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Telfed February 2009, Vol. 35 No. 1 inside: •Southern Africans in rocket range •Two Art Retrospectives •Aliya Update •Historical Travel Guide •Nuptials, Focus on Telfed and more

View from former South African, Rene Weinberg’s apartment in . Red Alert A View of the War in Southern Israel A South African Zionist Federation (Israel) publication Contents Notice Board...... 2 Telfed Editorial...... 3 South African Zionist Federation Focus on Telfed...... 4 (Israel) 19 Schwartz Street, New Arrivals...... 16 Ra’anana 43212 tel.: (09)790-7800 Art Scene...... 18 fax: (09)744-6112 [email protected] www.telfed.org.il 20

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21 Production Editor and Chief Correspondent: David Kaplan Book Nook...... 27 Design and Layout: Becky Rowe Editorial Committee Chairman: Dave Nuptials...... 28 Bloom In The Mail...... 33 Media Committee: Dave Bloom (Chair), Sharon Bernstein, Gershon Keren Telfed...... 36 Gan, Pearl Feldman, David Kaplan, Neil Schwartz, Maurice Ostroff Proofreading: Sharon Bernstein, Marvyn Hatchuel, Jack and Rae 39 Galloon, Ralph Lanesman, Harriet Levin, Leon Moss, Sidney Shapiro, Marcelle Weiss Advertising: David Kaplan People...... 39 (09)7672404, In Memoriam...... 46 [email protected] Extra or back copies of Telfed Magazine Classifieds...... 47 are available at NIS 15 per magazine. Contact Sharon at (09)744-6110.

Views and comments expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. SAZF (Israel) is not responsible for articles and advertisements which appear herein.  Notice Board Diarize this exciting event! Telfed’s own Champagne Breakfast on-line magazine in Ra’anana www.telfed.org.il Cookery demonstration For topical, up-to-date by Lisa Brink information on aliyah, klitah, Krugersdorp Reunion Friday 15th May 09 special projects, the com- For information and tickets, munity and much more. Open to all who lived in phone Sharon Pop in and see for yourself! Krugersdorp or attended at Telfed (09)7907 801 Krugersdorp High School Venue: Raanana Bowling Club Improve Your Hebrew at Telfed Alzheimer’s Therapists Date: Sat. 21st March, 8 p.m. Been in Israel a while & still Trained English-speaking Entrance fee: 30 NIS per struggling with conversational volunteers are available person. Come see familiar Hebrew? Feel awkward conversing to work with sufferers of faces, enjoy reminiscing with Israelis? Telfed has the dementia and/or Alzheimer’s and catching up. Visitors solution. disease in the community. from abroad are more than Tues:11.00am - 12.15pm, This free service covers 1-2 welcome. Maggie Baruch, our National hours weekly of stimulating Coffee and tea will be served. Service Volunteer, will be offering one-on-one therapy aimed If you can bring a plate of conversational Hebrew lessons to at improving cognitive, biscuits or cake, it will be Southern African Olim no longer communication and greatly appreciated. in Ulpan. The lessons will take behavioral skills. Please inform me when you place in the Moadon Le’Oleh in the respond. Anyone have a good Contact: Telfed building on 19 Schwartz St, Marlyn Butchins (054)6477834 recipe for koeksusters? Ra’anana. For further information, R.S.V.P. to call Maggie on (09)790-7810 or or Oran Aviv (057)5533856 Shirley (Ziman) Peled, email [email protected] [email protected] Registration is essential.

Young visitors from South Africa enjoying Telfed magazine. We are sure you do to. Show by paying your annual subscription. Only NIS 60 for the year. Send a check to the Telfed office or phone and pay by credit card. Sharon Bernstein 09-7907801 KEEP CONNECTED! Looking for a suitable gift for overseas friends or relatives? Take out a subscription to Telfed Magazine Telfed’s Employment Service Contact Lena (09)7446110 x208 or is always looking for good jobs for Southern African olim, from care-givers and warehouse workers to secretaries, medical personnel [email protected] and hi-tech professionals. If you have, or hear of, a job which might suit an oleh, please contact Telfed. Call Sharon Bernstein (09)790 7801, [email protected]. With your help, we can help other Southern Africans.  Editorial Under Fire received near Gaza, a parcel packed by his aunt at the Table to Table warehouse ake no mis- Editor David Kaplan, pointing out the previous day in an Israeli retaliatory attack on Beit t a k e w e Raanana. Like the military operation, Hanoun in Gaza minutes after a the ‘Home Front’ too was working like “Mw o n t h i s Kassam was fired at war,” said Professor clockwork. Asher Susser, Director of the Dayan Centre While Telfed is an organisation that cares for Middle Eastern Studies at Telfed’s and acts, it requires the wherewithal to do Regional Committee inaugural so. In the wake of the global financial crisis, lecture. Referring to the three week offen- ‘our Fed’ has been beset by decreasing sive against , he inferred too that we income coupled with increasing demands. simultaneously won the Second Lebanese Today your community needs your help. War. Hezbollah had the opportunity and See report and appeal in the Focus on the incentive to open a second front and Telfed on page 4. chose not to do so. “There were a lot of All said and done, while the world fiery speeches from Nasrallah but no firing economy is on the down, aliya from South of rockets.” The immense might and the Africa is on the up. If 2008 was a busy political will of Israel to defend its people year, Telfed’s staff and volunteers have had sunk in. their sleeves rolled up for an even busier The hope now is that it will bring some one in 2009. level of calm and tranquillity to our south- David Kaplan, Editor ern region that has endured eight years of constant rocket attacks. Amongst the brave and long suffering residents of the south, are Joffe-Jankelowitz many former Southern Africans. “Every day Insurance Services I went to work I felt I might never see my Specializing in all branches of Insurance family again,” expressed 21 year old Dana Bar-On from Nir Am. In our Cover Elementary: Car, House, Business & Travel Story we tap into the lives of our community Private Health: Health Insurance & Frail Care (Siudi) and hear about their experiences. Life: Life Insurance, Pension Funds, Kupot Gemel & Keren Hishtalmut We also cover the response of Telfed’s volunteers. It was gratifying to hear that a Mark: [email protected]; Harold: [email protected] soldier of Southern African parentage had Tel: 03-9292793/4 Fax: 03-9292733

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Now More Than Ever Keren Telfed needs your support. Give Us a Ring Telfed was founded with the State of Israel in 1948 to assist in the absorption of Southern Africans We have a new making Aliya and to encourage members of the phone number at Southern African community to fulfill the Zionist Telfed: (09)7907 800 dream of Aliya. Today Telfed provides a full spectrum Herewith the individual of advisory and support services in these areas. staff numbers – you can What is far less known about Telfed is our dedica- phone the staff member tion to supporting the welfare of Southern Africans you need without going in Israel with critical financial and other needs. through a switchboard: Today, Keren Telfed works tirelessly to support (09)7907 800, or directly 159 needy families. We are a lean organization, 801-Sharon keeping our administration costs to a minimum so 802 -Sidney that over 92% of the funds donated to us, reach our 803 -Nava recipients. We are proud of this fact as not many 804 -Susan organizations can claim such a high ratio. 805 -Tzippi 806 -Pinchas To date, Keren Telfed has been able care for our 807 -Gerald needy with support from the Jewish Agency, interest 808 -Lena/Sharon income from Telfed-administered endowments and 810 -Magi trust funds, and your generous donations. 818 -Dorron Regrettably, the situation has now dramatically 820 -Helayne changed. As of last year, the Jewish Agency no longer 821 -Louise supports us financially. Endowments and trusts that The old number will provided for our needy are not providing enough remain in operation for income to cover all our allocations and the number some time. of people requesting our assistance is growing at For further information visit an unprecedented rate, especially as a result of the the Telfed website. global financial crisis. We are receiving increasing requests from the elderly, as our community ages and income shrink.

