From the Editor On Telfedthe Move 3 South African Zionist Federation (Israel) A Symphony of Success From the Editor 19 Schwartz Street, Ra‘anana 4321224 Tel.:(09)790-7800; Fax: (09)744-6112 4 Focus on Telfed [email protected]; www.telfed.org.il tell you, I’d rather not But the world is also learning that Telfed is doing as it www.facebook.com/telfed travel anywhere in the there is so much more to learn from “conducts” its busi- “I world at the moment.” the Israelis! ness of reaching out to This was its communities across the country, New Arrivals 19 With much 8 expressed by of the Middle reaching out to government to im- a “Frequent East imploding prove facilities for new olim, reach- Flyer” friend - commercial- ing out to young South Africans to 10 Noticeboard of mine but ly, culturally, consider studying at Israeli universi- reflects the diplomatical- ties as part of Telfed’s new SASI pro- sentiment of ly -, or wait- gramme (South Africans Studying in Contents many Israelis ing in line to Israel), reaching out to young students who feel safer implode, Israel to enroll in Telfed’s PRAS study- Feature 18 5 at home these is thriving and community programme, and reach- days. is reaching out ing out to its entire community en- Schoolkids Hot News commercially, couraging more people to volunteer Nuptials 21 across the world Read all about it in the culturally and for programmes and projects within are improving Telfed Magazine diplomatically to the Telfed Family. their geography Please subscribe or renew Asia, Africa and Telfed wishes you as we celebrate Keren Telfed 22 learning about your subscription by filling beyond. 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Accounts: Anne Abarbanel (09)790-7819; [email protected] 3 Focus on Telfed by David Kaplan Chairman’s Message “There is no business like show business” and when Farewell to a friend, colleague and have transformed the face of Israel’s landscape, Susan s this Telfed Magazine ushers in Rosh Hashanah a tireless worker for SA Olim it comes to Telfed, the main show in town is Aliyah. praised how “South African olim were passionately Awhen we will dip apple into honey to symbolize “Telfed has been like my family but It’s a business that began before there was a State of fueled by ideology.” She was impressed at how they our desire for a sweet year, and bless one another now,” feeling in- willingly chose “to switch large homes with pools for with the words, Leshanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim, creasingly tired Israel “and because of our expertise - acknowledged small Israeli apartments”, because Zionism “meant (May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year), following years by the Knesset - we are expanding,’ says chairman Telfed can look back at a year of bustling and enriching activity as less about a ‘standard-of-living’ and more about a of treatment, “I Maish Isaacson. “Not only are we servicing our own well as look forward to the next with excitement, optimism and need to spend ‘quality-of life’.” This distinction “was at the core “sweetness”. more time with my community but also Australian and Dutch olim.” of Southern African Aliyah.” The New Year welcomes fresh beginnings and stepping into Telfed’s real family,” said While Susan lamented that pure Zionist motivation office in Ra’anana nowadays, one is welcomed by a pulsating vibe of Telfed’s veteran Susan Sharon, z”l youth and vigour as well as friendliness and professionalism made up Aliyah and Klita “may have waned in recent years” and that “olim are of a new cadre of young staff members, led by CEO Dorron Kline and Counselor Susan Sharon on retiring coming possibly for less ideological and for more COO Nava Lapid in partnership with a growing number of enthused in April. Business is practical reasons,” the belief in South Africa’s future, volunteers of all ages. Little did we know that she would inspired by Mandela, has too “waned”. The colours If you haven’t visited our office in a while, I welcome you to do so. not be granted that well-deserved, of “The Rainbow Nation” have lost much of that Come meet our sterling staff and learn firsthand about our activities hard-earned opportunity! bright shine as a darker side has emerged where Jews On Tuesday the 26th July, Susan revealing why the Knesset Aliyah Committee has seen fit to laud Tel- identifying with Israel are increasingly ostracized in fed as “the premier immigrant organization in Israel”. It is no wonder succumbed after a long brave fight BOOMING the media, by government officials and on univer- with cancer only we are today assisting Australian and Dutch olim, while our volun- sity campuses. BDS in South Africa has shown its weeks after this A Telfed scholarship has been At the heart of Telfed’s “business” for the past three decades was teers are engaging with other communities, notably the Ethiopian in interview. Despite launched honouring Susan Sharon Susan Sharon (z’l) who started working at Telfed in Tel Aviv’s Clal ‘true colours’ revealing that it is not striving for a our TECI project. how exhausted she (z”l). To contribute to this scholarship, Building in 1986 “when I was asked to fill in at reception for two solution to Israel but rather seeking its dissolution! In this issue you will read of our many activities and projects ranging felt in recent years, please call 09-7907819 or see details from the 400 scholarships we present each year; our flagship PRAS on page 24 in Keren Telfed. weeks.” Two weeks ended up 30 years and “It’s been quite a journey.” While Israel’s PM has been trumpeting his recent she would literally visit to sub-Saharan African countries declaring that programme where our students provide community service for an in- summon all her strength to be at From proud English stock, Susan was all praise for “my adopted Israel is “returning to Africa” after decades of com- creased bursary, our recently launched SASI project promoting and her desk because caring for others community.” She described it “as unique,” and that “You could not find assisting young South Africans studying in Israel; our fundraising en- plex relationships, an increasing number of South stood side by side with caring for another quite like it in the way its members volunteer in the service of deavours, as well as the immeasurable contributions of our generous herself. others. I enjoyed every minute working at Telfed.” African Jews are contemplating heading in the op- donors in ensuring that Telfed is on solid ground as it embraces the The interview - also our Cover Story posite direction – to Israel! As if flipping through a family photo album, Susan rattled off the names future. In this regard I want to thank all our supporters from those of - explores Susan’s favourite subject To illuminate on these new developments, the you contributing through our Keren Telfed celebratory cards to our – Southern African Aliyah. Susan’s of many of her colleagues and volunteers from “the early days” to the present, as well as recalling events writer spoke to Telfed CEO, Dorron Kline. “I tireless trustees and dearest donors from all over the world who are words here stand as her final the financial lifeblood of the organinisation. that enriched her “journey”, particularly “the ti- see Aliyah increasing due to people los- message to the community On the social front, there has been a marked increase of Telfed she served and loved like “my ing confidence in the country’s leadership yulim visiting members of the community all over events across the country spearheaded by the Regional Committees, family”. Her living legacy is and uncertainty over its long-term stabil- the country.” as well as inspiring tiyulim visiting sites and meeting people - all of the thousands of olim and the ity.” Open a South African newspaper She cited Telfed’s response to “those panic particular interest to Southern Africans. Apart from these activities generations that followed, any day of the week “and it’s full periods” in South African history, when, in leading to a direct increase of communal participation, over 7000 whose lives she touched. of one corruption case after an- partnership with the Jewish Agency, “we families are receiving our fortnightly Telfed e-newsletter advising of A full tribute to other,” says Dorron. “This un- set up hot lines, manning telephones until our current activities and inviting readers to visit our website at: Susan will ap- dermines people’s confidence pear in the late at night taking calls from South Africa www.telfed.org.il and as well as the value of the next issue enquiring about Aliyah.” Today, many While Aliyah and Klita remain at the heart of Telfed’s raison d’être, in currency.” our Cover Story - as we say farewell to veteran Aliyah counsellor Su- of Telfed of those callers from afar, are settled the san Sharon and welcome her replacement Ariela Siegel - we explore Maga- length and breadth of Israel. While the Rand is declining, in- zine.• terest in Aliyah is rising. the subject of Aliyah from South Africa as we prepare for the future. 6 Like everything covered in this magazine as well as appearing on our “In the period January-March constantly upgraded website – it all makes for interesting reading! Over The Rainbow 2015, forty Aliyah files were Once again, Telfed is only able to continue its wonderful work with Reflecting on some of Telfed’s monu- opened at the Israel Centre in your support, and on behalf of the Telfed Executive, Directorate, mental housing projects like Efrat, Manof, South Africa while during the Board of Governors and staff, I thank you and wish you a Shana Tova. Kochav Yair, Tzur Yigal and Modi’in that same period this year there were Maish Isaacson, Chairman continued on page 6 New Southern African olim arriving at Ben Gurion Airport. l-r:Jared Jacobs, Kira Kumin, continued on page 6 4 Michelle Gaziel 5 Focus on Telfed

80 – an impressive 100% increase. not want finance to be an im- primarily a commercial airline pilot and wife Zelda in December 2015 from made many friends.” While not each file will lead to Aliyah, pediment to studying in Israel,” has passed all the exams to be accept- Johannesburg. Settled in Netanya It is clear why Israel for the Senders it is a barometer of accelerated interest says Dorron. ed at El Al. “Pilots in Israel are in de- overlooking the Mediterranean with is “home”. and we expect many will make Aliyah.” mand for two reasons - a rapid growth a five-k/m coastal promenade, “What In South Africa, Sender was involved Each file represents a unit, of which in the industry with El Al increasing more could we ask for?” in community and Zionist activities a unit could be a family with many Retiring in Israel their fleet, and new regulations requir- Not only young families but Sender has a point! after returning from Machon Hahoref members or one individual. “Of the ing senior pilots to take early retire- Northern Exposure. Susan who loved visiting “my seniors are making Aliyah in in- Netanya is a far more appealing re- in 1955. He was on the building com- 80 files,” says Dorron, “roughly a third ment. Both factors have created an op- South Africans” all over Israel is seen here on a creasing numbers. “Apart from tirement substitute than Cape Town mittee of the Glenhazel Shul and then are families, a third are singles and a portunity for me.” Telfed tiyul to Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch in 1999 with the pull to join their children for Joburgers, served on its Executive Counsel with third seniors or pensioners.” (l-r) Lena Nulman, Keren Kaplan with soldier Regarding the push factors, “I believe High Flyer. Airline guide, Susan’s mother Renee Griller, and grandchildren there are pilot Kevin Braun whose children the late Joe Simon, a former Chairman and then Telfed Director, Sidney Shapiro. the incentives of affordable su- the emigration wave from and wife Sarah of SAZF. He served South Africa has start- arriving on Aliyah therapy, and a 36-year-old rabbi who perlative health care, which in as Chairman of SA Smart Move ed; we are part of it. We at BG Airport and The issue of employment in South has passed all the examinations to be- South Africa is expensive and of var- Mizrachi for 6 years, looked at our long-term from where in Africa is paramount. “For young Jewish come a pilot for El Al. “The options ying quality, and for the more afflu- and together with prospects and chose to the future he may males, unless you are an entrepreneur – in Israel today are as enriching as they ent, the 10-year tax break on foreign well be leaving former Chairman leave now well-prepared and not everyone can fit into this cat- are wide-ranging,” he says. income is most attractive.” to take his seat in of SAZF and Telfed rather than later as refu- egory or be self-employed – it is tough In the latter category, “we see in- the cockpit rather Solly Sacks, and gees.” Having said that, than the cabin. to find regular well-remunerated jobs. creasing numbers of retirees buying Wendy Kahn, in- “Israel is home. There are On the other hand, the Israeli econo- Top Class sea-view apartments in Tel Aviv and itiated - following Next is the exorbitant cost of school many wonderful places my, a global hub in hi-tech - is attract- Netanya, as well as the ever-popular South Africa’s first education in South Africa. “Private all around the world to ing young Jews worldwide – not only Ra’anana.” For the wealthy religious, democratic elections schooling – notably the Jewish Day holiday – as a pilot I should know – South Africans,” says Dorron. “a number are buying in Jerusalem’s and grandchildren live in Israel. Having in 1994 - the He’Atid programme Schools – is massively expensive and but there is only one place for a Jew The word out in the business world upmarket areas such as Rahavia and “schlepped up and down for 17 years. under the banner of Mizrachi to for larger families, the monthly cost is to call home - Israel.” is that it’s SMART to connect with The German Colony. Modi’in gen- It’s enough. We are finally home – and send previously disadvantaged South a huge drain, so families are looking to Israel. In 2014, Tel Aviv won the Smart erally remains attractive being geo- So what has Aliyah been like so far we are not moving again.” Africans to Israel on leadership and Israel where quality education - reli- City Expo World Congress award in graphically central and more afforda- for the Braun family? Says the pilot: Receiving Sender’s praises are Misrad entrepreneurial