A Noble Venture Contents A large memorial board to our fallen — Southern Africans who have given their In the Mail...... 2 lives in the defence of the State of ­— hangs in the Telfed office in Ra’anana. NOTICE BOARD...... 5 People pass it every day and silently pray, 11 People...... 6 “No more, please no more.” And yet the list FEATURE...... 16 grows, a sad reminder that our noble venture for a secure Jewish homeland is still some NUPTIALS...... 23 way off. FOCUS ON TELFED...... 24 To this list we will now add four more new arrivals...... 30 20 names, Yaniv Bar-on, Asher Novick, Lotan beth protea...... 31 Slevin and Naor Calo. KEREN TELFED...... 32 In this issue of Telfed Magazine we have COVER STORY...... 36 two central themes - our Cover Story, which focuses on how our community lived through In Memoriam...... 43 the war, and a feature on , coveri- Classifieds...... 47 26 ing recent immigration from South Africa and youngsters here on programmes. The interwoven complexity of the two themes Production was eloquently captured in the memorial at Editor and Chief Correspondent: David Kaplan the Golani Junction to the fallen members of Design and Layout: Becky Rowe our community. Erected in 1986 by renowned Editorial Committee Chairman: David Bloom sculptor David Fine of Ma’ayan Media Committee: Dave Bloom (Chair), Sharon Bernstein, Baruch — which lost in this war its 22nd Gershon Gan, Pearl Feldman, David Kaplan, member in uniform since the founding of the Becky Rowe, Neil Schwartz, Maurice Ostroff, State — the memorial comprises five massive Leonie Barel, Kevin Kenigsberg rocks hewn in half and piled one on top of David Kaplan, Lena Nulman Advertising: each other. It speaks powerfully of the lives : Sharon Bernstein, Marvyn Hatchuel, Proofreading that were torn asunder and yet through it all Jack and Rae Galloon, Ralph Lanesman, Harriet Levin, - a lifeline. The message is not lost! Leon Moss, Sidney Shapiro, Marcelle Weiss Cover War Photos: Avi Hirschfield While mourning our loss, we look to Extra or back copies of Telfed Magazine are available at NIS 15 the New Year as more and more Southern per magazine. Contact Sharon at (09)744-6110. Africans connect their lives with Israel. Views and comments expressed in this publication are not figures are increasing and over 900 necessarily those of the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. SAZF (Israel) is not responsible for young adults will have attended programmes articles and advertisements which appear herein. in Israel by year’s end. This is the best news we can silently convey in our thoughts to South African Zionist Federation (Israel) Yaniv, Asher, Lotan and Naor. 19 Schwartz Street, Ra’anana 43212 tel.: (09)744-6110, fax: (09)744-6112 David Kaplan, Editor [email protected]; www.telfed.org.il

 N HE AIL I T M Telfed phone-around to former Southern Africans living in the FIGHTING FOR PEACE north. l-r: Susan Dear Editor’ Sharon, Marcelle Weiss, Louise Geva, Kibbutz Yizre’el has always been Janine Gelley and considered part of the North of Israel Hilary Kaplan. - not quite, it seems. During the last month we have found ourselves “just South-of-the-North”. We have seen and heard the Katyusha rockets falling in the vicinity of the kib-b butz, but to date, we have been spared any direct or even near hits. The kibbutz siren goes off together with the rest of hope that life will have reverted to the “orchestra” in the area a few times normal and that our contact with the a day and chaverim and children go to Federation will be about peacef- the shelters and security rooms. Please Note: ful and mundane matters! The kibbutz is packed to bursting The editor On behalf of the grateful point with families and friends from reserves the right chaverim on Yizre’el, the North, hired workers and families to shorten and Arnie Friedman, Kibbutz Yizre’el who have moved here from danger edit letters as well zones, as well as a number of families as to post same who, through the kibbutz movement, instead on the THANKS TELFED have taken up temporary residence. We Telfed Website, Dear Editor, also hosted a group of Down Syndrome where magazine During the war we lost a children also from the North. space is limited. very close friend, who was Our local “Pick & Pay” have cartons Furthermore, hit by a Katyusha that fell a in which chaverim buy and donate no letters will be few metres from our house. goodies for the soldiers. These are sent published without He was also the father of our north whenever the cartons fill up. a name and son’s friend. It is truly hard to The South Africans on Yizre’el were address of the return to normal and restore the especially moved to get phone calls from sender. feeling of security especially the SAZF in Ra’anana checking to see for the children. We hope the that everyone is OK and if we needed any help. Chaverim deeply appreciated this gesture. We thank the Federation Please Note: The date on the right corner of your mailing from the bottom of our hearts for the label indicates the date of your last payment for Telfed concern and “feeling of family”. Magazine. If no date appears, we have not yet received By the time this goes to print, we payment from you.

 IN THE MAIL day will come when we will be able to kill, because that is what she was trained reciprocate Telfed’s opening its heart to do. and pocket to our plight. There were As her big sister I try to console her, major expenses, accompanied by loss although I feel a sadness and a concern of income during the war, so the financ- for the lives of those who are in harm’s cial aid you provided really helped us way and for those who have already and strengthened us spiritually. died – and not just on our side but on the Chazak Ve’Ematz, other side as well. I hug her and tell her Atias Family, Acco everthing will be ok, but I don’t know whether I am right. WILL IT BE OK? I am reminded of my grandmother. Dear Editor, After she survived the Lodz Ghetto and I am a social sciences student, Auschwitz, a Russian soldier put a gun in twenty-six years old and born in her hand and told her to shoot a captured Israel to parents who emigrated from SS officer. My grandmother, who had Rhodesia. Most of my father’s family every reason to take revenge on the SS perished in the holocaust. officer – her entire family had perished in I remember always being told that, the Holocaust starting with her 5-year-old by the time I reached eighteen, perhaps son – nevertheless returned the gun to the Ithe draft would no longer be mandat- Russian and walked away. tory. Unfortunately, this was not to be I will never forget her reply when I and when I reached the age of eighteen, asked her why she didn’t shoot. “It would I too was drafted. not have made me any better than him,” By the time I reached nineteen, I she said. “My revenge” she said, “is that had already lost friends in the army I lived to raise a family and then settle and had mourned the death of a childh- Skynet Multi-Media Ltd. hood friend who was killed when the Our recent merger brings to our customers 30 years of experience. outpost he was guarding took a direct Moviemagic’s M-net multi-choice Africa package includes: rocket hit. 8 Super Sport channels covering rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, Formula 1, cycling and much more. In this reality I sit at the Friday Shabbat table and see my younger All at a price that will surpise you. sister, who is nineteen, suddenly start Excellent service and reliability weeping out of fear and anxiety for her friends who are now fighting in Lebanon and the guilt she feels for Contact Menachem: (077)710-0700, (054)224-3377; teaching these young soldiers how to [email protected]

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The Bloem community was approxi-m for the promotion of the Telfed mately 2000 strong; today there are only Magazine in SA. Pity! Not only does 142 souls left. If any ex-Bloems would it serve to connect former South like to contact me, my email address is: Africans, but would also help promote [email protected] aliyah, central to the activities of the Zionist Federation. Allan Jacobson, Johannesburg I suggest that the magazine be PASSING IT ON advertised in the Jewish Report, a Dear Editor, national weekly newspaper in SA and Whilst recently in SA, I asked my at the SAZF offices there. brother-in-law for a copy of the Telfed Congratulations to the Telfed Media magazine. (I had sent subscriptions as a Committee for maintaining such a high birthday present for the past 3 years). He standard of journalism and keeping us told me he did not have a single copy! so well informed about South Africans “It is always snapped up,” he said, and in Israel. his friends love to pass it on. Fonda Dubb, Eilat I understand that there is no budget

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for volunteers to help the wounded and dying on the streets in Fordsburg, which had become a battleground. Only two people volunteered and 32- year-old Mary Gordon was the first to step forward. Risking life and limb (l-r) At the foundation stone ceremony of Hospital she bravely dodged bullets to reach the – Mayor Leo Tager, Minister of Health Barzilai and Dr. Mary besieged miners. Gordon. Tager, a former South African, had been a Vice Chairman of the SAZF and was elected the second mayor Mary would go on to be the first of Ashkelon, following its first mayor, another former South woman doctor at the Johannesburg African, Dr. Henry Sonnabend. General Hospital where she served for thirty years. As she had previously served during the Great War in military hospitals in England, it was only natural A WARRIOR WITH A that during the Second World War she would again enlist. Attaining the rank STETHOSCOPE of major she served as a consultant Dr. Mary Gordon never stopped fighting physician. After the Second World War, Mary So who was Mary Gordon who had left resigned from the Johannesburg General such a lasting legacy and has Hospital, Wits University Prof. Jack Metz, Sim Manor, Basil a unit at Barzilai Hospital in Medical School, turned Katz and Gordon Mandelzweig Ashkelon named after her? her back on a lucrative recently established an endowment fund, private practice and left “Where and how can I best in memory of their aunt, the renowned serve?” must always have Dr. Mary Gordon, in order to present for Palestine on October preyed on the mind of Dr. an annual prize to the best all-round 19, 1946. Mary Gordon. She never took student graduating from the Miftan the easy path and wherever Maayanot in Rosh Ha’Ayin. OFF TO CYPRUS the needs were most pressing, First stop for Mary was this remarkable woman was in the the refugee camp in Cyprus, which had thick of it. In the 1922 Witwatersrand a population of some 30,000 by the time Miners’ Strike, the Superintendent of the she arrived. The financial responsibility Johannesburg General Hospital called for the welfare of these “illegal immig-

