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Pesach-2020.Pdf Telfed Israel www.telfed.org.il Your guide to recycling Aliyah advocates: the invaluable role of SA youth movements Israel's plastic giant on sustainability An insight into high performance homes Renewable electricity across generations Vol 46 No. 1 Pesach 2020 | Distributed to over 6000 households in Israel and abroad. 2 דולפין וילג The perfect family holiday by the sea Telfed Israel www.telfed.org.il Pesach 2020 3 Greetings from our Chairman As we approach Pesach, the festival of freedom, we celebrate together as Jews living freely in a democratic, independent Jewish State. We tend to take this for granted, but recent events should remind us of the fragility of life. We live freely as Jews in our home country but are still surrounded by growing anti-semistism In Europe and continued rocket attacks in the south of the country. We live in a modern, advanced society yet nd ourselves at the mercy of a worldwide outbreak of a new u virus and raging wildres in Australia. These all remind us of just how delicate the balance of life can be on our planet and this denitely includes our environment which we also tend to take for granted. In this edition of our magazine we chose to explore the topic of sustainability in Israel and how we should and can make a dierence to the environment. Our Olim are making exciting contributions in dierent elds such as environment friendly construction, recycling, sustainable gardening, solar power and beach clean ups. We are proud to share these stories with you and also encourage you to read and learn more about the various initiatives in Israel. Sustenance is dened as ‘strengthening or supporting something mentally or physically’ and I truly believe this represents our role in Telfed. With our remarkable and unique sta and volunteers we continue to welcome, support and strengthen the Southern African and Australian communities in Israel. At the end of the day, this is our home and we should not take it for granted. Taking an active role to build, strengthen and ‘keep it clean’ is something we should be doing all the time - not just at Pesach. Wishing you all a Chag Sameach Batya Shmukler We need YOU.. Will you join us in spreading communal smiles this Pesach? 09 7907819 [email protected] Keren Telfed, our communal self-help fund, helps thousands of South/ern African families each year. Your support makes this possible 4 Contents Cover Stories 6 Crisp.Space.Wow 12 22 Events Wrap Up Recycling in Tel Aviv 24 Noticeboard 15 31 New arrivals Smarter plastics, 35 In the mail cleaner future 36 Honorary donations 21 39 Nuptials Power to the People 40 In memoriam 28 42 Recipe SA youth movements – the catalyst for Aliyah 43 Kids Dorron Kline - Chief Executive Ocer (CEO) [email protected] / 09 7907818 Nava Lapid - Chief Operating Ocer (COO) [email protected] / 09 7907803 Nikki Leviner - Head of Resource Development [email protected] / 09 7907802 Dana Levy Tavor – Volunteerism, Community Projects & Events [email protected] /09 7907805 Amit Lipschitz – Endowments & Financial Need Scholarships [email protected] / Tel 09 7907817 Miriam Lipshitz – Oce Manager [email protected]/ 09 7907801 Keren Lusky – Bookkeeper [email protected] / 09 7907806 Michal Merten- Employment Counsellor [email protected] Simone Pikas - Scholarships – PRAS & SASI [email protected] / Tel. 09 7907811 Stephanie Roitman- Resource Development & donations [email protected] / 09 7907819 Dafna Rosenfeld - Telfed Property Manager [email protected] /09 7907808 Daniela Shapira - Aliyah and Klita Advisor [email protected] / 09 7907804 Helayne Shedletzky – Bookkeeper [email protected] / 09 7907820 Ariela Siegel - Social Worker and Head of Aliyah and Klita [email protected] / 09 7907821 Yael Strausz - Employment Advisor [email protected] / 09 7907815 Nicole Trope - Community Awareness Coordinator [email protected] / 09 7907825 Ofra Yechiel – Fundraising & Mag. Subscription [email protected] / 09 7907812 Contributing writers: Guy Lieberman, Daniel Shorkend, Rivkah Naomi Green, Richard Shavei-Tzion, Ephraim Gates, Eloise Hummel, Hila Kaufman Leibowitz, Dave Bloom, Sarah Vanunu, Jonathan Davis, Joshua Sher, Iris Lupu, Max Katz, Pau l Mirbach, Natie Shevel, Leron Bernstein, Peter Bailey, Ami Steinberger Design and Production: Talia Sharon – www.taliasharon.com General enquiries: [email protected] Proofreading: Rae Galloon, Sharon Bernstein, Miriam Lipshitz Reception: +972 9 7907800 Advertising & Subscriptions: Ofra Yechiel 09 7907819/ [email protected] Toll Free from SA: 0800-997-495 Magazine Production & Community Awareness: Nicole Trope 09 790-7825; [email protected] Follow us on Facebook (Telfed Views and comments expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of Telfed - the South African Zionist Federation (Israel) or of the Editorial Board. 