 Focus on Telfed There are many single mothers who receive help from us, inter alia, child care subsidies that enable them to go out and work. In addi- tion, numerous sick people receive financial support for vital medical treatment. The story goes on…. Chairman of the Fundraising Committee, Neil Kaye (right) with We are blessed with a small but wonderful Telfed Chair Maish Isaacson and professional staff, including a full-time social Vice-Chair Dave Bloom worker, as well as many dedicated volunteers all of whom selflessly give of themselves to philosophy and the cornerstones of the Jewish take care of the less fortunate amongst us. Southern African experience. None of us should be penalized for having Please take these values to heart in these come from Southern Africa and making aliya. difficult financial times and help us to embrace The road has been difficult for many of us and take care of our Southern Africans who and our lives might have been easier had we have given of themselves to immigrate to immigrated to the US, the UK or to Australia. Eretz Yisrael and are experiencing financial Yet we chose Israel where we give as best as difficulties at this stage of their lives. Assist we can to our homeland and to our fellow us in being community-minded in the way we , hoping that we will be able to make a know so well, and in stretching out a helping positive difference to the communities living hand to those who are in need, as we continue in Israel. our Jewish Southern African legacy of caring We have all made a difference. and giving within our communities. We have watched Israel develop into the I appeal to you to please give generously vibrant advanced country it is today. We are according to your means. I know that times at the forefront of many industries including are tough for you too, but those who turn to life-sciences and software development. We us for help are far worse off. have been part of building a successful, prosper- I decided to dedicate myself and donate my ous country we can all be proud of. Still, we resources to our needy. Not long ago I learned can never turn our backs on the less fortunate how dire the situation is for many members amongst us – not only in the greater Israeli of our community. I decided to give far more, community, but in our own back-yard. both of myself and of my resources. I left South Africa in February 1978 having I hope that you will join me in doing the lived both in the US and Israel. I am proud same. to have been brought up in South Africa with values I hope I can imbue in my children and Thank you. the community around me. Included in these Neil Kaye, Chairman values are caring and giving, the core of Telfed’s Fundraising Committee

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Anne Brown from the proceedings. Aliya Update Johannesburg, with two of her kids at the “Everyone cares “There’s no emotion welcoming ceremony for you, whether or excitement that com- at the Kotel, reveals, they know you or pares with finally arriv- “It’s a miracle that we are here,” referring not and in spite of ing home,” proclaimed to surviving the 2005 the situation, (a ref- Te l f e d C h a i r m a n Tsunami in East Asia. erence to Operation Maish Isaacson at the Although receiving Revelations & Visas for Australia, Cast Lead) this is a welcoming ceremony at the Resolutions at the “We felt as Jews, Israel country where your Kotel for the new planeload Kotel: was the only country children will feel to bring up a family.” of Southern African safe walking in our olim. Following on Simon Herz from Namibia, seen here streets.” Referring to from the inaugural with his son Emile, Telfed as “the Israel mass flight last July, who made aliya in network with a South December’s “Aliyah 2008 and is serving in the IDF. Simon took his African heart”, Maish Bet” was no less last puff of a cigarette assured “our doors emotionally charged on 1st of January are open to you, so having the Western before coming to the Kotel, as he resolved take advantage of our Wall as a backdrop to to “give it up.” Seeing the light means no more lighting up. continued on top of page 8

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given by Yoram Zafrani, the director of RISHON LEZION/RECHOVOT “Nitzanei Rishon, an organization dedicated Over 40 people attended a Hannuka party to the advancement of handicapped children. at the home of Harriet and Hilton Bark The committee plans to expand its activities in last and invites all ex-South Africans to contact Hannuka party at the Bark December organized household in Rechovot. Standing Beryl Schmidt (052)6182577 or Jonathan by the newly on th right, new-co-chairman, Sacho (050)7600729. Jonathan Sacho formed Telfed- Rishon Lezion, Rehovot and Over 100 people attended the Chanukah Out surrounding of Africa party at the Menorat HaMaor Shul. a r e a s c o m - Following a welcome by Jonny Klompas mittee. A very and a Dvar Torah by Rav Danny Myers, moving pres- Ari Birnbaum gave a talk on the Jewish entation was continued on middle of page 8

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knowledge and experience A resonating reassurance of ers, Chairman of the Jewish gathered over 60 years of the success of South African Agency, Zeev Bielski and the caring for the Southern African integration in Israeli society new mayor of , Nir community.” was the revelations by the Barkat who disclosed that ‘Don’t be worried’ was the two other main Israeli speak- they were very selective in message from the Minister of their marriage partners, both Absorption, Eli Aflalo who Barry Kornel, chairman of the Telfed opting for ‘Joburg girls’. said, “I came on aliyah 45 Klita Committee, (2nd Some 370 people from right), visiting years ago and I still feel like an olim on the Bayit made aliya last year oleh Chadash. Why? Because Rishon Be’Moledet “representing a cross I’m constantly facing new Kibbutz absorption section of religious challenges and devising ways programme on Kibbutz and secular, families to overcome them. Israel is an Afikim in the Galilee. as well as young sin- This 6 month to 1 year exciting country, full of chal- absorption programme gles. And while many lenges offering opportunities for new Olim families, gravitated to Raanana, to shape your own destiny, was implemented by Jerusalem, Modi’in and while at the same time, that Telfed in cooperation Beit Shemesh, others of the Jewish People.” with the Jewish Agency spread their wings from and the Ministry of Absorption. cont. from bottom of page 6 REGIONAL ROUNDUP Ariel Isaacson on keyboard and Darryl Mordecai on bass guitar. Juluka classics blended in well with the African art works on display.

NETANYA At the Beit Shemesh Out of Africa party: Shaun Some 110 people attended the newly Kahn and kids, Saul Glasser with daughter. elected regional committee’s inaugural annual lecture. Prof. Asher Susser, Director ‘Contribution to African Art’. Dorron Kline the Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern spoke on the ‘Miracle’ of Chanuka and pre- Studies, spoke on “Riots in Acre & Rockets sented an update on Telfed’s activities. from Gaza - Israel and the Palestinians”. So The evening also served as an AGM, riveting was the presentation, people were where the 2009 committee was voted in. Live clamoring, “Can’t you give us a series of Jewish and African Music was provided by lectures.”Part of the proceeds collected were

 Focus on Telfed the north to ,” their children.” said Susan Sharon, He found that in charge of the Aliya although “crime, & Absorption Desk at a f fi r m a t i v e Telfed. action and politi- It’s been a busy year. On Kibbutz Afikim, (l-r) Beverly and Martin Jaffe, Megan cal uncertainty Following the success Klein, Michelle Parkin, Paul Klein and Albert Parkin. were certainly of an Aliya Expo early on in ‘push factors’,” 2008, over 500 people attended and answer questions. he was heartened to hear the second one in November Dorron Kline, Telfed’s how many “were making held in Johannesburg and Director of Projects, inter- aliya for Zionistic reasons.” Cape Town. viewed over 110 potential Interestingly, he reveals that “the vast majority were Over 25 experts from Israel olim in South Africa. “It was choosing Direct Absorption in the fields of aliya planning, clear that so many parents - moving into pre-rented or entrepreneurship, employ- were re-defining the mean- bought apartments.” ment, tax and investment, ing of ‘quality of life.’ From national and health insurance, what they were telling me Still, a significant number education, pensions and prop- they were looking for a better, of applicants were attracted erty were on hand to counsel safer and Jewish future for cont. on top of page 10

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with Telfed Projects Director, Dorron Kline met recently with former Southern Africans in . “Aliya to the north should be encouraged,” was the message they heard. Sheila Zetler from nearby Manof: “Karmiel and the Misgav region are ideal for olim from Professor Asher Susser (2nd from left) with Annette South Africa. Today, there are an increasing Milliner, Sidney Shapiro, Maish Isaacson and Cecil Shevil. number of jobs in and with the dramatic donated to Keren Telfed and Cecil Shevil was elected Chairman. KARMIEL C h a i r m a n o f t h e Telfed Karmiel Regional Committee: Meeting; standing: Ziona Absorption Committee, Schaffer, Nate Levinthal, Carol Aviv, Rochie Chrysler, Sandy Barry Kornel together Orelowitz, Simon Herz, Bella Ben Yehudah, Zvi Ben Yehudah, Ivan Reznick, Sheila Zetler; Kneeling: Dorron Kline, Barry Kornel cont. on middle of page 10  Focus on Telfed

to the absorption programmes Three of the twenty- five who received of Bayit Rishon Be’Moledet Telfed Scholarships on Kibbutz as well as the at a ceremony at the Absorption Centres in IDC, . (l-r) Ra’anana and Jerusalem and Yoni Forman, Ronit “Community Absorption” in Raier and Jeremy Lipshitz, all gradates the cities Modi’in and Haifa. of Collage in Dorron has a clear message. Johannesburg. “Although making Aliya may appear as daunting as crossing Herzliya. Jonathan Davis, Herzliya and Telfed and con- the Himalayas, once the proc- Vice President for External gratulated the IDC for its ess begins, mountains can turn Relations and Head of the success in recruiting over 50 into mole-hills.” Raphael Recanati International Southern African students to School welcomed the students its International School. Telfed Scholarships and the representatives from The awards were pre- Telfed. He was followed by sented on behalf of Telfed’s Telfed recently awarded Chairman Maish Isaacson, Endowments & Scholarships 25 scholarships to Southern who spoke of the enriching Chairperson by committee African olim at the IDC, relationship between the IDC,