courses. “Over the gious and non-religious – is available Barcelona, trumping over 250 cities ble, the overall trend is to the centre “it’s been a smooth landing.” HaKlita (absorption), Misrad HaP’nim years we had over 250 graduates who at a fraction of the cost.” bidding for the title. Considered the of the country.” (immigration), Betuach Leumi (social were required to initiate, promote and No less attractive are Israeli univer- oversee projects in the service of their leading conference in the world of Representing the three categories - security) and Kupat Holim (medi- sities and in this regard, Telfed re- On the Waterfront communities on their return to South city innovation, Tel Aviv impressed young adults, families and seniors - Talking about “home” and “holi- cal health fund) with one notable cently launched SASI (South Africans Africa. These alumni have made im- with a “WOW” presentation of the recent olim spoke to Telfed Magazine. days”, Sender Lees has synthesized the and not unsurprising exception - Studying in Israel), an initiative in part- pressive contributions to the future City’s homegrown smart technolo- two. “We feel we are Misrad Harishui (Driver Licensing nership with South African donors, the of South Africa.” gies. Tel Aviv exemplifies a progressive Coasting Along. on a permanent hol- Authority), which literally “drove us IDC Herzliya (to be followed with other Happily settled lunge into the future contributing to Soft L anding iday,” says this pas- crazy.” Otherwise the services were As one graduate of the course ex- universities), the Israel Centre, and the One young olim family from in Netanya “professional, courteous and friendly.” pressed on returning from Israel, “The the country’s status as “The Start-Up overlooking the sionate Zionist who Student Authority of the Ministry of Johannesburg that arrived in May Nation”. All this translates into jobs, Mediterranean made Aliyah with his Aliyah has literally been “a piece of Jewish People lost one third of their and South Africans, like prospective Absorption to encourage and facilitate “and doing very nicely” is Kevin and are Sender cake,” being welcomed by Telfed’s population in the Holocaust. They did young South Africans to take advan- Sarah Braun and their five children and Zelda Lees not cry to the world. Instead, they set Jewish olim the world over, are no seen here with Netanya longer looking only at what they can tage of Israel’s superlative institutions aged between 12 and 9 months. their Israeli Regional Head, up a first world country called Israel offer Israel - the old Zionist paradigm - of higher learning, and come to study Settling in Ramat HaSharon, where children and Charlotte – and we - once South Africa’s dis- grandchildren. but what Israel can offer them. “Israel in Israel in English, without necessar- Kevin has business interests, the fam- Wiener “with a possessed - have to learn from this is now a two-way street where every- ily making Aliyah. The programme ily at the time of this interview were cake and a bas- experience.” one benefits,” says Dorron who notes addresses the core concerns of tui- in the process of looking at schools ket of goodies” that two of the recent South African tion fees and affordable accommoda- and kindergartens. So what made this and since join- Street Smart olim interviewed in this article are as tion with the aim that Israel will be family make Aliyah? “Both push and ing the Young Walk the streets of Tel Aviv and varied as a young woman law gradu- able to compete financially with stu- pull factors,” says Kevin. Israel shul, Jerusalem these days and you cannot dents in South Africa studying at uni- ate about to take her masters in drama A businessman and a rabbi, Kevin is “where we have miss overhearing South African ac- versities in their home cities. “We do 6 continued on page 8 7 New Arrivals Focus on Telfed 2016 Telfed Lifetime Ananstasia, Shiri & Amit, Zoe, Cara Achievement Awards financially support their chil- and Sheila - the Tiferet Lion Becker, Margaret cents – many coming from twentysomethings! Telfed recently conferred on Eric dren studying at universities of Judah for extraordinary Berman, Aryeh One such example is 25-year old Talia Sobel from Johannesburg Berman, Liat and Sheila Samson its 2016 Lifetime in Israel, and came up with the commitment to Israel and the studying Hebrew at Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem. “I knew I Berzack, Robert & Rhona Achievement Award for the couple’s solution. With the Samson Jewish People. The awards wanted to make Aliyah from my first visit with my Sheila and Eric Samson Bloch, Mervyn & Sandra wide-ranging contributions both in family leading by example, were conferred personally Welcome to family to Israel when I was 11 years old,” says Talia. Blumenthal, Lance & Nikia, Miya, Nava Israel. Talia Israel and South Africa. A living legacy, the SASI project was born in partner- by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Borland, Jason Sobel (centre) No sooner had she graduated in Johannesburg last this inspiring couple are now joined ship initially with the IDC Herzliya In Israel, the Samsons have long been is welcomed Braun, Kevin & Sarah, Dina, year in law (LLB), “I made Aliyah, following my by their children who are following in order to enable many more South superlative supporters of causes to Yael, Gavriel, Talya, Ashira at Ben Gurion Airport by in their parents’ philanthropic tradi- Africans to study in English in Israel strengthen the country. Promoting ed- Brian, Sack her friends tion that inspired Telfed’s Chairman, with financial, logistical, housing and Callis, Sylvia ucation and research, they have estab- Kendra (left),an Maish Isaacson, to quip that their moral support. Cohen, Dave & Valerie American olah lished Chairs at many of Israel’s univer- “power” is biblically inherent in the Dayani, Hannah Hannah from the USA, Supporting Globally sities, and Eric serves on a number of De Abreu, Gina Dayani and Rachel, an family surname – “Samson”. their Boards of Governors. In partner- Israeli she met In South Africa, the Samson name Flax, Talia And what a ‘powerful’ enriching im- ship with the Prime Minister’s Office, when she was in is synonymous with supporting caus- Friedman, Kabanah SA on shlichut. pact the Samsons have made and are they established the Prime Minister’s es in the Jewish community and so- Gaziel, Michelle continuing to make that had Israel’s Alternative Energy Research Award ciety at large. Gordon, Wayne & Erika Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - an annual global prize of 1 Million Eric serves on the Board of the Hofman, Ronit topping the long list of good US Dollars (award- Hofman, Hannah wishes from prominent lead- ed for the first time in Jacobs, Jared ers with the following: “I 2013). Amongst many Kapah, Nadav brother who came four years ago. He has just completed his want to join Telfed in con- other beneficiaries that Kaufmann, Romi military service and is about to start studying.” Opting not Kessler, Amy gratulating my good friends the Samson Foundation to pursue a career in law, Talia is planning to do a Masters in Eric and Sheila Samson on supports are: Beit Issie Kessler, Lauren Dance Therapy and hopes to settle in Jerusalem. Kleynhans, Eliyahu & Devorah receiving Telfed’s Lifetime Shapiro (serving children Kotzen, Michael A madricha (leader) in Bnei Akiva for six years, how influ- Achievement Award. They de- with special needs); Beth Kotzen, Helen ential was the youth movement in shaping her decision to serve it. Eric and Sheila have Protea (SA retirement Kumin, Kira make Aliyah? devoted so much of their life for home); the Jerusalem Kupferberg, Ryan “My passion comes from my family; I was brought up in a the future of the Jewish people Botanical Gardens; the Lang, Jonathan & Avital, Danielle, Yair very Zionist home. We traveled to Israel frequently and both and the Jewish state. They do Sheila Samson Centre Manushevitz, Sam my parents were supportive that I followed in my brother’s that in a spirit of generosity of Enlightenment and Mayer, Leane Inspirational Family. Eric & Sheila Samson (front) and their family footsteps.” and humility seeking nothing the reconstruction of the Mayer, Li-aat at the Telfed function where the couple received the 2016 ‘Telfed for themselves. They have been Lifetime Achievement Award’. Independence Museum in Meyerthal, Kevin And as for Jerusalem: “Best choice I made. There is a great supporting Telfed helping absorb Tel Aviv. They have estab- Pantanowitz, Nicole bunch of young South Africans like myself here. Wonderful Nelson Mandela Fund and the Nelson in Israel South African Jews with tre- lished playgrounds and tennis centres Parker, Shani social life. Also, I have made so many new friends at Ulpan Mandela Children’s Hospital, as well mendous success; in fact with such suc- across Israel as well as the Samson Perelman, Harold & Denese Etzion from the UK, USA and Australia. What is clear to me as on many Jewish Communal boards. cess that other communities have turned Stadium in Jerusalem. Posniak, Bernard is that there is a growing number of young people from abroad Their support for Ma Afrika Tikkun Rubinstein, Richard to Telfed for their help. Eric and Sheila In the United States, they have coming to study in Israel.” as well as the “adopt-a-school” pro- Sadman, Brett Samson - I salute you. Congratulations!” funded projects with the Cleveland What about Talia’s friends back in Johannesburg? gramme, transforms the lives of thou- Segal, Frank & Hilda Most recently, the Samsons are the Clinic, including a partnership with “I hope more and more will come. Some are talking about it.” sands of children affected by poverty. Segal, Avi “powerhouse” behind Telfed’s lat- Case Western Reserve University for Senior, Marian The Macsteel Maestros Mentoring Amy Kessler est transformative project, SASI, to advanced medical education, a cardi- Shalkoff, Farrel, Hessie & Batyah and Jason Programme for disadvantaged ath- ac wing and a global centre for lead- Silber, Ettie & Morris Borland promote and facilitate young Jewish letes has produced national winners The Plane Truth ership in Medicine. Singer, Dani So the talk on the street is ‘Israel’, and when Southern Africans students in South Africa to study in as well as an Olympic gold medalist. make Aliyah or the younger generations choose to study in English at universities in Israel. The A beneficiary of Eric and Sheila’s gen- Sternstein, George In recognition of their legendary Subel, Ashly Israel, “Telfed is ready,” says Dorron. genesis of their participation emerged erosity over several years, Telfed felt contributions, the Samsons have re- Suckerman, Arnold when Dorothy, the Samson’s daugh- it befitting to honour the couple for Who knows – maybe future olim will take their seats on ceived numerous awards, notably in Van der Westhuizen, Juandre ter and her husband Len, raised the their extraordinary involvement and their El Al flight at Oliver Tambo International Airport in 2014: Eric received the Nadiv Award Videlefsky, Daryn difficulty of South African parents to Johannesburg and hear while taxing-off: “Welcome …... This - the Keren Hayesod’s highest honour, continued on next page 10 Winterstein, Paul is your pilot speaking, Kevin Braun….”• 8 Wolpe, Cecil & Lilian 9 Noticeboard Focused on the Future. New Israeli Deputy Mentors Wanted al ‘balance sheet’, was the recognition Ambassador to (Executive Council) meeting in Job Vacancy at Telfed - Assistant to CFO/COO (August 2016) of the good work Telfed is doing with SA Ayellet Black March. A second generation dip- For a unique Mentoring Project, Telfed is the support of its donors like Doone. at Telfed. lomat – “My father is current- Telfed is seeking a part-time administrative assistant to the CFO/COO. looking for experienced professionals wishing Job description to contribute to and influence the lives of new Attending the AGM were Trustees ly the ambassador to Ecuador” · To set meetings, record and transcribe minutes; olim, by helping them in their first steps towards Nick Alhadeff, Leon Lewis, Maish – she grew up “meeting Jewish · To handle due diligence issues; employment in Israel. Are you: Isaacson, Sidney Shapiro and Harris communities all over the world.” · Liaison with banks and maintenance of files for the appropriate authorities; i) A good listener, who is willing to help, support Green, together with Telfed represent- Ayellet received a taste of · Preparation of reports to official Government offices and to management and direct? atives Nava Lapid (COO), Philip South Africa when on Shlichut · Projects within the Telfed Finance Dept.; ii) Able to share your knowledge and experience? Levy (internal auditor), Nikki Leviner (emissary) to the Jewish com- · General office administration and correspondence. iii) Interested in volunteering and making a (Head of Resource Development) munity of Sydney many years Requirements difference in people’s lives? Dana Levy Tavor (Head of Bursaries), ago. “I expressed at my first · Mother tongue English; Fluent written and spoken Hebrew; ciate your transparency,” and “total- We invite you to take part in a special programme Anne Abarbanel and Merav Fisher. meeting with the local Jewish lead- · Excellent working ability in Excel and Windows programmes; ly support the work you do and the in which each volunteer will mentor a chosen ership that I looked forward to pick- · Extremely accurate and detail oriented; causes you enrich,” while TV and radio CV in English to be sent to: [email protected] oleh for one year (for approximately 4 hours per From SA with Love ing up an Australian accent, when the month), and help him in his job seeking process. personality “Dr D” said “We appreci- Celebrating the special partnership Chairman replied, “Don’t count on it; Training and support will be provided by Telfed’s ate the Telfed’s role in providing olim Good news!! between leading representatives of the you’re more likely to pick up a South Looking for a Job? professional staff. with a ‘launching pad’ and a ‘safety Jewish Community in Israel and South African accent”.” Now you can pay for your Telfed Contact Telfed’s Employment Counselors! For additional information please contact Dana Ben net’ in a warm family atmosphere”. Magazine subscription via the well- Chail Tel: 09-7907805; [email protected] Africa, Telfed was proud to recently From her experience there “I did Sharon: 09-7907815 Maeve and David