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Terry Kessel Managing Director CONTENTS FLOOD, SWEAT AND FEARS

NOTICE failed to have been affected by the devasta INTHEMAIL FormerSouth Africans in Israel could not have tion and loss of life afflicted recently on the south PEOPLE east coast of Africa. Mozambique, in particular, AAA was the hardest hit by nature's brutal battering of HEALTH the low-lying areas. Images haunt us of frightened COVER STORY souls perched on the thatched rooftops of humble N O T I C E B O A R D , dwellings, or precariously clinging to the fiimsy TELFEDTIDINCS upper branches of wind-bent trees, desperately try ART SCENE ing to keep one step ahead of the ever-rising B O O K N O O K floodwaters. N E W A R R I VA L S . In this nightmarish scenario, we can lake pride BUSINESS BRIEFS in the South Africans that are risking life and limb PROFILE to bring relief to the multitudes in their plight. The NUPTIALS Jewish community of South Africa has also risen KEREN TELFED ... to the challenge by funding fifty tons of emergency CONDOLENCES., equipment, medical teams, and chartering two CLASSIFIED SAA planes and two helicopters to assist the vic- lim.s of the floods. Telfed's e-mail newsletter appealing for do PRODUCTION nations elicited generous responses. Let us join Editor; Becky Rowe hands with our Jewish community in South Af Correspondents: David Kaplan. Becky Rowe rica in helping to save hundreds of thousands of Editorial Committee Chairman;David Kaplan lives. See Notice Board on page 25. Design and Layout: Becky Rowe David Kaplan Business Manager: Lena Nulman Chairman, Telfed Editorial Committee: Sharon Bernstein. Chairman of the Editorial Board Janine Gelley, Hilary Kaplan. Mark Kedem. Sidney Shapiro, Michelle Wolff South African Zionist Federation (Israel) Cover and Artwork: David Kaplan 19 Schwartz Street, Ra'anana Advertising: Lena Nulman tel.: (09)7446110. fax: (09)7446112 Proofreading: Marvyn Hatchuel. email: [email protected]; web: www.teIfed.org.il Harriet Levin. Lucy Jacobson, Solly Kaplan. Joint Counselling Services Offices: Judith Rowe. Peter Rowe Tel Aviv: 76 Ibn Gvirol Street Extra or back copies of Telled Magazine are available at tel: 03-696-5244 fax: 03-696-8696 NIS15 per magazine. Contact Lena. e-mail: [email protected]. employment: [email protected] To advertise in Telfed Magazine, Jerusalem: 13 Ben Maimon Boulevard lel:02- 5634822, fax 02-5663l93.e-mail:[email protected] phone Lena; (09)7446110 Karmiel: Merkaz Klita Karmiel The views and comments expressed in articles in this publication tei:04- 9989940 fax:04-9980939; email:[email protected] are not necessarily those of the South African Zionist Federation Haifa ( Employment Resource Centre): (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. The organisation is not 131 Hameginim Boulevard: tel: 04-8512726 fax:04-8517846, responsible for the advertisers and the insertions in this magazine. e-mail:[email protected] PLEAS E NOTE: The date on the right corner of your mailing label indicates the date of your last payment for Telfed Magazine. If no date appears, we have not yet received payment from you.

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AN EVENINCTO REMEMBER Kol HaKavod to them and Dear Editor, thank you, Telfed, for allowing The couple of hours we spent with the group us to share the experience. of former political prisoners from South Africa Linda and Norman Barrori at an evening hosted by Kfar Saha Ed: see swry on page 26. Telfed evoked bitter sweet emotions. Recall LESSONS FROM THE NEW SA ing the frustration and Dear Editor, outrage caused by the I'm replying to Dr. Colin King's letter en apartheid regime, that titled "Wearing Blinkers" referring to my letter drove so many of us in your July issue. I am amazed that my re away from South Af marks on the good manners, courtesy and rica, gave way to humil helpfulness from mainly black people, dur ity in the face of these ing our last visit to South Africa, could have been people who never gave up the 'struggle.' They so misinterpreted. Despite their pa.sl under the have lived to forgive their tormentors in order to terrible apartheid period, the Blacks that we met, build a brighter future in South Africa. exhibited no bitterness — part of the spirit of reconciliation inspired by their leaders. I wear no blinkers. I am aware of the nega Looking for Peace and Quiet? tive side of the situation in South Africa nowa Looking for the Best Beaches in Israel? days — understandable when such a large pro Looking for Quality Holiday portion of the population live in dire poverty, A c c o m m o d a t i o n a t R e a s o n a b l e P r i c e s ? while at the other end of the scale people live in palaces behind high walls and barbed wire. K i b b u t z E i i f a z I have lived in Israel longer than in South Africa, where I was born and educated, so I can modestly claim, together with Dr. King, that I Guesthouses have also had a hand in helping to make this land of ours what it is today. /, therefore, hove both the right and the duty to wish it perfect when Just 25 minutes from EILAT, situated In the it is not always so. Israelis, I am sad to say, are tranquil Arava Desert, we have sixteen not renowned for good manners or patience. beautiful, air-conditioned rooms, each When we were on beaches and forest trails with its own fully equipped kitchen in South Africa, now open to all, our experience ette, bathroom was that visitors seemed to adhere to the displayed and eight channel slogan; ''Leave nothing behind but your foot television. prints." Whereas, on our precious Carmel forest paths, beaches, streets and picnic sites, everything Contact Hilary at is left behind, including glass bottles which cause (07)635-6230 or (053)688-384, forest ﬁres. When will we Israelis learn? fax (07)635-6217 Doreen Guinsberg Kibbutz Eiifaz, M.P. Eilot 88812 Haifa

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Dear Editor, SINCERE APOLOGIES I feel I must comment briefly on the letter Dear Editor, from Dr. King regarding South Africa. In the letter 1 wrote about the 1. On my most recent of many visits, I made great contribution of the chairmen of Telfed's a point of looking for the "filth in the streets." I Netanya Committee in the December 1999 edition, did not find it. I wish my pavements and streets I erroneously omitted a special person, Louis were len percent as clean, smooth and free of Chesed. This was a gross oversight and I sincerely excrement as those I saw in Johannesburg. apologise. 2.1 wish the service providers here were ten Lou Chesed is a vital part of Netanya and his percent as friendly, helpful and polite as those work as chairman was important and greatly ap in South Africa. preciated in our community. Lou - ad 120. 3. Sport, especially, at school level breeds Rona Kruger, Hadar Am character and discipline — something very lack THAT'S MY BALL, MATE!" ing here. 4. The bloodless change to democracy was a Dear Editor, miracle in our time — at long last people are In your last issue of Telfed, it gave me great free in the land of their birth — how wonderful pleasure to read of the formation of a netball as to see the pride and patriotism. sociation. It also amused me to read the credit I could point out much more. I agree with given to South Africans. As much as I admire and Dr. King that we must make the most of what respect South Africans for their contributions to we have here — I only ask that he stop unjusti this country, I would like to inform your readers fiably trashing the old country which gave him that I, assisted by my husband, at the instigation and me much of of Australia, was responsible for the first netball BRAIN TEASER what we are today. team in this country. We organised a team and The following appeared Lionel Mallach introduced netball in the l4thMaccabiahin 1993. in the obituary column of Haifa Subsequently, my daughter was the organiser the New York Times in of the 1997 Maccabiah netball 1930. "Brian Franklin, a competition, and has offered her WWI fighter pilot has assistance for the next in 2001. died after a long illness." I wish the girls every success. What is wrong with this Jean Rosen. Kfar Saba insertion! Answer on page 19. T H E Y D I D I T ! Telfed Magazine is proud lo publish the photographs of the daring team, made up primarily of South Africans, who reached the lop of Kilimanjaro and returned to tell the story. In the last issue of Telfed Magazine, we interviewed Richard Shavei- Tzion on the preparations for their climb up 'Kili' ■ the highest freestanding mountain in the world. At the Summit -19,340feet: l-rguide, Yedidya Fraiman, Richard Shavei-Tzion, Doug Zippel, Ralph Hirschfeld, guide At Mweka Gate: l-r: Rick Singer, Yedidya Fraiman. Doug Zippel, Richard Shavei-Tzion. Ralph Hirschfeld. 6 ? Pioneer