 PEOPLE grants” from war-torn Europe rested ensuing months, Mary stayed at her with the worldwide through the post until her work was complete and American Jewish institution, known as the remaining patients in the hospital the ‘Joint’. Mary who was appointed were all transferred to Israel. Administrator of the Jewish Wing of the British Military Hospital became the main communication link between the Joint and the British. Fondly known as “Mother Mary”, she immersed herself in her work with people whose lives had been shattered by war and persecution, and whose dreams for a better future were being denied by an uncaring Mandate authori- ity. She was often heard to remark, “One can measure temperature, but The one cannot measure pain - physical Yemenite camp in or mental.” During the War of Independence, Rosh Ha’Ayin When the Arab states attacked the Mary served as Consultant Physician 1950. new State following the declaration to the new Israeli army, but her finest of Independence, the Jewish nurses hour was still to come. It arrived with asked to be relieved of their duties so the thousands of Jewish refugees from they could go home. “Not yet,” Mary Yemen brought over in Operation Magic told them, “Your duty to your people Carpet during 1949-1950. begins in this hospital.” While she continued on next page would soften this position over the RABCO PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & CONSULTANTS LTD. Jack Rabin • Property Consultants • Property Portfolio Management

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 PEOPLE TENT CITY for the new immigrants were tents, rows As they came off the planes, the and rows of tents. “A tent city,” as many Yemenites were transported to an described it at the time. abandoned British military base in Neil Schwartz, a cardiologist and a Rosh Ha’Ayin. The conditions were member of Telfed’s Media Committee, primitive and disease was rife. There recalls as a young student of eighteen meet-i were only a few barracks and they ing Mary at her clinic in Rosh Ha’Ayin. were used mainly for administration “It was 1950 and I had come to Israel and health services. The living quarters on a Habonim leadership course from Johannesburg. Through a friend Looking back over the decades since Mary of my late mother’s in Tel Aviv, Gordon arrived in Israel in the pre-state days, we visited the camp and what I Southern Africans have been making an immense can only describe, as a place of contribution to medicine in this country. What struck mud and misery. It was December; Telfed in 1998 when it held its highly publicized the rains had been hard and it was Academic Achievement Award (AAA) ceremony freezing cold. And here was this was the high number of entrants in the medical and remarkable woman, who had been scientific fields. In the first thirty years of the State, at the pinnacle of her profession in more Southern African doctors came on aliyah than Johannesburg, knee deep in mud. any of the other professions. This phenomenon was She showed us her Mother and brought home at the end of last year at the ‘class Child clinic, a pioneer creation of of 55’ reunion of the Wits Medical School. “Quite Tipat Halav.” amazing,” says Dr. Neil Schwartz. “No fewer than Mary’s legacy to the early life of nine members of our final year are living in Israel Rosh Ha’Ayin received a reminder today. That must be some kind of a record. Most with the endowment created for are now retired or semi-retired, but all worked for the Miftan Maayanot. Nephew some or all of their professional lives in Israel.” Gordon Mandelzweig of Omer explains the background to the endowment: “This Miftan was originally sponsored by my aunt during her service at the Yemenite Ma’abarot. The purpose of the Miftan was to train young immig- grants in useful trades. Today it Wits Class of ‘55: From left: Hymie Geffen (), Hymie serves the same purpose, but for Josman, Neil Schwartz, Eric Lebanon, Shmuel Edelman, Aron youth at risk.” The first award was Malatsky, Cyril Legum. Seated: Rochelle Shorkend (Krikler). made at a graduation ceremony at Absent: Ernest Schneider-Kuper, Ivor Broer

 EOPLE Reviewed in Telfed Magazine, P May 2006 Good Food and Angels a generous sum of money for a paedia- Excellent Country Dining atric unit in Israel in the name of Mary in a Time Capsule of an era gone by Gordon,” recalls Schwartz. Open: Thurs. night, “Her nephew, Jack Metz, a hemat- The Meals: Elegant Dinner Fri. and Sat. Parties, Hearty South African tologist and Head of the SA Institute Moshav Sde Yitzchack style Brunches and delightful of Medical Research came to Israel off Highway 6 north old-fashioned Afternoon Tea with two contenders for the bequest, For details and reservv The Food: Classic and gourmet one of which was Barzilai Hospital vations, Erica Melzer Southern (South African, Cajun in Ashkelon. Jack was a good friend (052)6903509 and Caribbean style) of mine and I pressed him to go for Barzilai. “ In keeping with Mary’s personali- the Miftan this past June in the prese- ity, I felt that she would have preferred ence of members of the family and old the money to go to a hospital that was associates - Sam Levin, Prof. George still establishing itself.” The money Mundel and Ruth Stern (Saretsky). from South Africa was channelled Mary returned to South Africa in through Telfed, which remains strongly 1958 to look after her mother and ill associated with Barzilai Hospital. sister and devoted the rest of her life to “Mary had a deep feeling for her the treatment of African children. people,” recalled Nurse Friedman, Neil Schwartz’s association with who served with Mary in Cyprus. Mary would again connect many years “The Jewish people were her life. after he first met her in the cold winter Her private life was incidental. She of 1950 but well after her passing in never asked for anything, she always South Africa. “A wealthy philanthrop- gave. She was beyond considerations pist, Freda Lawenski, had bequeathed of status and prestige.” • RUSSELL'S Air-Conditioning For Heating and Cooling CENTRAL and SPLIT air-conditioners and maintenance division for your home and office

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 PEOPLE a man with a mission”, said his widow, Name Calling: Tziporah. “He had met previously with Zundel Segal Ben Gurion who had impressed upon honored by him the two things the State needed street named after him in — creating jobs for immigrants and the Industrial beds.” Zundel got down to business District of and approached potential investors in Netanya. South Africa, which led to the openi- ing of a furniture factory in Netanya called MEFI (Middle East Furniture Industry) with Zundel as its managi- ing director. Apart from providing much needed employment, the South African venture was the first to manufacture orthopaed- dic and spring mattresses in Israel. “Until that time,” explains Tziporah, STREET WISE “they were stuffed with straw and came South African enterprise in the in three sections making them heavy early days of the State was recently and cumbersome. Very soon, MEFI recognized by the naming of a street became a household name cornering in Netanya after a company founded over fifty percent of the local market.” by South African investors and its Tziporah did not mind when Zundel manager, the late Zundel Segal. When used to boast, “half the women sleep Zundel, who had been the chairman on my beds and what’s more, they pay of the Committee of me.” He was right. • the SAZF in Johannesburg c a m e o n a l i y a h i n FAMILY REUNION 1952, “he was Life can be full of surprises. Former South African 71-year- old Don Davis of Kibbutz Tzora Zundel Segal showing recently discovered a new addition MK Bar Lev to his family - a sister. What’s more, around the she was not somewhere half around the factory. the world, but only an hour’s car drive away at Moshav Moledet!

10 PEOPLE Turns out that Don’s mother Leah had a relationship at the age of fifteen with a boy her age and fell pregnant. The respective families decided the child- dren were too young to cope with the situation, and so the baby was adopted by a Johannesburg Jewish family and was given the name Norma.

Leah’s family was sworn to secrecy Long-lost and never spoke of the pregnancy or the to each other in Israel.” She wrote to siblings: baby again, but Leah’s sisters secretly her cousin Don on Kibbutz Tzora, Don Davis kept a watchful eye on Norma as she surprising him with the news that he of Kibbutz Tzora with was growing up. Years passed into has a sister, Norma Fisher, living on his sister decades, until the only person alive Moshav Moledet. She made a lot of Norma who knew the truth was Norma’s cousin people very happy. Fisher of Moshav Maisie, Leah’s niece. Following a number of emotional Moledet. Maisie’s finding out was a story in phone calls, Don and his wife went itself. Some fifty years ago she invited up North to meet Norma, her husband Norma and her children for tea to her Geoff and her children and grandc- house in Johannesburg. They had by children. The reunion of sister and chance met previously at a hotel in brother included reporters from Yediot Durban - “our kids were the same age, so Ahronoth and an interview on Israeli we struck up a friendship.” As fate would national television. A large family have it, Maisie also invited her aunts and gathering, with members flying in from when they saw Norma, they suddenly all parts of the world, is scheduled for went pale, stood up and stepped indoors. later this year. • Maisie ran after them and demanded, “What gives? You look like you have RELIABLE RENOVATIONS all seen a ghost!!!” They revealed that Philip Symon, back from Australia, brings her new friend was her first cousin. She to Israel the latest techniques for upgrading, refurbishing and maintaining your property. Always too was then sworn to secrecy. the perfectionist, for 20 years Philip has been a Shortly before Pesach this year, household name, synonymous with reliability and expertise. eighty-year old Maisie decided the Services include: Total household time had come to reveal the family refurbishment, Painting, Bathroom secret. With age creeping up, she renovations, Tiling, Plumbing, Plaster walls & must have wondered - “Why deny partitions, Electricity, Parquetry flooring people the knowledge that they have Call today for free advise and/or quotes. family. What’s more they live so close (054)4315005, [email protected]