Samuels, friends known and trusted online payment host the Chair of the United Jewish manage to get a good idea of what and supporters of Telfed over the last system PayPal. You can pay by regular [email protected] (olim vatikim) Rosh Hashanah Campaign, Alison Berk Katzeff and a warm and loving community the few years, echoed this sentiment, com- credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex) Michal: 7907800 [email protected] (new donations husband Howard, Chairman of the South African community is.” olim – up to two years in Israel) menting how reassuring it was for them or via your Paypal account. It is sim- supporting Telfed’s charitable work Board of Trustees of the United Jewish as parents to know that a Telfed repre- Ayellet spoke of her vision for her ple, quick and secure – for details: on behalf of the Southern African Campaign Philip Krawitz and wife telfed.org.il/donor. ities, the family has been involved for tenure in South Africa and sees “both community in Israel: (09)7907819 Michele, Clinical and Organisational sentative was waiting “for our children many years in facilitating the distri- challenges and opportunities.” Psychologist Dorianne Weil (“Dr D”) at the airport when they made Aliyah” bution of thousands of bursaries for support in tending to the wellbeing and renowned Capetonians David In closing, Sid Shapiro expressed young students in Israel from the Doone is a Boon Strengthening Partnerships and welfare of the SA Jewish commu- and Maeve Samuels, to a luncheon gratitude to the visitors, saying “your M.H. Goldschmidt Trust Fund, ad- nities both locally and abroad. In June, Telfed welcomed Julian in their honour. support has a ripple effect impacting on Former Telfed Director Sid Shapiro, ministered by Telfed. On behalf of Preferring a small, intimate and Beare, a Trustee of the Doone SA “We absolutely love Telfed… the fact so many lives.” CEO Dorron Kline and Chairman of family-oriented event, the recep- Cherished Charitable Foundation to the Doone that you are cost-conscious and that we Fundraising Steve Handler met ear- tion took place at the Ritz-Carlton Supporters AGM. Julian reported on the Durban can see where the money goes, and that Challenges & lier this year with several of the or- Michael Jewish community numbering approx- ganisation’s key partners and support- Herzliya Hotel at sunset. Solomon, a handful of professionals work in tan- Opportunities ers in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It has never been about the rec- Harris Green, imately 3,000 and expressed concern dem with a nationwide team of volun- David Before taking up her post as Deputy Amongst other prominent communi- ognition, says Eric, “it is the satis- over his country’s weakening curren- teers in the service of the community,” and Jeanne Ambassador to South Africa, Telfed ty events, the visit coincided with the faction Sheila and I experience see- cy, local elections and the drought. said Philip Krawitz who also spoke of Katz and hosted Ayellet Black at its EXCO launch of the celebrations marking ing the impact we can have on the Susan On the positive side of the proverbi- his family’s love and commitment to the 175th anniversary of the Jewish lives of so many people.” Sharon, z”l. the State of Israel. community in South Africa; former In the same vein, UJC President Shimon Peres’public ad- Chair Alison Katzeff Venerable Visitors them all, we extend our sincere grat- dress in Johannesburg courtesy of itude to the family for their gener- added how “we appre- Golden Hands the IUA/UCF; the Cape Town Top ous support. Donors Dinner and the public screen- Telfed had the pleasure of host- Together with The Doone SA ing of acclaimed documentary maker ing special friends (family members Charitable Trust, The Graham and Proven Partners. Members of Telfed’s Nancy Spielberg’s film “Above and and Trustees of the Meyer Hirsch Rhona Beck Foundation – Israel Directorate and staff, together with Beyond”, detailing the birth of the Alison Berk-Katzeff (2nd left), Dave (R.A.) The Stanley and Zea Trust in Telfed. Seen here at the Goldschmidt Trust), Dr. Jeanne and and and Maeve Samuels (middle centre), Doone SA Charitable Foundation AGM Prof. David Katz Lewis Foundation, Telfed is able to Michele and Philip Krawitz (far right) . Longstanding and at Telfed is Julian Beare (centre) with and Dr. Dori Weil (front left - seated) continued on next page cherished supporters of Telfed’s activ- assist hundreds of young students each (l-r) Maish Isaacson, Harris Green, Sid year with their academic aspirations. Shapiro and Nick Alhadeff. 10 11 Focus on Telfed Joining the Telfed Team Telfed’s Bursary Department is happy to introduce: Egyptian Israeli Air Force. All these festivi- Merav Fisher (rt), to assist the Head of the Special Days army ad- ties presented opportunities for the Bursaries Department, Dana Levy-Tavor; Telfed Celebrates the Holidays vance on ‘Telfed Team’ to strengthen relations and Daniela Shapira (lft) to the Aliyah, Klita and Social Welfare Department, who Blossoming Relationship Tel Aviv. for a promising future of enriching will be assisting Ariela Siegel, Telfed’s Social Worker This air partnerships. The “warm welcome ex- and Head of the Aliyah/Klita Department. In the spirit of Purim and the Protea, sortie saved tended to us was truly heartwarming,” Telfed Team members brought treats the nas- beamed Sid. which were lovingly wrapped and then cent State High on the list of Telfed’s priorities Telfed’s full professional staff including One happy IDC graduate Davi distributed to the staff at Beth Protea of Israel, was to promote the new ‘SASI’ aca- an Aliyah and Klita Counsellor, Social Nathan told his audiences in SA: “I as a token of our appreciation for all which demic programme for South Africans Worker, Employment Counsellor and completed my MBA at the IDC, and I their hard work and the organisation’s would not Accommodation am now going to work for Bloombergs longstanding friendship with Telfed. have sur- Capital Grants Administrator. in London. If you are looking to enter vived if Tel Aviv fell to the Egyptians. The delega- through the most prestigious doors, Remembering the Shoah The service concluded on this hot In April, Telfed’s Endowment and you need to look no further than the tion addressed Over 40 people attended in May day with the words of Smoky Simon, Scholarship (E&S) Committee vis- IDC to open them.” hundreds of the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ President of World Machal “stay ited various Jerusalem Institutions 11th and 12th Remembrance Day ceremony at the healthy, take good care, drink which received grants from Telfed. Rooting for Israel graders at Telfed ‘Moadon’. The lighting of the lots of water, and keep pedaling!” The Ulpan Etzion Job Fair Apart from Toasting Telfed. At a community function Johannesburg’s 6 candles was accompanied by read- In May 2016, Telfed’s granting schol- in Cape Town is Telfed’s Sid Shapiro (2nd On a recent JNF mission from South Clearly sound advice from an King David ings from community members, while Employment Counsellor for arships to stu- right) with (L-R) Li Boiskin, Esta and Ben Africa to visit some of the organiza- ace navigator! new olim, Michal Merten Levitas, Philip Krawitz and Stan Boiskin Linksfield and tion’s enriching projects, the partici- Dorron Kline, CEO of Telfed, re- joined some 40 other dents in finan- who wish to study in Victory Park high pants were hosted in Jerusalem by Dr. cited the Memorial Prayer. The cere- Local Visits organizations meeting new cial need, the Israel in English. The top Telfed sup- schools, presented the programme at Olim at the Beit Canada – David Breakstone, Vice Chairman of mony concluded with the singing of Ulpan Etzion in Jerusalem. E&S commit- porters were invited to a thank-you parlour meetings and were interviewed the World Zionist Organisation, where ‘Hatikvah’. A Class Act tee manages breakfast held at Café Riteve. on the Chai FM radio station. and co-ordinates the distribution of Telfed CEO Dorron Kline gave an Senior members of the Ministry of endowments to various institutions. To “Over 45 potential participants reg- overview of Telfed’s many activities. In War & Remembrance Absorption Student Authority (Minhal ‘SASI’ for the SAVVY istered to receive further information the spirit of Herzl, “If you will it, it is assess the impact of the distributions, Telfed’s CEO, Dorron Kline spoke Ha’Studentim) visited Telfed recent- - from Jo’burg,” reported Dorron. no dream”, Dorron shared his “dream the committee visited the Hebrew To promote Telfed’s SASI aca- on behalf of Telfed at the World ly. The Minhal ensures that all SA, Thanks to the endorsement of this of a joint Telfed -JNF SA project of University, Boys’ Town Jerusalem and demic programme, Telfed CEO, Machal’s Yom Ha’Zikaron service held Australian and Dutch olim under its programme by the Eric and Sheila planting a new South African forest the Mishkenotecha Yisrael Programme Dorron Kline, Stephanie Miller, in May at the Machal memorial site at care are aware of Telfed’s Klita services. Samson Foundation, Telfed will also in the Negev, consisting of 70,000 Centre in Beit Shemesh. “We were Registrar of the International School Sha’ar Ha’Gai. Honouring the memo- “Telfed is an example to all other Olim be able to offer a matching dollar-for- trees, in honour all highly impressed and came away of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) ry of fallen Machal comrades, mention organisations and its dedication and well dollar (needs based) ac- of the 70th birth- invigorated to continue our support in Israel, and IDC student from was made of 5 ‘comrades’ - Migdal organized Klita structure should be em- commodation subsi- day of the State facilitated by the generosity of Telfed’s Johannesburg Ben Feldman, visited Teperson, Gordon Mandelzweig, ulated,” said Orit Mor Sela, the out- dy. However, it’s not of Israel.” donors,” said E&S Chairperson, Batya South Africa earlier this year to present Maurice Ostroff, David Macarow going Head of the Student Authority. just the money that Schmukler. the programme to the Jewish commu- Telfed is happy and Lou Lenart - who had passed makes the difference – nity. SASI (South Africans Studying to branch out, away over the last year. The lighting Not Taken it is Telfed’s staff and Bilateral Ties in Israel) combines the IDC’s inter- furthering its of the Memorial Flame was performed for Granted. volunteers that pro- The Telfed national curricula in English with contribution in by 1948 South African Machalnik, Following the visit of vide the absorption Endowment & Telfed’s comprehensive Aliyah, Klita enriching the Solly Ben-Ami, together with Meir Scholarships Dore Gold, Director- framework and sup- and accommodation support services. landscape of the Haberman from Argentina (1948). Committee General of the Ministry of port for the students. visiting State of Israel. Frank Garrun - Machal South Africa Foreign Affairs to South SASI students are eligible to apply for It’s this added super- institutions 1967 and Chairman of World Machal, in Jerusalem Africa, Telfed’s Chairman needs-based subsidised accommodation vision that can put Hands On. Over lunch, Dorron Kline addresses a JNF mission from SA told the story of SA air force pilot that receive Maish Isaacson, Vice grants and study scholarships, access to parents’ minds at rest Eddie Cohen who lost his life to heavy grants Chair Batya Shmukler ulpan, preparatory studies if needed, when they send their children to Israel from trusts anti-aircraft fire, while stopping the and CEO Dorron youth counsellors and the support of to study,” added Dorron. administered by Telfed. continued on next page 12 13 Focus on Telfed Enriching Journey MASA Thanks to the RE/MAX Real Estate School, graduates on the WZO leadership training program Kline met with the South African in walks Dorit Ben Chail, Dana’s with Dorron Kline. I made Ambassador. In response to Maish’s mother, who works at the hospital’s question on how bilateral ties can be Maternity and High Risk Pregnancy strengthened, Ambassador Ngombane gramme that will prepare Departments. “Wow, this is like a NIS commented: “We want to see a strength- them to become leaders Telfed convention,” joked Bob the 25,870 ening in the connection between South in their Jewish communi- Builder. Jokes aside, within days, all in one month Africa and Israel. Although there are ties on their return home. the hats were snapped up, and with elements that loudly proclaim that we no end to the baby business, “we wel- You too can sign up! should not meet with Israeli government Hats Off to come many more,’ reported Janice to officials, we disagree. We will talk to both Telfed by an instantly familiar accent. “There Telfed Magazine. “We hope this will be sides if we feel this will advance peace was an immediate kesher (connection),” an ongoing project and welcome vol- Nadav Blackman written by David Kaplan and cooperation.” When Dorron spoke says Maish. Twenty-eight years at the unteers to get knitting,” says Dana. • (Johannesburg) What started out as a gener- new-born unit at Meir Hospital be- RE/MAX agent, Haifa about Telfed’s Building Bridges. SA Ambassador Anyone interested in participat- Sisi Ngombane and Telfed Vice ous donation of new-born baby fore appointed to her new head posi- plans to en- ing in this heartwarming - literally 052-227-8188 Chair Batya Shmukler. hats, ended up a tightly-knit tion in May, former Capetonian Janice courage her- headwarming - Telfed project, con- Telfed family affair. Zausmer was overjoyed on receiving www.remax.co.il 1-800-211-311 ext. 5 itage tours of tact Dana Ben Chail at volunteers@ the hats that helpscontrol the tempera- South African “Any idea to whom I can telfed.org.il or 09- 7907805. Jews living in donate 30 newborn baby hats ture of newborn babies. Taking the hats and 2nd generations registered “high” Israel to South I knitted?” asked Telfed vol- and a letter from Telfed, signed by the Food for Thought Read All About It affirming strong religious and/or ide- Africa so that unteer and renowned quilter Chairman, Telfed CEO Dorron Kline Debrah Marcus, a former Capetonian, Following sumptuous snacks and ological continuity. they can in- Terry Mowszowski of Telfed’s and Dana Ben Chail, Janice explained recently presented a seminar on all classic Israeli wine, there was much at troduce their Head of Volunteerism Dana their use: “Babies coming out of the Mendel’s