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A T T H E T O P had gotten wind of the fact that the English were leaving and sent ISRAEL in an armoured car to PRIZE e v a c u a t e t h e t h r e e Jewish employees of FOR the airport. All ten of us piled into this small ar GENERAL moured car. Someone LITERATURE handed me a grenade for the risky trip to Tel rrihe prestigious Israel Prize was recently Aviv and there I was, with a grenade in one hand, X awarded to former South African Profes and my other wrapped around a pretty Australian sor Hillel Matthew (Bill) Daleski. A profes airport employee who was sitting on my lap." A sor at Hebrew University for40 years. Bill is rec homh.shell in either hand —what a v to arrive! ognized as one of the major researchers of I9lh After the war. Bill finished his .studies at WITS and 20th century English literature. His first book. and returned to Israel in 1952. Recently retired The Forked Flame: A Study of D.H. Lawrence was from Hebrew University, he is working on papers published in 1965, and since then, he has written on the echoes of Dickens's Bleak House in extensively on Conrad. Dickens, Hardy and vari Conrad's The Secret Afienf, on a little known novel ous themes in the English novel. He was elected by D.H. Lawrence; and on an essay dealing with to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humani Philip Roth's novels relating to Israel. On I.srael's ties in 1993, and to the American Academy of Arts 51st birthday. Professor Daleski, along with the and Sciences in 1999. other Israel Prize winners, will gather in the Jeru Bill hails from a prominent South African Zi salem Theatre to receive his prize. onist family. "In 1948, my father was chairman of the Jewish Slate Party (an offshoot of the Re visionists), my cousin Louis Pincus, chairman of Contact Sheryl for your customized the Zionist Socialist Part\\ and Louis's brother Invitations and all your printing requirements Joel, head of the Revisionists. I was a member of B u s i n e s s - P e r s o n a l - S t i c k e r s - L a b e l s Hahonim." One can imagine dinner table chat was far from idle in the Daleski compound. After lis tening spellbound to an impassioned speech by Bernard Gering following the pas.sing of the UN , a, Sii6/ty^'s partition plan. Bill enlisted in Mahal. "Seven of us arrived in Lod Airport the day the Brits were pulling out in April '48. It was mayhem. I ap I N V I T A T I O N S F O R A L L OCCASIONS proached an English soldier asking him how to get to Tel Aviv. He looked me up and down and Tel I Fax; 09-7745657 Cell: 052-542229 email: [email protected] snapped, "Yerdon'/ chum." Meanwhile the Hagana

8 j SHIELD i OFTHE CHILD

On behalftor Naomi of Beit Stuchiner, Issie Shapiro, proudly direc ac cepted the prestigious Prime Minister's "Shield of the Child" Award from PM Ehud Barak in November. "The award is an im portant tribute to our staff who work so hard, as well as to our con tributors and volunteers," beams Naomi, who founded Beit Issie Shapiro in 1981. With a highly skilled multi-disciplinary staff comprising psychologists, social workers, teachers, special educa tion teachers, occupational, speech, and physical therapists, SHIELD hydrotherapists, music and art therapists, the institution originally re FOR ceived its inspiration from the Selwyn Segal Hostel in Johannesburg, founded by DEVELOPING Naomi's late father. Today, it is the leading community education and treatment day-care '^VOLUNTEERISM center in Israel. Beit Issie Shapiro has attained national and in FformerrecentlyZimbabwean granted theMerle prestigiousGuttmann "Shieldwas for ternational recognition for providing excellent Developing Volunteerism" for her founding and care for people with developmental disabilities. outstanding leadership of ESRA, the English At the ceremony held in the Knesset, Naomi took Speaking Residents Association. The Shield is the opportunity in her acceptance speech to prompt awarded each year by the Israel Council for the Knesset members "to pass a law ensuring that Volunteerism to individuals who lead volunteer children under the age of three with developmen organisations. tal disabilities would be recognised by law, and The hall in Bat Yam was crowded with well would receive treatment, which at present, is at wishers from ESRA and the Guttmann family. the expense of parents." Naomi concludes, "We Merle thanked her husband Gert. "for enabling don't do our work for recognition, but when we me to volunteer and suffering me and my activi-

9 pEOPLE ties for twenty years." She went on to thank the ITS An acnlic scene of Moses ou volunteers and members of ESRA, from whom Mt. Sinai holding the tablets, she learned "about team work." and who prove \ -- jr. . painted by 16 year old that "volunteers can do a professional job on a Daniel Benjamin Williams, won first prize for Zimbabwe standard similar to those that work in business I in the- International and professional bodies." Merle appealed to the J "Children of the World business sector to be partners with the volunteer M Illustrate the Bible" ing sector, "to find ways together of giving serv W competition. Winners from ices to the weaker communities." each coiintn won a one-week Co-recipient was Michal Modai, national lour in Israel, where they met President of WIZO. Past recipients have been Ora President Weizman and other dignitaries. For Daniel of Harare, unlike most of the other prizewinners, this Herzog for her leadership in the Council for a was not his first visit to Israel. Daniel is the grandson Beautiful Israel and Suzie Eban for her leader of Gessie and Belle Boriik of Rehovot. ship in the Israel Cancer Association.

CIVINC A LITTLE TO THOSE WHO CIVE SO MUCH

"You niusl luuierstaiicl, our soklier.s on the Last month wc went to three outposts in the border are often .stationed in .small, cramped, Golan. There arc 12 kids to an outpost. They live extremely isolated outpo.si.s. They may not even in little huts and it is near freezing. It turned out have a decent place to .sit down to drink a cup that these soldiers live on cold sandwiches be cause they are so busy on the computer they don't (f is where we want to come in; to have time to prepare hot meals. On the bus ride help with the little things to make their life more back, two South Africans asked me how much a comfortable, " relates Riva Lapid of Ra 'anana, microwave would cost. I told them about new chairwoman of the English-speaking NISI.100, and they said, "Count us in." branch of the Soldiers Welfare Association. Riva Joins an illustrious line of former South Founded by former South Africans Africans who have chaired Joan Lipworth and Polly Leibowitz the English branch: Joan in 1980. the group has raised to date Lipworth, Polly Leibowitz, over one million dollars for amenities Joyce Miller, Marge Penn, for Israeli soldiers. Alan Price, Jackie Riva explains. "Once a month we Schwartz and Sadie Symon. organize tiyulim to army bases, ﬁnd "We are really doing wonder ing out what the soldiers need. Two ful work and as new chair months ago. for instance, we went to a woman. I would like to bring Riva Uipid and daughter naval base because they had asked us our work to the attention of Michal on a tivul to a base. to help furnish a debrieﬁng room. A the many Anglos in the family from London who was on the Sharon and around the coun trip with us. were so impressed, they came up to try who have not heard of us." us at the end of the trip and asked how much the A parachute debate will be held in Ra'anuna room would cost. I told thein £10.()()(). Then and with eight speakers, with Mayor Bielski as the there they offered to donate the entire sum. moderator. Watch the press for details.

10 11 EOPLE WELL-CONNECTED — T O T H E L A N D The Pincus-Berold clan recenlly reunited on a patch of desert which has been associated with the family for six decades. In 1936, Fanny and Barney Berold of Cape Town bought a sizable acreage in the northern Negev from a Beduin sheikh. In i 942, their son George, while on leave from his tour of

Pincus-Berold clan at a reunion with the old duty in North Africa, came to Palestine and do nated the land to the JNF for the purpose of estab agricultural research station in the background. Bottom row right: George Berold; lishing an agricultural research station. Middle row center: Freda Pincus. George's sister, Freda Pincus, recalls that there were caves on the site which were used to train Hagana recruits, and that the research center was eventually a Mahal facility during the War of Inde pendence. Kibbutz Revivim sits on the land today. Freda Pincus, nee Berold, now matriarch of the family recently celebrated her 80th birthday in the presence of family and friends.

FASHIONINC A FUTURE Fashion design student Orit Etzion. daughter of former South Af rican Gillian, nee Carr, and Eran Etzion, reveals to Telfed Magazine that her inspiration came from an Hungarian immigrant designer who came to Israel in the 1950s. "This ﬂamboyant European was enchanted by the sun, desert, and plants of Israel. She used these elements in her designs—beiges and browns of sand, a variety of greens and the blues of the sea. Her styles and fabrics suited a Mediterranean climate, and her goal was to create a distinct local fashion, not a rehashing of European chic." In the footsteps of her muse, Orit is determined to be part of the process of forging a uniquely Israeli style. Having received the prestigious Mirl Beckenstein Award for excellence in her third year's work at the Shenkar School of Textiles and Fashion Design, Orit has begun her ﬁnal year with some smashing successes. She scours the country looking for ideas, fabrics and accessories which will symbolically bring together different parts of Israel. "I was inter ested in making the connection between the secular and sacred, so in my jeans project — jeans being a standard symbol of the secular— I integrated sacred elements. The model, for instance, wore a shirt with tzitzit, and passages from Psalms were printed on her hand bag." In Orit's evening dress project, she used fabrics that aren't usually seen in formal evening wear—hessian, linen and IDF combat belts sewn together to create a fabric. For Orit's final project, she is collecting diverse accessories — Arab embroideries, religious objects— and "translating them into fashion elements." No doubt we will be hearing more about Orit - a runaway success!