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improvement in transport infrastructure, the JERUSALEM North has a promising and exciting future.” “After our last successful braai, many eagerly Carol Aviv, a resident of Karmiel for over 30 awaited our next event,” says Chairman Dori years and Sheila Zetler were voted in as co- Braudi. “This time, we organised a Shabbat chairpersons of the local Telfed committee. dinner for some forty people including our newest immigrants that arrived on Aliya Bet. It & BEIT SHEMESH was an excellent opportunity for them to meet Both these communities were active in our Southern African community in walking collecting, packing and delivering parcels to distance of the Rechavia shul, which really lent the soldiers in the south during the war. They itself to the occasion. There was such a warm were supported by the regional committees and relaxed atmosphere as everyone sang, chat- of Haifa and Rishon LeZion/Rechovot. (See ted and connected long after the dinner ended.” side bar in Cover Story.) Alan Shapiro and Ayelet Penkower offered interesting insights into the weekly portion.

10 Focus on Telfed member Philip Chazen and Telfed bids farewell to directly absorbed utilizing the Stephanie Miller of the IDC. its Professional Services Telfed “Dirat Kelet” absorp- Scholarship recipient and co- Director, Naomi Heim, tion apartment. Spearheaded chair of Telfed’s Young Olim who for seven years, oversaw by Naomi, this project has Committee Jeremy Lipshitz, the Aliya, Klita, Employment been emulated by other immi- thanked Telfed on behalf of and Social Services of Telfed. grant communities, notably the students. During her tenure, Telfed saw from the USA and UK. a streamlining of procedures, N a o m i a l s o l e f t h e r Farewell to Naomi Heim ensuring the smooth integra- mark on Telfed’s revised tion of new Olim into Israeli employment and social serv- society. ices divisions. The Telfed Under Naomi’s guidance, staff, directorate and lay lead- the Modi’in Klita Kehilatit ers wish Naomi the very best project was established in in her future endeavors, know- conjunction with the Modi’in ing that Israeli society can only municipality, the Ministry of greatly benefit from whatever Absorption and the Jewish path she pursues. Agency. Today, South African Naomi Heim immigrants to Modi’in are cont. on page 12

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HAIFA HOD HASHARON “Looking to the future,” a gathering was It must be worrying for parents when held recently at the home of Diane their kids are studying and Harry Shaer, which included Haifa gearing Up: Noga Lewis, Yolin away from home! Step in the new olim - Riva and Robert Goldberg (Iriyat Haifa), Gillian Feinberg (in front), Bruria Shadel, Harry Shaer, the Hod Hasharon Telfed Selesnick, Vivian and Yossi Cohen Diane Shaer, Cyril Feinberg. regional com- and Casandra Levin. Yolin Goldberg mittee which from the Haifa Municipality attended has adopted the meeting and a Telfed committee the Southern was reestablished. Meetings have A f r i c a n been held between Telfed and the N a ’ a l e h Haifa municipality for the purpose kids at the of encouraging South African olim Mossensohn to Haifa. cont. on page 12

11 Focus on Telfed ‘accounts’ and contribute to the visitors to the site. Web Update forums. For example, Telfed’s You want to keep up with Telfed recently launched its Regional Committees will now events in the Southern African ‘new look’ website known to all be able to post material of community in Israel? Visit as Telfed Online (www.telfed. interest to their own communi- Telfed Online and tell your org.il) introducing a number ties advising of forthcoming family and friends about it. of features and benefits. The events and then reporting on infrastructure enables better them thereafter.” use of video clips, picture The website has become a Book Launch galleries, online forum, adver- vital tool of communicating Organized by the National tising, online polls, social and with olim in Israel and those Events Committee, some 400 professional networking ena- planning aliya. Southern Africans attended the bles visitors to add their own The popular Telfed Online Israel launch of the book ‘The comments and stories. Email Newsletter goes out Jews in South Africa’ at the The website’s editor and to some 3,000 addressees Open University in Raanana. webmaster Dave Bloom advising of the websites’ up- The authors, Professors explains, “Visitors to the site to-date postings. This impacts Richard Mendelsohn and can now create their own significantly on the number of Milton Shain flew in from cont. on next page

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School in Hod Hasharon. A gathering was Chairperson Nechama Keynan. held recently for the youngsters to meet the The Na’aleh programme brings 10th grade community. “They know they have South African pupils from Cape fellow South Africans in the area Telfed staff and lay Town, Johannesburg and Durban. that are only a phone call away,” said leadership meet with They complete their schooling in Naaleh students and Telfed Regional committee Israel with a full Israeli matricula- members in the home of tion certificate and then officially Paul Roberts (front rt.) make Aliya. Na’aleh is an acro- nym for “Youth making Aliya before their parents”. There are currently 10 South African pupils studying in both religious and non-religious schools in Hod Hasharon, Haifa and Be’er Sheva. •

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13 Focus on Telfed MAZAL TOV successful in recruiting for the KIDS4FOOD club • Mazal tov to Pinchas and Batya Melchior on the safe arrival of a grandson. and calls monthly meet- • Kol Hakavod to Telfed Executive member Annette Milliner, who was recently ings, where she talks on honoured in Cape Town by the Bnoth Zion for a lifetime of service to the topics related to helping Jewish people both in South Africa and Israel. She received the Certificate of the needy. Recognition from Jill Kaplan, wife of Mendel who was also the guest speaker a t the event. Telfed’s Food Project University, Several Raanana schools, volunteers both religious and secular, for the Latet have joined Telfed’s Lev o r g a n i z a - Lara’ev project, founded by tion, where Chairman Maish Isaacson Annette Milliner(right) with Mendel and he distributes and coordinated by Max Jill Kaplan in Cape Town. f o o d p a r- Grunberg. To motivate young cels, as well volunteers, a ceremony is summer camp programme for as projects with Ethiopians held each month at a different under-privileged youngsters. and Darfur refugees in Beer participating school where Issy also volunteered for the Sheva. a certificate is presented by Netanya tourist police The new Lev Lara’ev Raanana’s mayor, Nachum A founding member of Award was awarded to 12 year Hofri. (see photo below) Cape Town’s Herzlia School, old Yardena Ellis (daughter Wally Katz would become of Martin and Glenda) for Looking for Work? a founding member of the her volunteer work in Telfed’s Sharon Bernstein, who committee to establish Bet food project. Yardena has been heads the Telfed job-matching Protea. Having been a member of Magen David Adom in (l-r): Ziva Hadri- from “Chevrat Hayeladim”, Ayellet Daliyot – Coordinator South Africa for nearly 40 of Educational Empowerment in the Department of Elementary years, Wally represents MDA Education, Oren Osovitzky of the Hadar Student Council , Mayor Nachum South Africa in Israel. Hofri, Max Grunberg and Yona Rosenberg- Principal of Hadar School.) Jonathan Levy (son of Philip and Rochelle of Kochav Yair) received the new Telfed Young Adult Award, spon- sored by the family of the late Blanche Isaacson. Jonathan, a student at Ben Gurion