daughter Sharon Berkley things culinary in Israel. The attend- the end of the evening at the Ruppin children and Ben Chail, who astutely di- womb are naturally wet and too rap- spoke of her father’s values and visions ees had the opportunity to hear how Academic Center to toast concerning grandchildren rected the enquiry to Telfed’s idly lose body temperature if not kept and how the family remains commit- her recipe book “Tel Aviv Food” was the wellbeing of our SA community to their African roots, the Ambassador chairman. “To me,” replied Maish dry. So, while the baby is wheeled from ted “to fulfilling his legacy by contin- born, including beautiful photogra- in Israel. The occasion uing all the projects he was responded enthusiastically that “the Isaacson who, if not volunteering for No Jokes. Telfed the delivery room phy of a colourful and vibrant Tel was the launch of the The Report is In. Israel’s so passionate about.” Embassy would like to see such tours Telfed, can be found volunteering ei- Chairman & Medical with its mom to SA community shapes up Aviv, and a host of delicious recipes. • engage with the new South Africa so ther in blue for the local Ra’anana po- Clown, Maish the new unit on long-awaited academ- in long awaited report, Isaacson, presents that visitors can see the progress that lice or in a kaleidoscope of colour at the 5th floor where ic study by Professor celebrated at a sumptuous baby hats made by ceremony at the Rupin PRASworthy has been achieved and hopefully en- Telfed volunteers to mothers and ba- Rebecca Raijman on Kfar Saba’s Meir Hospital. “I’ll take Academic College. Over 120 PRAS students from gage with the challenges that lie ahead.” it on Tuesday to Meir when I’m on Janice Zausmer head bies are no longer ‘South African Jews in of the new-born around the country (who received The gathering ended with Ambassador duty as a Medical Clown.” He wasn’t separated, the ba- Israel’, commissioned baby unit at Kfar and sponsored by the late scholarships from Telfed) gathered Ngombane accepting an invitation to ‘joking’! Saba’s Meir Hospital. by’s head will be Mendel Kaplan. The re- at the IDC, Herzliya, for the final attend a Friday night service at Shivtei Decked out in his bright ‘Bob kept warm with search was duly assisted by seminar and closing ceremony of Yisrael Shul in Ra’anana. the Builder’ clown outfit, Maish these lovely Telfed that provided its da- (L-R) Prof. Rivka Raijman, Prof. the 2015-2016 PRAS programme. strutted into Meir Hospital this knitted hats.” tabase for the study. Shosh Arad, Ra’anana Mayor Ze’ev Students broke into groups for dis- EVENTS time with more than his plastic As it turned Bielski, Sharon Kaplan-Berkley and cussion workshops with their regional What motivated South her husband Alan Berkley. toolbox ready to bring smiles to out, there was coordinators, and enjoyed a commu- Enriching Journey Africans to make Aliyah? How well did anxious patients. Carrying his no end to nal lunch. Dana Levy Tavor (Head they integrate - economically and socially Both Telfed’s Chairman, Maish At the invitation of Ori Leizer, the Telfed baby hats, ‘Bob’ made the surprises! of the Bursary Department at Telfed) - and how did the ensuing generations Isaacson, and CEO, Dorron Kline Director of English Speaking countries for the maternity ward where Janice’s hus- opened the ceremony with her vision connect with their Southern African spoke proudly of Telfed’s participation at the World Zionist Organisation, he was referred to the head of band, Jonathan, for the programme: “I see PRAS as a heritage? Interestingly, while the first in this valuable project, with Dorron Telfed CEO Dorron Kline addressed a a new ‘Combined Mother and works for the Boutique Scholarship in which we main- generation’s identification with South noting that “if you measure a com- group of MASA (“Journey” in Hebrew) Baby Care Department’. maintenance tain a personal relationship with all our Africa remained high and second gen- munity by how it supports its most graduates from the SA, USA and the “Wait here,” said the nurse. company that students and families, offering every in- eration low, with regard to “identifica- needy, the Southern African com- Ukraine participating in the WZO Within minutes he was met services Telfed’s dividual flexibility, support, and a sym- tion to Judaism and Zionism”, both 1st munity organizationally stands tall.” leadership training fellowship pro- with a friendly face followed properties and pathetic ear”. After reviewing some of minutes later, 14 15 Regional Workshop Regional Earlier this year, Telfed regional committee representatives from around the country convened in Tel Aviv for a 2-day training seminar. The Telfed regional reps play a vital role in contacting, welcoming and assisting Southern African Roundup Olim all over Israel. “There was no shortage of new ideas and participants left the seminar energized to fulfill Telfed’s mission across Israel,” said Dana Ben Chail, Head of Volunteerism and Community Outreach. Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Leaders. Telfed Scholarship students, many PRAS participants, at a ceremony at the IDC Herzliya. Rishon Lezion On Lag B’Omer, the Telfed the highlights of the year, Dana con- the South African Jewish communi- Rishon Regional Committee, Jerusalem es of interest to Southern Africans. together with Kehilat Ohel tinued:”… I hope that you found your ty. The training seminar was designed Avraham honoured Sheila It was an inspiring volunteering activities this year to be en- Kibbutz Yad Mordechai Levitan (z”l) at a special ‘visit’ of Mandela to inform and prepare a group of 20 to Jerusalem in ceremony where a memori- riching and rewarding…. I believe that Parliamentary advisors, TV & radio and Sderot May, when through al plaque was unveiled. a person can only grow and develop to personalities and journalists, ahead of his depiction in The tiyul started at the local Yad In July, Telfed partnered their potential when they offer something their trip to South Africa. • art, a ‘colourful’ Mordechai Museum - which includes a with ESRA in the showing facet of this great of themselves to others”. This was fol- miniature battlefield showing the epic of the academy nominated icon was present- lowed by reflections of two students on documentary,‘Ochberg’s Orphans’ with guest speaker ‘Isaac Ochberg ed to a Southern A Night with Natalie. “We Shall Overcome” battle between the kibbutz defenders Heritage Committee’ member David Kaplan. (l-r) David Kaplan, Lorna their volunteering experiences whose African gathering, Visiting guest speaker Telfed representatives attended a and the Egyptian Army Brigade. After Toube (ESRA), Janet Kiesari (ESRA) & Dana Ben Chail (Telfed Head of organized by Dr. Les Natalie Night with Dr. Les words resonated with the audience on Volunteerism). ‘Council of Immigrant Associations’ a quick stop in Sderot, the group then Glassman, Chairman Glassman in Jerusalem. how much the work of PRAS students of Wits Israel Alumni in partnership with Telfed seminar where members of the coun- headed to Sapir Academic College. is appreciated. Eight students received and World Mizrachi. cil were challenged on how to improve This was followed in May by a tiyul Youth Committee awards for exceptional service: Ophira Netanya The Telfed Youth Committee, The PowerPoint presentation by renowned art the support given to Olim in Israel. to the Isaac Ochberg Memorial Park. consultant and curator Natalie Knight from Ashtamker Golan Shai, Daniella Organised by the local Telfed Regional headed by Daniel Winer or- , Johannesburg - entitled “The artistic fruits of the In cooperation with the JDC (Joint (a full report will appear as a feature Committee, the SA ganized a Pesach seder for Cohen, Yarden Ross, Moshe Mitchell, long walk to freedom’ - showed a collection of article in the next Telfed Magazine.) • community were 50 young adults in Amishav Distribution Committee), the seminar art comprising paintings, tribal adornments, car- Sapir Damty, Shira Wisemon and treated to a fasci- and a communal seder in was attended by chairs, board members toons, as well as sketches by Mandela himself ex- Shlomi Zohar. Regional Co-ordinators nating reading by Jerusalem, ensuring “no-one Galilee Goings On ecuted from his prison cell on Robben Island. Roy and CEOs of associations serving South former Capetonian missed out Ilan Abel and Yifat Delsuz are grad- Scher, Chairman of Telfed Jerusalem, gave a vote American, French, Bukharin, Southern At the initiative of Issy Levitan and Jonathan Zausmer on gefilte of thanks, while Shiri Berzak spoke on the sterling uating this year and were thanked for of his book, fish and African, Ethiopian, Russian, Iranian, Dana Ben Chail, a group of Southern work done by Telfed’s staff and volunteers. their years of outstanding service! • “Valley of Heaven matza!” Turkish and Greek Olim. Africans headed to the north of Israel, and Earth” - a Individuals or families who would A suc- Olim associations expressed frustra- to visit the city of Afula and Kibbutz woven tapestry cessful like to apply to be part of the PRAS tion at the lack of support from the Yizrael to learn more about the won- with strands of re- ‘Shavuot Beit Shemesh programme and receive assistance government. Director Esther Blum and membrance from braai’ was derful work Issy, Head of the Telfed his younger days from a PRAS student in the 2016/17 held in Jerusalem, “sub- Chairman Mario Lev thanked the par- Galil Regional Committee, is under- in South stituting cheesecake for academic year may apply online ticipants for identifying key objectives taking with the Ethiopian community Africa, mixed with his perspectives from meat.” The Committee con- through our website - www.telfed.org. for the Council to ensure the welfare in the area. The group met with Oria adulthood in Israel. tinues to engage with new il/PRASProgFamilies. The deadline for of Olim from all parts of the world. Ashta, a young 36-year-old woman, olim. applications is 20/09/2016. blind since infancy who has two young Telfed Trips children. Oria overcame her limitation Mevasseret Zion Building Bridges to train as a qualified massage therapist Following its work in Hadera, TECI’s (Telfed The Telfed Events Committee has Ethiopian Community Initiative) latest commu- In June, Gesher (which works to been active organizing tiyulim to plac- and participated in the Tel Aviv Half nity project, the “Second Hand” retail shop in marathon. Issy, Mevasseret Zion, is gaining momentum. A wide va- All Fired Up: Kibbutz Tzora hosted 150 peo- encourage Telfed delegation at (l-r) Issy Levitan, who is an engi- riety of good quality (some brand new!) items are ple at the 9th annual Pesach braai for the unity with- Henry Baum, Ruth Kibbutz Yizreel neer, is volun- available, including clothes, shoes and household local SA community who enjoyed beauti- in Israeli so- Mor, Bernie Fink, articles (bedsheets, towels, curtains, linen, cutlery, ful weather, jumping castles and fun activ- ciety) invit- Milton Kaplan, tarily repairing kitchenware etc), kindly donated by the commu- ities. Participants came from Beit Shemesh, ed Telfed to Mel Cohen. Front: her house and nity and sold at unbeatable prices to residents of Jerusalem, Modi’in and Gush Etzion. Telfed is Jules Feldman, plans to build the surrounding environs. Proceeds are used pri- grateful to sponsors Egert & Cohen Insurance, run a spe- Rachel Piekarsky, marily to benefit the Ethiopian Community in Israel. Braude Wealth Management and Best Market. Steve Blass, Arnie a separate unit cial semi- Come visit at 220 Netazch Israel St, Mevasseret Zion The 10th annual Braai next year will be on the Freidman and Dana nar about for Oria’s prac- (15:00-18:00 Sun, Tue, Thur). We are looking for volunteers to staff the shop first day of Hol Hamoed Pesach 5777/2017 - a Ben Chail. tice. • on Monday and Wednesday afternoons 3.00pm to 6.00pm or Friday mornings special bonanza celebrating a decade of Hol 9.00am to noon. Please contact Dana Ben Chail ([email protected]) HaMoed Pesach BBQ. 16 17 Feature By David Kaplan

his surprise gathering followed to early seventies penetrated the inner shrouded in mystery but it was this Zimbabwean-born director, Saxon Raphael took an apart- the premiere of the riveting doc- leadership sanctums of the Arab world, line of Haber’s - although metaphor- Logan. ment in Tel Aviv where she Tumentary ‘Sylvia – Tracing Blood’ posing as a French Canadian photo- ically expressed - that resonated with From the rocky, arid desert and des- became a teacher but would at the Keren Beth Protea fundrais- journalist based in Paris. those in the audience to form a cere- olate terrain of Graaf-Reinet in South spend weekends on the kib- er at Yad Lebanim in Ra’anana prior Rising finally from their chairs, some mony-organising committee. Africa’s Eastern Cape where Sylvia grew butz with Annaeus, the law- to being shown at the 2016 Cannes like Rob Hyde and Peter Bailey, were up withs an atheist Jewish father and a yer who defended her at the When Sylvia Raphael was laid to rest Film Festival. ready to follow the directive of Eitan Calvinist Afrikaans mother, to the fer- trial in Norway. “The two in Israel in 2005, the issues surround- At movie’s end, many in the audience Haber (friend and advisor to Yitzchak tile fields and green and orange speck- of them were very much ing this remarkable South African were remained in their seats mesmerized. Rabin) that “Every Jew in Israel should led orchards of in love and far from laid to rest. No sooner were Mainly former South Africans, they sat go twice a week to lay flowers on Kibbutz Ramat they worked her remains lowered in the earth, than stunned, puzzled how little they knew Sylvia’s grave for what she did to se- HaKovesh and in the fields began a vigorous unearthing to dig up of ace agent Sylvia Raphael - “one of cure the safety of future generations.” Sylvia’s final and with the her fascinating past. One such en- our own” - who, from the mid-sixties Much of “what she did” still remains resting place, cows. They thusiast was this spans a jour- looked like writer who is in- ney of love, typical kib- terviewed in the her life on the line for Israel. I then passion, dedi- butzniks,” recalled movie and who spoke about Sylvia and the ‘Telfed cation and de- Zamir. at the premiere, connection’. ception. While Raphael married introduced its much of this While Sylvia sat in prison, Telfed South African and was covered in