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NEW FACES, FRESH IDEAS feeling, as first-time mandatory elections Nevertheless, the Congress brought new faces and brought from all over the fresh ideas out of the Diaspora a record number of Zionist woodwork. young delegates as well as a F r o m N o r t h cross-section of perspectives. Avi Youngsters, who may have America there was the been intimidated at previous Green Zionist Alliance congresses, began elbowing their way that positions environmental issues at the into areas once sacrosanct to the elder core of Zionism, a group called RAJA- guardians of Herzl’s vision. While “the Russian American Jews for Israel and youth were on the march” as one young a youthful delegation under the banner American delegate proudly proclaimed, - Zionism.com. What all this indicates is there was a definite “Winds of change” a break with the past, as delegations no

16 FEATURE longer mirrored the sectarian ideologies the State of Israel than your decision today of Israeli political parties. However, “At to come live here.” the end of the day, it’s not only the resolut- While the numbers from South Africa tions passed, but how the spirit of these are low in comparison, Uri Bar-Ner, gatherings is translated into action,” said Deputy Director of the Aliyah Division Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Jewish at the Jewish Agency projects for this Agency, who at one time had been a shaliah year “a 30% increase from 2005.” As with to South Africa. other western countries, the buzz phrase is And that is precisely what has been happ- “Aliyah of choice”, where Jews of all ages pening. Despite the war in the north, the are affirming their Zionism and committ- expectation for 2006 is that there will be ting their future to the Jewish state. This 24,000 immigrants to Israel. There has been new trend is also evident in the increased much hype in the media covering planes of enthusiasm for participants on long and olim arriving from North America, England short-term programmes. and , with celebratory welcomes at Ben Gurion Airport. Just days after the ceasefire, 520 North Americans and British CHOICE PICKINGS immigrants arrived at Ben Gurion Airport, Telfed Magazine spoke to a number bringing the total since the outbreak of the of Southern Africans who have recently war, to 3,500. made aliyah or been visiting Israel on “People said I was crazy, but it didn’t programmes. really bother me,” said one excited new A Business Science graduate from UCT, immigrant as he stepped onto the tarmac Capetonian Stacey Berold made aliyah in amongst the frenzy of flag-waving and July in the thick of the war. Currently attend-i blaring Israeli music. This resoluteness ing Ezion in Jerusalem, Stacey plans was acknowledged by the Prime on reading for her Masters at Minister, who declared to the Hebrew University. “I am surr- crowd, “There is no stronger rounded by French, Russians, statement of trust in the future of Americans, Canadians and South Africans and no one, not one person felt that it was a opp. page: Avi Perpinyal from mistake to be here in Israel at a Johannesburg, is an MBA student at Bar time like this. On the contrary, Ilan University. right: Yael Sharir, originally it has reinforced our Zionism. from Pretoria, is presently enrolled in a Master’s programme in Genetics at We were not scared and wanted Hebrew University. to contribute in any way Yael

17 FEATURE Dana is a speech language pathologist. Steven tled in Herzliya Pituach. His wife Dana was has been in high-tech for 12+ years and is looking born to Israeli parents in Uganda, where to get into Business Development, Account her father was working as an engineer on Management and Organizational Planning & Strategy. Steven’s maternal grandfather, behalf of the Israeli government. When the Lulu Berold and his uncle George, were both Miller family returned to Israel, they moved active for many years in Telfed. back to their home in Herzliya Pituach and Steven and Dana found themselves at the same kindergarten. Steven and Dana became friends and remained “corresponde- ence buddies” when the Sterns resettled in America. After graduating at Tulane University in New Orleans, Steven dashed off to Israel to visit Dana to “see if there was anything more than friendship there” revealed his mother Maureen. Clearly there was. He returned to the The Sterns States with Dana, where they soon mar-r Stern stuff: Steven and Dana Stern with ried. Eleven years and two daughters later, their two daughters the couple made aliyah a second time and we could. It was an unbelievable feeling have settled in Ramat Gan. and I am so proud to be here.” A former member of Habonim and SAUJS activist, Stacey says, “From the age of 13 I knew MOVEMENT AHEAD I would settle in Israel. While in recent years many secular Zionist youth movem- ments have gone A CROSS-CONTINENT LOVE STORY through the often- The story of the young Stern Family, painful process of who arrived recently on a rediscovering and in Nefesh B’Nefesh - Jewish Howzat! Dovi Meyers, a SA Habonim many cases redefini- Agency flight from New York graduate, poses in his cricket garb in ing their ideologies, Glasgow where he represented Israel. actually began in Africa. Bnei Akiva naturally Steven, grandson of Bertie was immune from “Sandpiper” Stern, an icon in Habonim Dovi this experience. in South Africa in the 1940’s, first made “Our ideology and aliyah with his family, Peter and Maureen Zionism are strong Stern from Johannesburg in 1973 and sett- because they are connected to the Torah,”

18 explains Ilan Osrin, a young former not terribly excited about our visit and South African now living in Jerusalem are preparing a reception committee that and working for World Bnei Akiva. Ilan has the local constabulary very anxious. is a classic example of a Boger (gradua- We will be under tight security and are ate) giving back to the movement that not to wear our Israeli cricket badges and nurtured him. He co-ordinates the Board uniforms while traveling. But for me, of Governors of World Bnei Akiva and is as a sportsman, it is a dream come true.” head of the Southern Hemisphere Desk, Defiance laced with humour, Dovi quips: running programmes for members coming “I hope my average will be as high as the to Israel from Australia, New Zealand number of Katyusha rockets fired everyday and South Africa. Ilan maintains that his on northern Israel.” With hindsight, Dovi’s movement “is attracting kids who are not aspirations were way too ambitious. By only religious. We have over 300 shlichim the time the team arrived in Glasgow, the around the world and I would say that the missiles raining in on Israel each day, had high caliber of these emissaries as well as crossed the one hundred and fifty mark. our leadership training programmes are At the time of interview, Avi Perpinyal contributing to making Bnei Akiva one of had been less than six months in Israel. the strongest Jewish youth movements in From Johannesburg, this former member the world today.” of Habonim, born to Israeli parents, is As the Katyusha rockets were falling currently enrolled at the English MBA at the rate of over 100 a day into northern programme at Bar Ilan University. His Israel, Dovi Meyers, a twentysomething sister, Meital, a qualified lawyer in both Habonim graduate living in Tel Aviv, South Africa and Israel arrived before was folding neatly his white pants, shirt him and works for INTEL in Kiryat and cleaning his kit before heading off to Gat. “I can’t believe how easy my the airport to represent Israel at the ICC European Division Cricket tournament in Glasgow. “This is a country mixed with contradictions and complexities and people have to best continue their lives as normally as they can.” Not that others were prepared to accommodate this sentiment. Katie Yael Leora “The Glaswegian Muslim community are Dana Kirstie Cape Town Habonim participants on the Shorashim tour meet with members of Noar Haoved in Kfar Saba. l-r: Dana Kaplan (Kfar Saba), Katie Kowalski, Yael Zabow (Kfar Saba), Kirstie Kleinman, Leora Stander.

19 FEATURE integration has been,” says Avi. “”I have such participant is Chen Futeran from made friend with Israelis, Americans, South Cape Town, whose group consists of Africans; you name it.” A sure clincher youngsters from Australia, New Zealand for easy adjustment in a new country, Avi and South Africa. A 2005 straight ‘A’ reveals, “I have a girlfriend.” student at Herzliya School, Chen has been relishing the course, enjoying, “most of all, the tiyulim”. While the course is geared THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT to nurturing a future leadership for Bnei Akiva, Chen is so swept up by being For more than twenty Years, MTA in Israel that “I’m (Midreshet Torah not going back. I’m Va’avodah) has been planning on enroll-i Bnei Akiva’s lead-i ing at university, ing year programme. possibly Hebrew The programme is University.” Her directed at young message to others: adults who want to “Whatever move-m spend a year after ment you belong to, high school studying Ilan Michael just come! Even if Torah in Israel as you are not affiliated well as acquiring leadership skills. One to any youth movement, join a pro-g gramme and experience your Jewishness Above left: Ilan Osrin, Bnei Akiva graduate working for the movement in Jerusalem. Above right: Michael by just being here in Israel.” Honer from Cape Town on the Habonim year Habonim’s short-term programme, programme. Below: Capetonian Chen Futeran, a Shorashim, attracted eighty-three 15- participant in the Bnei Akiva MTA programme plans on studying at Hebrew U. next year. 16 year olds this July. Telfed spoke to three participants – Leora Stander, Kelly Kowalski and Kirstie Kleinman, who were only one week into the pro-g gramme and bubbling with enthusiasm. “Everything’s been great,” they screamed in unison. They enjoyed the touring, a visit to Kibbutz Yizreel, the Palmach Museum, Jerusalem, “loved the lectures –very intense” and most of all, their first-time visit to the Kotel – Western Wall. Did they Chen leave any messages?