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CONFRONTING have a packed itinerary, in T H E P A S T cluding Bergen-Belsen. At the camp, when you see the TOGETHER German and Jewish kids cry ing in each others' arms, you With the approach of Yam HaShoah, get the feeling that we have some Israeli schoolchildren will be pre achieved something. The fol paring/or what has become a rite of pas Janice Shrager aiul student lowing weekend is always sage for many Jewish youth —a visit to at Bergen-Belsen. the most difﬁcult emotion the death camps of Europe. High School ' ally for the students and the teacher. Janice Schrager, nee Borsuk, who host families. At the beginning, everyone is walk made aliyah with her parents in 1978 is part of a ing on eggs, and the atmosphere is tense. Then unique programme, different from the standard little by little, the kids break down, the German trips to Poland. parents, who feel horribly guilty, break down, and Explains Janice. "Ours is a student exchange then everyone begins to talk, it is a catharsis, and with the town of Hamelin in Lower Saxony. One somehow or other we all work through it. " year German students and teachers are hosted by This exceptional programme was started by Israeli families, and the following year, our stu the Mayoress of Hamlin who had been to Israel dents. from the ORT-Habonim School in Bat many times. She and the teachers involved have Yam, are hosted by the Germans." Janice empha really devoted themselves to the teaching and sises that this programme is designed to foster memory of the Holocaust, which is not in the personal ties and a deeper understanding of the German school curriculum. In preparation for Holocaust. "While young Germans have to their trip to Israel, the Germans learn about Jew come to terms with their history, young Israe ish history, religion and culture. lis need to meet the new generation of Ger Asked about last year's heavily publicised ﬁ mans." When Janice was asked to host a German asco where the evening after their visit to teacher six years ago, she was very reluctant. "I Auschwitz, some Israeli high school students in had been brought up in a home where German vited Polish strippers to their hotel rooms, Janice appliances and products were taboo and I would replies, "Our programme has a built-in mecha- never have dreamed of going to Germany. But. ni.sm to deal with the pain. I see what my kids go educationally, this sounded like such a special through after a visit to the camp. But they can programme. I decided to give it a try." wind down and get through it with their host fami "It was the most intense two weeks my fam lies. I have been to Bergen-Belsen four times and ily had ever had — for my children, my parents I think it only gets harder. I never get through my and my in-laws, who are survivors. The German speech at the memorial service which we hold teacher was so knowledgeable in Jewish history, with our German hosts. I always break down in philosophy and culture that we were in shock." tears in the middle." Hosted by Israeli families, the German group is Janice concludes. "You shouldn't depend on taken on trips around the country - to the north history books and classroom lectures to ensure and to Eiial - and of course, to Yad Vashem. that the horrors of the past do not return. We can "The next year, we are taken in by families of try and build a future of tolerance through per the students and teachers whom we hosted. We sonal contacts."

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15 SAZF Israel's Academic Achievement Awards Venue: Yad LeBanim, Ra'anana Date: April 6, 2000 Time: Reception 7:45™

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Dr. Jonathan Benjamin Psychiatry Professor Ruth Herman Language Development P r o f e s s o r G e o f f r e y B o n e r N e p h r o l o g y Professor Joe Borman — Cardio-Thorasic Surgery Dr. Eva Brand Music Harry Brand Architecture and Town Planning Professor Harold Brenner Oncology Professor Gerald Brook Internal Medicine P r o f e s s o r A u b r e y C h o s a c k P e d i a t r i c D e n t i s t r y Professor H.M. (Bill) Daleski English Literature Professor Leon Epstein Community Medicine Amb. Gershon Gan — Diplomacy Daniel Goldberg —■=■—^Information Technology/Graphic Design Profes.sor Gilbert Herbert Architecture Hirsh Goodman Journalism Professor Bernard Hirschowitz Plastic Surgery Avraham Infeld - Jewish and Zionist Education Professor Michael Jaffe —Pediatrics P r o f e s s o r H e r b J u d e s D e n t i s t r y Professor Isaac Kaplan =?—# Surgery and Plastic Surgery Professor Reuven Kami Chemical and Industrial Engineering Professor Shlomo Katz Communicative Disorders

16 Leah Ziuder and Johnny Philips will host the evening with dancing by the Ra anana Dance Center founder/director Zvia Bruiner, musical interludes with Colin Shochat and Daniella Crankshaw, accompanied by Gita Franco on the piano, and humourist Robin Reiss. Forty-jive former South Africans have been nominated for having reached the pinnacle in their particular Jield of endeavour, profession or in academia. Throughout the evening's programme, all the nominees will be recognised for their outstanding contributions. At the end of the evening, ﬁve nominees, having been selected by a prestigious panel of non-South African Israeli judges, will receive the SAZF awards.

Join us for this festive celebration of South African achievement.

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Professor David Kretzmer — -----4Hunian'''Rights and Jurisprudence Judge Felix-Landau —--Law Professor Bernard Lehrer Psychiatry Professor Ze'eV Mankowitz Contemporary Jewry S i m M a n o r Engineering Dr. Andre Menache Veterinary Medicine Architecture and Engineering Dr. Bentley Novis —Gastroenterology Professor Justen Passweli Pediatrics Ben Pelleg - A r c h i t e c t u r e Professor Kenneth Preiss Nuclear Engineering Professor Solly Reisner —Pediatrics and Neonatology Professor Alan Rub'inow - Rheumatology Profe.ssor Martin Sacks Pathology Professor Theo Sacks Pathology Barry Shaked Computer Software Professor Mervyn Shapiro Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Professor Gideon Shimoni Jewish and Zionist History Professor Justin Silver Endocrinology and Nephrology Ida Suskin -t-- Child and Family Welfare Profes.sor Reuven Yagil Veterinary Research Professor Monty Zion Cardiology P r o f e s s o r L u b a Z u k Physiotherapy

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CLOSINC A CIRCLE: SOUTH AFRICANS IN THE FOREFRONT OF SOCIAL MECHCIN In the 1940s, the late Dr. Sidney Kark and his wife Dr. Emily Kark set up an community health service in Pholaela, Kwazulu-Natal. Soon after, the Natio/tali. power and the Karks left South Africa for Israel, bringing with them their ideas of primary care services to communities. They set up a clinic in Jerusalem s Kiryat Yo\ bourhood, then populated entirely by new immigrants, and began developing a ce health care delivery which has taken root around the world. After Mandela was president in 1994, the School of Public Health of Hebrew University was invited t. Africa to conduct workshops in community orientated health care. feel that through our recent work in South Leon came iwo weeks after he quali M Africa, we are closing a circle," proudly did his internship at Tel Hashomer. He relates former South African Professor Leon in Tirn and Taibe, and in I960, joined Epstein, Director of the School of Public Health Kark in his newly founded Department at Hadassah Hebrew University. "It is touch ciai Medicine at Hadas.sah Hospital, grac ing that nurses from Pholaela were among those w/fh a Masters in Public Health in 1962. we trained. Perhaps we, at the school the Karks CULTURAL DIMENSION established in Israel can contribute where they TO MEDICINE left off in South Africa over 50 years ago." "As a young physician in the early 60s, I In the late 1950s, Leon, who had been hakooch of Habonim in Cape Town, was faced with the called to an asbestos hut in Kiryat Yovel wh a young child was very ill. In the hut was a fa decision upon graduation from medical school, of either staying in South Africa, or coming to ily who had lit a fire in the middle of the rooi and a little boy with measles was wrapped in Israel. Before falling foul of the SA authorities, red blanket. I immediately stamped out the fire opened die window, took off the blanket and tok POPE-SEGAL them that the boy needed fresh air and that his temperature had to be brought down. Feeling INSURANCE satisfied with myself, I went back to the health center. An hour later, a nurse came in and said, 'you were wonderful. As soon as you left, they closed the window, lit the fire and wrapped the HOUSE & CAR POL/CIES kid in the red blanket.' This initiation early in my career taught me that a/though I may be highly vENGUSH SUMMARY, trained in Western medicine. I had little under standing of the cultural aspects of health care. Netanya: (09)8624824 "Most communities have very different needs, Ra'anana; (09) 7713392 and we can't have a stereotyped framework in

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which to (rent them. In Tim and Taibe in the tor, and later director of iate 50s, the concerns were poor mitrition and Rambam Hospital in Haifa. infectious diseases. In the 60s, in the Western From 1982, as chairman of the academic De part of Jerusalem, our focus was on child devel partment of Family and Community Health at opment - encouraging parents to bring children the Haifa Medical School, he pioneered programs to be monitored and treated, and an emphasis' in the ﬁeld of public health. on special activities to nurture the In 1990, Leon returned to Jerusalem intellectual development of ba to head the Department of Community bies. In immigrants of Western Health and become a member of the cen origin, problems of heart disease tral board of Hadassah Hospital. "In our were paramount, and we intro School of Public Health, we have two duced a preventive programme parallel masters programs - one in He for coronary disease in 1970." brew and one in English. All the Re The concept of understanding gional Public Health Directors in Israel the cultural dimension of health are graduates of our school, while over was more recently brought home 500 graduates of the English-language again to Leon in 1992, when "our track hold central positions in Asia, Health Centre was asked to treat South America and Africa." the newly arrived Ethiopian im- SOUTH AFRICA REVI5ITEC migrant.s. Continuing to attend to their needs in There i.s a tremendous need to train expert Israel, a man came to our Health Centre com public health personnel in South Africa and we plaining of chest pains. As a western doctor, I can play a special role. What we have done is imtnediate/y thought 'aha heart attack.' I arranged to initiate a program between our school and forcardiogram.s, tests, everything. But it all came the Department of Community Health in the up negative. What he was trying to tell us was University of Natal for long-term involvement that he was in pain because so many of his fam in training of public health personnel. ily had either died or been left in Ethiopia. Sure What are South Africa's biggest health prob it was an ailment of the heart, but of the emo lems'! AIDS, malnutrition and infectious diseases. tional kind." We don't have a cure for AIDS, but we can train In 1975 Leon wa.s appointed assistant direc- caregivers to focus on prevention and treatment for those infected or ill who don't need hospital IH.L PAINTING LTD care, but need to live with the disease in their communities. We have South African person Painting • Wallpapering nel who come to Jerusalem for a degree in pub Complete interiors and exteriors lic health and we simultaneously conduct work Floor polishing (wax and crystal) shops around South Africa. These newly trained Carpet and upholstery cleaning professionals will provide a nucleus for the train Minor household repairs ing of more medical personnel. "It is gratifying that a small country like RELIABLE • EFFICIENT • CLEAN Israel can have such a huge impact on health HYLTON SHER care throughout the world." 03-7320194 BRAIN TEASER ANSWER: 052-529437 Until was referred to es The 6reat V/at.