Chairman, Judge Joseph Herbstein Super Spy the movie, fur- (1971-1973) who too was born in ther anecdotes Graaf-Reinet, initiated a correspond- were revealed at ence with Sylvia beginning with: “As th Chairman of the SAZF (Israel), I am On the 11 April 2016, a group of Southern the ceremony at Undercover. Sylvia’s grave. Mossad agent glad to offer you our services. If you Africans congregated at the graveside on Kibbutz Sylvia Raphael should need any help, please write.” First to speak follow- posing as Further exchanges addressed the na- Ramat HaKovesh of a woman whom a week ing Telfed CEO, Rabbi photojournalist ture of her love and commitment to Dorron Kline officiating, on a movie earlier, most knew little about. Now they felt the Israel. Herbstein expressed pleasure was Sylvia’s best friend on set in Europe need to be there to honour her memory. with Hollywood with her father for “imbuing you so the kibbutz, Hadas Zamir actor, Yul fully with his Jewishness as to influ- who related that followingI Brynner. ence you to come out so strongly on Sylvia’s release from prison our side.” And strongly she did, for as in Norway, the first place she headed Haber told this writer, “Sylvia was not for was her adopted kibbutz, Ramat Annaeus and after a period of two years, Hakovesh. “We prepared a party in the couple returned the Chedar Ochel, which was packed to Norway where with people waiting to welcome her. they lived for a few POPE-GERI I received a message that Sylvia could years before mov- not break through the cordon of media ing to Pretoria. INSURANCE personnel that had surrounded the kib- IThere were fur- butz. We felt we were under siege. A ther anecdotes FOR few of us got into a jeep and went to by Rob Hyde EXCELLENCE look for her and at eleven o’clock that on Sylvia’s life in car and house insurance night having taken a serpentine route Pretoria and spec- Saluting Sylvia. Southern Africans join Sylvia’s bestfriends - English Summary - at her graveside at Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh. through the orchards, we sneaked her ulation and praise l-r: Gordon Bloch, Shmuel & Hadas Zamir, Dennis in.” How seemly. Even a homecoming by Peter Bailey medical and life insurance Jacobson, Dorron Kline, Jill Hyde, David Kaplan, Peter ended up for Raphael like a complex on how this non- Bailey, Hilary Kaplan, Barry Hack, Jeanne Bailey, Rob Hyde, espionage operation! Jewish woman put countrywide (09)862-4824 18 Marcelle Resnik, Stuart Zinn. 19 Feature Philip Symon is “The Perfectionist” Nuptials one of the greatest Israeli agents; she a lovely surprise getting was the greatest.” a visit from your son – Total Home Renovations Shani, eldest daughter of Hagit and Howard someone from home and Gary, son of David and While acknowledging that her fa- Philip Symon, always the perfectionist, uses the Freidus, of Nirit, married Hilary Kaplan of Kfar ther was an atheist, Sylvia neverthe- from your family.” latest techniques for upgrading, refurbishing Adam, youngest son of Saba, married Shahar, less felt that “he was extremely proud Sylvia’s life was full of and maintaining your property to the highest Anna and Andy Wolff of daughter of David Beibe of Haruzim. of being Jewish…He just did not ap- surprises. standard. For over 25 years, Philip Symon has been Matan and Sivan Beibe of Jerusalem. prove of the “trappings” …He could She had a talent for en- synonymous with reliability and expertise. Join his not stand the idea of donning a kap- dearing herself to people, long list of satisfied clients and bring a touch of pela on Friday night and then blithe- which might explain how class to your home. ly conducting business on Saturday Israel’s top agent once ba- Services include: •Professional Painting morning…But never think that my and decorative moldings Yair, son of Barbara bysat the present king of (née Meltz, father was not a JEW in every proud Jordan, Abdullah II, and •Demolition •Bathroom and formerly from sense of the word.” Describing her- while imprisoned, was kitchen remodeling •Tiling Highlands North, Eitan, son of Jennifer self as “an agnostic with a Christian allowed to go on shop- •Electrical •Plaster work and partitions • Plumbing Johannesburg) (nee Katz) and David mother,” she posed the question to and Daniel Kahn Abel of Rishon le ping expeditions in Oslo. Call today for free advice and/or quotes. of Jerusalem, Zion, and grandson Herbstein “so where does that leave The news of her outings married Sapir, of Judith Katz of Cape me?” and then answered: “I am a fer- leaked out for it should (054)431-5005 daughter of Sima Town, married Efrat, vent Zionist.” have been a closely guard- and Avi Hadad of daughter of Haim [email protected] Jerusalem. and Orly Sardas of While incarcerated, she was visited by ed secret. One report Tel Aviv. Herbstein’s late son Frank, then a pro- revealed that, “she was fessor in Chemical Crystallography at taken into Oslo in a family car. A plain- to the idealism which led her to be- the Technion in Haifa. In 1974, Frank clothes policewoman shadowed her as come a now self-confessed Israeli an- Lior, daughter of ti-terrorist agent, have made her ex- Jonathan and Maskit was on a lecture tour of Norway and, she browsed around the cosmetic coun- Burgin of Ra’anana “Dad asked me to visit her and I went, ters of the big stores and looked at the tremely popular in Norway.” (granddaughter of Tanya, daughter of David taking with me a box of Israeli choco- latest fashions. Nobody recognized her.” Marie and Aaron and Jill Cohen of Kohav Yair, Unsurprisingly, not so ‘popular’ in married Amir, son of Avi and lates. She was so gracious. There I was A 1973 South African paper revealed the Arab world. In September 1985, Burgin), married Matan, son of Jacob Ruti Shmuel of Yehud. visiting an inmate of a prison and she that, “Much publicity has been given a splinter group of the PLO mur- and the late Noga welcomed and ‘hosted’ me as if I was an to the case in the Norwegian Press, dered three Israeli tourists on a yacht Turkenitz. overseas dignitary visiting her estate.” and Miss Raphael has become some- off the coastal resort of Larnaca in No sooner had Frank left, when Sylvia thing of a national figure. Her sophis- Cyprus. They claimed that the victims penned a letter to Herbstein: “What tication, coolness and eloquence, allied were Mossad agents, one of them, the Galit, daughter of Sarah and Ivan prized Sylvia Raphael. Not so! Raphael Fleisch (of Talmei Yosef) and Abby, daughter of would live for another 20 years be- granddaughter of Bex and the Steve and Micky late Eddie Kroser (of Delmas/ fore succumbing to leukemia at the Taylor of Raanana, and Johannesburg) and the late Zelda age of 67 in South Africa. In accord- granddaughter of Leala and late Percy Fleisch (of Bulawayo), Zimmerman of Ra’anana, ance with her wishes - “I want to be married Guy, son of Yeela Livnat married Itay, son of Chanan buried in the soil of my soul” - the Raanan (of Kissufim) and Yarden and Ronit Zamir of Hod Livnat (of Salt Lake City) Mossad brought her home. Hasharon Prime Minister Golda Meir’s clear message following the Munich Massacre - ‘mess with us, and you will pay’ – set the new rules of the Chen, daughter of Dean and Lara Levin Yael, daughter of Avron & Orli game that are still in play today. Sylvia of Sde Eliyahu, and Cohen of Neve Daniel and was the tip of that spear, ensuring that granddaughter of granddaughter of Sol and Cherille Dave and Felicia Levin, in the words of Israel’s famed diplo- Cohen, married Dan Refaeli, also married Emek, son of mat, Abba Eban: of Neve Daniel. Doron and Hila Danino “Israel’s future will be longer than its of Mechola. Film director Saxon Logan at the Beth Protea world premier of ‘SYLVIA- past.” • 20I Tracing Blood’ at Yad Lebanim in Ra’anana.(photo credit: David E. Kaplan) 21 Keren Telfed

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Little come up with Rescue, Terror, Heroism and Remembrance did they all know when Jossy hurried- something to ADV. HERTZEL KATZ BA.LLB - Telfed Magazine reviews the 40th and the ly stepped out of Terry and Carol’s deflect atten- ADV. SHARON ARANYA KATZ BA.LLB 20th anniversaries of the 1976 Entebbe front door, that he was about to enter tion. Also, the history books. we need- We specialize in Raid and the 1996 Dizengoff Center REAL ESTATE [purchase ,sale, leasing and management] ed to obtain Massacre that intimately touched the At roughly the same time, 21 year- WILLS, PROBATE ORDERS, GUARDIANSHIP old Ricky Davis was with his para- a large sup- personal lives of Southern Africans. COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS trooper unit at Wingate when the call ply of blood OPINIONS ON RSA SUCCESSION LAW came through. Only two years earli- from Magen CONFLICT RESOLUTION er, Ricky, a member of Betar in Port David Adom, NOTARY Elizabeth, made Aliyah and with- and that ne- cessitated a 42 Bialik Blvd. Ramat Hasharon in three months had joined the IDF. HERTZEL 0502 501928 emember OFFICE: 03 5496475 Time to R “We immediately packed up and as- credible cover www.katzlawyers.co.il FAX: 03 5496147 sembled at a base near Petach Tikva. story. We did [email protected] Although we were aware of the hijack not want an- drama playing out at Entebbe, we had yone - least joined by three more col- a nervous Israeli government was ag- no idea that we would be connect- of all the media - questioning why Firstly, for refueling. We had enough leagues who then demand- onizing which way to move. No op- ed. We went on so many hair-raising we suddenly needed so much blood. to get us to Entebbe, but no more. ed the release of fifty-three tions were risk free. missions into Lebanon and Jordan in Because nothing quite like this had And as we did not expect the ground of their associates held in The terrorists then played a card that those days that we assumed it was an- ever been attempted, we had no idea staff at Entebbe to accommodate us jails in Israel and four other simplified the decision. other of the ‘usual ops.” Once assem- of what casualties to expect. Anyway, by refueling our planes, we needed countries. The clock was tick- They separated the passengers - Jews bled at the base, “Everything became the word went out that a crisis was de- sufficient fuel to take off after the ing. If the detainees were not from non-Jews - releasing the latter. top secret. We began training, still not veloping on the northern border with rescue and make it to Nairobi.” The released, they would begin kill- Shades of the Shoah colored the un- knowing our destination. Only at the Lebanon, and we would need medi- other reason for the stopover was no ing hostages. folding drama and Israel now stood last stage, were we brought into the less intriguing. “When we took off in 1976 Revisited Close Ranks. Formerly alone. It also knew what it had to do. picture. My unit was to secure the Shades of the Shoah from Pretoria, Dr. Jossy Israel, the Cabinet had still not The Prime Minister’s launch of a escape by destroying, in advance, Factor(right) of ‘The decided to go through with The plot of the emerging saga drew 2016 ‘Africa Outreach’ with a visit It was a proud cast of characters who anything that could jeopardize Entebbe Raid’ medical the mission. The risks obvi- in a global audience mesmerized by team, receives more rank to the continent this summer, coin- participated in the mission dubbed our escape.” ously weighed enormously the twists and turns of a modern day years later from Chief of cides with the 40th anniversary of the by the Israeli military - “Operation Staff, Ehud Barak. with them and so wanted Homeric epic. Abduction and rescue greatest rescue operation in history - Thunderbolt”. Amongst the medi- Tense Times to keep the option to abort – the stage was set for a cataclysmic the Entebbe Raid. When Netanyahu cal team on board one of the four The next day saw Jossy being open until the last moment. clash of wills. On the one side, an steps off the plane in Uganda and re- C-130 Hercules aircraft, was a for- briefed by the Surgeon General, the On the runway at Sharem El anguished Israel, while on the other, flects on his personal loss upon sthat mer South African from Pretoria, Dr. late Dan Michaeli. “I was instructed Sheik, we received the final green German and Palestinian terrorists soil – the death of his brother Yoni Jossy Faktor. A gynecologist and to quickly put together an aero-med- light. Now there was no going back.” aided and abetted by one of cal teams and blood. The story held, Netanyahu - it will bring back memo- obstetrician, Jossy at the time ical team.” Although Jossy’s special- The last stretch of the flight to Africa’s most notorious dic- and we took off with only those in- ries to two South African participants: was serving in the perma- ization was gynecology, he had been Entebbe “we flew at a very low altitude tators, President Idi Amin. volved in the operation in the know.” Dr. Jossy Factor and Ricky Davis. nent force of the IAF and trained in aviation medicine that in- to avoid radar detection. The turbu- Stories abounded of this would later rise to become cluded ensuring the health of aircrews The final briefings were divided- ac lence was heavy, but it did not both- The crisis that led to the Entebbe man’s evil proclivities, its Surgeon General. and aero-medical evacuations. While cording to the different roles to be er me,” says Jossy. “I recall there was Raid began on the 27th June, when notably his taste for eat- four terrorists seized an Air France When the call came sum- there had been missions and escapades performed by the various participants. very little chatting; everyone was so ing his enemies. Dr. Ephraim plane flying from Israel to Paris with moning the 36-year-old in the past, nothing would come close “We were briefed by wrapped up with their own thoughts. It was said that his pal- Sneh 248 passengers on board. The hijack- doctor to report for duty, to what he was to experience in the , (later an MK), who was the over- I spent much of my time in the cock- ace fridge had been a real ers – two from the Popular Front for Jossy and his wife Barbara next few days. “The success of the op- all commander of the medical teams.” pit as the captain, Amnon Halivni, ‘who’s who’ in Ugandan the Liberation of Palestine and two Ready to Rescue. Formerly were clicking champagne eration depended on secrecy, and be- Jossy describes the flight as long and was a good friend of mine.” politics - leftovers to go cause the public at the time was well from Germany’s Baader-Meinhof gang from Port Elizabeth, Ricky glasses celebrating the uneventful. “We left Friday morn- Jossy traveled with the medical teams with the salad. Some Davis at the time of The aware of the hostage crisis, we had to - diverted the aircraft, ‘Flight 139’ to tenth wedding anniversa- ing and landed at Sharem el Sheik, in the fourth Hercules. “Our plane was 3,400 kilometres away, Entebbe Raid. Entebbe. There, the hijackers were ry of their old Habonim stopping for essentially two reasons. continued on next page 27 Feature

