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The Voice of the Southern African Community in Israel Telfed The Voice of the Southern African Community in Israel Telfed turns 60 June 2008 Vol. 34 No. 2 inside: Shiomi and Sderof 'Passing Pioneers •Israel At 60 • Reunion Feature •South African Art •Nuptials, Focus on Telfed and more A South African Zionist Federation (Israel) publication ouMunt ^ I D C Raphael Recanati m HERZLIYA International School LIVE IN ISRAEL STUDY IN ENGLISH GLOBAL MBA Arison School of Business O m Sonja Kaiser, Austria, MBA 2008 Ohad Axelrod, Israel, MBA 2008 Ruti Wajnberg, USA, MBA 2008 Sonja Kaiser worked as a judge's Ohad Axelrod is a Product Manager Ruti Wajnberg currently works as the assistant in the Civil Court of First at HP in the Graphic Arts Division. head marketing and communications Instance and the Criminal Court of In his position he is responsible for writer for an Internet start-up. She High Instance in Austria. Previously, the life cycle of the product, and for finished her BA with honors from New she was a Project Manager at the writing the business and marketing York University and during her college Austrian communications company, requirements to achieve growth. years she worked at the Museum of Indeed. Sonja has a degree from the Ohad has a BSc from the Israel Jewish Heritage in NY. More recently, University of Vienna Law School and Institute of Technology - Technion. she worked at the Music Archive of wrote a thesis on EU law. the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv. www.rris.idc.ac.il/mba (ontent! Ilotke Board Editorial Telfed WtraiMitFftatimPirae, 19 Schwartz Street, Ra'anana 43212 tel.: (09)744-6110. fax: (09)744-6112 liiTlieflaii. info(attelfed.org.il www,telfed.org.il 6oo!(ljoo!(. 10 riupriah Featiire; (elebratingMLim .12 lelfedFocui .21 'roduction Editor and Chief Correspondent: David Kaplan Editorial Committee Chairman: Dave Bloom Media Committee: Dave Bloom (Chair), Sharon Bernstein, Gershon Can, Pearl Feldman, flewtoah .28 David Kaplan, Neil Schwartz, Maurice (over Story: iiraeiatbo. OstrofF, Leonie Barel Proofreading: Sharon Bernstein. Marvyn Reunioni Hatchuel. Jack and Rae Galloon. Ralph Lanesman, Harriet Levin. Leon Moss, Sidney Keren Telfed 40 Shapiro, Marcelle Weiss Advertising: David Kaplan (09)7672404, hildav(« netvision.net.il E.vtra or back copies of Telfed Magazine are avail 44, able at NIS 15 per magazine. Contact Sharon at (09)744-6110. Art Scene ■44 InNemoriam, ■45 (laiiiM ■4J Views and comments e.xpressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board, SAZF (Israel) is not responsible for articles and advertisements which appear herein. 1 NoticeB oard Telfed's own on-line magazine www.telfed.org.il Scholarships for students For topical, up-to-date information on aliyah, Application forms for the academic year 2008-9 now available klitah, spcciai projects, the community and from Telfed's offices. Email susans(a)telfed.org.il much more. Pop in and see for yourself! KEEP CONNECTED! Telfed Course for '^duality of Life Looking for a suitable gift for Companions to the Elderly overseas friends or relatives? Program Take out a subscription to Telfed A few places still available for for scholars Magazine the new course planned for Application forms for Contact Lena (09)7446110 x208 or October 2008. July-August summer [email protected] For information and to register, camps for kids now contact Sharon Bernstein available. (09)744 6110. Email susans@telfed. ^Support Group org.il for bipolar sufferers and / or their parents and families planned to To all South Africans wanting to subscribe start soon. A prominent Psychiatrist-Family to Telfed Magazine by credit card; A Therapist is willing to lead such a group. year's subscription: $35 (includes postage) If you are interested, please reply to us at Telfed's toll-free number from SA is 0800 hylsher(a)netvision.net.il or call Hylton and Gill - 997 - 495, People who wish to pay by Sher (052)465-4650 or (052)252-9437, credit card from SA should speak to: Helayne or Sharon Bernstein at Telfed; (09)744-6110. - ext. 220 or Sharon - ext. 201, Telfed's Employment \ Please Note: The date on the right corner Service of your mailing label indicates the date of is always looking for good jobs for Southern your last payment for Telfed Magazine. If African olhn, no date appears, we have not yet received from care-givers and warehouse workers to payment from you, secretaries, medical personnel and hi-tech professionals. "^Good Hope Seminary School Cape If you have - or hear of-a job which just Town Reunion might suit an oleh, please contact Telfed. Call Sharon Bernstein (09)744 6110 ext. 201, Calling all 1958 mafrlcs for our SOth reun sharonb^telfed.org.il. ion on 25 October 2008. Contact