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Telfed Israel www.telfed.org.il Pesach 2020 5 2019 SUMMARY 369 South Africans received food cards SOCIAL WELFARE 641 EMPLOYMENT each month, including the elderly, people physically or mentally ill, single benefitted parents and families-at- risk from Career (NIS 1.2M) Counselling in Counselling sessions 2,320 3,000 sessions LONE SOLDIERS + 194 1community8,0 members00 without families were turned to Telfed for supported by Telfed INFORMATION SCHOLARSHIPS YEARS 601 476 OF SERVICE awarded to students (NIS 2.4M) new arrivals guided 16,800 looking after through their immigration hours of voluntary & absorption in Israel 300% community service undertaken by 25,000 ALIYAH & KLITA Increase in applicationsin scholarship recipients SOUTH/ERN AFRICANS in Israel, through a variety of charitable 2 6 Students in the Samson SASI program communal projects support ing South Africans studying in Israel Up to below market-rate 2 30% Government 127% rental accommodation was Increase in AWARDS OF Aliyah over provided for olim EXCELLENCE last 5 years 213 HOUSING 290 60 4,734 NIS 8M VOLUNTEERS CHILDREN ATTENDEES TO RAISE Telfed Ethiopian Community Initiative gave back to receive English NATIONAL Communal the community lessons through 89 EVENTS self-help fund VOLUNTEERISM TECI SOCIAL INTEGRATION DONATIONS Add: 19/1 Schwartz St, Raanana, 4321224, Israel Tel: +972 9 7907819 Email: [email protected] Facebook: /Telfed 6 Crisp.Space.Wow By Guy Lieberman Thatch roong, dung oors, wattle and daub walls, have historically not been considered in conventional recycled wood furniture, solar panels… these are property development, things that carry ‘embodied’ the images that normally spring to mind when one energy into the construction. When we think of how hears the term ‘green’ or sustainable building. I was long it normally takes to build a home, that in itself imagining the same when I stepped into the very has a series of associated costs, like time, energy, polished Raanana high rise oces of Crisp.Space, at the resources, water and huge amounts of waste. This practically autonomous WOPA building. After being has both economic and environmental ramications, swept up several oors in a high-speed lift, it took and we’re addressing these issues head on.” about 40 seconds for me to be swiftly re-educated by Of the two, Pam is the trained architect who, among an impressive tag team presentation by South African other accolades, was Senior Project Manager on the Cape architectural visionaries, Pam Town stadium and Ian Davidson. Founders construction for of Crisp.Space, the Davidsons the 2010 Soccer are design adepts at the top of World Cup, their game, here to craft what heading up the they envision as the very near Environmental future of homes, buildings and and Sustainability cities. Portfolio—and “The terminology, like the Ian is a Design technology, has changed,” Entrepreneur, explains Pam. “The industry with a history of now speaks of smart buildings multiple inventions or smart cities. Yes, green and and innovations. sustainable is core—and Together they essential—but how can we make a formidable translate that into our design duo. In Ian’s words, and build practice? “Pam is the ‘Archi’ Within the rst few minutes and I’m the ‘Tech’.” of our conversation, my pre- So how do existing notion of sustainable architects address settlements went through the combined a metamorphosis; quickly challenges of dissolving were the visions of economics, o-grid villages with chickens, environment, goats, veggie gardens and resources and farmers in home-made hemp timelines—while garments chewing barley still keeping design stalks. Not that this isn’t a true as a priority? and perennial expression of Using language a green homestead, but it inspired by nature, Pam unpacks the process. “We look became clear to me that technology has been hard both upstream to see where our materials are coming at work trying to catch up with these principles. from, what they’re made from and how much energy, Ian jumped in to echo Pam, “A smart building or resources and water they use to create the materials high-performance home includes elements that required—and then downstream, which looks at the Telfed Israel www.telfed.org.il Pesach 2020 7 overall waste and toxicity that some building materials Ian then brings out a pair of Virtual Reality (VR) goggles and processes generate. and slips them on over my eyes. “How about we tell We also need to think about the long-term environmental you more about where we see the industry is going, impact of running a home. To have a smart home while you walk around this Digital Twin design of tell you how much ours? This is a house we’re working on now, soon to energy you are using be built. It’ll start to make or producing—via more sense. This is how solar panels or wind we present our projects turbines—you need to to our clients.
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