virtually empty ready to accommodate and shoot us down. We having left South Africa 1996 Revisited the hostages and expected wounded.” were not taking any chanc- in 1948, spent most of the thrown.” Rogev examined the body Monday March 4th 3.00pm. The other three planes carried ground es and blew them up with 1960’s in Africa physical- and found that everything matched. forces, with the black Mercedes Benz anti-tank missiles.” Adds this ly unearthing the truth be- “I even found the initials of Dora’s The Telfed Executive Committee was Abdel-Rahim Ishaq, a 24-year-old and Land Rovers on board the first warrior, “Yes, we stopped for hind numerous massacres in Tel Aviv dentist on her dentures. She seated in the boardroom on the fifth resident of Ramallah who had just aircraft. The word out on the street coffee in Nairobi on the re- central Africa. Suspected in was prepared for burial and transport- floor of Clal Building in downtown stepped on the fourth white stripe of was that the Mercedes was owned by turn flight home.” Kenya of working for the ed back to Israel.” Tel Aviv. Chairman Mike Fredman the zebra crossing connecting either (z’l) asked the Committee to rise for side of the shopping mall. an Israeli civilian and was apparent- The enormity of what Mossad, he left the con- In the immediate aftermath of the a minute’s silence in memory of those ly sprayed black so it would appear these daring men had pulled tinent in 1971 for Israel. Eight hours later, she would re- rescue mission, the government of killed the previous day on bus no.18 as the Ugandan’s president’s car when off “only sunk in,” says Jossy He was however, to return. ceive the dreaded call from her hus- Uganda convened a session of the in Jerusalem. Fifty-five minutes later, approaching the terminal building. “when we touched down at “The day after Idi Amin was band Paul at the Abur Kabir mortu- UN Security Council to seek official the order of business was disrupted However, the intelligence was dated. Tel Nof Airbase and were overthrown, I was waiting for ary confirming that his mother Sylvia condemnation of Israel for violating by the sound of a massive explosion. The two Ugandan sentries on duty met by Prime Minister the call from the Mossad, Bernstein and sister Gail Belkin were Ugandan sovereignty. The Security Within seconds, sirens were wailing. that morning were well aware that Yitzhak Rabin and Defense who had learned that the the last two bodies to be identified in Council ultimately declined to pass First up from the table was secretary their President had recently purchased Minister Shimon Peres. suspected body of Dora what became known as the ‘Dizengoff any resolution on the matter. The Sharon Bernstein, dashing to her of- a white Mercedes replacing his black It was only then, safe on Bloch had been found.” Center Suicide Bombing’ (also ‘Purim words of Israel’s ambassador to the fice to phone her family and reas- one. They ordered the motorcade to Israeli soil, that people felt That call came the next day Massacre’). Amongst the 13 fatalities UN at the time, Chaim Herzog, in sure them that she was alright. Little stop. Had they had the opportunity free to express their emotions.” and they packed him off on a was a third South African - 24 year- his address to the Council resonates did she know that her mother-in-law for a closer look they would have also plane to Uganda to identify the old Tali Gordon. The attack was the The story of the hostages was no less today: “We are proud not only and sister-in-law, had a minute be- noticed that the steering wheel was on remains. “I was soon to learn fourth suicide bombing in Israel in not yet quite over. because we have saved the fore exited Gate the wrong side of the car, but by that that the new President of Mother & Daughter. Sylvia nine days, bringing the death toll dur- lives of over a hundred inno- Bernstein (z’l) & Gail Belkin (z’l) 5 at Dizengoff time, they were both dead. Uganda was storing the body ing that span to over 60. Epilogue cent people – men, women Centre – not In fear of prematurely alerting the in a bank vault, the safest place Seventy-five year-old Dora and children – but because of too far from continued on next page terrorists inside the terminal, the sub- he could think of. There were Bloch, carrying dual Israel and the significance of our act terfuge motorcade sped up and the as- clearly still those from the previous American citizenship had been left for the cause of human sault teams quickly went into action. regime that wanted the past liter- behind as she had the mis- freedom.” Borther & Sister. At the 2016 Ceremony. Sylvia’s ally buried.” children Paul Bernstein and Marlyn Butchins standing Into Battle fortune at the time of the in front of the commemorative quilt. raid to be in hospital after The day after Amin had been Jossy’s aircraft had been the last to some morsel of food had overthrown, “a disheveled land. Throughout the operation “we lodged in her throat. Amin Ugandan presented himself at stayed on board, preparing for the now had a victim on whom the gate of the British Embassy arrival of our passengers. It took just to vent his rage. It is believed that in Kampala and demanded to under forty minutes for the first cas- Mrs.Bloch was dragged from speak to the Ambassador,” revealed ualties to arrive. The waiting was the her hospital bed by two of Maurice. The guards looked at worst. We felt like sitting ducks as the Amin’s army goons and him suspiciously, but there was battle ensured. In the end we needed murdered. something in his voice that only six stretchers, one of which was made them believe that he had The final chapter in this used for Yoni Netanyahu, who died something important to report. tragic episode brought anoth- on the way to the aircraft.” They escorted him into the guard- er former South African - who Ricky’s unit, tasked with getting away room where he blurted out that he was served for many years on safely, took care of the the man that had buried Dora Bloch Telfed’s Endowment Russian Migs on the and that he had done so under or- & Scholarship’s airport tarmac. ders from President Amin. Realizing Committee (E&S) “The real dan- he would have been executed to cover - into the picture. ger was that they all trace of the murder, he raced off A renowned fo- could give chase, to his home village near the Kenyan rensic pathologist, easily catch us, border and hid there until he heard Maurice Rogev the news that Amin had been over- (z’l), who after 28 29 Feature Cuisine

“Everyone here will remember exact- ter, it then became clear to me yet bound intimately togeth- ly where they were when they heard that every victim of Dizengoff er for all eternity. As many of What’s Cooking? about the suicide bombing outside should be remembered in the the victims died together with Dizengoff Center. Everyone has their same way.” friends or family members, in- From ‘food for thought’ to ‘thoughts on food’, Rolene own story to tell of how they found She immediately set about re- dividual quilts have been hung Marks, Chairperson of the Telfed Media Committee has out the dreaded news that their loved cruiting some of Israel’s top Tali Gordon z”l in groupings to portray these a popular blog ‘Roro’s Rantings’ focusing on politics ones would never come home again,” quilters to help her in the task relationships. The spaces be- said Marlyn Butchins (nee Bernstein) of designing and creating the quilts. tween each quilt represent the gaps and Israel advocacy, but includes a in her address at the 20th anniversary Because of the nature of the tragedy, left in the lives of families and friends. sumptuous section called ‘Ro’s Kitchen’. ceremony on March 3, 2016. Marlyn “I decided that 13 individual quilts While Marlyn created the quilt in “Cooking for me is a way to unwind and express had been at work only 250 metres from would be made, each representing tribute to 13 year-old Kobi Zaharon the explosion that killed her moth- the victim in the most personal and (z’l), Terry Mowszowski of Ra’anana my creative side after a day of ranting. What er and sister. Beside her as she mov- meaningful way.” made the quilts for her fellow Southern could be more quintessentially Israeli than ingly addressed a crowd of over 200, Each of the quilters involved in- Africans - Sylvia Bernstein, her daugh- mixing politics and food? Living in Israel means stood her ‘Dizengoff Memorial Quilt’ terviewed family members to gath- ter Gail Belkin and 24 year-old Tali having access to no less than 80 different – that has toured Israel, Australia, er personal information Gordon who died together with her England and South Africa ethnicities and each one has their own unique Victims of Terror. about the victims - their friend Inbar Atia. and “which tells the story flavor. I invite you try some of my recipes – The names of Sylvia life, loves, hobbies, inter- Tali, who came on Aliyah from of how 13 people, most un- Bernstein, Gail Belkin ests and ambitions. They Durban at the age of seven, was a experiment, taste and revel in the different known to each other, were and Tali Gordon gathered pictures, person- brilliant student studying for her flavours. I also highly recommend enjoying my joined together in death.” (bottom) on the plaque at the al items, meaningful ob- Ph.D. in Political Science at Tel Aviv recipes with a glass of fabulous Israeli wine.” In an interview with memorial outside jects, even clothing, and University. It was ironic that she had Telfed Magazine 20 years Dizengoff Centre, L’Chaim and B’teavon! Tel Aviv. creatively recently finished her thesis on ‘Political earlier during the week of combined Terror during the Maccabean Period’. She has him ‘Over a plate’. ‘Chef Ro’ serving Shiva, Marlyn had said, her husband Saran her Purim Special. them to “She believed very strongly in the Here are two easy recipes: “It is a frightening thing produce peace process,” expressed her father to realise that my mother and 13 unique Barry Gordon from Durban to Telfed Roro’s Quinoa sister have become another quilts, Magazine in 1996. “I feel robbed; Bolognese statistic. Whenever I will hear each one there can’t be anything worse than cause I love ‘hot & spicy’, I include Roro’s Balsamic I love quinoa. It is wholesome, nu- or read the number of people telling the burying a child.” Arrabbiata - a spicy sauce made from and Wine Veggies tritious and delicious and a great al- killed by acts of terror, it will story garlic, tomatoes, and red chili peppers ternative to pasta if you are on a glu- This is an easy recipe suitable be hard to grasp that they are of an cooked in olive oil. Lecturing extensively around the ten-free diet. What could be yummier for vegans and vegetarians or folk included in that count. Here indi- world accompanied by the quilt, than adding a tasty bolognese? Then a gener- who simply love veggies! were two people, so alive, so vidual “Many thousands of people have come ous helping of red Fry chopped up onions (I prefer red human and so much part of victim So here is how you do it…. to know the names of the victims,” says wine - enriching the Spanish) in olive oil. my life, and they have been and Quinoa: sauce in taste and reduced to a statistic.” Marlyn. “My elder daughter, Camilla, Swirl in some wine (well, did you produced a movie about the making 1 cup of Quinoa requires 2 texture - followed Marlyn did not allow that to expect anything else?), as well as salt of the quilt which was bought and x cups of water – bring to by mushrooms, happen. boil and then simmer until corn, chopped up and pepper, followed by zucchini cut broadcast internationally by a well- into strips, mushrooms, red peppers Nine years after the tragedy, Marlyn, known cable network, and shown at quinoa is cooked. peppers and lots highlight- and a little balsamic vinegar. a renowned quilter, decided to cre- documentary and film festival venues Bolognese: of green herbs, salt ing the most sig- and pepper. Don’t overcook ensuring that the ate the Dizengoff Memorial Quilt as around the world.” Fry onions and garlic in olive a tribute to the victims, portraying nificant aspects of his or veggies retain their texture and re- Today, thirteen “statistics” have oil then add minced meat. (I prefer When nearly ready, add them “as real people, not statistics.” her life, loves and dreams. main crunchy. names. Turkey which doesn’t break down as the quinoa so that it absorbs the liquid. - the wine! While initially the plan was “to make Every quilt is linked to another de- fine as beef but chunky is good too!) Enjoy with a glass of wine of course! Need I remind a quilt each for my mother and sis- picting the deceased as individuals, They will never be forgotten. • Add tomato bolognaise sauce and be- 30 31 Book Nook By David Kaplan