14 Focus on Telfed service, assists new olim and vatikim to find employment through networking with the Southern African commu- nity, employment agencies and the internet. In addition, should the need arise, olim are offered one consultation with The organizers and participants of Telfed’s most recent course to train Danny Blumberg, a human companions for the elderly, which took place in in the Telfed Moadon and at Beth Protea. Said Carmel Scop: “We were all enriched by the knowledge and experience resources professional, at no of Cecily Hack and Hariet Unruth and their invited speakers and will take with us charge to themselves. the caring and sharing to pass unto others. I came away exhilerated.”Back (l-r): Carmel Scop, Yosef Haas, Ghita Silberstein, Yvonne Liebowitz, Cecily Hack, Harriet Unruh, Max Liebowitz. Front (l-r): Gordon Silberstein, Ora Shtabel, Franklin Plein,Tuffy Druian. The participants are available to work as companions to elderly Telfed Regional Southern Africans in the Sharon area. For further information, contact Sharon Committee representatives: Bernstein at 09-7907 801 •Ashkelon: Rene Weinberg [email protected] Employment opportunities •Be’er Sheva: David Conroy happening all over Israel,” [email protected] are sought for people in such says Sharon and “therefore •Beit Shemesh: Jonny Klompas varied fields as hi-tech, care- the assistance of our com- [email protected] giving, sales, bookkeeping, munity is more important •Eilat: Fonda Dubb office administration, interior than ever.” [email protected] design, human resources and Sharon appeals to all •Galilee: Arnie Friedman communications. [email protected] Southern Africans who may •Haifa: Noga Lewis “Finding work for jobseek- have or hear of a job vacancy [email protected] ers is extremely difficult at to contact her: info@telfed. •Hod HaSharon: Nechama Keynan present due to the layoffs org.il or (09)7907 801. [email protected] •Jerusalem: Dori Braude [email protected] •Kfar Saba: Janine Gelley [email protected] Visiting •Modi’in: Renee Penn [email protected] Groups •Netanya: Cecil Shevil [email protected] •Rishon Le’Tzion: Beryl Schmidt, [email protected] Sixty schoolkids from South Africa participating in the Encounter •: Hayley Rabie programme following a session with Telfed, visited the IDC campus [email protected] to learn about higher education options in Israel. Over 60 percent •Ra’anana: Carole Hyman indicated that they intend to study overseas when they complete high [email protected] school. Will we see any of these youngsters stuyding in Israel?

15 New Arrivals Johannesburg Alter, Shad Shapiro, Ivan, Tracy, Eitan, Alon and Ariella Aronowsky, Roy Shisler, Tzvi and Amy Bailey, Megan Suchard, Shira Batzofin, Mandy Weinberg, Michael, Nicola Brown, Andrew, Joanne, Frankie, Wolpe, Rivka Geogia and James Zadok, Geora Chrysler, Rochie, Dovid, Shira and Tova Coetzee, Neville Durban de Figueriredo, Angeline Louise Lazarus, Bernhard and Pearl de Villiers, Robin Nelson, Brett Dinkelspiel, Daniel Garfinkel, Melanie Genislav, Dana Namibia Gerber, Byron Herz, Simon Goldberger, Sybil Hyman, Nicole Cape Town Immerman, Eli Babus, Jody Iozzo, Salvatore and Irene Chai, Wayne, Haley, Hanna and Raella Isaacs, Harris and Gillian Diamond, Michael Joffe, Isaac and Salome Gordon, Benjamin Kauman, Israel Gordon, Marc Kleinman, Anthony, Bonnie, Helman, Debbie Rachel, Ashira and Jonathan Jacobson, Lauren Kohll, Len Lotter, Salome Levenstein, Brian, Nicky, Joshua, Schaffer, Dale and Batya Hannah and Rachel Shaff, Trevor, Susan, Daniel, Sarah and Jason Lichtenstein, Carin Silver, Johnny and Dorothy Lipchick, Saul Stern, Alan and Asher Lipschitz, Cynthia Summer, Bevan Lubotzky, Brian Varkel, Barry and Roleen Makor, Meir Yehonatan Wolman, Jane Rogalsky, Daniel

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Never too young to appreciate art: Ziporah Segal, (2nd from left), with a family at the exhibition. Jewish Agency Chairman Zeev Bielski opened the retrospective at the Weil Centre, Kfar Shmaryahu.

young children in turbulent Jerusalem, Ziporah’s mother booked a passage on a cargo boat to South Africa. “So afraid that we might fall overboard, we were all tied together by rope for the entire An exhibition of 56 paintings was held recently at voyage.” the Weill Centre in Kfar Shmaryahu marking the same “Was Dad happy to see us when we number of years since artist Ziporah Segal, made aliya from arrived? Of course, but also sad. “Now Johannesburg. The retrospective, a colourful tapestry of life we will never return to Palestine,” he in Israel, also celebrated a family’s return to Zion. lamented.” He needn’t have worried. Love would intervene. y Dad one was of the Jewish boys Years later, while studying art at univer- Trumpeldore weeded out after the sity, Ziporah was infatuated by a young man Russian Revolution and brought “M from the Zionist Federation who visited to Palestine.” He joined a Kvutzah (group) the campus to address the Jewish students. settling on the Kinneret “where he met and Zundel Segal soon proposed. “If you marry married my mother.” me, I will take you back to Palestine.” With a baby on the way, they had to leave In 1952 the young couple made aliya, as there were no facilities for bringing up followed two years later by Ziporah’s children. Resettling in Jerusalem hardly parents. eased the situation. “Times were tough and my father ventured to South Africa to There is nothing abstract about Ziporah’s seek work. An ardent Zionist, he planned art or her views on Israel. “I paint what I to return soon.” see and what I feel. Israel inspires me.” Her paintings of people, flowers, horses, boats The Arab Revolt in 1929 changed those and Jerusalem convey movement and colour. plans. This too is a reflection of her life - one of Fearful of having to look after three movement and full of colour.

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by David Kaplan Art Scene was a teenager. Marking 30 years since the premature Where was he coming passing of Bulawayo abstract artist Marshall from? Where was he head- Baron, sisters Merle Guttmann and Beverly Caplan ing? And if one settles at recently held a retrospective exhibition of his work at the the end with more questions Gebo Art Space in Tel Aviv. The curator was the gallery’s than answers, so be it. The co-owner, former South African Marlene Ferrer. exhibition had shades of The Da Vinci Code about it. Not sure if I was on track, but it made no difference, it was exciting and pleasurable. Africa - its complexities and beauty - are projected in lyrical abstraction under MARSHALL ART such titles as “Summer Exposure”, “Is April the Cruelest Month”, and “Counterpoint”. While ractising lawyer, esteemed music critic, Africa appears imbedded in his canvasses, lover of the African bush and a product of Jewish themes abound in such works as “In the Pa Zionist upbringing were all components Beginning”, “The Seder Table” and “Chassidic of this versatile and complex personality that Rites”. found their way onto canvas. Estimates put There is a timeless quality about Marshall’s the number of works at some 400, mainly in art. Israeli artist Pamela Silver (formerly private collections. of Bulawayo) speaks of the Motoba Hills as And while a delight to the eye because of Marshall’s “inspiration; a place untouched to their sheer size and enriching use of colour, this day, and I hope for time immemorial.” If to settle purely on the visual would be akin to so, there is something contemporary about his alighting from a train too soon. 1976 painting ‘In the Beginning’, The journey would still have plastered with a newspaper head- some way to go. ing, “No Change in Middle East Each work invites the viewer Policy”. What does one read into to explore. The paintings, with this in 2009? their curious titles, intriguing Marshall never signed his paint- motifs and use of newspaper ings. No matter. All his work car- cuttings are signposts, a picto- ries his signature in style, energy rial roadmap of ‘A Portrait of Merle Guttmann (left) with Marlene and sensitivity. It was also said that the Artist as a Young Man’ to Ferrer, curator of the exhibition and he never painted without listening co-owner of Gebo Art Space. quote Joyce. Marshall passed to music. This too is apparent. As away at age 43. His earliest painting on exhibit one critic implied - you listen to his paintings was of a Cape Dutch house, executed when he as much as you view them.