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PREVENTING A Maurice Segal, an architect, who Wespoke has beento anformer advocateSouth of innovativeAfrican PILE-UP and efficient public transportation for the past 30 years. Maurice doesn't pull his punches. He takes hard swipes at both the people and r w institutions responsible for Israel's public trans portation policy. JAPANESE INSPIRATIONS Maurice, who has been in Israel since 1948 when he came as a Mahal pilot, introduces us to the history of our unsuccessful efforts to cre ate proper public transportation in our major metropolitan areas. His interest in rail trans portation blossomed during a 372 year stint in Japan in the late 1960s, where he worked as chief architect for a major American architec tural firm. Hejoined the Japan Monorail Asso ciation and was appointed Israel's special rep resentative to Japan's International Engineer ing Consultants (lECA), a consulting firm formed by the Japanese government. "Japan is a fascinating place," sighs Maurice who is particularly taken with the way the Japa nese grapple with living and working in crowded conditions. "Cleanliness is absolutely a religion. Collection of refuse is immaculate and that is what has actually saved them from an epidemiological disaster." At this rate, in ten years time, one will have However, it is in the area of public trans to be very fit to get from Arlosoroff Station to port that Japan has set impressive standards in Dizengoff Centre in a reasonable amount of finding solutions to high density living. "Ninety time. Why? Because the most efficient means percent of travel is on railroads. In fact, To kyo's Shinjuku station is served by 11 railway of transport will be your own two legs. companies whose lines cross each other at vari However, you may keel over from carbon ous levels. Four million people pass through monoxide inhalation on the way there. The the station daily. The Japanese make it diffi present forecast for the unrestricted increase cult and expensive to drive in the city." They in motor vehicles in the city will create a understand that the key to comfortable urban nightmare of traffic jams and air pollution. living is to keep the cars out of the city. "A

20 ECO-ACTION driver has to prove that he has a guaranteed eral and the senior personnel of the Ministry of parking place at home and at work. 1 was of- Transportation, it seemed a bad idea to be de I'ered a car by my firm, but I found public trans pendent on foreign expertise to lay the founda portation much more convenient and 1009^. tion of a railway system which would be inau punctual." gurated only years later by their successors. WHERETHE BREAD IS BUTTERED "What did seem a good idea for senior person Through the good offices of n e l w a s t o Sukeya Kitamura. the executive direc develop tor of the lECA. Maurice met Japan's roads, over leading railway experts who were very passes. clo- keen to help — it was just after the verleaf inter Six-Day War! Kitamura passed on the s e c t i o n s a n d offer to the Israeli embassy in Tokyo, the like and from that time on. Maurice hosted which could Israeli transportation personnel from be con Directors-General down. "To be hon tracted out to est, aside from a chance to buy cheap local compa clothes on sidclrips to Hong Kong. I n i e s . w h o s e really don't know why they bothered directors Japan 1970. r-l uSvraluim '/.ur - Head oj'Tel to come. It didn't take the Japanese Aviv .Sidnvay Frojirl. Prince Kyu lu'C (last of could show very long to figure out that the Israe the Vi Dyiut.siy of Korea) arehifeci and ^reai their appre lis weren't really serious about rail friend of Israel, Siikeya Kita}nnra-E.\eeutive ciation by ways. The problem was that Israel Director of IKCA. Maurice Segal. inviting the had no railway planners, no railway Director- manufacturers, no railway engineers, and no General to join their board when his term of financiers who could figure out a u'ay to make office ended. money out of railways. Certainly the development of roads is cru From the point of view of Directors-Gen cial to a transportation network, but a road like

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21 the Trans-Israel Highway is being promoted to allow for the construction of underground by people and companies who know how to stations, corners are too sharp to allow for a make a lot of money quickly and legally, if not proper turn radius, preserving old and new morally. Buy land cheaply along the route of buildings above excavations would be ex the highway and sell it at an enormous profit tremely difficult, the water table is too high, for low density housing, and commercial and summer heat makes air-conditioning manda industrial development in the future. The pro tory, and Tel Aviv is an earthquake area. In moters of the highway say that such develop short, it was highly inadvisable, and the Japa ment will not be allowed, but nothing in the nese suggested weighing alternative options." signed agreement specifically precludes it. IF YOU CANT CO UNDER, CO ON TOP Powerful interests have persuaded the me dia to support the Trans-Israel Highway and "Among alternative options was a mono rail. At one of our weekly meetings, Kitamura, suppress the environmental dangers, the the executive director of lECA, told me that uncontrolled suburban sprawl, the inevita the Japanese were willing to sell Israel the seven ble rise in fatal accidents and the rape of beautiful monorail trains which had been spe the countryside. cially designed for EXPO 70 in Osaka, and PERHAPS A SUBWAY? carried 30 million passengers, over a period of The Tel Aviv subway is a good example of six months, in complete safety. The offer in what happens, or rather what doesn't happen cluded automatic systems, spare parts and when a lack of knowledge is wedded to a lack maintenance equipment. The price for this of purpose. For the last 45 years more than a monorail system was a mere $2 million, a dozen subway schemes have been planned by fraction of its true worth. I made a special teams of Israeli engineers who know virtually trip to discuss this offer with Minister of Trans nothing about subways. Their reports, for port, Shimon Peres. In a private meeting Peres which they were well paid, can be found gath told me that he had consulted with his experts ering dust in the archives of the Ministry of who had advised him that the monorails would Transportation. spoil the beauty of Tel Aviv! Before returning to Israel in 1970, Maurice So ended that initiative." arranged a visit from some of Japan's most SKYTRAINS/PEOPLE-MOVERS prominent transportation experts. "They After another stint in Japan, designing some walked the entire route of the possible Tel Aviv of the most prominent urban structures and tak subway line, stayed up all night and the fol ing a break from "promoting rail solutions to lowing moming presented a printed report to people who weren't interested," Maurice re an amazed Minister of Transportation Shimon turned to Israel in 1989. While in Tokyo, Peres and Director-General of the Transporta Maurice had helped Westinghouse in its bid to tion Department, Gad Ya'akobi. provide people-movers for Kansei International The report found that while it was feasible Airport. People-movers or Skytrains are driv- to build a subway in Tel Aviv, it would be erless, computer-controlled automated trains particularly difficult, expensive and long- running on rubber tyres on elevated tracks com term proposition. The streets are too narrow mon in major airports, and in cities like Singa-

21 ECO-ACTION pore and Vancouver. tions around the city should be intro In 1994, together with Is duced allowing people to get quickly raeli engineers, Maurice pre and safely to inner city destinations. pared a scheme for a Skytrain If such a plan is not instituted by the c o a s t a l l i n k R a ' a n a n a - H e r - year 2008, there will be twice as many zliya - Holon with a branch private cars on the road, and a night line through Sde Dov, Tel Aviv mare situation will result. University and the Ramat Can Maurice is presently working with Stadium to provide entertain- Maurice Sega! on a Professor Menachem Weiss of the Me later trip to Japan. ment/tourist/shopping/marina/ chanical Engineering Department of airport/university facilities the Technion on a new type of multi along the Tel Aviv coast. The Westinghouse es level parking tower where cars are parked and timate for a dual track with Skytrains sufficient returned to the driver automatically. Eight hun to handle 15,000 peak hour passengers in each dred ca^s can be parked on a 1.400 sq.m. site direction was $24 million per kilometre. This and, as far as they have been able to ascertain, price was considered much too high, although it is much speedier than any existing system. the estimate for a subway was five times greater For those who have ideas or want to ,get and would take four times as long to build" involved in improving Israel'spublic transpor What do you see as a solution for tation, contact any of the addresses below. Oth erwise, keep your gas masks upgraded for fu transportation within Gush Dan? ture jaunts to Tel Aviv. "There has to be an integrated urban tran sit system. One must implement more intelli Transport Today and Tomorrow, an gent routing of buses, integrate trams, which organization which lobbies for integrative are very efficient especially where priority and sustainable transport on national and trams have right of way; and use people-mov- local levels at (02)6728430. or ers/Skytrains to the airport and along major [email protected]. www.iued.org.il, or routes. In a flat city with a short winter, dedi for cyclists, www.bike.org.il. cated cycle paths would become very popu lar. Trains, are, of course, very important, but Kosher Supervision Rabbinate - Ra'anana only as part of a comprehensive urban trans M e a t - P a r v e port system. For instance, you can arrive by train to the Azrieli Center, but how do you get Shirley's Deli from there into the city? "Assorted herrings and other fish. "For Tel Aviv to be a pleasant place in •Kugeis and quiches of your choice. •Beef and chicken dishes to order. which to live and move around, most of the •Assorted salads. Homemade biscuits. cars will have to be kept out of the city as they • C a k e s a n d D e s s e r t s . are in Singapore. This goal requires extensive •Catering up to 250 People and convenient parking on the perimeter of Please place your orders early. the city. More mini-van cabs are needed, and 92 Achuza Street, Ra'anana small electric cars for rent with charging sta Telephone orders 09-7460789/7460879