Nina’s Early Days Nina Selbst, (nee Herbstein) arrived on Aliyah from Cape Town Water Genesis in 1946. “I travelled from Durban on the Maloja, a P&O liner. The “Water leaves its indelible ecy of “making the de- Crisscrossing backwards and forwards over lower decks of the boat were packed with Italian prisoners of stamp everywhere. No po- sert bloom.” the millennia, Nina traverses the globe “en- war being repatriated. Our small group included Sam and Harriet etry, no human life, indeed On retirement, still fas- tering the realm of the spirit and the spir- Levin on a preparatory pre-Aliyah trip, Nadyah Lourie, wife of the no life at all, would exist World cinated by water, Nina its, and the everyday world of production founder of SA Habonim, Norman Lourie, and Moshe Baumgarten, on earth were it not for devoted her time to exploring water’s complex interactions and consumption.” who was returning home from shlichut. the presence of water,” philosophically muses Nina with the human species and her book is a product of her Not surprisingly the book opens with “The “After ten days’ travel, we disembarked at Hurghada to a ‘warm’ Selbst in her recently published ‘WRIT IN WATER’. As global journey of discovery. Mediterranean Basin”. “Before the world reception by the Egyptian customs officials who emptied our suit- to the choice of her title, the author from Savyon “I have wandered far and wide on a meandering journey, began there was only water. The Primeval cases and scattered our belongings over the floor of the customs takes the reader back to the poet, John Keats suc- like that of water itself. I have explored the interface be- Waters filled the infinite void to the ex- shed. We completed the rest of our jour- cumbing from consumption at his lodgings in Rome Survival depends on tween humankind and this deceptively bland, colourless, clusion of all else. Only when the Waters Water. As a young ney to Tel Aviv without incident by train overlooking the La Barcaccia Fountain. From his win- tasteless and odorless substance. I have delved into creation were condensed and gathered together, chalutza, Nina faced this through Ismailia and across the Sinai.” dow, the ailing 24-year-old poet had a view of the stark reality while planting myths; looked at the emergence of civilizations and their could Creation proceed. So it seemed to Nina spent most of the next four years battered bronze boat in the square below, sprout- trees in the dry, arid decay; pondered the place of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Israelites and Negev earth on Kibbutz as a member of Kibbutz Shoval before ing water from its multifarious holes and ap- water in the human psyche Greeks alike, as they struggled to Shoval in 1947 leaving to study in London and return- pearing to sink beneath the sea. Perhaps it as expressed in art and po- structure a confusing and fright- ing to Israel in 1954. was this sight that inspired the epitaph Keats etry and folklore; consid- ening universe, make sense of the wrote for himself: “My life is writ in water.” Shoval was one of the famous settle- ered its role as a factor of human condition, and probe the ments established clandestinely on “The production, a source of en- significance of life itself. From the Night of the 11 Settlements” in October Tapping into Truths ergy, a conduit of trans- watery chaos that was their com- 1946 in the Negev, to stake Israel’s claim portation and a consumer mon point of departure, the ac- before the upcoming UN resolution on Far more intimate than Keats was this former good. In passing, my at- counts of geneses given by these partition. On that founding night were South African’s relationship tention has been caught different peoples, diverged as each 40 South Africans. with water. Nina joined the by wishing wells and water culture drew on its own particu- Iconic Telfed staff member Simie Water Commission - the closets, changing concepts lar experience to interpret the vast Weinstein (z’l) once related how he government department of physical and spiritu- world beyond its ken.” accompanied Nina’s father, Joseph responsible for the devel- al cleanliness, and a mis- opment and management Herbstein (z’l) to Kibbutz Shoval to cellany of comic and cu- Closer to home, is Nina’s chap- of Israel’s water resources visit his daughter. rious trivia.” ter on Jerusalem - a ‘watertight’ - at the beginning of the ‘When we passed through the gate The book has no preten- response to the assault of today’s 1960s as a junior econo- of this desolate place without a tree tions of being an academ- enemies undermining the Jewish mist. She retired three decades later as econom- in sight he remarked: ic work and contributes, in connection to its territorial roots. “Once ic advisor to the Water Commissioner and head of “My God! 10 men, a donkey, a dog and Nina!” the author’s words to “re- David decided to build the capital of his the Commission’s Economic Bureau. The writer’s book cover displays the storing a sense of wonder Well, much ‘water’ has passed under the bridge since this ‘ju- view of the La Barcaccia Fountain kingdom in the Judean Hills he had no al- During those formative years of the young state, dicious’ observation. that perhaps inspired the epitaph at this elixir of life in the num- ternative but Jerusalem, even though it had the author worked alongside that breed of pioneering that the dying poet John Keats - his ber of city dwellers, who give been already settled by the Jebusites. No Nina would emerge an expert on water, while her father, the engineers and hydrologists, agronomists and farm- hotel room looked out upon the it scant attention as long as it other site in the entire region gave access eminent judge from South Africa, would serve as Chairman of ers, scientists and policy makers that transformed fountain - wrote for himself: “My life flows from their taps.” Telfed (1971-1974) and earn the reputation as the “Father of the landscape of Israel fulfilling the biblical proph- is writ in water” continued on next page Telfed’s Trusts’. To order “Writ in Water” on Amazon: https://goo.gl/FJHwso 32 33 32 33 Book Nook People By David Kaplan to sufficient water to maintain even a token urban settle- bility of things not dreamed of in any philosophy.” It has The 2016 prestigious Israel ment. It was the Gihon spring that had led the Jebusites “impoverished the environment by damage to eco-sys- Prize for Chemistry and Physics to settle the site and now led David to fight to possess it.” tems and reduction of the variety of plant and animal was awarded to Professor How history is shaped by the courses and carriage of water. life. It has emptied aquifers, drawing down the accumu- Crystal Clear Leslie Leiserowitz of the Some 300 years following David’s conquest, Jerusalem, lated reserves of millennia. And free-flowing water, with then ruled by King Hezekiah, was again threatened by its intangible capacity to inspire awe to refresh the soul When Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz of the Weizmann Institute Weizmann Institute siege - this time by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib. and to restore the spirit, has virtually was awarded the To defend the city, Hezekiah sealed the springs disappeared, to be replaced by water 2016 Israel Prize outside Jerusalem’s walls to deprive his enemy of in harness, by bureaucratically man- for ‘Chemistry and water and had a tunnel dug to divert the waters aged rivers, lakes and even waterfalls.” Physics’ with Prof. of the Gihon into a pool inside the city walls”: Facing exploding population growth, Meir Lahav, he was And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was “the greatest reverence for water can- only the third South to come, and not preserve its purity,” bemoans Nina, African Israeli to re- That he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, citing the sacred River Ganges, wor- ceive Israel’s high- He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men shiped by India’s Hindus. “Whether est civilian award. To stop the waters of the fountains…. the source is factory waste or untreat- The other two recip- Why should the kings of Assyria come and find ed human excrement, when rivers and ients were Dr. Ian Tunnel Vision. Ensuring survival lakes are overloaded with extraneous Froman in 1989 much water? under siege, water still runs substances and their self-restoring recu- for his contribution Chronicles 32:2-4 thousands of years later in King Hezekiah’s underground perative capacity is stretched beyond its to society through water tunnel in Jerusalem. limits, pollution and eutrophication are sport, and Professor Nina reveals how, created using the most primitive the inevitable consequence.” Hillel Daleski (z”l) of tools, the tunnel proved a marvel of engineer- in 2000 for the study Portrait of a Scientist. A painting by Les’ sister Shirley Gelcer of Cape Town. On the left is the chemical ing. “As the crow flies, it was three hundred and twenty of literature. structure of how a quinine drug binds to the malaria pigment crystal which also includes the leaves of the Cinchona tree the bark of which contains quinine. meters long, but it twisted and turned through five hun- No Return to Eden At the prestigious dred and thirty-three meters.” With two crews working “Even a substance as ubiquitous as water is becoming ceremony in Jerusalem on Yom Ha’atzmaut, the interna- crystals in the joints that cause pain in gout? from opposite ends, “the tunnel managed to meet with scarce relative to needs,” warns Nina. “The day is ap- tionally esteemed scientists of the Weizmann Institute of These are all questions about one of the more impor- hardly an error of alignment.” This achievement which proaching when no-one, anywhere on earth, will enjoy Science’s Materials and Interfaces Department were hon- tant processes in nature: crystallization, and Leslie and was recorded in an inscription was removed from the tun- the luxury of fresh, wholesale water as the free gift of na- oured “for their joint work in Professor Lahav have worked separately and togeth- nel by the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient in the ture.” She cautions that there “is no road back to some understanding crystallization in er over their careers to investigate this process. Their 19th century and can still be seen there today. primeval Eden, to some ancient state of innocence; no a wide range of materials found research has revealed many of nature’s rules under- way of regurgitating the apple and returning responsibil- in nature.” lying various forms of crystallization, including the A lengthy 462-page read with many illustrations, Nina’s ity to the lap of the Gods. Future generations will enjoy “How and why do artery-block- phenomenon of chirality – “handedness” – in mo- trail meanders like a river, settling along the route in met- the wholesale water for which we all thirst only if we act ing chunks of cholesterol form?” lecular and crystal structures. It was for this work aphorical ‘lakes’ and ‘reservoirs’ of intellectualism, poet- to create it anew. Advances in technology will not suffice “What happens at the very first they received the Israel Prize. ry, science, history, geography, mythology and archeolo- to this end. A radical change of attitude towards the plan- stage of the transition from water Born in Johannesburg in 1934, Leslie obtained a gy, finally settling - to quote the Bard of Avon - in a “sea et and its resources is what is called for – a new ethic.” to ice?” BSc. in Electrical Engineering from UCT and during of troubles”. We owe a duty of care to the waters of the world. “It “What can be done to prevent an ensuing 18-month period “of work, unemploy- While “the dawn of the modern, scientific age” has matters not whether we believe that this is a moral im- the formation of gallstones or the ment and travel,” he became fascinated in a field of opened the way “for great strides forward in agricultural perative or a matter of self-interest. If the waters lose chemistry that drew him to an illuminating work - production, flood control, power generation, sanitation, their power to succour the spirit and then the body, hu- Hot News in Cold Water. With “The Crystalline State” by Brag & Bragg. “The sym- and general living standards,” it has come with a price. manity will surely diminish and then expire with the Lion’s Head in the background, metry of the crystal structures therein,” intrigued dying waters.” Les bathes his feet in Camps Leslie, reminding him “of the patterns my moth- Recalling Hamlet’s counsel to Horatio that “There are Bay’s icy water, shortly before more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in I am reminded of the saying from Native American receiving the call that he was er worked with as a dressmaker in Johannesburg.” your philosophy,’ Nina laments that ‘progress’ has ‘over- folklore: “We do not inherit the land from our ances- awarded the Israel Prize for This curiosity, coupled with a knowledge of “mi- tors, we borrow it from our children.” • Chemistry and Physics together crowave interference”, led him to his next marker reached itself by failing to give cognizance to the possi- with his colleague Meir Lahav. continued on next page 34 35 People The ultimate TV & Internet service Recipient of His achievements include the Weizmann His no less esteemed colleague, former South African Israel’s Highest Institute’s Ernst David Bergman Prize, Professor Mervyn Gotsman wrote in the foreword to Civilian Award. in Israel. Les, together the Prelog Gold Medal from the Swiss Joe’s 2013 autobiography ‘Open Hearts – Memoirs of a with his family at Federal Institute of Technology, and the Cardiac Surgeon’: • Are you about to make Aliyah? or/ the Israel Prize Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal “Joe was a pioneer in valve replacement surgery, particular- • Living in Israel and missing real English TV? celebrations. Swedish Academy of Sciences’. In ad- ly in children. He pioneered coronary artery bypass surgery • We offer every kind of station you can think of. dition, he was also elected to Leopoldina - the and undertook the nation’s first successful heart transplant. German Academy of Sciences. His surgical prowess was unusual and many of his patients When the hot news of his award was announced Content you can’t get elsewhere are alive thirty years after their initial operations.” including by Education Minister Naftali Bennet, Leslie was enjoying the cold water of Clifton while holiday- • Over 200 live TV stations in English ing in Cape Town. It was therefore little wonder that Joe was one of the • All sports including Rugby & Cricket five recipients of Telfed’s Academic Achievement Awards If Leslie’s mother, who died young - “only in her • 14 news channels including i24 NEWS (AAA) before a packed attendance at the Ra’anana Yad (Top English news network from Israel) forties” - was today looking down from her celes- Lebanim in 2000. After being honoured with the ‘Yakir tial perch, she would be amazed and proud that • Thousands of movies of your choice. Yerushalayim’ award in 1999, Joe wrote in his autobiog- from the simple patterns of her daily dressmak- raphy: “The following year I was astonished to be chosen ing, lay the complex mysteries that would inspire We also specialize in setting you up with from among a distinguished list of Southern African immi- her brilliant son to pursue a journey of scientif- internet. grant candidates to receive Telfed’s Academic Achievement ic exploration culminating in the Israel Prize. • • Don’t speak Hebrew? Not happy with your Award. When the judges stood up to announce the five