20 “Yes, we hope to return soon.”

Michael Honor from Cape Town is out At the Telfed on the Shnat programme and is all praise Coffee for the course. “I was a first time madrich evening in at the end of last year at Habonim camp, Ra’anana. front: Lisa and I know that I will be able to contribute and Timothy so much more after this course.” When Brink, Telfed Magazine caught up with Michael, center: he was “getting a taste of collective urban living” staying for two weeks at a “ken” with a Noar Ha’Oved garin in Kfar Saba. Lisa and Timothy Both Michael’s parents have lived in Israel before and Michael hopes one day to return for good. RECENT ARRIVALS Lisa and Timothy Brink were less POPE-GERI than a month in Israel, when hostilities INSURANCE broke out. They have had their share of violence. In Johannesburg the couple

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21 to Israel, “I feel we could not have chosen a better time.” What is so apparent as one speaks to new young immigrants is the influence of Jewish youth movements and home environment. It gives credence to the new mantra of the Jewish Agency – “Aliyah of choice”. Another clear example of this is twenty- from a lawless South Africa to a war-torn three year-old Yael Sharir who attended Israel. “I had expected to spend our first Carmel School in Pretoria. Born to Israeli few weeks in Israel teaching my kids how parents and having spent most of her to look the other way when crossing the summer holidays at Habonim camps in street. Instead, I’ve had to instruct them Onrus, Yael describes her Zionism “as a how to find the nearest bomb shelter when legacy”. Arriving in April, she has been the siren sounds,” laments Lisa. But do they beset by eye problems necessitating her regret coming? “Not for a minute,” says spending much time in hospital. With that Lisa. “I am grateful to live in a country soon to be behind her, this young B.Sc. that is willing to protect its citizens from graduate from Wits has enrolled at Hebrew terror, even at the cost of world condemnat- University where she will be studying for tion. I am awed by the sense of unity and her Masters in Human Genetics. the way people open their hearts and their Any second thoughts in the wake of wallets to help our soldiers and families the War? Shrugging her shoulders, she in need.” While Lisa admits she could scoffs, “I’m not running away, I’m here have chosen a quieter time to immigrate to stay.” •

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22 NUPTIALS

Sophie, daughter of Suzanne and Bernard Olsburgh of New Castle, England, married Julian, son of Riva Sandler of Ra’anana and Saul Vardi of Sydney, Australia. The couple reside in Jerusalem.

Tami, daughter of Carol and Allan Feinblum to Avihay, son of Miri and Chaim Derfner of Haifa.

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ELECTIONS FOR TELFED THE TELFED EXECUTIVE Compiled by Sharon Bernstein Two years are up, and it’s election time again for six positions on the Telfed Exec ecutive. TELFED WELCOMES KLINE Telfed is looking for candc Telfed is pleased to welcome didates of all ages, from all the immediate past Director walks of life and from all of the Israel Centre (I.C.), over Israel. Dorron Kline, to the staff of Telfed. A rabbi, a former Challenging times lie ahead l-r: Dorron Kline, Moshe Lederman, for our community both in Isrc national shaliach to South Shaliach in Cape Town and Ofer Dahan, Africa and a former lecturer at rael and Southern Africa, and who has taken over as Director of the we look forward to new faces Israel Centre. Bar Ilan University in Politicc around the Executive table. cal Science, Dorron brings a Please read the nomination wealth of experience to his new position. A popular emissary, flyer enclosed herewith for Dorron could be seen almost every Friday night at a different full details. Voting will take shul where he managed to incorporate Israel and Zionism into place in January, by way of his sermons. It was often joked, “Here is a rabbi that works on voting slips appearing in the Shabbat!” Dorron is married with five daughters. following issue of Telfed. We Dorron will be liaising with the SAZF, JAFI, MASA and have also introduced secure other affiliate organizations in creating and implementing on-line voting through our programmes for joint projects, as well as for groups visiting from Telfed Website. South Africa. He will also be involved in Telfed’s fundraising activities. See below report on the Israel Centre.

FAREWELL MARTIN Telfed sadly bids farewell to Martin Lewak, Martin with his grandchild. “After who outstandingly served as Telfed’s Financial spending most of my career in the commercial world, it was an “eye- Comptroller for the past 13 years. Martin’s opener” and a privilege to join role in managing the many trust funds under Telfed and experience first-hand Telfed’s administration was indispensable. the outstanding work the staff and He gave the Finance Committee the necessc volunteers do.”

24 FOCUS ON TELFED TZAIR BALEV (Young at Heart) sary tools to ensure that the funds were “With the aim of having younger members astutely invested, providing the income in our community meet new and potential needed to assist our community and to young olim, Tzair Balev was established,” ensure the smooth functioning of Telfed’s says Paul Moss, Chairman of Telfed’s activities. newly established committee. “More and Martin ran an efficient accounts more young people are coming on long department ensuring timeous reports and and short-term programmes and we aim streamlined functioning while maintainic to connect with them,” say Paul. ing a warm relationship with the staff and Says committee member Leanne Bernss our volunteers. Martin’s presence in the stein of the SAUJS group which came out office will be missed and we wish him a recently: “We organised an inter-active event well-deserved retirement. in a park in Raanana. The students were divided up into small groups and moved TELFED HAD A DREAM from one station to the next, where we THE ISRAEL CENTRE discussed subjects ranging from the army, education, high-tech and the social scene. 2002 saw the curtain rise on the Israel It was a great success, mainly because we Centre in South Africa; the realization had facilitators who could relate to the age of Telfed’s vision and a culmination of a SAZF/Jewish Agency collaboration. The of the group.” aim was to coordinate under one umbrella A major area of focus has been keeping in all Israel-related activities — Zionist touch with Southern Africans in the army, education, Aliyah promotion and the work who have no family in Israel. “We make of the 20+ Israeli emissaries. Working sure they have somewhere to go on their hand-in-hand with the SAZF, Michael free shabbatot and chagim,” says Paul. Mensky, the first director of the I.C., After the war, Telfed donated vouchers for succeeded in incorporating Israel theme breakfast-for-two to eighteen lone soldiers projects into the Jewish Day schools and in from Southern Africa. unifying the work of the Israeli delegation which runs Israel-oriented programmes nationwide. In 2004, Telfed, through the In 2004 the National Aliyah shaliach, Israel Centre, initiated and developed a Dorron Kline, became Director of the new Aliyah-Housing Project in the city Israel Centre and amalgamated the two of Modi’in and more recently, partnered positions into one. Today, weekly lessc with the IDC, Herzliya in promoting an sons on Zionism are taught to Matric academic programme in which Southern and high school pupils in the Jewish Africans can study for degrees in English Day Schools, as well as to Jewish in Israel. Numerous other projects are in pupils in the non-Jewish schools. Every the pipeline. second Shabbat, a different synacg

25 dents allows South Africans the opportunity to study for a year at Bar Ilan University, explore Israel and then decide on their academic future. In 2002, Aliyah accounted for 11% of Jewish emigration from South Africa. Today that percentage has increased to almost 40%, indicating that Jewish emigration is on the decline. Telfed Chairman Itz Kalmanowitz and Teddy Saitowitz represented Telfed at the recent SAZF’s We are seeing an annual average of 150 Conference in Johannesburg. Itz addressed the large Olim and 900 participants on long and audience of over 1000 delegates at the opening short-term progammes in Israel. ceremony, while Teddy spoke at the aliyah session, relating his personal experiences in starting a Looking back over four years enables business in Israel. They are seen here holding an us to have a great sense of pride in the ongoing art-work, a project of Teddy’s to fill in small boxes on “Impressions of Israel.”

gogue in South Africa - including the country communities - hosts the Israel Centre for an Israel-focused Shabbaton. The founding of PSAI (Parce ents of South Africans in Israel) has l-r: Phillip Chasen, Sidney enabled over 250 parents in Johannescb achievements of the Israel burg and Cape Town to attend monthly Shapiro, Robyn Rotberg and Susan Sharon in Centre and we wish the meetings preparing them for possible aliyah HaMifal Village, Afula. incoming director, Ofer and easing the pain of distance by sharing Dahan, much success in his new post. experiences. Regular visits to the university campuses to promote MASA (long term programmes in Israel for youth), together TRUST IN TELFED with the running of Hagshama (the Telfed director, Sidney Shapiro, together youth division of the WZO), have with members of Telfed’s Endowment and ensured a steady flow of university Scholarship Committee (E & S), Susan graduates to Israel on aliyah and long-term Sharon, Robyn Rotberg and Phillip programmes. Chasen recently attended the opening A major achievement of the Israel Centre of a Therapy Room in the Animal Park was the establishment of the “Israel Encounter” of Hamifal Village, Afula. This special programme for Grade 12 students, in facility was created some years ago to which over 200 pupils attend an eleven- accommodate and attend to the needs of day seminar in Israel. The “Israel Odyscs children from challenging environments. sey” programme for post-high school studc The children stay in a “home environment”

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27 FOCUS ON TELFED year and interviews will be held shortly Kruger and the Mayor of Kfar Saba, after the chagim. For further information please Yehuda Ben Hamo. call Debbie Chitiz, 09-7446110 ext 205. Vice Chair Hilary Kaplan, whose Event’s committee organised the Fair, said, “We can be truly proud of the impact of AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER the Southern African community on the Some twenty-five talented Southern State of Israel in so many spheres. Today African artists from all over Israel exhibited we salute and feast our eyes on their talents at Telfed’s Art & Sculpture Fair held in in art and sculpture.” • the open-air piazza at Kfar Saba’s shopping mall. In attendance were the Chairman of Fonda Dubb with the Jewish Agency, Zeev Bielski, Deputy some «food for Ambassador from South Africa, Sarel thought».