_ Magic and Humour Installations on nature and art by Ra'anana's Education Hotline MARLENE FERRER in English opening March II, 8pm at: HaStudio Gallery 179 Ahuza St., Ra'anana tel. (09)761-0378 or fax (09)761-0388; March II - April 4 Every Tuesday: 19:00 -19:30 Sun., Thurs.: 9 - 13.00, Mon., Wed. - 17 - 19.00

Hostel for adults with mental retardation Mortgage Notice IjWe are looking to establish a supervised hostel for semi-independent living If you plan to apply for for English speaking residents with mental retardation in the Sharon area. the Telfed Additional For more information regarding residency, Mortgage Loan - Do not Q please contact Marilyn Hilkowitz at (09)7715733. apply to a bank for your First Mortgage What are you doing tonight? until you have spoken to Tune into Telfed's on-line magazine. Susan at Telfed. SAZFTel.: Parking is always free, loitering encouraged and interesting reading can be found on every corner: {09)7446110 www.telfed.org.il U -j'- j>/us keep you up-to-date with Telfed's electronic newsletter. Please email us your email address. /Johannesburg High School for Girls [email protected] tf: (Barnato Park) REUNION; Matric Class of 1961 ■'^51 i Members of the Class of "61 are preparing for their 40 Ârchive material on year reunion, scheduled for March 2001. Lithuanian Jewry V/e would like to trace the following persons who n The archive is open on Mondays would have enrolled at the school in January 1957 .f 9-13.00 at the Association offices. and matriculated in December J96I: 1 David Hamelech Blvd. Tel Aviv Miriam Mandel (now Rome), Tessa Wise (now We welcome family photos, letters, Segal). Frances Segal (now Oshry). Edna Gibor, and newspapers from pre-War Marian Kay (now Geffenowitz). Lithuania. If you are able to assist in any way, please contact Contact: Rachel Levin or Nicky Feldman at 6 Simtat Aharon, Haifa 34363. or Angela Silman (03)696-4812 tel. (04)8251370. (053)787555. R.E.S.A. The Rishon Lezion English Speakers Association A p a r t m e n t s t o R e n t (R.E.S.A.) was founded six isrentco apartments to rent years ago, and is a non in Tel Aviv and Ra'anana. profit organisation which Various sized apartments in convenient areas at provides many varied and reasonable reantais. Long-term leases available. interesting monthly For details call Isrentco atlelfed's offices (09)744-6110 meetings such as musical and games evenings, SAZF (Israel) bingo, as well as EMERGENCY APPEAL interesting lectures, i Academic FOR FLOOD VICTIMS Our annual Bar-6-Que I Achievement Awards and Dinner are always I IN MOZAMBIQUE well attended and I Venue: Yad LeBanim. Funds are still urgently greatly enjoyed by our I Ra'anana members. needed to finance the Israeli Date; April 6 For further Information, Time; Reception 7;45pm medical team and equipment. please contact our Tickets are still available. LATET, the Israeli chairperson, Contact Hilary Kaplan at Humanitarian Aid N60 is Sheila Levithan at (09)7672404. Sec pafic's 16-17. coordinating efforts. Donations can be deposited in LATET's account: Renee Kaplan nee Joffe R e m e m b e r N E T B A L L ? Bank Hapoalim Branch S02, Aeet # 253878. J looking for old friends We are looking for anyone, any age, For more information froiii anywhere, who's willing to from King David School have fun and try their hand again at contact Sidney Shapiro at In Johannesburg the game some fondly remember from schooldays. Telfed (09)744-6110. (02)999-0981 I Rehovot: Lucy (08)8508652. Niki It (08)8508746: Jerusalem: Michal (02)6510058 Sharon: Jodi; (05.'))420528. Yoni (054)649486 Quality of Life A c t i v i t i e s f o r C h i l d r e n ^ PURIM PARTY Application for assistance for The Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel is children to attend afler-scliool holding a Purim Party in Netanya on Wednesday, a c t i v i t i e s o r s u m m e r March 22 camps can be made to Telfed. Banquet and traditional entertainment South African olim with Lithuanian roots are Please contact Renec particularly welcome. For reservations: for an application tel. (03)696-4812, fax. (03)695-4821 (9-13.00) form. TELFEDTIPINOl

A L E S S O N In an interview with Telfed Magazine, his prison years were not what he wanted to dwell on. He IN FORGIVENESS has great hopes for the future. As General Secre Telfed was honoured to host a delegation of tary of the newly founded South African Libera former South African political prisoners brought tion Veterans' Association, he is determined to to Israel under the auspices of the Van Leer In see former prisoners and their families cared for. stitute for a conference entitled, ""From Uprising "We want to obtain bursaries for the children of to Nation Building." those who were killed." Does he have Hertzei Katz welcomed advice for the Israelis and Palestinians the group of 15 by draw he is meeting with? "There is no use say ing parallels to the na ing the other side is wrong. Both sides tion-building tasks they must accept their wrongs. The agenda for face with the Zionist ex today is for coexistence. You cannot let perience. the wagon ride by, or you will regret it." Buyiswa Jack-Bungane was ar o rested when three months pregnant and put into solitary conﬁnement for six months until the birth of her daughter. "But my daughter doesn't even know what apartheid is. She never lived through it." Buyiswa is now a tour co Ms. Sisisi ordinator at Robben Island. Tolashe "We are proud of our prison experi ence," says Ezra. "They couldn't strip us of our humanity and in the end, our war dens grew to admire and respect us." He After listening to went on to say, "We are proud of the sons each of the delegates and daughters of the Jewish people who introduce themselves stood alongside us in our struggle." by succinctly recount In his parting remarks, Hertzei ex ing their period and pressed the heartfelt views of the former place of imprisonment, the group of former South South Africans present, "You are true heroes, Africans posed questions. Struck by the magna and we have much to learn from you." nimity and determined optimism of the former prisoners, the question was asked repeatedly, TELFED HOSTS "How can you forgive, how can you not ache for W I Z O D E L E G AT I O N vengeance?" Ezra Sigwele, the leader, his peppy charm belying his painful past, waved his hand The South African WIZO delegation to the dismissively. "I have no time for retribution. We World WIZO Congress held recently in Tel Aviv, have a country to build." made a visit to Telfed's ofﬁces in Ra'anana. Hi Phillip Sllwane spent ten years on Robben lary Kaplan, Chairperson of Visiting Groups Island on the charge of treason by virtue of his Committee, addressed the gathering on the ac active association with the Pan African Congress. tivities and functions of Telfed. A lively discu.s-

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sion ensued. The Musha Kirsch. President of the delegates felt South African Women's Zionist Coun that there was cil, spoke of a fruitful association with insufﬁcient con Telfed in the future, and following on tact between the from the discussion, proposed that c o m m u n i t i e s i n WIZO would be the ideal instrument South Africa to organise parlour meetings through and Israel, re out South Africa hosting delegations sulting in a feel of women from Israel. ing of disen WIZO visii at Telfed Ofﬁces: Execiilive members In response to Hilary's comment gagement. The Hilary Kaplan {left) and Janine Gelley (foreground). that behind every successful family of ' olim, stands a wife and mother, one c o n s e n s u s w a s that times have changed and that the need today young delegate from Cyrildene .shouted out, "You is not to send the traditional Zionist functionar need to send a kugel to bring a kugel." ies from Israel, but people who can connect with the community, such as women who can speak AMI - DO UNTO OTHERS' about bringing up children, education, health and Yad LeBanim in Ra'anana was the venue for community life. an evening to launch the cooperation between