current service? outstanding academic awardees in such professions as ar- • Change to our service and we will do the chitecture, language development, law and medicine, I was talking for you. on his academic path - “The Optical Principles of the shocked and thrilled to hear my name, along with that of Distraction of X-rays” by R.W. James, who was Professor plastic surgeon Professor Isaac Kaplan. This recognition Email [email protected] of Physics at UCT. With now a clear direction, the young Joe Borman was signified that the SAZF considered us the two outstanding for fast service. budding scientist studied for an MSc in X-ray crystallog- living representatives of the medical field among South raphy in the Physics Dept. at UCT. African immigrants since the birth of the State. Sitting Following his travels to London and then on to Israel all Heart on the stage before a crowded hall, holding my glass stat- The passing on earlier this year of Professor Joseph “with my good friend, the late Mervyn Smith,” who he ue award, I must admit that I glowed with pride and was Borman was felt far and wide. This eminent cardiac fessionally, it was strange that an introduction “to a nice knew “from our Bellville days,” he joined in 1959, the re- sorry only that Ruth alone and not the children were there girl, an officer in the IDF,” had Joe panicked. search group of Gerhard Schmidt at the Weizmann Institute surgeon was a source of great pride to to share this exhila- With visions of “a well-muscled, powerful of Science as a PhD student in solid-state chemistry. Israel’s Southern African community. rating and momen- Amazonian who would flip me over her shoul- “You know, if I never understood ex- tous occasion.” der if she thought I stepped out of line,” Joe actly why I am in Israel, today I found Leslie’s journey of research took him to academic declined the blind date. the answer. I feel so much part of the True posts abroad, and in more recent years, he has focused Fate would intervene. on a childhood fascination with the study of malaria - country. I feel I am contributing in the Romance most meaningful way I can to the care of the Less than a year later in London, Joe’s imag- a project, which he says, “in some ways is a continua- After graduating in tion of my original research with Prof. Lahav on crystal wounded and the welfare of Israel as a whole. I ined “Amazon” in the form of “a slim, beau- shall never again have doubts about our decision medicine at Wits, Joe tiful and vivacious Sabra,” turned up on his growth. It was not generally appreciated that this infec- came on a visit to tious disease is intimately connected with crystallization.” to settle in this small, developing land – which is doorstep in London to deliver a personal let- our own and which is so dear to Jews all over the world.” Israel in 1956 with ter to him from Israel. Three months later they Leslie reveals that growing up in Johannesburg, “I learnt his parents. Staying Since Professor Joe Borman expressed these words to were married. from my father, who had spent long stretches of time in in Haifa, a friend sug- his wife from a callbox in Beersheba Hospital during the Joe admits to only one hiccup in the short Central Africa, the full ravages of the disease.” gested after a day of Six Day War, this former South African - “born in the Not for the Faint-hearted. Prof. courtship. “I took her to a game of cricket. After Leslie, who is married with three daughters and seven sightseeing, that they same little room in Krugersdorp that I was conceived in” Joe Borman (right) is seen here the umpteenth tea-break, she reproached me, grandchildren has been a Full Professor in the Department of go dancing. Considering the - went on to emerge as a giant of Israeli medicine and the performing open heart surgery “How could you subject me to this boredom?” Structural Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute since 1983. ‘risks’ he would later take pro- founding father of modern open-heart cardiac surgery. in 1985 at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. continued on next page 36 37 People

But life was anything but ‘boring’ for the Bormans! Telfed Magazine in 2013 - “is still alive today, twenty-five years.” While years after the operation. He is by far the longest-surviv- there was Rabin’s Heartwarming ing Israeli heart transplant patient and I would hazard a some criti- Medical trailblazers, Joe’s team at Hadassah did the first guess that he is among the longest such survivors world- cism at the valve transplant, the first coronary by-pass, and in 1987, wide. He continues to call me every Rosh Hashanah and time “the an- Law Office the first successful heart transplant. Joe related Pesach.” swer was sup- that before “we could perform the first opera- plied a year We act in: tion, we had to convince Hadassah Hospital, later, when a Wonders of The Famous Five Prof. Joe Borman (4th left seated) was one All Civil Law, the Ministry of Health, the Kupot Holim and the Ward of five Southern African recipients of Telfed’s prestigious Palestinian in Real Estate, finally, the most difficult, the Chief Rabbinate, Academic Achievement Award (AAA) seen here the autono- On the first day of that ‘brain dead’ in the donor, amounted to before a packed attendance at the Ra’anana Yad Lebanim mous territo- Contracts, the Six Day War, “We, in 2000. The other recipients were Judge Felix Landau (z’l), halachically dead.” ries was di- Trusts, Wills, at Beersheba Hospital, Prof. Isaac Kaplan (z’l) (Leon Charney standing in), Prof. Orchestrated like a military operation, “we Ruth Berman and Prof. Harry Brand. agnosed as began to receive casu- Inheritance, were notified on the 25th August 1987 that a brain-dead alties from the front.” ery room to see how the “near-dead” youngster was far- Litigation matching brain-dead donor following a A pediatrician Dr. ing. “I expected him to still be unconscious and was still was available in Haifa. The motor ac- ADV Boaz Rabin New Lease on Life: (above) Shimon Mozes burst concerned that he might have suffered irreversible brain selected recipient was rushed cident. The Professor Borman looks on into the operating damage.” There were about half dozen patients in the 054-4819624 to our hospital, while simul- as Ovadia Matzri displays his family were room and “implored room, and so he went up to the first and asked, “Which ADV Haim Shalom taneously, the ‘harvest team’ chest. approached me to immediately come one here is Lancet?” was helicoptered to Rambam A Surgeon for All: (left) 1969 and unself- 054-2042222 to see a nineteen-year-old Hospital in Haifa to collect the - Arab refugee child after “I am Doron Lancet,” he answered. Joe chided him, ishly agreed who was in deep shock.” donor heart.” surgery “Listen, I have no time for games. Which of these people to multi- Office +972 3 624 1818 Asking his assistant to Heart-to-Heart Chat. (below) in the room is Lancet?” organ har- Fax +972 3 624 1798 Only when they heard that Joe Borman (right) with complete the closure of “I don’t know what you want from me, but I am Doron vesting. the helicopter had landed Professor Chris Barnard. the chest of a wounded 65 Yigal Alon Street Lancet.” Five Israelis on the helipad at Hadassah soldier, Joe rushed with PO Box 20395, Tel Aviv 61203 and one Hospital, did they remove the Shimon to examine the patient. Surviving “clinical death,” Doron Lancet would emerge Palestinian “large, scarred, faintly beat- With no palpable pulse and not a brilliant senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute of benefited, each being ing heart,” from the recipient, “leaving a huge breathing, Joe said to Shimon, Science and leader of the Israeli team that contributed sig- granted a new lease on life. The donor family emphasized empty space in the middle of his chest cavity.” “What do you want me to do? nificantly to the mapping of the human genome. that their decision was positively influenced by the coura- Describing the tension in the operating room This poor guy is dead.” Throughout Joe’s autobiography, the humanity and eth- geous decision we had made the previous year.” immediately following the transplant, “You “He responded less than a min- ics of the medical profession shine through as evident in In his final chapter dealing with the subject of mortali- could hear a pin drop with everyone holding ute ago when I raced off to call the treatment of enemy soldiers “who only hours before ty, Joe amusingly surmised: their breath. We had applied electric shock and you. We must save him,” plead- were killing and maiming our soldiers.” Despite the mixed waited for the heart to come to life. It kind ed Shimon, who was a colleague emotions of the medical staff, “those casualties whose lives “Maybe it would be better if our lifecycle went back- of trembled, but I did not know if it would of the boy’s father. Together they rushed the patient to were threatened were treated first, irrespective of their iden- wards: You should die first – get it out the way… finally pick up. Then there was another little beat, then another the operating room, hoping “that the period without ox- tity. Ultimately, every wounded enemy soldier received the becoming a baby; go back to the womb. You spend the slightly stronger, and as it began to pound so did mine, ygenated blood-flow to the brain had not exceeded four necessary surgery. Not a single one died waiting for care.” last nine months floating and finish off as an orgasm.”• as I knew we had pulled it off.” minutes.” A similar display of humanity played out when a reserve Heading home later, he was mobbed by reporters. Asked Without scrubbing his hands, Joe pulled on a pair of officer in the IDF was shot in the head by an Arab terror- by one, “What is your next dream?” he replied: gloves and a gown, rapidly cleaned and draped the area, ist while on patrol in the Gaza Strip. “Soon after arriving “That there would be no rush for interviews after future and cut into the patient’s bullet-injured groin, slicing in hospital he was declared brain-dead. The family agreed When Abel Met Ali transplants as they would become routine procedures.” through the huge hematoma that had formed. The min- to organ donation and among those suitably matched and With the recent passing of boxing legend Muhammad Indeed, that vision emerged a reality. As Herzl counselled utes of operating action ticked by until the anesthetist an- waiting a transplant was an Arab from East Jerusalem.” Ali in May, many will recall being glued to their TV’s well over a century earlier: “If you will it, it is no dream.” nounced, “You won’t believe it, but I can now record his There was much discussion over the prospective candidates “but because the Arab was in the most urgent need of the watching memorable fights like the ‘Thriller in Manilla’ The patient lived for 30 months until succumbing to a blood pressure,” Two minutes later he added, “The pa- operation, he underwent the transplant and lived for many or the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. Other’s recollections reach stroke, while the second heart transplant patient - Joe told tient is starting to move: I shall have to anaesthetize him.” continued on next page Two hours after the operation, Joe walked to the recov- 38 39 In Memoriam

Telfed chairman Maish Isaacson, members of the Directorate, Executive Council and all staff express heartfelt condolences to families whose Arlene Beham (Ma’aleh Hahamisha) loved ones (listed below) have passed away in recent months: Aviva Dorfan (Eilat) Batya Jaspan (Kibbutz Tzora) Myra Zion (Tel Mond) Benny Joss (Herzliya) Niel Hirschson (Tel Aviv) Bertha Joffe (Haifa) Rochie Swade (Netanya) Doreen Bik (Herzliya) Rose Silberman (Pretoria) Emanuel Tross (Jerusalem) Sadie Herscovitz (Ra’anana) Len Averbuch (Netanya) Stuart Galansky (Beth Shemesh)

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further back to 1964 when “listening to the mal hotel beds were radio in my kitchen in Hillbrow when he took too short for him and out Liston in the seventh.” he always had to duck However, for former Capetonians Abel and to go through doors. Glenda Levitt of Kfar Saba, their connection He wore size 13 shoes with the Champ was closer than a ringside seat. and his hands were It was December 1976, and the Levitt’s were so big that his box- staying at the Hyatt Hotel on Union Square in ing gloves had to be San Francisco. Surprised at the commotion in specially made as well. the foyer, they soon learned that Muhammad Ali In his second fight, had arrived and “so we stepped outside where we Potgieter absorbed saw this fleet of limos and the Champ himself,” Sizing Each Other Up. Ali weighing two solid blows to the up Abel outside the Hyatt Hotel in head against George said Abel. By the time Glenda hurriedly rushed back to San Fransisco in 1976. fetch her camera, Abel like an intrepid reporter had po- Strydom before flooring sitioned himself next to Ali. Itching to initiate conversa- him “stukkend” 95 seconds after the first bell. tion with the most recognised face in the world, the best It would take Jack Jansen, a Natal heavyweight, to be- Abel could come up with was: “What do you think of come the first fighter to hear the bell at the end of the Ewart Potgieter?” first round of a fight against Potgieter. Their meeting in The Champ was stumped! Port Elizabeth was wisely stopped in the 2nd round after The tallest bloke to ever step into a ring, the ‘Vryheid Jansen had frequented the floor far too many times for Vrekker’ was well over seven feet tall. “Pottie” - as he be- the ref’s liking. None of the South African’s demolition jobs of came known - emerged an overnight sensation in 1954 the long past impressed “The Louisville Lip” who, when he knocked out in Durban the Transvaal heavy- uncharacteristically short for words, dismissed Potgieter weight, Fred McCoy who was sent sprawling out of the as he would dispatch a competitor in the ring. “He ring within 30 seconds. Just in case one suspects that Fred mumbled a few words that I don’t recollect,” recalls Abel. was not the “real McCoy”, Pottie built a reputation of dis- Nevertheless, this photo remains one of Abel’s favourites; patching his opponents early – “very early!”. he appears pint size alongside the Champ.“Looks like Of unusual proportions, Pottie’s clothes - including his ties a press conference of the two contenders before a Big - had to be custom-made. Well over seven-foot-tall, nor- Fight!” laughs Abel. • 40 41