20 by David Kaplan Cover Story Southern “Our kibbutz took it really bad,” says Mervyn Poliak Africans of Kfar Aza. By the third week of the war, 80% of under the residents had left. “We had been enduring endless Fire rockets. They landed on our factory, workshop, fields, chicken coop and one less than 20 metres from our house.” But it Relic of the past, symbol for the future. was the attack last May Ralph Lewinsohn standing alongside a killing a member of the war-battered Egyptian Bren halftrack on kibbutz that “changed Kibbutz Kfar Aza that was stopped dead in its tracks in 1948 by young Israeli fighters. everything.” Apart from the “loss of Jimmy”, it brought home the reality of a new menace. “Jimmy was killed by a mortar and unlike the Kassam where there is a A fifteen second warning, there is no warning at all with mortars.” With the increasing number of NORMAL mortars fired, “families with young kids packed up and left. The kibbutz became a LIFE restricted army base and I t was the last week of the war and the road into had to present my ID every Sderot was awash with blue and white - Israeli time I entered through the flagsI were strung from pole to pole and along fences front gate - my own home and walls. Bruised and battered after years of rockets where I have been living for landing randomly in its midst, this border town with the past 31 years!” Gaza was now exuding defiance; its residents reso- lute. The sentiment expressed by Kibbutz Kfar Aza

21 Cover Story member Mervyn Polliak that “Finally dren! “While shopping at a supermarket our army is doing what it should have in Ashkelon recently, a balloon popped. done a long time ago” was brazenly Do you think all the people around did and colorfully emblazed throughout the not panic?” centre of town. Marcell Bar-On from Kibbutz Nir-Am The writer had joined a Table to Table sent out an email during the war remind- ing all “to remember the young people and children living under the threat of Kassam bombs for more than 8 years.” She included in her email the You-Tube video her 21 year-old daughter, Dana had made a few months earlier during the six month ‘truce’. “I was unaware that Dana had made this video and saw it for the first time on the 7th day of the war.” So emotional and hard-hitting was this 10 minute video that The Bar-On Family from Kibbutz it circulated around the globe as people Nir Am. Marcell (2nd from left), tapped into what young residents in the Dana (far right) during a visit from t r u c k f r o m south had been enduring for the past a Telfed delegation last year. Adele Raanana with eight years. Bassin representing Telfed (2nd from right) parcels - much of it collected “I have a wonderful life, a loving by Telfed volunteers - for delivery to family, a great job, lots of friends and a the soldiers at bases in the area. The first boyfriend.” She smiles as she struggles stop was Sderot. to hold back the tears. “But all this is shadowed by the Kassams.” Dana takes There was a festive mood as people the viewer back to ‘an earlier life’ when were walking the streets, mothers were she was quite relaxed about the situation pushing prams and kids were playing in until “I was at the pool with my friends a park. Twenty minutes later they were and a Kassam flew a few metres above us, doing none of those things. The Colour shaving off the branch of the tree above. Red alert had been sounded and the resi- The branch landed on us and the Kassam dents were back in their shelters. exploded close by. There was chaos and Such is war! I was shaking and screaming as were my friends. That day my life changed. There Mervyn believes “the government was smoke everywhere and I ran, scream- is going to have to spend millions on ing and shaking, looking for my sister therapy” for a generation brought up on a and my dog.” This she describes as her daily diet of death. And not only the chil- “wake-up call.” She would soon receive

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050-572-3120 08-6718601 another at the Shaar HaNegev School Regional Committee in Ashkelon, the where she was lecturing on epilepsy. phone call came through just at the “There was a Colour Red alert and we right time. “We live on the 14th floor of ran to the shelter. A Kassam landed in the a high-rise in the centre of the city. On grade 8 classroom obliterating everything. the second day of the war we ran to our Can you imagine if the children had still ‘Safe Room’ following a Colour Red alert and waited for a BOOM. been inside?” Out of rocket range: Rene Weinberg, It came! The building shook So while there was calm, “I fear terribly. It was very scary, par- when we will return to ‘normal’ again, Chairperson of Ashkelon’s Telfed ticularly for my youngest, who when each day I will be afraid of dying; Regional Committee with is twelve. We waited a minute of never seeing my brother, my sister her family enjoying a and then ran onto our balcony or my parents again.” respite from the war at and saw smoke bellowing from On the 27th December Kibbutz Yizreel. Seen below.” here with Arnie and 2008, Dana’s life sadly An hour Peggy Friedman. returned to “normal.” after a Grad In the first week of the from Gaza war the Colour Red alert had visited sounded 28 times on Kibbutz destruction Nir-Am. on a house next door to the Weinberg NO PLACE TO HIDE family, they For Rene Weinberg, received a Chairperson of Teled’s

23 Cover Story call from Telfed. “We are doing a phone Community Response around of our community and seeing Within hours of the war breaking out, Telfed began how you guys are coping,” explained a phone-around of the friendly voice. It was Dorron Kline the community in and thirty minutes later not only was the the south as well as family organized for the next six days, but were packed and heading in their car posting on its web- for Kibbutz Yizreel. All it took was one site an invitation for call to Telfed Executive member Arnie people who wished Friedman who had also organized for to spend time out of thirty children from the south to spend a firing range to call weekend on his kibbutz. the Telfed office. “We offered to find them “While staying on Yizreel, we visited accommodation with Southern African families in our friends in , north of Haifa. the centre and north of the country,” explained During the Second Lebanese War they Dorron Kline. “As an example, the Weinberg family came to Nitsanim Beach near us for about from Ashkelon spent 6 days on kibbutz Yizreel,” three weeks to escape the Katushas from says Dorron. Hezbollah. Who expected that within two “For the most years the roles would be reversed? And part however, when again Katushot were fired from Lebanon in the last week of the Gaza war, people pre- it brought home, this is a small country ferred to stay with - no place to hide.” at home.” F o l l o w i n g Nowhere to hide might have struck the requests for mind of a new oleh from Johannesburg. cer tain items Byron Gerber had been in Israel less than for the soldiers fighting in the south, the Telfed story continued on page 25 Regional committees of Kfar Saba and Beit Shemesh top: Janine Gelley, Chairperson of the mobilized their communities and together with their Kfar Saba Regional Committee, and Hilary respective partners, Table to Table and Stand by Kaplan sorting out provisions for soldiers Me, collected the items, packed and then delivered and families in the South. them to the soldiers in their army bases near Gaza. center: Jonny Klompas, Chairperson of The Telfed Com- the Beit Shemesh Regional Committee, at mittees of Haifa army base near Gaza delivering provisions collected from a drive in Beit Shemesh. a n d R i s h o n LeZion/Recho- right: Editor David Kaplan receiving letters vot also sent written by Sderot schoolchildren to later be presented to soldiers. The taking of this provisions. photo was interrupted by an incoming Kassam rocket.

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27 uptials N Robyn, daughter of Cecily and Barry Hack (Raanana) married Dan, son of Lili and Itzik Druker ().

Yaron, son of Lynne and David Conroy of Beer Sheva (ex Pretoria/Cape Town) married Danna, daughter of Yuhudit and Yoram Maimon of Beer Sheva.

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The pain kept haemoglobin levels and becomes clouded, energy shows a bright-eyed lady him awake at nights and drove enhance blood flow through levels drop. brimming with good health, him into a long deep the body and the inositol in Clients of Irene Stein, glowing skin, and a healthy depression, and he even Irena lowers cholesterol, however, have written her ack in the early magnesium, potassium, zinc, head of hair. “When I started ended up in a psychiatric ensuring the arteries leading to hundreds of letters telling 16th century there an array of vitamins and my mother on the royal jelly hospital. And then he started the heart do not become her how Irena has also was an Indian glutamic acid, which is known formula,” Stein recounts, “like on a three-month course of blocked. Both of these sharpened their mental B legend doing the to delay the aging process. 16 million other people in Irena. 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She spring, braving foreign waters produce what she calls “the and swelling in the joints, trial on residents of an old to clean the digestive tract and takes vigorous walksevery and hostile locals and ultimate health supplement – ’Irena combines all the vitamins, minerals and thereby increasing mobility and people’s home in Cardiff, counter stomach acid, day, plays tennis regularly eventually ending up 100% natural and amino acids we need and even acts as a flexibility, by the inclusion of where for the three winter indigestion and heartburn, and and will still often put in a discovering Florida. 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All Loughborough, too, treated with Irena, as the of Youth? “Not quite,” she Irena. According to Stein, about more than 30 years of which may sound pretty improvement was noted in a magnesium, calcium and says, “but every time I read baffling, but the results from number of areas after the vitamin C – all of which from a client how Irena has Irena is a unique formulation here, I have never had one work on a cellular level to Generally as we get older, the double blind trials conducted patients took a course of enhance muscle tone – can helped their lives, I know I that blends a myriad herbal instance of an ill health normalize the function of every body’s immune system among arthritis sufferers are Royal Jelly: increased appetite, help strengthen the sphincter feel a little bit younger.” And and natural ingredients that side-effect, from any of my cell, so stimulating the healing weakens leaving us more pretty clear: “Patients taking weight increase, an muscle. 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HEADS Annette Milliner (l) packing parcels for soldiers at the Table to Table warehouse in Ra’anana. SOUTH

Solidarity Breakfast in Ashkelon sponsored by Telfed. The Year That Was The Telfed Beit Shemesh Regional Committee travelled to Sderot and purchased goods from stores in the city, thereby supporting the local economy. These products were handed out to soldiers at the nearby army base. Telfed’s Kfar Saba, Haifa and Rishon Le’Zion Regional Committees gathered tens of boxes of snacks and toiletries from donors. These were distributed to the soldiers on the war front. The Telfed Scholarship Committee awarded 82 scholarships to students studying at academic institutions in the South. Additional scholarships were awarded to six students in Be’er Sheva, who assisted Ethiopian students with their English studies. The Telfed Endowments Committee assisted with the construction of a computer room at a hostel for young girls at risk and sponsored a unique drama therapy programme for sufferers of schizophrenia in . The Telfed Klita Committee sponsored a Friday morning communal breakfast in Ashkelon for the Southern African community who were under threat of rockets. Looking to the future. A Telfed delegation visited the site northeast of Beer Sheba where the new town of Carmit, (earmarked to be 40% English-speaking) will soon emerge.