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Tclfed and AMI. The Movement for Quality of homes and to the small group of committed vol Life in Israel. Guesl of Honour Caron Bielski unteers. .laninc Gelley, Michelle Wolff and set the tone with a crisp, hard critique on the de Stephen Kalinek who spent so many hours co clining moral fabric of our society, manifest in ordinating the weekend. the rising levels of violence. Mr. Ya'akov Shaked. an executive member OPERATION OUTREACH of AMI. opened with "A few years ago. an Ameri Mark Kedcm's annual stint in green. can market research company was doing a study (miluim) in Kllat. set the scene for the launching on the price of meat. When the question, 'Ex of Telfed's Operation Outreach in Israel's cuse me. what is your opinion on the rising cost .southernmost city. Eilat has undergone a huge of meat?.' was put to a Russian, his reply was transformation in recent years and besides the "What is an opinion?' The Pole's response was, constant building of luxury hotels and tourist •What is meat?' While the puzzled Israeli asked, sites, new neighbourhoods have sprung up. the "What is excuse me?" When the audience most recent being the impressive suburb of laughed, he scolded, "It's not funny. And there Shachamon. lies our problem." In recent months. Eilat has seen an inﬂux of Hertzel Katz. former Teifed chairman, who new arrivals, both directly from South Africa, as is spearheading the joint venture, will be activat well as relocations from other parts of Israel. It ing committees on different issues to move ahead. mav be the f^rowing similarity of Eilat to some of South Africa's coastal towns, hut the facts show S A U J S I N K O C H A V Y A I R that Eilat's Southern African community is grow ing. The coffee evening, held at the home of the Levy Sabag family, was attended by close to twenty people, and all agreed that communal events should take place on a more regular basis. The question posed by Mark was whether Eilat might be a feasible drawing point for new olim from South Africa, especially for those in the tourist/hotel trade and the response was very Rossie Budow of Kocluiv Yair with three UJS sludeius. positive. Any ideas? Contact us! The recent weekend during which 60 students Sharon Levy Sabag and Linda Drelblatt were hosted by South African families in Kochav have agreed to assist us in coordinating activities Yair. was in the words of Hilary Kaplan. Telfed's in Eilat. so be in touch with them with informa Home Hospitality Coordinator, "a raving success. tion and suggestions. Sharon. (07)631-7261 and It was wonderful how Kochav Yair's .South Afri Linda. (07)637-5852(h) or (07)632-5265. can community so enthusiastically opened their Parlour meetings with members of Telfed's homes to the students." After an intensive and Executive and Staff will be taking place in the physically gruelling two-week stint in IDF bases ensuing months in Rishon LeZion. Rehovol. in the framework of Sarel. the students enjoyed a Jerusalem. Modi'in/Shoham. Haifa and the relaxing weekend. On the Saturday night, ahraai Golan. If anyone in other areas is interested in and disco were held with the youth of Kochav hosting such an evening, please contact Yair, Thanks to all the families who opened their S h a r o n B e r n s t e i n a t ( 0 9 ) 7 4 4 - 6 11 0 .

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FOOD FORTHOUOHT, reduction workshops, addressed us on the topic THOUGHT FOR FOOD of being kind to oneself, making time for oneself and not always being in a reports Hilary Kaplan hurry to reach the next stage Avery successful fund-raiser was in one's life. We are after all held in Kfar Saba on a Friday morn only human. She paid a won ing in late December for the Allza derful tribute to Aliza Hatchuel Memorial Fund. There Hatchuel. a past member of was a large turnout of people from the Te l f e d ' s K f a r S a b a Sharon area who came to taste de Committee, who licious cakes and biscuits made by made a marked con members of the community. The tribution to the edu recipes were compiled into a book cation of new olim. I let which was sold out by the end am delighted to add of the function. Fonda Dubb. a that we are able to well known caterer, gave an excel assist a student as a lent magimix demonstration. She result of the generos showed us how to u.se the magimix lop: Irii Davi.i ami Fonda Dubh. ity of all those who to its fullest potential and gave above: l-r: Mari elle Kornel. Sue Menashe. supported our fund- some Mairelle Weiss, boiiom left: l-r: Mielwlle rai.scr. won- Wolff. Mvriia Kolevsolm d e J- - Oops fully creative ideas Flea.se nole the following eorreerions 10 the recipes in the for making salads, "Food for Thoiiglil" hooklel: soups and sauces. 1. No Bake Bisciiii.s: Vi cup sugar, 'A cup syrup A f t e r w e w e r e 2. Oalineal Bi.sctiil.s: literally *fed-up'. include 1 '/: cup oats. I cup wliiie sugar, 72 tsp. sail I r i s D a v i s , w h o 3. Queen Elizabeih Date Cake: gives stress and pain boil all the ingredients in the lopping.

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T H E U J I A C O N N E C T I O N associated with the Federation over decades min gled with current volunteers and staff at Telfed's reports Mark Kedem Our liaison with the UJIA (Israel), formerly office-warming party in Ra'anana. First-time visi tors were impressed by Telfed's modern, bright the BOS, is now well under way and the ques and spacious new offices. Telfed Chairman tion we continually ask ourselves is 'Why didn't David Kaplan commented that an organization we do this a long time ago?' From a small staff of counsellors, trying desperately to provide a that hasn't moved too often in fifty years, "of service to the entire country and often not suc course, needs to be selective. It was a tough call on the shoil-list between Ra'anana and Mitzpe ceeding, we can now proudly claim to have a na tional staff of ten including a trained employment Ramon." Ra'anana Mayor Ze'ev Bielski re counsellor operating from offices in Jerusalem, sponded how thrilled he was to have Telfed's head Tel Aviv, Ra'anana, Karmiel and Haifa. Joint office in Ra'anana, and emphasised the immense services include meeting new olim at the Airport contribution the South African community has as well as field work to kibbutzim and absorp made to Israel and, more particularly, to tion centres. Ra'anana. So don't be confused if the accent you hear on the other side of the telephone is British, Aus OUR NEED TO NETWORK tralian or Scandinavian and not the familiar 'taal' reports Len Abelman that you are used to. The inherent virtue is that Growing up along the beaches and banana the information is correct, no matter how it is pro trees of Durban, I was fully networked. Through nounced. Correct me if I am mistaken. my family, community, childhood friends and university classmates, access to information and OFFICE WARMING PARTY opportunity was always abundant and freely I t w a s a n available. Whether I was look evening of the past ing for a job or a new surf merging with the board. there was always present as people someone who knew someone else who could give me an edge. After making aliyah, I realized that I hadn't only changed coun- above: Telfed's4 Directors from 1949 to tries, but had lost present, r-l: Scim Levin. Leih Frank, Ilz Stein. all contact with a Sidney Shapiro; left: Ra 'anana Mayor Ze 'ev Bielski: below, l-r: Dr. Daniel King, Alter support network Chamey. Ro-ssie Kliif'. Michelle Wolff. that I had always Janine Gellev. Louis Sakalovskv taken for granted. And like many others, and from complete scratch, above: Morris Borsuk affixes started building it again. mezuzah to Unfortunately, I have re

entrance alized that this process

30 ÊLFEDTIDINCl our on-line bulletin board. • Meet other mem can take a few decades; and is not always that bers through an on-line listing of their services reliable. The whole structure of Israeli society is and details. Looking forward to meeting you. based on a system of social contacts. At some point of the aliyah process, people R O T A T I N G E X H I B I T I O N S wishing to further themselves in the Israeli "Teifed's move from Tel Aviv to Ra'anana workplace and business world realize that knowl enables us to shift from being an organisation/<7r edge and ability are not the community to also being one of the commu enough. And many fearing nity," explains Chairman David Kaplan. As part regression, get stuck in a rut of our goal to create a more community-orien ^^ ^ r*.and years remain as an there. architect, Over I have the tated office, we have initiated a program whereby we are exhibiting artwork of South African Is come to understand the prin raeli artists on a rotating basis." At present, on ciples of synergy. The crea tion of a building from its in exhibition, we have a sculpture by Lippy ception to final completion Lipshitz on long-term loan from his daughter and requires the input and coor son-in-law, Leah and Joe Bateman, five works dination of sometimes hundreds of consultants by Zinky Agulnik, and a Krystyna from a wide variety of professions. The final Romanowicz tapestry on loan from liana Slomowitz. Artists wishing to exhibit, please con product, an urban sculpture that people live or tact Sidney Shapiro. work in, is a far greater achievement than the sum of its various inputs. This idea is applicable T H A N K Y O U S on a social level. There are tens of thousands of ex-South Africans in various stages of acclimati Telfed thanks the following people for the sation who have made generous donations to our new of fices: aliyah. We need to create a social framework where •David and Hilary Kaplan for a information, experiences, full-size kitchen unit and ideas can be quickly • M o r r i s a n d P a u l i n e B o r s u k f o r mezuzot casings and freely exchanged. If wc could harness all this / fi f Z / T z i i / o m w p s •Dr. Jonathan Benjamin for a gen erous monetary donation towards the energy in a synergic way, i+ii creation of a display board featuring then collectively we could South African youth movements all be doing a lot more to •Alter and Nadine Charney for a help one another. set of historical posters Join the Telfed Net •Doreen Miodownik for a painting work: •Contact Telfed of of a South African scene fices for an application •Julia Slonim for a magnificently form. 'Visit the Network web page via the Telfed framed historical photograph of a Zi onist gathering in South Africa. Web site: www.telfed.org.il • Trade Anybody wishing to donate a tel evision to Telfed. please contact ideas and information on Tel. (09)862-7174, (054)689-463 Sidney Shapiro.

