacy by word, Israel’s diplomats are Southern Africans who preceded them. daily in the firing line while at the same When Telfed each year presents its time engaged in strengthening Israel’s some 400 scholarships to students, it trade and cultural ties globally. looks forward to seeing these young and The principle of civil service was idealistic faces a little older in the years embedded early. ahead playing their part in determining the destiny of the State of Israel. Michael Comay, who would take over from Abba Eban as Israel’s Ambassador to David Kaplan, Editor the UN in 1959 and later to the Court of St. James, had given up his law practice Joffe-Jankelowitz more than a decade earlier in Cape Town to Insurance Services bring his wife, Joan, and their two children Specializing in all branches of Insurance to what was then the British mandate of Palestine. “It was essential to work for Elementary: Car, House, Business & Travel the creation of a Jewish State and I felt Private Health: Health Insurance & Frail Care (Siudi) I had to make a personal contribution.” Life: Life Insurance, Pension Funds, While Joan was smuggling arms for the Kupot Gemel & Keren Hishtalmut Jewish underground, Michael, avoiding Mark: [email protected]; Harold: [email protected] arrest by the British, was sent to the UN in Tel: 03-9292793/4 Fax: 03-9292733 3 Focus On Telfed Israeli ID cards. “Yesterday we were South Africans, today we are Israelis,” screamed one new oleh as he was swung around clenched in a circle of exuberant-dancing new olim, Give Us a Ring draped with Israeli flags in Contact us at front of the Western Wall. Telfed: The emotionally charged (09)7907 800 event was not only ceremonial Or phone our staff but also practical. “We’re members directly: offering aliya on the red carpet 801-Sharon by bringing all the services 802 -Sidney to them,” said Ofer Dahan, 803 -Nava Director of the Israel Centre, 804 -Susan Aliya Gimmel who has engineered the ‘new wave’ of Southern African 805 -Tzippi They voted with their legs. aliya. “As they leave from 806 -Pinchas On the same day that millions the kotel, the most central 807 -Gerald of South Africans went to the 808 -Lena/Sharon place in all Judaism, to their polls to elect a new president, 810 -Magi new homes in Israel, they will some 71 Southern Africans 818 -Dorron have their identity documents, arrived on aliya. The following 820 -Helayne a bank account, be registered day they attended a ceremony 821 -Louise with Kupat Holim (medical at the Western Wall, where cover), Bituach Leumi (social they were addressed by the security) and will have Israeli For further former Chairman of the Jewish cell phones so that they can information visit the Agency’s Board of Governors, tell the world personally their Telfed website. Mendel Kaplan and Telfed good news.” Chairman Maish Isaacson, before each new immigrant According to the Jewish came forward to receive their Agency’s statistics, 339 South YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU: Please read carefully the inserted Telfed flyer in this magazine. 4 Focus on Telfed African Jews made aliya in last year,” expressed Noga Sid Shapiro, followed by 2008, a 90 percent increase Maliniak head of the Jewish Dorron Kline, who gave a over 2007. Agency’s aliya division. Powerpoint presentation on “It has been a dream of mine Telfed’s services and Louise for some 25 years to come on Telfed Counsels New Olim Geva, Telfed’s social worker, who counselled on how to cope aliya and now the dream has Like a ‘First Responder’ the come true,” expressed Amiel with the stress of immigration. Telfed team were on hand, not Olim had private meetings with Rigger on Israel TV that cov- only to meet the new olim at ered the ceremony. Telfed’s Klita and employment the airport, but also the fol- counsellors, Susan Sharon An estimated 65,000 Jews lowing day where the Telfed and Sharon Bernstein, while remain in South Africa, roughly staff ran a cont. on top of 45,000 in Johannesburg and seminar at the page 6 15,000 in Cape Town. Some Shalom Hotel 21,000 Jews have made aliya in Jerusalem. from Southern Africa since The session the establishment of the State opened with of Israel. Telfed Director “It’s amazing!