FONDA’S FOOD DEMO Fonda Dubb of Eilat recently gave a food demonstration in the garden of Janine Gelley in Kfar Saba. Janine, the chairwoman of Telfed’s Kfar Saba regional committee, welcomed over fifty guests thanking them for their support for the Aliza Hatchuel Fund, where the proceeds go towards helping youngsters with top: Organizing special educational needs.• team with Zeev Bielski; l-r, Janine Gelley, Hilary GET-TOGETHER ON THE EVE OF WAR Kaplan, JA Chair Zeev Bielski, A coffee evening was held for new olim Michelle Wolff, at the home of Barry and Marcelle Kornel Marcelle Weiss in Raanana - an opportunity for new immicg middle left: Leonie grants to meet veterans and hear about their Barel with a ceramic figurine wonderland. middle right: Menachem and Lydia experiences as well as enjoy, as always, a Gosher with unique avian sculptures. bottom: Marlene Ferrer of splendid Marcelle spread. Tivon displays her paintings.

28 Coffee Evening in Ra’anana, l-r: Ofer Peer, Adele and Ronen Durban, which Cassuto, Caryn Peer. today has a very small Jewish right: Telfed c o m m u n i t y, Vice-Chair boasted three Annette new olim famicl Milliner and Janine Gelley lies, two to Raanana and one to Kibbutz pack parcels Afikim in the Galil. Twenty-four hours for Israel’s after the coffee evening, where all the soldiers. olim expressed that they were positive about being in Israel despite the incursc sion into Gaza following the kidnapping left: Hilary of Corp. Shalit, two more Israeli soldiers Kaplan with were kidnapped on the Lebanese border soldiers who leading to war. • will take the parcels to the North. TELFED DURING THE WAR The American phrase “working the phones” best categorized the atmosphere in the Telfed office. With so many Southern Africans living in Haifa, Karmiel and the northern settlements, Telfed staff, together with the volunteers, spent days and nights phoning members of the community. Telfed counselor Louise Geva was on hand to take Telfed Exposure Hilary and Janine being questions and offer counsel. “What I found interviewed by Channel 10 on Telfed’s work assisting soldiers in the North.

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29 Telfed thanks the following individuals for their generosity in helping our soldiers during the recent war.

ABELSOHN VIVIENNE GEVA LOUISE LEWIS INGRID SCHNEIDER-KUPER ELIZABETH ABELSOHN LESLEY GILBERT BARNEY & MINNIE LIPMAN EDWARD SCHNOUR JOAN AGULNIK ZIONA GILINSKY IKE & NATALIE LIPSITZ RENE SCHWARTZ NEIL ALHADEFF NICK GLASSMAN MAYERA LUDMIR ABE AND PAULA SCHWARTZ SHULAMIT APTER MIRIAM GOLDBERG JOEL MANDELZWEIG GORDON & DOROTHY SEBBA ESTHER RIMON ARIEL NAOMI GOLDBERG SHEILA MARKS DAVID SEGAL ELENE ARIELI PAUL & MAY GOLDFUS CHAIM MENACHEMSON ALAN SEGAL MANDY ARZEE ELMA GOLDSTEIN WENDY MEYER BRIAN SENDER BRENDA BACH LYN GOLDWAY MICHAEL & RENEE MEYER JANICE SENDZUL DIANE BARAK ESTHER GORK PHYLLIS MEYER SUSAN SEREBRO BABETTE & LESLIE BARK HARRIET GOSS MARGARET MEYEROWITZ VIVIAN SERMAN REEVE BASSIN ADELE GRAHAM CHARLES MILLINER ANNETTE SHAER DIANE BEEN EFFI GREENSTEIN IVAN MILLINER TONI SHAKENOVSKY INGRID BEINART LEORA GROHME-ESCHWEILER, MARIE MILNER JULES SHAKENOVSKY RUTH BENJAMIN NINA GURI JACKIE & DVORA MONDAY BRIDGE GROUP SHALEV ZALMAN BERCOWITZ TONY GURLAND RAIE MORRIS FAY SHARON SUSAN BERKLEY SHEILA HARE IVAN MOSS LEON SHEER LES AND TSIPPY BERMAN JASON HORWITZ LESLEY MOVSAS MICHAEL SHER JACK AND SALLY BERNSTEIN JASON & LEANNE ISAACSON MERVYN MOWSZOWSKI REUVEN & ROS SHULL ESTHER BERNSTEIN SHARON JABLONKA BERLE MUNDEL GEORGE & ROXIE SILBERMAN EDA BETH PROTEA RESIDENTS JACOBS CHARLENE MYERS FRANK & ROCHIE SILBERT ROSEMARY BLOOM DAVID JACOBSON RALPH & JUDY NORWITZ, ROLLO SILVER PAMELA BLUMBERG MIRIAM JOFFE ARNOLD ONE FAMILY FUND (UK) SILVER ROSLYN BOBROV PAM JOFFE PAMELA ORELOWITZ RUSSEL SMITH SELWYN BOROK GESSIE JOHNSTONE REBECCA PANOVKA NORMAN STARKOWITZ HILARY BRAUN DENNIS AND ELAINE JUDEIKEN PAULINE PEARL LENNY TOLKIN – BRIDGE BUTCHINS MARLYN KACEV ISSY AND SONIA PELED PAMELA TOLKIN ALEX CHAZEN LLOYD KACEV LYN PENN ZELDA TOLLMAN MOIRA CHITIZ DEBBIE KAGAN LAWRENCE PERL THEO AND DENISE TOUBE LORNA COBB SHELLEY KAGAN SANDRA PETERS STUART TREGER PHYLLIS COHEN SOL & CHERILLE KALLEY’S BRIDGE GROUP PINCUS FREDA UNA YITSCHAK AND RENATA DAVIS DAPHNE KALMIN DENISE PINSHOW VIVIENNE UPITER MAURICE & ROSE DAVIS IRIS & JONATHAN KALMIN ELIZABETH PLANER MEYER WEDNESDAY BRIDGE GAME DERMAN SHERYL & ERROL KAPLAN ANN PLEHN SARAH WEINBERG WARREN DOLINSKY RACHEL & SAM KAPLAN DAVID & HILARY POLIAK MERVYN WEINER MOTTI DONNER EVE KAPLAN ROSLYN POLSKY-NAKASH MARION WEISBERG ELISSA EDELSTEIN TEDDY & MARSHA KATZ MARIANNE PORTER COLIN WEISS MARCELLE ELLERT BILLY KATZEFF AIDA PRICE ELLEN WELTMAN BELINDA ELSTEIN GILA KAYE CARA PROMISLOW AVRIL WENDE HANNAH EPSTEIN SHARON KEYNAN NECHAMA RABINOWITZ RAE WENDE LES AND HANNAH FAINMAN L. KLEIN SANDRA RAZ RUTH WILK GEORGE & MAVIS FEINBLUM VALERIE KLUG ROS RAZ SHUNI WISNOVITZ MEIR FEITELSON ROS KORAKIN NARDA REISS ROBIN WOLFF MICHELLE & MARTIN FINE JEAN KRAMER ISSY RESNIK MARCELLE WOLFFE-DAVID HENRIETTA FINZI DIANA KRUGER MORRIS ROBERTS PAUL WOLMAN ALLAN FISHER NAOMI & LAWRENCE LACOB LEAH ROSENBERG EVELYN & ELI WOLMAN HAYLEY FOX HYMAN LANDAU JULIE SACHAR PHYLLIS WOLMAN VIVIENNE FRANCO GITA LEE NAT AND RUTH SACKS GLENDA WOLPERT LEON & MARY FREEDMAN SUE LEVESQUE PAMELA SACKS LYNN ZABOW DEBBIE & PHILIP FRIEDLAND MARK & PETA-LYNN LEVIN RISHA SACKS MAUREEN ZETLER SHEILA FURMAN SAVILLE & SHELLEY LEVIN ROSEMARY SACKS MICHAEL ZION MONTY GALLOON JACK & RAE LEVINSTEIN SUSAN SAKALOVSKY LOUIS ZIV-EL JACK & PRISCILLA GELLEY JANINE LEVITAS GIDON SAVITZ IVAN AND EDNA ZODICK MERKEL We would also like to thank all those who generously donated parcels of treats for the soldiers. Your goods were transported by Table-to-Table to the IDF in the North and the South.