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ON THE MOVE IN "ANOTHER DIRECTION

Recent reports appearing in The Jerusalem acquiring a tech Post indicate that 25% of Israeli pupils don't feel nique. Therefore, safe when going to school, 50 percent soy they besides offering an have been threatened by violence and 12 percent opportunity for stu of junior high school students .say they carry a dents wishing to weapon to school. Boston-based Professor Jack make dance a ca Levin, a world renowned expert on .school vio reer, the workshop lence says that "although violence in Israeli e n c o u r a g e s i t s schools has not reached the dimensions of those members to develop Founder and Director of in the U.S., Juvenile crime is rising every year. I to their fullest po die Ra 'anana Dance Center. Zvia Brumer don't k?ww whether we have e.xported the prob tential as responsi lem to Israel, but if .so, I hope that we also can ble human beings by sharing the tasks of the run e.xport the solution." ning of the Center, and performing and volun Among those grappling to ﬁnd solutions to teering for charitable organisations. violence from within Israeli society is Former As part of the programme, international dance South African and founder and artistic director techniques are used together with local music, of the Ra'anana Dance Centre, Zvia Brumer. Her regional materials and the natural environment concern for the growing violence in Israeli soci as an in.spiration for creating a unique Israeli style. ety was spurred by an incident in the Autumn of Dances which include Desert Dance and Search 1995 in which her son Alon. one of Israel's top ing for an Identity arc stepping stones in the search soccer players, was viciously attacked by a player for a unique Israeli style. "Youth today are very on the opposing team. Two bones were broken confused about their identity. Who is an Israeli? in his leg and he was left with a steel pin from We are working on creating a self-image, a substi knee to ankle. It made national headlines at the tute for the kova lembel imagery. My belief is that time, and the attacker, in public statements one doesn't have to go to India: we have a rich showed no remorse. His defense. "That's my style culture which we Just have to tap into." of play." And tap is the operative word. The Distraught by this unprovoked attack on Alon. Ra'anana Dance Center has become internation Zvia searched for an avenue to channel her frus ally known for its lap, and so it is ﬁtting that it trations and feelings. Dance was the obvious in should host this year's International Tap Dance strument. I started to examine the values passed Festival. Zvia. a former South African tap danc on to those students who had succeeded in dance ing champion, has been one of the prime movers and whose respectful attitude enhanced the repu in popularising and legitimising tap dance as an tation of the school. I decided to translate the in art form in Israel. Ra'anana has decided to take cident into an ongoing dance framework for the this opportunity to further its campaign in the building of self-esteem and self awareness." An battle against violence. On International Tap Day, innovative youth development program called Another Direction will be inviting local Another Direction was born. underpriviliged and problem children to attend Another Direction cultivates the belief that the festivities and participate in workshops. Pro achieving excellence in any skill is more than just ceeds from the event will go towards bursaries

32 ^RT SCENE for these children to attend Another Direction, of pality and Tel Mond. The Youth Center from our support. The dates for the main activities of Eilat, directed by Shelley Shir, will be sending the International Tap Dance festivities are the dancers with their tap teacher Lisa Waldbaum 17-18 of May. The ﬁrst day, held in Ra'anana Mayor Ze'ev Bielski will open the event which Park will include tap dancers from all over the will include performances by professional artists, country, Mandy Kol, nee Edelson - and well- followed by workshops and discussion panels! known dancer and choreographer Sharon Lavi. For further details, please contact Zvia Brumer Amongst many others will be Michal Quittner- (052)445-272 or the Ra'anana Dance Center Israelstam with groups from Jerusalem Munici (09)7610598.

T H E I C I N G O N T H E C A K E The chess set? Very tasty. top." Using special tools, Dorothy labours for The wildjlowers? Delicious. hours on her delicately molded decorations. The piano? Exquisite. In addition to baking, teaching and giving All are cakes professionally demonstrations, Dorothy recently embarked on baked and iced by former South African a pet project which she has been mulling over Dorothy Mandelzweig, nee Mirvis. Dorothy, for years. "Even while in South Africa, my pu who learned baking from her mother-in-law, went pils and friends pressed me to write a recipe book. on to win the cup in 1971 at the Rand Easter Show But in those pre-computer years, it all seemed for the most original and outstanding cake. "In spired by my son who was a chess champion, the cake was a chessboard. We had kings, knights, bishops, pawns, and the black queen with curls and a bustle at the back of her dress had the white king in a checkmate position." Well established in Johannesburg as a master baker and icer, Dorothy quickly broke into the wedding cake business upon her aliyah ten years ago."/ set up a separate workroom, got a ka.shritt certificate and took out the mixer.'' Based in very complicated." After Rishon LeZion, Dorothy began baking for "a a few years in Israel, the lovely wedding hall in Nes Ziona where the concept underlying the owner wanted .something different - classy cakes. recipe book took form. "I Most halls supply cakes and aren't interested in really wanted to help olim chadashim adapt their investing to make them really special." Baking own recipes to Israel." So on her own computer, cakes for affairs as far flung as Netanya and Je with the help of her son who laid out the book. rusalem, Dorothy's commissions are primarily Dorothy recently published From Dorothy's from satisfied customers who pass on the word Kitchen, a compilation of recipes from South to others. "I made a cake in the shape of a piano Africa and Israel. for a musical couple, and have prepared many Anyone interested in specialty cakes, baking Bar Mitzvah cakes with edible, and kosher of demonstrations or cookbooks, contact Dorothy course, kippah, tefilin and siddur decorating the at (03)946-3260.

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H e r m a n n K a l l e n b a c h : Kallenbach renounced his luxuri ous lifesyle and began to emulate A concise biography Gandhi's philosphy of a humble lifestyle, with by Isa Sarld and Christian Bartolf The Owner of Tolstoy Farm simple food and dress. Later on. he bought a Readerslikelyof tothese be awarecolumns of a memberare not of farm in the Transvaal the Executive of the SA Zionist Fed for the use of Indians eration who was a close collaborator and who had illegally par friend of Mahatma Gandhi. They may remember a Hebrew School principal ticipated in the struggle for civil rights. He and at Oudtshoorn and Paarl named Motti Gandhi followed the Lazar and his wife Hanna (who was a niece of Hermann Kallenbach). Their teachings of Tolstoy, and the refuge was daughter. Dr. Isa Sarid of Haifa, in col laboration with Christian Bartolf, has named "Tolstoy Farm" (with Tolstoy's bless published a biography of this unique and remarkable man. ings!). Kallenbach also proclaimed himself to Hermann Kallenbach was born Suppk'iiieni to 'Indian Opinion'. be a disciple of A.D. in Neustadt. East Pru.ssia, in 1871. His 5.8.1911 father, a former Hebrew teacher, was a Gordon who had pro timber merchant and young Hermann, moted the ideal of peas grew up to be a carpenter, mason, building tech ant communal living at Degania in Palestine. nician and architect, as well as being a lover of He went to live with the Indians on Tolstoy Farm outdoor sport. and also placed his mansion in Mountain View At the age of 25, he left to join his uncles in at the disposal of Indian families. South Africa and became a building pioneer. He Gandhi often fell foul of the authorities, and was a staunch exponent of freedom and equal Kallenbach enthusiastically backed him. They ity for all and spurned the pursuit of wealth for were frequently put into gaol: Kallenbach's in- its own sake. He thus was bound to empathise sistence on .sharing the .same cell embarrassed with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he ﬁrst met in the authorities who insisted on racial segref>a- 1904. Gandhi was then a tion. rising young lawyer in Gandhi decided, in 1914. to return constant conﬂict with the to India and travelled via London, to white authorities concern gether with Kallenbach. The latter was interned as an enemy alien and. in 1917. ing the depressed status of the many Indians in was released to Germany in a prisoner Natal who had been exchange. Gandhi had proceeded to In brought over to work in dia and a lively correspondence devel the sugar plantations. He oped between the two. had set up a centre near Kallenbach returned to South Africa Durban for underprivi in 1920 where he became a successful leged Indians. As the urban developer. He had supported Zi f r i e n d s h i p g r e w , onism for many years and was elected

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35 N EW ARRIVALS We have included arrivals from July and September 1999 who regrettably were omitted from our last issue. Barak, Edan (student) Herman, Bryan (cartographer) Butler, Ingrid, nee Grinker (nursery teacher) BENQNI Chimes, Hyman and Idelene Morris, Bernard (attorney) and Eliyahu, Michelle (secretary) Carol, nee Hertzberg (housewife) Ellis, Michael (accountant) Tucker, Maurice (retired) and Gordon, Julius (retired) and Joyce, nee Goddess (housewife) Celia, nee Predmesky (housewife) CAPFTOWN Gordon, Leonard (businessman), Gayle, nee Epstein (housewife) and Baitz, Joshua (mechanic) Adina, Yehuda. Tanya. Ashira and Asher Barlinski, Ethel (housewife) Hasson, Philippe (businessman), Brener, Selman (businessman) Nathalie, nee Sellam (housewife) Friedlander, Judith and Hillel, Lea and Rivka HerwHI, Khymberleigh, nee Garbutesky and Jade, Jarryd, Jason and Jessica Hertzberg, Frank (fridge technician) and Celia, nee Skikna (travel agent) Kessel, Lauren (hotel management) Saban, Guy (electrical engineer) Hyde, Basil (chemical engineer), Paula (lab technician) and Sebbag. Baruch (businessman) and Mereshia. nee Taylor (housewife) Moshe, Diache and Raphael Shein. Evan (business administration) Hyde, Victoria (housewife) Itzigsohn, Leone, nee (housewife) DURBAN Katz, Ella (retiree) Burne, Jacqueline (beauty therapist) Mureinik, Florence (housewife) Short, Anthony (teacher), Miron, Yariv (bank clerk) Larya, nee Chaikin (nurse) and Joelle Nothman, Bat-Ami Sinai, Eyal (businessman) and Orkln. Martin (professor) and Candice, nee Hellman (housewife) Joan, nee Katzenellenbogen (lecturer) Weisinger, William Perlow, Alain (radiologist) Planer, Meyer (retired) and lOHANNESBURt:. Bella, nee Shlomowitz (housewife) Azoulay, Joseph (loolmaker) and Raff, Jonathan Lynne (analytical chemist) EDERATION Former Chairman of the SAZF SA. Joe Simon with his Celia and Frank wife Phyllis, now Hertzberg from living in Har Johannesburg at Nof the Merkaz Kiiia in Ra 'anana.