Telfed visits the Bar-On Family from Kibbutz Nir Am

Wolfie and Jean Kangisser from Kfar Saba arriving with provisions for the soldiers.

Young32 South Africans from Tel Aviv picking Telfed Delegation visits the site of the future town of Carmit vegetables for families in Sderot. In The Mail In the photograph on page 36, “Well Kept Picture Perfect Secrets”, Elliot Katzenellenbogen is on the Dear Editor, top right. The young lad on the bottom right As one of the group who is the undersigned. The was privileged to be on very handsome, special the historic ‘July’ flight, fellow on the bottom covered in your Telfed photo: Brian Hendler left is the late Sid Lang- November 2008 issue The South Africans Are bart. Coming, I congratulate you on the choice of Continue the good a wonderful photograph on the cover - an work. Oleh Chadash with his baby at the Kotel. It’s Joseph (Josie) Shlain, Neve Amirim a picture that speaks a thousand words. I also wish to comment on the views Dear Editor, expressed by Jonathan Bloom that the While commending you on the excel- leadership and particularly the Rabbinate lence of Telfed Magazine, this letter is a in S.A. are not pro-aliyah. In defence of the very gentle reminder that Israel is a party Rabbinate, I wish to point out that Johan- to the Berne convention on copyright Law. nesburg - and perhaps only one congregation I refer to the photo of Stanley Kaplan, or suburb - does NOT constitute all South Chaim Chait (z’l) and Bolly Malin (z’l) Africa. on page 16 of the November issue. Not only is there no attribution of the source of the Having lived in Pretoria, Durban, and more recently Cape Town, the and Jewish Oops. We apologise for the incorrect spelling of leadership are pro-aliyah. My Cape Town Moshe Silberhaft’s surname in the letter “Aliya of the rabbi was thrilled when I decided to make Torah”(Telfed, November 2008) Ed note. Since the last aliyah. He assured me I was performing a issue, the Tel Ha’Shomer Hospital Rehabilitation Dept. held mitzvah. I have to agree with Evan Gordon a ceremony inaugurating the donated Torah scroll from in the same article that in the next five years the town of Messina. The donation was brokered by Telfed many Jews will leave South Africa and that and Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, the Rabbi of the SA Country the Rabbinate must harness their talents and Communities. The donors are the Klaff family – the last remaining Jewish family in Messina today. influence to encourage aliyah. Dion Futerman, Ra’anana Dorron Kline, Telfed Chairman Maish Isaacson, Sara Klaff, Prof. Mike Heim, Leon Klaff, Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, Jack and Deana Klaff, Ed note: The poignant photograph above was taken Marlene Woolfson (née Flax), Alan Woolfson, Loozik Woolfson, Merle by former South African Brian Hendler. (née Flax) and Ronald Proos and Sidney Shapiro

CAPTIONS Imperfect Dear Editor, The magazine, as always, contains inter- esting and emotional personal stories. Allow me one small correction.

33 In The Mail photo, the caption stating that they were on Magazine, I contacted them to let them know their way to the south is incorrect. The photo that I had an original charcoal drawing, which was taken during the 1948 War of Independ- I had bought from the artist personally before ence while the three in the picture were on a I left South Africa in 1952. bus ride while attending a course in Haifa. Can you believe it?! Giles Peppiatt from I know, because I was Bonhams came from London to Ashkelon on the same course. I —and of course loved the drawing. I made an took the picture and excellent copy ’cos I wouldn’t be able to live the copyright is mine. without looking at my “African Princess” as Telfed can relax. I I have been doing for the past 50 years. won’t be claiming Anne Bloch, Ashkelon damages for copyright 1948 (l-r)Bolly Malin, Stanley Kaplan infringement. Keep up and Chaim Chait. the good work. Telfed Photo: courtesy of Maurice Ostroff. is a great magazine. WAR & REMEMBRANCE Best wishes Dear Editor, Maurice Ostroff, Beth Protea I feel it’s unfair. Each year in the media coverage marking the anniversary of the end of WWII very little is reported on the con- THE ART SCENE tribution of Jewish servicemen and women. Dear Editor, In my family, five of my siblings - three I must express my congratulations and brothers and two sisters - served. Two were thanks on the article you wrote with great killed, another seriously injured. fluency about our work - Pamela Silver, Maybe Telfed Magazine could remedy this Debbie Kampel & I - in the November 2008 annual omission, so we can show pride in our issue of Telfed magazine. I appreciated the precious sons & daughters who served South way you integrated the Olympian elements Africa and the Allied cause, some of whom of fire, water and earth (mud) expressed in returned only in the “Roll of Honour.” our work. Helene Magid Halle, Neve Amirim. We Southern African Litvak artists are fre- quently ignored in the local press, in contrast Ed. Note: We agree and that is why we ran a to the coverage we receive internationally. I Cover Story in 2002 on the 60th anniversary of the have represented Israel in 26 international Battle of El Alamein, interviewing former Telfed art museums and art centres and to date have Director Leib Frank who was seriously injured in won nine international awards. that famous battle. Basil Frank, Jerusalem Having lost both her brothers, Telfed Magazine spoke to Helene to find out more about the Magid Dear Editor, family of Cape Town. Following your article and Bonham’s The two brothers who lost their lives, Lieutenant advert of the Irma Stern painting in Telfed ‘Vicky’ and Warrant Officer ‘Mosie’ “were in the War

34 leg and kicked it. Benny played dead to perfection and the Germans went off.” Badly injured, Benny waited until he was rescued and was airlifted back to South Africa. His brothers were less ‘lucky’. They would go on to serve in Europe, and after the war ended, while flying wounded soldiers home, “the plane crashed. Both my brothers were killed and from the beginning, first chasing the Italians out are buried in Khartoum.” of Abyssinia.” Her youngest sister aged 17 was Helene, who was a young teenager during the too young to volunteer “but was so insistent that war made aliya in 1950. the army found her a job as a secretary.” Rose, her older sister, drove a military ambulance, while another brother, Benny, served as an intelligence Dear Editor, officer in North Africa. I served throughout the War of Inde- Pure coincidence led to an unexpected family pendence in the 72nd Battalion of the 7th reunion. It happens in war. Vicky, while on leave in Brigade. I correspond regularly with my Cairo “decided to pop into the SA Airforce Club.” ex-72nd comrade Joe Woolf who sent me And who does he see at the bar? None other than extracts from the November 2008 Telfed his brother Benny. But that was merely a precur- Magazine containing news of his having sor to the biggest surprise of all. There, walking traced records of the recommendation for the towards the two Magid brothers was their sister award of medals to Locky Fainman (z’l)and Rose who had been transferred to Cairo to run the Elliott Katzenellenbogen (z’l). Air Force Club. “It was a happy moment,” but it would be the While I hardly knew Elliott, I knew Locky last time they would ever be together. Benny was very well as he was our unit’s medic. Though injured in the Battle of Tobruk. “He lay underneath still a medical student at the time, Locky his smouldering lorry, his leg sticking out. He was an exceptional and courageous medic dared not move. The German soldiers moved from and I am not at all surprised at his receiving one destroyed army vehicle to the next looking for the recommendation for a medal. survivors. One came up to Benny’s truck, saw his I would like to have the “Well Kept Secret” published in the SA Jewish Report but obviously require your permission to base my letter on the article in the Telfed magazine. With best wishes for a peaceful 2009 for Israel and Jews everywhere. Mendel Cohen, Johannesburg

Helen’s brothers together unexpectedly, enjoying an respite from the war.