30 quite amazing,” said Telfed Vice Chair Annette Milliner, who o v e r s a w t h e phoning of the seniors, “was their stoic resilic ience. In and out of bomb shelters each day, they were neverthelc less defiant when we phoned them. Most of them displayed more of a concern for their children and grandchildren in the army than for themselves.” As the ground operations moved into high gear, and many items were needed response was fantastic and on any given by our soldiers in the north, Telfed moved day, the Telfed office looked like a local into high gear. Vice Chair Hilary Kaplan supermarket!” launched a fundraising campaign and in 10 continued on next page days, her team “of wonderful volunteers” raised some NIS 160,000 from South Africans in Israel and abroad. (See list) “With the funds collected, we purchased items requested by the army and together with Table-to-Table, packed the stuff at their warehouse in Raanana and loaded it onto army trucks,” explains Hilary. “Our involvement began during the first days of the war when Table-to-Table approached, Janine Gelley for food parcels to be sent to our soldiers on our northern border. The

31 NEW ARRIVALS SOLIDARITY MISSION JOHANNESBURG A delegation of South Africa’s Hartsman Ralph (Retired) and Emily (Retired) Jewish leadership, headed by Chief Nathanson, Stanley Cheryl and Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein arrived Onay, Talia (Student) Joey Noik. in Israel during the war. (See also Klein, Alan (Retired) Cover Story) Telfed hosted a lunch Shull, Julian Yehuda (Rabbi) in Jerusalem, where Telfed Chairsm Drutman, Queenie (Retired) man, Itz Kalmanowitz and Vice Levin, Michelle Chair Hilary Kaplan addressed the Marx, Jonathan gathering together with Southern Krawitz, Ronen African residents from the north, who Glick, Jason, Hayley and Alon. spoke about their personal experiences Brink, Tim, Lisa, Rachel and Samuel. ‘under fire’. Galgut, Jackie (Social Worker), Gabriella, Guy Daniella and Ari. Stacey Berold Ramage, Susan (Manager) TELFED ON-LINE UPDATE Wise, Stephen (Diamond Dealer) Telfed’s “online” presence reached a Morrison, Diane (Lawyer) new peak recently when it published Greenburg, Julia (Designer) its 200th email newsletter and its Gluck, Gregory bi-weekly audience reached close to Nathanson, Joseph 3,000 addressees. “The website and Brodie, Stanley (Manager) e-newsletter are reaching more and Grodzicki, Sara more people in Israel and abroad,” Woodward, Anthony, Brenda and Kaeleigh. Bailey, Adrian (Director) and Limor (Interior Designer) says Dave Bloom, Editor of Telfed Alpert, Herschel (Lawyer), Andrea, and Nehama. Online (www.telfed.org.il). “The Hasson, Rina recent appeals for food parcels to residents in the north and donations to the soldiers in the Lebanese war CAPE TOWN Berold, Stacey were quickly and effectively launched Gersh, Beulah (Retired) via the Telfed Online newsletter. The Keren, Sara. positive response showed how well Johnstone, Alistair (Accountant) Michael and Dina Marshak this medium works,” says Dave. and Rebecca (Comp. Programmer) New developments on the website Kupowtiz, Gavin (Cosmetician), Vanessa (Estate Agent) include a professional Network sectc and Adam tion where Southern Africans can list their professions and disciplines and DURBAN a section for crafters to market and Kassuto, Ronen (Business Management), advertise their wares. • Adelle (Social Worker), Avi, Eitan and Chantelle. Peer, Ofer, Karen, Daniel and Alexa.

32 THE SPIRIT OF BETH PROTEA The advent of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is a time for retrospection and the giving of thanks. Beth Protea would like to warmly thank their residents, staff and especially their volunteers who together fulfil the “spirit” of a community project. How many of you are really aware of some of the ongoing volunteering activities within the walls of this amazing facility. Did you know that… • Herzliya pensioners who lack means for membership to a country club, can enjoy a weekly swim in our pool, • A group of young mothers with a free morning to spare gladly spend it volunteering and participate in a variety of activities with our residents playing cards, scrabble or various arts and crafts, • A number of doctors and dentists tirelessly donate their time to provide quality care, • Independent residents willingly help with feeding and reading or just giving of their time to residents in the nursing unit, • On Fridays, the wonderful aroma of freshly baked biscuits fills the air from residents in the nursing unit who are busily preparing tasty treats for Shabbat, • A group of residents in the nursing wing help with the gardening to keep the surrounding area beautiful, • The local street cleaners have daily access to our lobby in order to fill their water bottles, • Many outsiders celebrate a bar-mitzvah or Shabbat hatan in our synagogue, • And more recently, Beth Protea opened its doors to families from the North to give them a safe haven away from the falling katyusha rockets.

The Beth Protea bug bites all those who happen to walk through our doors – the feeling of home, the warmth, the need to assist, the joy of belonging to a caring family – this is the “spirit” of Beth Protea. In the current troubled times, we stand strong, we stand united and we stand proud, we make a difference and hope we always will. If only there were more people in this world with the spirit of giving, this world would be a much better place. Lyn Bach , Director of Public Relations & Fund MAY THE NEW YEAR BE FILLED WITH PEACE FOR US ALL Raising, 3rd from the left together with Volunteers Ruth & Jack Trappler & Tineke Appleton. BETH PROTEA The Pride of Israel’s Southern African Community 5 Asher Barash Street, Hezliya, Tel.: 09-9595222, Fax: 09-9595300 e-mail: [email protected], website : www.bethprotea.org.il

33 KEREN TELFED Donors...... Honorees KEREN TELFED FUND GLV International Ltd...... Families in the North Golda & Judah Kaye...... wish family & friends a happy and peaceful New Year and well over the fast. Uri and Beryl Milunsky...... Issie and Dot Isacowitz – 60th anniversary Raie Gurland...... Rachel Sachar – birthday Hilary Edelstein and Dave Wulfhart...... Keren Telfed Avraham and Channa Eidelman...... Dov Cohen – 80th birthday Ray and Tee Kolnik...... Jack Stander – 90th birthday Rafi and Jacquie Schwartz...... Mickey Symon – 80th birthday Ladies’ Seniors Group...... Rona Kruger – in appreciation Keevan and Cynthia Kahanovitz...... Jack Stander – 90th birthday Rae Rabinowitz...... Jeff Milstein – 2nd Batmitzvah Rae Rabinowitz...... Esther Sebba – 80th birthday Edgar and Joyce Kroll...... Rhoda Sklar – special birthday Gladys Gerstle celebrates her 90th. Freda Raphael...... Esther Sebba – 80th birthday Glenda Leigh...... Gladys Gerstle – special birthday Rae Rabinowitz...... Max and Ruth Geffen – Ruth’s birthday & new home Annette Milliner & Baruch Giladi...... Philip and Phyllis Sussman – special birthdays Sam and Harriet Levin...... Esther Sebba – 80th birthday Jack and Ruth Trappler...... Jeff Milstein – 2nd Barmitzvah Stanley and Sharon Epstein...... Morris and Rita Wisotsky – special birthdays Phina Rosin...... Norman Kamionsky – in appreciation Avraham and Channa Eidelman...... Marion Gulis – special birthday Cynthia Barmor...... Goldie Rosen – 90th birthday Leslie and Tova Berman...... Danny & Debbie Gilenburg – 50th anniversary Leonie Brickman and family...... Keren Telfed – in appreciation Belle Price...... Rhoda Sklar – 80th birthday Dave and Gail Bloom...... Rhoda Sklar – 80th birthday Ann Reiff, Ray and Tee Kolnik,Sheila Swiel and family, Anita and Abe Jessel and Cynthia Mendelsohn, Nick and Nelly Alhadeff, Abrahamson celebrate Jack and Cecily Reichman, their Diamond anniversary Meish and Carmen Aronson...... Abe and Anita Abrahamson – 60th anniversary Jack and Rae Galloon...... Barney & Naomi Kaplan – 45th anniversary Woolf and Renee Rakin...... Walter and Fanny Robinson – 50th anniversary Nick and Nelly Alhadeff...... Walter and Fanny Robinson – 50th anniversary Freda Raphael...... Walter and Fanny Robinson – 50th anniversary Freda Raphael...... Adina Matalon – 85th birthday Vic and Helen Hirsh...... Rob and Ros Langbart – 50th anniversary

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37 COVER STORY by David Kaplan “When we came on aliyah 25 years ago, some of our friends in South Africa asked if I wasn’t nervous about our 3-year old son, Robert, having to serve in the IDF,” says former Capetonian Linda Barron of Kfar Saba. “In my naiveté I laughed and said that by the time he was eighteen there wouldn’t be a need for him to even become a soldier!” There must be many Southern African parents who over the decades thought or hoped the same. For the month of war in the north, career officer Captain Robert Barron’s parents never knew where he was or what he did. “Some-t thing in intelligence is all we knew,” COPING sighs Linda. Their daughter Melody, the only in the family, had just WITH WAR returned from the States when she was called up. “For thirty- three days she was stationed at the Kirya in Tel Aviv, operating under such stressful conditions that many an evening, she would return home and collapse in tears. She knew things that she could only share with herself.” Linda concludes, “We are proud of our kids and are very thankful that they had not been in direct danger.” In the street outside the home of Itz and Not so for the Hart family also of Shirley Stein in Kfar Kfar Saba. The only time they saw their Vradim. Former South son during the war was as a white dot run-n African Avi Hirschfield ning across the TV screen on nearly every of Kfar Vradim captured the drama on news network. Formerly of Johannesburg, film immediately after their son “D” belongs to an elite unit, that the attack. started out from 6000 applicants three years earlier and ended with twenty-four. As one of that elite 24, “D” participated in the IDF commando raid on the 1st August on the