Rita Breuer: With your help, we can help other Southern Africans. ritam^teikomsa.net 2 Muchto ^cc S (elebrate f you are looking for a tiyul to celebrate ing the same language and living in the same Israel's 60th, visit the City of David outside region are Jews? the Old City. In recent years, the site has Fast-track to the present and we celebrate undergone extensive excavations and for this year the 60th anniversary of the rebirth all who thought they knew Jerusalem, will of modem Israel - No mean achievement! discover another - beneath its surface. In our Cover Story, we speak to former A one-hour walk through a labyrinth of Southem Africans of varying ages in hi-tech, ancient stairways and narrow passageways, academia, culture, scientific research, volun- passing natural water pools and even ancient teerism and Israel promotion, tapping into toilets - one emerges out of the darkness their perspectives of Israel at sixty. - enlightened. The 3000 year-old masonry An aside: Southem Africans often tend to provides tangible historical testimony of our be reticent about their achievements. This was religion, heritage and sovereignty cemented to our ancient capital. One wonders that if the comically highlighted at the recent Telfed Kfar Saba AGM, when sitting in the front row was Egyptian foreign minister should pay a visit he would care to repeat his flippant remark 90 year-old Sissy Harris who had travelled made recently on an Al Jazeera talkshow, all the way from Haifa on a bus. "The Jews say they have been here for 4000 When this was revealed by the MC from the years we don't see it." podium, Sissy remarked, "What's the bloody What is it that they "don't see" - that the fuss, 1 rode on the bus; 1 didn't drive it!" same people, with the same religion, speak- David Kaplan Editor Joffe-Jankelowitz Insurance Services Plumber It^-hour eKpro// /ervlee Specializing in all branches oflnsurance •CKporl in loeoUng ond Eleiiieiiiafyi Car, House, Business & Travel Telephone/ rcpeiirino look/ Private Hertllk Health Insurance & Frail Care (SmM} (dir«el) • Rolhroom ronovolion/ f Lifet Life Insurance, Pension Funds, Kupot Gemel, • In/loNolion of hoi uioler 050-5S08I01 • Keren Hishtalmut & Investment Advice boiler /y/tem/ond (09)7749016 Afark: [email protected]: Harolth [email protected] 9oy/or/ • • flgroofflonl/ wikh oil (09)7715556 Tel: 03-9292793/4 Fax: 03-9292733 in/uronco oomponie/ fieMai Timorim, circa 1950 imorim-TlieUnfinlslied Symphony Dear Editor I was disappointed reading the article on Timorim, which gave the impression that it Dear Editor, was founded in 1951 .No article on Timorim is complete without telling about those earlier 1 would like to take exception to Les Sheer's story of the early days of Timorim, years in the Western Galilee, and the settling on that hill in June 1948.1 believe that there I first made the acquaintance of Kvutzat is enough interest in those years to warrant Timorim when they were on Hachshara on an article of its own. Kfar Glickson in 1947, and I was a member of As written, the article does an injustice to the second Machon. then based in Ra'anana. those of us who experienced those difficult 1 later Joined them at Ain Sarah, between and sometimes dangerous times. Shavei Tzion and Nahariya where they were a Machane Avoda while waiting to be given lliyEgdal, Karmlel a place for hUyaahvuf. They made Aliya in Dear Editor early 1948. At the time the group was made up mainly of South Africans, Sabras and Established in 1951? So how was it that Romanian and Polish Aliyat Hanoar. During I visited Lionel and Essie Narunsky there 1948/9 more South Africans arrived from during a short leave from my army base Hachshara in South Africa, among them near Haifa, at the end of February 1949. my husband, Mordecai Schwabsky, who walking up the hill in the winter "iotz"? Joined the Kvutza. Actually it was in June/July 1948 that the orig inal pioneers left their temporary farm "Ein- I was married in Timorim in 1950 and find Sara" near Nahariya, and established Kibbutz it hard to accept that the initial three years Timorim on the above mentioned hilltop. are completely neglected. The book "South Africa's 800" by Henry Im khwabiky, Kfar Monash Katzew lists the names of all the original members of 1948 that were posted to Timorim. Lei Sheer replies: The few guys you referred to who had been Dear Editor sheet metal workers in South Africa, were not Many thanks for your article on my first 'Just guys' but special people - the brothers four out of fifty-nine of the most wonderful Mottel and Chaim Chait of Pretoria had and eventful years of my life in Israel. Your served in active fighting units in 1948. Chaim title "Life at the Top" was exactly right.
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