35 Keren Telfed The Keren Telfed Fund was started over 25 years ago. Donations are used to assist members of our Southern African community during times of individual need or national crisis. All donations are acknowledged in this column as soon as possible after receipt thereof.

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perceived in the world. My style Face Off of advocacy was a far cry from the typical right-wing approach Very few would ever have which has an answer to every the opportunity to address the troubling question confronting UN. For Efrat Oppenheimer, Israel.” it came as a participant in the celebrated Israel TV reality Says Efrat: “Where Israel show, ‘The Ambassador.’ makes mistakes, I would Efrat Oppenheimer, rather admit to this than try Efrat - whose father Bruce is a former participant in “The to argue what is patently South African, and mother Frances, a Ambassador” in front wrong. In this way, I believe New Zealander - came second in the of the UN building in I will be far more credible competition last year. Although she was New York. when I make the case for later offered the coveted prize when the Israel when it is justifiably winner withdrew, Efrat declined and is right. I believe this approach paid off in currently studying Gender Studies & Film the competition.” at Tel Aviv University, as well as being a radio reporter for Galei Zahal on educa- A graduate of the Seeds of Peace pro- tion and welfare. gramme, “I was fortunate as a teenager, to mix with Palestinians and Arabs from Not easy reaching the final where a other countries.” As a result of this experi- participant each week was voted off. What ence “the conflict for me has a face. We was Efrat’s strategy? “The show’s popular- all need to find a solution that is more ity,” says Efrat “is in part a response to the than just about being right or winning.” concern Israelis have in how their country is She cites the speech she made at the UN in the General Assembly hall on Taking after her parents who were both former members of peace, where she chose as her Habonim, Efrat ran a session last year for the young South ‘cultural reference’ (as required African Habonim participants on the Machon programme at by the competition), the poem a seminar held at Kibbutz Shfayim. Seen here are also Dave Bloom, vice Chairman of Telfed and Dave Kaplan, Telfed magazine editor. “For me, Zionism is still a work in progress,” says Efrat. “We still need to work to fulfil the dreams that inspired my parents as youngsters in the Movement.”

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“No man is an island” by John Donne. “Suddenly we heard a loud noise, “I believe we are all interconnected and although no-one raised an eyebrow! We need to find solutions based on what binds thought it was the gong in the foyer and rather than separates us.” kept on eating.” In fact it was the start of the attack below. The sound was that of a grenade. “This was followed by what my dining Terror In Mumbai companions explained were firecrackers.” “Normal for Telfed Magazine previously ran a story this time of of a former South African in Israel, Yona the year; Wiseman, who miraculously survived the probably a 2004 Tsunami in the Far East. Four years wedding,” later, another former South African was r e m a r k e d no less fortunate. o n e o f While Yona survived a cataclysmic Dani’s local b u s i n e s s act of nature, Dani (Sheldon) Shein, Dani Shein from Gan Haim, feels lucky to miraculously escaped a grotesque act of be celebrating the New Year. Seen here associates. human barbarism. with his cousin Sue Freedman (lt) and Dani, who friend Rona Joffe (rt) Dani (Sheldon) A managing director of a diamond made aliyah from Witbank in 1970. had served in brokerage and consulting company, Dani a fighting unit is a frequent visitor to India. On the 26th in the IDF and was familiar with the sound November, he was dining in a party of eight of gunfire, decided to investigate. As he at the first floor restaurant in the Oberoi reached the foyer of the restaurant, shots Hotel. Sitting at a table at the far end of were fired in by the terrorists who were the packed restaurant, they had finished then making their way up the stairs. The eating and “were arguing over who was young woman welcoming guests took a going to pick up the tab.” This customary bullet in her arm. after-dinner social spat, turned out to be Dani dived under the first table. “I real- a lifesaver. ized this would hardly serve as any protec- “Had we decided quickly, we might tion and had to find an escape route.” have been making our way down to the He ran to the kitchen followed by the lobby and met the terrorists as they came people from his table who had been watch- in,” said Dani. ing him and followed his lead. “It was like Some minutes later, the waitress walked in the movies running through this huge away with a credit card. It would never kitchen, with a stream of people following. be returned. We were guided to an exit door where we

40 made our way down into the lobby where woman covered in blood. “We pulled the terrorists had already exited on their her into the car and offered to drop her way up.” Dani would later learn that as at home.” they fled the restaurant through the back, “All dead, all dead,” she screamed. She the terrorists burst in through the front. was the sole survivor of her family that had “They grabbed a waiter and instructed been dining in the ground floor restaurant. him to set the table cloths alight. When As we arrived outside her home, we saw he hesitated they killed him. They then a commotion in the street. Soldiers and started shooting at everyone they saw as people were crowding the area.” Western foreigners. Two of the people who were sitting at the table next to ours Little did Dani know at the time that the were shot.” young woman lived opposite the Habad House, where another horrific drama was Six from Dani’s party made it out unfolding! through the lobby. The other two were forced - because of the crush - to run up People, continued on next page. the stairwell instead of down. “One of them had a room on the 18th floor and so the two of them barricaded themselves inside.” The others continued to the 19th floor. It was to be their last stop! JabulaniJabulani CateringCatering “The next day, when the Indian forces Exclusive BBO’s broke through onto this floor, all they Lamb on the Spit found were dead bodies, besides a Turkish couple, who had been spared because they Beef Biltong were Moslem.” Wholesale Meat As Dani and his companions exited the Call David hotel, a car was waiting, “thanks to the [email protected] cell phone.” Suddenly, they saw a young 054-4321753

41 l-r: Aharon Remez, Chief of the IAF, Smoky Simon, Chief People of Air Operations, Shlomo Lahat, in Charge of Bomber operations and Chris, in charge of maps. No Smoky Without Fire Reports David Kaplan Wherever the action, Smoky Simon has always been ‘in the thick of it’. It is therefore no wonder he was recently awarded the prestigious Menachem Begin Award of Honour for his contribu- tion to the birth of the Israel Air Force and “we improvised with what we used to call, serving as Chief of Air Operations during ‘bomb-chucker-outers’. Before opening the War of Independence, his untiring work the aircraft’s door and pitching-out the as Honorary Treasurer of the Menachem bombs, we would tie the bomb-chuckers Begin Heritage Centre, and his long service to each other with rope, so that they would as chairman of World Machal. not fall out of the plane along with the Smoky has interesting recollections bombs. We dropped some sixteen 80-kilo from an aerial visit to Damascus. It was bombs, and for good measure threw out June 9, 1948, the day before the first truce, crates of empty bottles which made a ter- and Smoky was navigating a Dakota over rifying noise scarring the hell out of the Damascus on a bombing mission. A month population below. If we did not have the before, Smoky with five years of WWII goods, we had to pretend!” experience under his belt in the South Smoky’s plane did six runs over Damas- African Air Force, arrived in the new State cus that night creating the impression “that of Israel accompanied by his young bride, we were part of a large formation.” Myra. They came “on honeymoon” to fight in Israel’s War of Independence. Although the damage caused was prob- ably negligible - “a few fires” - the next “Bombers? We had none at that time, day, “all the foreigners fled Damascus, that’s why we used Dakotas,” says Smoky. as they feared our ‘air force’ was about Having no bomb racks on these planes to hammer them.”