38 Peter Kurland of Kibbutz Manara points out sites of Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek in the attacks below. Bekaa Valley. The first hint that something was afoot was “When we received a call Saturday morning at 5.45 from our son. “I’m fine, back at the base, dead beat and off to sleep. Watch the TV later.” The Harts did not return to bed, turned on the TV and waited. They would later see those “white dots darting across the screen heading to what looked like a building and realizing - one of them The war, although having no had lost count how many is our son.” official name by the time we Katyushas had fallen on his kibbutz and neighb- The war, although having went to print – The Hezbullah bouring area. “The whole no official name by the time War, The War in the North, the area is devastated; forests we went to print – The Hezb- Katyusha War as some have destroyed,” he laments. bullah War, The War in the been calling it — was well “Yesterday a missile fell North, the Katyusha War entrenched in the minds of all right next to my home. as some have been calling Israelis by the names of loved We were told not to walk it - was well entrenched in ones lost, kidnapped or injured. outside but I had to clean the minds of all Israelis by the area where the soldiers the names of loved ones lost, kidnapped were stationed. Suddenly, I heard one hell or injured. of a bang and then saw that it had struck Out of the 117 soldiers that never an electric cable with shrapnel falling on returned home, four were of Southern our residential complex. Five buildings African ancestry. The first to fall wasYaniv were affected. The worst of it was that it Bar-on, killed in the skirmish on the first caused a huge fire that took hours to put out. day of the war. Asher Novick, Noar Calo Our area was once all forests – no more. and Lotan Slevin followed Yaniv. (See Last week a barrage of missiles struck the tributes on page 46) southern end of Kiryat Shmona causing a However what made this war different fire that spread all the way up the Naftali from previous hostilities – apart from the mountain range reaching the top cableway War of Independence - was that the bat-t station and restaurant and then continued tlefront included Israel’s cities, towns and to the left and right.” rural settlements. Telfed Magazine spoke Sleep is a luxury few people in the north to Southern Africans caught up during and enjoyed. “The noise of the Katyushas and after the conflict. our own cannons was deafening,” said Peter Kurland on Kibbutz Menara Peter. “You don’t get used to it, but I don’t

39 COVER STORY want to leave. This is my home and we are twenty-second member of the kibbutz to all prepared to suffer and wait until our die in action since 1948. One of his best army completes the job.” friends was former South African Farrel Kibbutz Maayan Baruch, perched on Chonowitz also of Maayan Baruch. His the northern border facing both Lebanon mother Adrienne relates how emotionally and Syria has always been draining life became for the family as in the thick of it. After Israel the war wore on. “Farrel was fighting left Lebanon six years ago, in Lebanon and we did not hear from founding kibbutz member him for eleven nerve-wracking days. Leib Golan, who had lost Coupled with the Katyushas and our a son serving in the IDF, guns pounding all day, my daughter told a Telfed organized tiyul would enquire after each boom, “Is group, “maybe things will it ours or theirs”. now change. I look forward The Chonowitzs were lucky. The to the day when there will day before the cease-fire came into be an open highway from effect a Katyusha landed on the here to Damascus.” With grass next to the kibbutz dinning Katyushas coming over at Haifa under attack: Anna Ben room. “A piece of shrapnel flew the rate of 120 on average a David waits it out with her quite some distance into our lounge day, few people were thinki- children in the bomb shelter. and destroyed our TV. Fortunately we ing anytime soon of a spin were in the bomb shelter at the time. in a convertible to Damascus. Whatever our experiences - it all seemed Sadly, the only spin was that weaved so insignificant when we learnt of the death by the politicians; that the war will end of Haren.” when the Katyushas stop and Hezbul-l lah is neutralized. Neither happened and NO TIME… when 22 year-old Haren Lev was killed Brenda and Antony Woodward from East on the last Shabbat of the War, he was the London had only been in the country two weeks when the war broke out. Staying in the absorption center in Karmiel they were suddenly shaken out of their chairs when the first Katyusha landed in the street outside their bedroom window. “We were watching TV when the missile hit,” relates Brenda,

The Woodward Family (l-r: Kaeleigh, Tony and Brenda) of the Karmiel Absorption Center endured three attacks in rapid succession. “Plaster from the wall fell on my face,” said Brenda.

40 “There was no siren the first time so we were That is a luxury that totally unprepared. As we ran to the bomb the Hirshfield family shelter, a second missile landed even closer at Kfar Vradim, close and plaster from our wall came off right in to the Lebanese border, did not enjoy. “We my face. My husband was screaming at us to have zero warning. By the time we hear the get down when the third landed. Then, there siren, the Katyushas have fallen,” says Avi followed a couple of minutes of silence. It Hirshfield. At the time of the interview was so eerie.” during the second week of the war, some Suddenly, this Eastern Cape family that ten Katyushas had already landed in this had been drawn to the Galilee because of picturesque northern town. Avi recalls the serenity, were running down the pas-s that the first rocket to strike Kfar Vradim sage to the bomb shelter. “It was terrible. landed close to the house of his friends An elderly new - Itz and Shirley Stein. “It landed in the middle of the road, creating a huge crater. Photographer Avi Hirschfield Also blew off the garage door of an elderly of Kfar Vradim shows couple’s home, with shrapnel penetrating a visiting South African delegation his photographs throughout their house. We ran to attend to of the war. them who were understandably in a state of shock.” For the children it was Daniel Chonowitz tough. “A missile screamed a of Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch holding a few metres above our house piece of shrapnel as my 16 year-old daughter that damaged the was on the balcony. She family home. felt the heat of the missile immigrant was having as it shot past, landing 120 a seizure. We now knew what it was like metres from our home. My to be in the middle of a war.” That night twelve year-old refused to the Woodwards discussed their situation. leave the bomb shelter. Never. They decided that they were not returning Fortunately, I had converted it to South Africa and “we felt the war will into a very livable area with end and we will get on with our lives.” a TV, DVD and games. I had A former lecturer in Information Tech-n to. With the continuous sound nology at Fort Hare University, Brenda is of explosions, the youngsters philosophical. “The sirens are now working were terrified,” says Avi. While his son was and we have at least twenty seconds to a fighting in Lebanon, he was thankful at least minute to hurry to the bomb shelter.” that his young daughter had a break for a few days at a summer camp away from

41 COVER STORY the war zone. Numerous holiday camps about life on the front line, the group were set up in the centre of the country for nevertheless felt the need to “get closer youngsters from the north to enjoy a respite. to the action” and ventured to Haifa, a Gary Kaplan, the writer’s son, as part of city pounded nearly every day of the war. his service in the army, attended two such Two of the participants, Zeev Krengel, camps, sponsored by the Jewish Agency. National Vice Chairman of the SA Board The madrichim (leaders) were members of of Deputies and Wayne Sussman, former the Noar Ha’Oved Ve’Lomed youth movem- Secretary General of Habonim Dror South ment. “These kids were all Africa, “wanted traumatized by the war but a closer look” our tochniot (programmes) and broke away were well thought out and from the group. structured,” explains Gary. Dodging Katyu-s “It was difficult when they shas over a two- first arrived. They had been day period, they cooped up in bomb shelters visited Southern and just wanted to do their Africans living thing, free of supervision. on the northern Also, they had hardly slept border. Joined and were prone to nightm- by Paula Slier, mares. Nevertheless, we freelancing for persevered with peulot the media in South African Solidarity Mission Delegates Wayne Sussman (activities) that helped (left) and Ze’ev Krengel (rt) visit at his home on South Africa, them talk about the war, Moshav Margaliot near the Lebanese border. they toured the their experiences, how to north. Most deal with it and whether they could perc- memorable for Wayne, was meeting the ceive a future free of war.” Interestingly, former Meretz leader, Yossi Sarid, on his although hardly mentioned in the media, home in Moshav Margaliot where he had Arab and Druze children from the north moved to from Tel Aviv, a few years back. also attended these camps. “Accompanied by a police van we arrived at the chicken coop where he was collecting SHOWING SOLIDARITY eggs. As we were getting out of our car, a A few Southern African families from Katyusha landed 80 metres from us. The the north addressed a Solidarity Mission guards panicked and ordered us to get the from South Africa headed by Chief Rabbi hell out of there, but I felt we had come so Warren Goldstein. The meeting was held far and I was hell-bent on meeting Yossi. in Jerusalem and organized by Telfed. We did not have long to wait. Following Although the participants heard first hand the commotion, out strolled the former Minister of Education, totally relaxed