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The lesson for PIONEER Monty was "don't put all your eggs in one W E L C O M E S A N E W basket. Spread your as CHAIRMAN s e t s i n a balanced rilhis past Hanukah saw a packed to portfolio where you combine the M. capacity crowd in the Daniel Hotel aggressive with the more con conference hall who had come to hearlop servative components in a diverse speakers on internel trading and e-com- range of financial instruments." merce, and to meet the dynamic new With the much publicised part chairman of Pioneer InternationaL ing of the ways between Pioneer Monty Hilkowitz. and South Africa's financial giant In his inimitable down-to-earth style. Old Mutual. Monty, who had fol Monty elucidated his gravitation to the lowed Pioneer's progress foryetu"s, business of asset management by relating a per took the opportunity to acquire a major sonal story of his family, who like so many oth shareholding in the business. "I liked the feel of ers in South Africa, jumped aboard the frenzied Pioneer. I had never before seen such a pool of investment bandwagon in the late 1960s. They talent in an organisation of that size. My philoso invested heavily in, what was referred to in the phy is good people make good business.'^ parlance, as a sure thing. When the bubble burst Monty, born in Vrede in the Orange Free and the value of their shares plummeted, they sus Stale, joined Southern Life after matriculating tained major losses. They then switched to be from Beliville High School. Building a strong coming very conservative investors and put what name for himself in the life assurance industry, ever savings they had into the Johannesburg and after qualifying as an actuary, he worked his Building Society on fixed deposit. When the high way up to becoming the Managing Director of inflationary era of the '70s came along, they were Liberty Life, the third largest life assurance com again hit. this time by the diminishing value of pany in South Africa. In 1986. he moved to Aus fixed income rand earnings... "The double tralia to set up and manage a new life division whammy effect." RUSSELL'S

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39 PROFILE In our last issue of Telfed Magazine, we covered the account of Boris Senior's rescue from death in the icy waters of the Adriatic. The saga continues in the cold, wet London of1945 which saw a totally recuperated, debonair South African, ex-ﬁghter pilot study ing at the London School of Economics. He became very friendly with a young Palestinian, who was studying aeronautical engi neering, .. although not very seriously. He had been a ﬁghter pilot as well, and we moved into digs together." For these two young men, Boris Senior and Ezer Weizman, their lives were at a crossroads... P L A N E S P E A K I N C

cious authorities, I took off from an official field Onefiedevening as he at watchedthe cinema, Pcithe Boris News sat coveragehorri in Paris and checked out for a flight to Croydon. of Europe's conveyer bell of death unfold on the On the way I landed in a small field in France, screen. Details of the Holocaust were still sketchy taxied up to some trees on the side where five in those first years after the war. Boris was people approached, ostensibly to look at the air "shaken to the core. Unable to continue my stud craft. Four turned back and one jumped aboard. ies. I felt I had to do something." That was our agent, code-named Yoel. After Boris made contact with Shmuel Katz, "an crossing the channel, we landed on an open field old family friend and an Etzel man based in Lon near Canterbury where Yoel jumped off, hopped don. He opened doors for me. Don't misunder over a fence and climbed into a parked car, In stand me, the Revisionists were on the other side the car were ostensibly two young lovers look of the fence as far as I was con ing for a quiet place to be alone. Yoel cerned, but they were the only ones crouched into the back seat, as the that were doing anything so I joined driver, Ezer Weizman, sped off. I them." Boris was ready for his first continued on to my scheduled land mission. General Barker, com ing at Croydon." mander of the British forces in Pal Although this part of the opera estine, had issued an order to his of tion was carried out efficiently, Yoel ficers not to patronise Jewish shops, never managed to get to Barker, and punishing the Jews in a way "this was eventually deported. Ezer went race dislikes most of all; by striking back to Palestine and Boris to South Boris Senior nc.xl to the at their pocket." "The Etzel man in Africa. "But all I wanted to do was Aiister in which he Paris, Eliyahu Lankin, wanted to to get to Palestine. I was on the first smuggled "Yoel" info finish off this General Barker who flight to Palestine after Partition was England. as far as we knew was in England. announced and immediately joined We needed to get our agent from Paris to Eng the Sheriit Avir (Air Service), which consisted of land and that is where I came in." Boris conceived Ezer. myself, a young South African Eddy Cohen the idea of flying him in illegally. "I bought a who was later killed, and six young Israelis who small plane in England and flew it to France. After had very little experience in the air. We had a a couple of innocent flights to throw off suspi few Austers and two TigerMoths which you can't

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The Chairman, Executive members and staff of the S.A.Z.F. (Israel) offer sincere sympathies to the bereaved families of: Mark Rabinowitz {Even Yelnulali) Charlie Lichienstein {Netanya) Morris Bacher (Herzliyo) Sonny Reiff {Ra'anana) Alan Levin (Ashkelon) Morris Rendal {Australia) Beate Schwarz (Ra'anana) Edith Bach {Herzliya) Boris Kass {Tel Aviv) Hymie Stein {Tel Aviv) Chippy Krain (Roinat Hasharon) Dorothy (Dolly) Derman (Heixliyci) Frieda Winokur {Jerusalem) Rae Lipshitz (Ra'anana) Issy Phillips (Tel Aviv) Aubrey Aran {Givatayim) Solly Lichienstein (Australia) Cantor Michael Davidowitz (TA) Jack Beinart (Ashkelon) Solly Meyer (Moshav Tinwrini) Frank Diamond (Ashkelon) Temima Bracha Berk {Telstone) Margaret Hadar (Israel) Anne Geft (Jerusalem) Myra Doreen Diamond (Ashkelon) Mario Popper (Herzliya) Rivka Cesler Peggy Eliasov (Ra'anana) Morris Sendzul (South Africa) Fanny Shapiro Asher Elan (Israel) Mike Kramer (South Africa) Solly Frank (Cape Town)

Many people may remember Nachum Sneh as the vice-mayor of Beer Sheva. the founder of its theatre, ajoumalisl and librarian, and prominent Mapam and Meretz party activist. 1 will always remember the youthful Nachum — tall, in a blue shirt, from the period of our work together in (he newly estab lished Hashomer Hatzair in South Africa. Nahum and his wife Hcnya, came to Israel in 1949 with a movement group which eventually founded Kibbutz Shoval. Severe health problems ibrced Nachum. Hcnya and the children to leave the kibbutz, but wherever they lived, he continued to represent the ideals that were the centre of their lives. Nachshon, their son in Kibbutz Gat and his family mourn the passing of Nahum, yet are com forted in the knowledge that he died a person proud of his actions and beliefs. — N e h a m a G e n n o s a w

Ov A very eolourful life came to a peaceful close in Jerusalem early in January, with the death of Frieda Winokur. at the age of 101. Frieda spent the greater part of the twentieth century active in Zionist work. She started her career in 1920 as the ﬁrst secretary of the South African Zionist Federa tion. preceding the legendary Jack Alexander. After marrying the active Zionist leader, Chaim Winokur, of Cape Town, she served for many years as chairperson of the Bnoth Zion Association and Vice- chairman of the Western Province Zionist Council. Following Chaim's death, she settled in Jerusa lem, where she was prominent in the English-speaking WIZO group until failing health obliged her to retire. She is survived by her London-based daughter. Professor Shula Marks (the well-known expert on African anthropology), her son Meir, in Jerusalem and their families. Her memory will be warmly cherished by many active Zionist relatives and the older generation of Cape Town olim.

The Telfed Executive regrets to record the passing of Boris Kass, Honorary Life President of the Central African Zionist Organisation, and extends condolences to the family.

The Telfed Executive regrets to record the passing of Solly Meyer of Moshav Timorim. Solly, a pioneer member of the Bnei Zion movement in South Africa, made aliyah as part of a Bnei Zion Chalutz Group in 1948. We extend condolences to the family.

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