THE NON-JEWISH CONTRIBUTION As Chairman of World Machal, Smoky always has his pulse on the lives of his former comrades-in-arms. Referring to the exoneration by former President Bush of Charles Winters, a non-Jew, Smoky Simon (l) together with fellow who helped acquire and smuggle vital Mahalniks Maurice Ostroff and Sid Cohen. aircraft from the U.S. to Israel, Smoky

42 People drew Telfed Magazine’s attention to the recent passing away of another non-Jew, South African Milton Boettger, known as “Butch Ben Yok”, who flew as a wireless operator/ air-gunner in the Israel Air Force. “Butch had a ‘Jewish heart’ to the extent that he even used to go to Cheder with his Jewish pals,” said fellow machalnik Zan Swartzberg in a tribute to the passing of his good friend. “So when years later, Butch learnt that volunteers were queuing up at the Zionist Federation offices to fight in Israel’s War of Independence, he joined us.” With Butch’s WWII experience, he had “the perfect credentials.” Together with a group of nineteen mach- alniks from Southern Africa, they took a serpentine route via Rome to Czechoslo- vakia. There, in a secret out-of-the-way airfield, they were brought face to face with three B-17 Flying Fortress bombers Smoky reveals that “amongst the 425 smuggled out of the USA. After fitting-out volunteers who flew in the Israel Air Force the B-17s with bomb racks, bombs, and and in Air Transport Command (ATC), 92 guns, the Machalniks were ready to fly the were non-Jews, representing 21.6% of all aircraft to Israel. the flying crews. In the face of the U.N. Smoky thought it not a bad idea to kill embargo on arms exports to the Middle two birds with one stone, so together with East, ATC was a lifeline for bringing in all the Chief of Air Force and South African types of ‘illegal’ armaments from abroad.” Dov Judah, it was decided that on the Nine non-Jews, who were killed either in flight to Israel, the B-17s would attack action or in accidents, are buried in the Cairo and bases in the Gaza Strip. military cemetery in Haifa. And here is the interesting connection. Times have changed, and yet in some The aircraft that were smuggled out of the instances not. The writer cannot fail to note USA by the non-Jewish Charles Winters that the same targets in the Gaza Strip that were flown to Czechoslovakia, and were Butch and his fellow Machalniks bombed the same B 17s that the non-Jewish Butch in 1948 were again bombed in December and his comrades then flew on to Israel, 2008 and January 2009. bombing Egypt en route. Peace remains as elusive as ever!

43 cont. Nachalniks 1956: Zvi?, Harold Kaufman, Aubrey Levin, Herman Hirshmann, People Robert Amoils, Mefaked Nachal (Ben Barak?), Zvi?, Amos, Victor Nel, Luke Lukowsky z’’l, Eric Friedland, Phil Minster, Benny Touse, Mula?, Babyface Following the over 800 Southern Afri- cans who volunteered in 1948 to fight in Israel’s War of Independence, in 1956 there was a new generation ready again to respond to the call. Herman Hirshmann was one of the youngest South Africans to sign up. Tsora 1956: (l-r) Baruch Weiner z»l, “A face like a kid, his fellow volunteers Bracha z»l , Nira, called him Baby on the plane coming Betty Goldwasser over and it’s stuck with him ever since,” z»l , Zvi ?, Herman relates Raymond Sive a long-standing Hirshmann, friend of Herman, who turned 70 last year Robert Amoils, Yehuda Kaplan and celebrated with a bash at the pub on z»l, Nira, Mervyn Kibbutz Tzora. “To know Herman is to be Hurwitz inspired by him,” says Harold Kaufman. Raymond, Harold and Herman were com- Nevertheless, over the years his health rades-in-arms during the Suez Crisis. inevitably deteriorated as a result of the While the nationalization of the Suez head wound, and today he is bound to a Canal in 1956 caused an international wheelchair living crisis, for Herman, the crisis became with his sister and painfully personal. brother-in-law in Kiron. During a training incident with live ammunition, Herman took a bullet in his Is he bitter? head. “He bordered between life and death, “Not at all,” says but between excellent medical care and Raymond. “He sheer determination he survived,” says has a marvelous Raymond. Doctors told him that while sense of humour, he had received excellent care in Israel a positive outlook he needed to face reality. “There has been on life and loves serious damage to the brain they told him company.” The and he must forget about his plans to study. But these doctors did not know Baby,” says Raymond. “He returned to South Africa. where he studied optometry and ran his Herman on a tiyul in the Negev with his sister and brother-in-law. own business.”

44 party was a treat. His friends and former by which Jerusalem’s underprivileged comrades came from all over as did his children can receive oral health care,” brother from the USA. A presentation of explains Debbie (an Australian married photographs from the various periods of to a former South African from Benoni his life was screened. In addition, Herman Evan Fishman) and who works for DVI was presented with a personal message encouraging overseas dentists to volunteer and a signed photograph from Shimon their professional services for periods of Peres, who as then Director-General of 1-4 weeks. the Ministry of Defense, visited Herman The volunteer dentists from abroad are and presented him with a Tanach. It stands provided with a furnished free apartment on his bookcase to this day.” - many bring their families - and join their Harold presented ‘Baby’ with a certifi- Israeli colleagues in performing between cate of trees which had been planted by his 1000 - 1200 treatments each month. friends as part of a project to rehabilitate During the past 28 years over 4,500 den- the forests in the north that had been burnt tists have participated in the programme.“We during the Second Lebanese War. need to publicize the programme more in Raymond says that Herman enjoys South Africa.” Continues Anthony, “With meeting with old friends. “I invite those my kids and grandkids living in Har Nof, who have not seen him in a while, to give it’s great to be able to visit my family him a call at 03-6350948.” while at the same time contribute m e a n i n g - Teething Problems f u l l y t o Most people today are aware of the the society popular programmes of Birthright and here.” MASA, bringing thousands of youngsters Dr. ”As much each year to ‘experience’ Israel. Anthony as people Widmonte But what is there for the seniors? Dr. takes s a y I ’ m Anthony Widmonte is a dentist in Johan- care of a doing good nesburg and is the first South African to paitent. work, believe me, I’m the one that feels volunteer for a programme in Jerusalem enriched.” Anthony will be back later that has been running since 1980. DVI this year, hopefully joined by fellow South or Dental Volunteers for Israel is a free African colleagues. dental clinic in Israel for children of need. For more information, visit www.dental-dvi. “Because dental health care costs are not org/il or contact Debbie at covered by the government’s health serv- [email protected] ices, our non-profit clinic is the only means

45 In Memoriam The Telfed chairman Maish Isaacson, members of the Executive, the Director and Staff express heartfelt condolences to families whose loved ones have passed away in recent months:

Anita Liberman (Netanya) Max Geffen (Raanana) Bennie Klug (S.A.) Rafi Schwartz (Netanya) Cynthia Lipschitz (Tel Aviv) Rhoda Sklar (Jerusalem) Eliezer Krieger (Tel Aviv) Robert Gordon (U.K.) Hannah Kenigsberg (Johannesburg) Ronald Davimes (Tel Aviv) Linda-Anne Kenigsberg (Johannesburg) Ronnie Hassett (Durban) Harriet Schlosberg (Herzlia) Rose Rubin (Ashkelon) Issy Berelowitz (Jerusalem) Rubin Levin (Gan Shmuel) Ivan Israel (Tel Aviv) Ruth Alexander (Haifa) Joe Flaum (Carmiel) Solly Harris () Leyland Goss (Modi’in) Sydney Davimes (Jerusalem) Lily Meltzer (Herzlia) Theodore (Tee) Kolnik (Tel Mond) Luba Moss (Netanya) Tuxi Blau (S.A.) Mary Getz (S.A.) Pier Kruger (S.A.) Mary Nowikow (Raanana) Solly Mallach (Raanana)

The Chairman, editor and members of the Telfed Media Committee express heartfelt condolences to wife Sarah and sons Daniel and Eliezer and their families on the passing of Dr.Issy Berelowitz, who for a number of years was Telfed Magazine’s Jerusalem correspondent penning articles on Jewish contributions to science and medicine, Jewish life in early 20th century South Africa and the contributions of South Africans in Israel. a The Telfed Chairman, Director and Staff express heartfelt condolences to wife Raiza, children and grandchildren on the passing of Ivan Israel, who in the early years, was an active member on the Telfed Tel Aviv Regional Com- mittee, organizing social and cultural events at ‘the Fed’ building in Rechov Amishav in Tel Aviv. a Corrections. Ivan Israel z’’l The late Henry Katzew, author of the monumental work ‘South Africa’s 800’ and whose tribute appeared in the last Telfed magazine, did in fact live for a few years in Israel. Henry had been the editor of one of the leading Jewish newspapers at the time, ‘The Zionist Record’. In the tribute to Harry Hurwitz, we apologize for an omission in the list that should have read: Heartfelt condolences to his wife Freda, son Hillel, daughter-in-law Jennifer, grandchildren Sharon, Nirit and Ilan and two great-grandsons, Boaz and Eitan.

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