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established 1948 JULY 1997 VOL. NO. 2 A SOUTH AFRICAN ZIONIST FEDERATION (ISRAEL) PUBLICATION m' ^9' rn INSIDE PEOPLE: Dental Dean Herb Judes BHS Cricket: Israel in Malaysia Property ^ development near Netanya Jerusalem artists: Reingold and Rose HMM.. AT YOUR , U n i v e r s i t y L Professor Steve A G E Y O U S T I L L WANT TO FEEL YOUNG AND IDEALISTIC?" 100 YEARS OF ZIONISM: 1897 - 1997 46 SOKOLOV (2nd Floor) RAMAT-HASHARON Tel. 03-5400070 Home 09-7446967 F a x 0 3 - 5 4 0 0 0 7 7 July 1997 Dear Friends, It's now becoming so cheap to travel to nearby destinations that Travel Agents are having a difficult time keeping track with all the deah - Visa, Isracard, Diners with points, stars, and any other way you can imagine. So basically, its not worth advertising any deah because before the ink dries, they are outdated. So if you're thinking of travelling, give us a call, and we'll give you the best possible deal. Of course, when it comes to Far-away places it takes more care and expertise to plan the best itinerary or air ticket. Our experience and size allow us to give you the best possible answers to any travel request to Kenya, Far East, USA, Canada, etc. etc. We are also proud to be arranging two special tours for music lovers which will be led by Brenda Miller, who, of course, needs no introduction. At the time of writing, response to both tours has been excellent. Prague - August 23, and Russia - September 9. Call llanit in our office for details; you may be lucky. We are planning other such tours, so if you wish to be on our mailing list, send a fax or drop us a note. 1 am fulfilling a dream and am going in August with Carol on a 2-week tour to Namibia, Windhoek, Soussivlei, Swartkopmund, and of course, the Btosha Pan. ril write a full description with impressions in my next letter. In the meantime, we need your support. Best regards. Managing Director CONTENTS WHO ARE THESE CUYS? "Excuse me, where is Rehov Sokolov?" I was asked recently in downtown Tel Aviv. I had no idea. P E O P L E 2 Would I have fared any better had I been asked not COVER STORY 8 where, but "uV/o was Sokolov?" or for that matter - Borochov, Bograshov, Brenner, Gordon or SPORT 16 Katznelson? For loo many of us today, particularly our school kids, such once revered names have been T E L F E D T I D I N C S 1 8 relegated to the pitiful relevance of streetnames. Having steered the intellectual, cultural and politi N O T I C E B O A R D 1 6 cal course of an emerging nation, is their only legacy today, merely to direct us to places of business and B U S I N E S S ^ 8 residence? If we are to ask ourselves, ''who was Sokolov?" KERENTELFED 32 are we not as lost as the fellow who inquired, "where is Rehov Sokolov?" N E W A R R I VA L S 3 4 For this reason, exhibitions like "Blue and White in Colour" currently running at Beit Hatfiitsot until A R T S C E N E 3 6 August 2nd, are so important. 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The organisation is not responsible for the advertisers and the insertions in this magazine. 1 People HERB SPICES UPTHE FACULTY C'mon, admit it. Who really feels relaxed re clining on the dentist's chair beneath the glaring spotlight. Gaping helplessly at the ominous dis play of metallic tools, the words "open wide" unnen e even the bravest of us. Well, dentistry today is not insensitive to peo ple's fears, explains Professor Herb Judes. the newly-elected Dean of the Maurice and Gabrlela Goldschleger School of Dental Medi cine of Tel Aviv University. "We have psycholo gists and psychiatrists who do intensive research versity campus. That was when we began taking with nervous or frightened patients. Our success in undergraduate students." Today, the School has rate is phenomenal." grown into a full-fledged Dental School, with a Few would know that the internationally re student body of about 250 including graduate stu nowned Dental Faculty at Tel Aviv University dents and a faculty of almost 150 people. started out in such humble beginnings as an army Herb, the first South African to be elected Dean barrack at the Tel HaShomer military base a lit of a Dental Faculty in Israel, hails from Springs. tle more than 25 years ago. Herb recalls that. "In He graduated from WITS in 1965, and came on 1971. while in practice with Ian Froman, 1 was aliyah in 1967. "Ours is one of the leading dental approached by a group from the university who schools in the world in many fields of re.search were sounding out solutions for the retraining of and education. Dentistry is not just putting fill the influx of Russian dentists. Working out of one ings in teeth," emphasises Herb, with a chuckle. of the wooden bungalows, we began training "It has everything to do with basic scientific dis groups at night." Those were the first steps in ciplines such as microbiology, immunology, mo what became the prestigious Dental School of lecular cell biology and biochemical principles, today. "Over the next few years, we had to shift to name but a few of the fields in which we are from one location to another, until in 1979, we doing research." Citing one of the areas in which were given small quarters on the Tel Aviv Uni the school has made a major breakthrough. Herb □ ' i n I ' n BEIN HARIM TOURISM SERVICES LTOD"!]! IHT'n 'nillD Friends or Family coming to visit? Show them the sights in comfortable private More Privacy, More Style and Less Cost than tourist vehicles with your own professional guide. regular bus tours. Special rates forTclfed readers. Call (03)5468870/1/ or fax (03)5468873/ 3 Halarucha St. Tel Aviv 1 explains the work done by one of the senior re KARATE KID searchers at the school. "His experiment was in "She's just a little pitzkela," giggles a proud cluded in one of the latest NASA space missions. Elaine Kurland, mother of Moran. At the ten Cultured chicken embryo cells were sent into space der age of six, to test how bone and cartilage cells respond to a Moran began zero gravity environment. Today," continues Herb, studying karate, "a subject of paramount importance is and in less than Osseointegrated Dental Implants which mark a two years, be turning point in the history of dentistry. Our re came champion searchers have developed an artificial collagen of the Upper which is involved in the regeneration of bone and Galilee. Mem the integration of implanted materials. In 1996, b e r s o f K i b b u t z they were awarded the highest international hon Manara, the our for their inspiring work." Kurland family Herb's elevation to the position of Dean of the made aliyah in Faculty stands as a high point in the long line of 1986 from Port contributions South Africans have made to den Elizabeth. Repre.senting her region, Moran recently tistry in Israel. "South African dentists have done won first place in a national competition for her extremely well for themselves here. Those who age group. "She won a beautiful cup. You know come today enjoy an advantage because of the terrific reputation established by their predeces sors. In our faculty alone, we have a whole niafui H.L.