42 Paula Slier, Israel correspondent for English-language Russian TV reporting from the Lebanese border with an Israeli tank unit. and in his trademark atonal gravel voice, he welcomed us.” Wayne three young child- describes what followed next as dren are coping. surreal. “The police were trying to “It’s terrible,” hurry us in the direction of a bomb s h e m u m b- shelter while Yossi was telling them to bles, admitting that earlier in the back off. He had a job to do. After all, he day she collapsed from the stress. had eggs to collect! What could be more “I was at home alone with my boys when important? And so we ambled back with the first rockets hit Haifa. We don’t have him into the chicken coop.” Wayne was full a shelter so we ran to my neighbour taking of admiration; “here was an iconic Leftist five minutes to get there. While we were collecting his eggs in the heat of war. For running there was another siren, then me, he was the epitome of the defiant, booms, then a siren, then more booms. It earth-rooted Zionist. A.D. Gordon would was hell. Absolute hell. Me in my nightie, have been proud.” my children in underpants and T-shirts, none of us had brushed our teeth.” Paula Slier reports: The family stayed inside the shelter for HAIFA - “If that’s what it takes” five hours. The following two days were Cyril Feinberg cuts our interview more of the same, but it became easier. short. He tells me his apartment is shak-i “The moment my children hear a siren now ing and rockets are falling all around they rush like soldiers to the front door him. The siren has just gone off and and get ready to move. It’s amazing how he has ninety seconds to get to the quickly they’ve adjusted to the situation. bomb shelter just outside his front door. Once, when I put the kettle on, my little “I’ve lost count how many times I’ve gone boy woke up in the middle of his sleep and there,” his voice waivers. He is scared, hearing its whistling noise, shouted, “Mom, but not for himself; only for his country. the siren; we must go to the bunker!” “The idea of having left South Africa for They know the situation is really serious anywhere but Israel was unthinkable, in but seem less traumatized. We are in the the same way that leaving Haifa would be right, we want our kidnapped soldiers back unacceptable. I have no intention of making - and our children know this too. We are way for anybody who wants my home.” strong and we’re prepared to be in bunkers Formerly of Johannesburg, Anna Ben- if that’s what it takes.” • David (nee Agulnik) is less concerned with [ed. After the war, Anna’s husband Haim was politics and more concerned with how her tragically killed in a diving accident in Haifa port.]

43 IN MEMORIAM The chairman Itz Kalmanowitz, members of the Executive,the Director and Staff of Telfed express heartfelt condolences to families whose loved ones have passed away in recent months:

Alec Rathouse of Tel Aviv Minnie Pakter of Jerusalem Alec Rogoff of Durban Morris Hack of Beit Herut Arthur Kaplan of Bulawayo Myrtle Swartz of S. Africa Asher Novick of Kanaf (on active service) Naor Calo of Maagan Michael (on active service) Bennie Kassel of Rishon Lezion Noel Kanichowsky of S. Africa Blanche Isaacson of Raanana Raymond Chesler of Raanana Elijah Lutzno of Raanana Ronnie Richter of Ashdod Ethel Goldberg Rose Brenner of Raanana Eva Kaplan of Bulawayo Russel Kirsch of Moshav Orot Heinz Hammershlag of Edenvale Shmuel Rubinstein of Kfar Blum Irene Heilbrunn Solomon Shippel of Tel Mond Les Kramer of Ramle Yaniv Bar-on of Maccabim (on active service) Lotan Slevin of Chatseyva (on active service) Yona Fisher of S. Africa Marie Sanders of Herzliya Phillip Levinthal of Port Elizabeth Matthew Israelson of Australia Justin Passwell of Moshav Herut (see website tribute) Max Gatter of Pretoria Haim Ben David of Haifa Ita Weiner of Tel Mond

ASHER NOVICK (Z’L) Sometimes there are no spoken words that can express ‘heartbreak,’ but maybe written words can. This is about a very unique family - the Novicks, who came on Aliya from South Africa in 1977 - father Issy, mother Pearl (my very close friend), and four wonderful kids, Leeor, Tanya, Ashie, and Barak. What’s so unique about that, you may ask? In thirty years of living in Israel everyone is touched by heart-break, but Pearl has had so much...from the death of her firstborn daughter Leeor 28, from Leukemia eleven years back, to the passing of her husband Issy three years ago, and now this! Ashie, a paratrooper, was called up to join his special unit. They were resting in a house in Debel, Lebanon, when a missile hit the house, which collapsed, killing him and eight of his comrades. Ashie, her eldest son who celebrated his 36th birthday just a week previously with his child-hood sweetheart Ossie and their two kids, Yuvalie 10 and Ittai 6; Ashie, who was doing the work he loved as manager of the Luna Gal on the Kinneret five minutes from Moshav

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Kanaf where he loved to live; all gone! Ashie, the kind, gentle, modest, stoic, reliable guy who, when asked by his basic training officer why he had volunteered for this dangerous unit, had replied, “my mother as a young girl volunteered for the Israeli army, and later persuaded my Dad to bring the family on Aliya, so I too wanted to safeguard my Moledet, (Homeland).” Here was the Ashie concerned for everybody’s’ well-being, now gone! What a vacuum, what heartbreak for all! So, what’s so unique? Unique is Pearl (Ashie’s mother) who can still raise her head above all this heartbreak and look at life with a positive and loving attitude. That’s what’s so unique! Roni Wolf, Raanana

NAOR CALO (Z’L) Naor Calo, aged 25, of Ma’agan Michael, was killed in the village of Dubel in Lebanon, on 9th August, 2006. Naor, who served in the elite corps of “Yael” in the Engineering Unit, was also a paramedic and was killed during a Hezbullah attack when he ran to attend to soldiers who had been injured. Naor is survived by his parents, Barbara and Avner Calo, three brothers and two sisters, as well as his girlfriend. His mother, Barbara Calo (neé Sacks) was born in Pinelands, Cape Town, where she attended primary school, and later Sans Souci High School in Newlands. In 1978 she came to Israel and later joined the Ulpan on Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael, where she met her husband, Avner. Naor was their first child, and the first sabra in Barbara’s family. Naor loved the sea and was a committed surfer — both regular and kite surfing. He enjoyed many sports, ranging from snooker and rollerblading to tennis, basketball and snowboarding. He, along with his two younger brothers, played football for Ma’agan Michael’s team, which won both the league and regional cup just over a month ago. He was a keen amateur photographer and particularly enjoyed photographing the nature and wildlife of which he was so fond. He loved cooking and took great care of his plants and herbs. He enjoyed visiting different countries in Europe, Central and South America where he travelled, surfed and snowboarded. He and his girlfriend, Natalie, who had planned to get married next year, had already booked a trip to Thailand for this September. He always wanted to visit South Africa with its abundant wildlife and nature, and the family had spoken several times of a possible visit. Naor’s loyalty to those close to him and his zest for life led to many varied circles of friendship, including the surfing community and football fraternity who have made plans to commemorate his memory. Everyone who knew Naor will always remember his ready smile, his laughter and optimism, his good nature and his ironic sense of humour. He will be sorely missed by his family and friends. The Family

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LOTAN SLEVIN (Z’L) On the 24th July, officer Lotan Slevin (Z’L), son of Gil and Iris Slevin, was killed in the thick of battle. Commander of his tank, he had instructed the vehicle to stop and pick up wounded shoulders, who were then hurriedly brought into the tank. With little room left inside, Lotan stood half outside, exposed to enemy fire. The tank took a direct hit and Lotan was killed instantly. Raised from childhood on Moshav Hatsevah in the South – his South African grandparents Cecil and the late Pat Slevin were pioneers in Eilat from the 1950’s - Lotan would heroically lose his life in the North, in the battlefields of Lebanon. Cecil and Pat, both from the Eastern Cape, came to Israel in 1948 to fight in the War of Independence. Both Lotan’s father and grandfather had been officers before him - Cecil had served in the Jewish Brigade during the Second World War - and in keeping with family tradition, Lotan requested to be sent into action when war broke out. Only two weeks before he was killed, he was honored as a Katzin Mitztayen (Outstanding Officer). Twenty-one year old, Lotan leaves behind his parents and three brothers - Omer, Yogev and Bar.

YANIV BAR-ON (Z’L) 19-year-old Staff-Sgt. Yaniv Bar-on (Z’L), son of Carleen and Asher Bar-on (formerly Errol Wayburne) of Maccabim, and grandson of Marcia and the late Ellis Wayburne of Rehovot, was killed on the first day of the war on the 12th July. “It all started when the Hezbullah started shelling the army outposts on the border,” relates father Asher, who came on aliyah with his family in 1970 from Johannesburg. “It was all a diversion and Yaniv’s outpost was heavily hit. They then attacked our border patrol, killing three of our soldiers and kidnapping two. Yaniv and his comrades immediately went into action and dashed for their tank; quite a feat with all the shelling that was going on. An armoured vehicle that was to give chase and try to cut off the kidnappers joined them. As Yaniv’s tank crossed the border – Yaniv was the driver - they went over a mine killing all inside.” Yaniv’s hobby was civil aviation and he planned on becoming an air-traffic controller. Like most youngsters, he loved sport and founded the Maccabi Basketball Fan Club in Macc- cabim and ran its website. Yaniv is survived by his parents and siblings, Eitan and Hadass.

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