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A Forgotten Art and Spy Innovation Late Israeli Agent’S Five Towns Ties B Y M I C H a E L O R B a C H The Jewish Star Independent and original reporting from the Orthodox communities of Long Island VOL. 8, NO. 43 OCTOBER 23, 2009 | 5 CHESHVAN 5770 www.thejewishstar.com ROBBERY IN HEWLETT CHURCHILL’S DEPORTEES SNAP INTO A SLIM YID? Push-in by fake utility workers A different view of WW2 Kosher beef jerky Page 2 Page 10 Page 9 I N M Y V I E W A forgotten Art and spy Innovation Late Israeli agent’s Five Towns ties B Y M I C H A E L O R B A C H B Y M A S A D A S I E G E L When Joshua Horesh died this past July at the age of 89, he was remembered as a caring father who t's the new year- and one of my reso- doted on his three children and ten grandchildren. His lutions is to focus on the positive, family eulogized him as a big-hearted man, who spoke especially on people who create good- several languages fluently including Arabic, French I ness and bring beauty into the world, and Italian. Sadly, the last few years of his life were be it by art or by innovation. Most situa- marred by dementia, according to his son, as Horesh tions can have an optimistic outcome. believed he was being spied on and that his phones However, twisting positive stories out of were being tapped. war zones is no easy task, but just like tal- As is often the case, in the regression of dementia ented artists can give meaning to a canvas Photo courtesy Nowbakht family could be found elements of truth; Horesh had in fact with his brush, everything is in the eye of Great Neck connection: Robert Nowbakht’s proposal to Sara Abdyan, on camera on the MSG scoreboard. been a spy for most of his professional life. the beholder. “He was a big man, spirituality and physically. He Wars are ugly, no matter how you loved Jews paint it, but scientists both in North and fought American and Israel are working to pro- for them,” tect soldiers from harms way, as well as to Engagement at the Garden e x p l a i n e d help them lead normal lives after life s o n - i n - l a w altering injuries. Israeli coach ejected at eventful charity game for Migdal Ohr at MSG David Jasse o f Scientists at the Weizmann Institute the words, “Sara will you marry me?” Then, B Y M A Y E R F E R T I G Cedarhurst. of Science in Israel have developed an he saw Nowbakht, 28, of Great Neck, on Horesh’s ultra strong impact resistant material bended knee and holding a rose and a ring, Robert Shimonov didn’t plan to go to the e s p i o n a g e using nanotech- propose marriage to Sara Abdyan, 26, also Migdal Ohr charity basketball game. He had career was a nology. Nan- from Great Neck. She said yes, to great just finished teaching Hebrew school on Sun- known secret otechnology is the applause. day when a friend called to say she had a tick- in the family, engineering of It was significant to Shimonov, 26, of et for him to join her at Madison Square Gar- as his son functional systems Fresh Meadows, Queens, because the shid- den to see the New York Knicks play Israel’s M o s h e at the molecular duch was originally his idea. best team, Maccabi Tel Aviv. explained. scale. This mater- “Six years ago [Nowbakht] and I went on “Like Hashem made sure that I see it hap- “Towards ial created by nan- birthright and we became really good friends. pen,” he later wrote in a Facebook message to the end he otechnology is I told him I have this friend Sara and I think about four to five his friend, Robert Nowbakht. Just as he was started talk- settling into his seat during the third quarter times stronger See ENGAGEMENT, Page 13 ing about it. ”Great than steel and he looked up at the scoreboard in time to see He was a about six times very private upheavel and stronger than person. We Kevlar, a popular never knew misery often material today for what he was bullet proof vests. doing. I sus- The cover of Joshua Horesh’s memoir force people to The company, pect it wasn’t ApNano, which is What G-d really said appropriate create, inno- producing the until he wrote the book,” Moshe told the Jewish Star. materials, is also Horesh’s memoir, An Iraqi Jew in the Mossad, was vate, and using the same published in a limited run in 1997 by McFarland Pub- technology to about health care reform lishing. In the preface to the book, Horesh writes that invent.“ make products to he felt compelled to write the book after he read an enhance the per- Halachic ramifications of universal coverage encyclopedia entry that credited someone else for his formance of per- accomplishments. Rabbi Glatt explained. He is government may use its funds sonal safety items B Y M A L K A E I S E N B E R G The elder Horesh was born in Iraq in 1920. His the assistant to the rabbi of as it sees fit and has the right such as helmets, father was a famed Iraqi singer, and after his mother’s the Young Israel of Woodmere, to spend money. “Jewish law as well as protection products for vehicles Using slides, cartoons and death, Horesh immigrated to the then-cosmopolitan as well as President and CEO looks favorably at healthcare and aircraft. humorous quips, Rabbi Dr. city of Beirut, Lebanon. While there he began working of New Island Hospital and reform that is economically So while world leaders disagree, and Aaron Glatt presented the as a translator for the British armed forces, a job that Professor of Clinical Medicine feasible, just and fair,” he stat- wars break out, scientists at Weizmann as halachic (Jewish legal) per- would eventually take him all over Europe and Africa, at New York Medical College, ed. well as innovators around the world are spective on healthcare reform before finally dropping him in Palestine. His career as Clearly, he stressed, from Pointing out that Presi- working to protect men and women in at the Young Israel of Wood- a spy began in the mid-1940s when the religious and a Jewish perspective, we dent Obama has called his uniform. mere on Sunday. Zionistic Horesh began passing along information to “want every one to have all health care plan a “moral American inventors such as Dean “Universal Healthcare: the Haganah, one of the precursors of the modern the health care they could pos- obligation,” according to the Kamen, CEO of DEKA, whose inventions What Does the Halacha Say in Israel Defense Force. In his most important assign- sibly get, but what do you do New York Times, Rabbi Glatt include the Segway, are working for the this Public Health Debate?” ment, Horesh gained access to the infamous “black when you can’t do every- emphasized that “nothing in United States Pentagon on a project was to be a shiur, a lesson in list’” of Israeli leaders to be targeted by the British, thing?” Halacha is based on secular called "Revolutionizing Prosthetics." Jewish law, he noted. It would which he copied and passed along to his controllers. After building a case morals.” The President held a Four years ago, the Pentagon have no “agenda,” no Later, as the war for Israel’s independence began, based on individual and com- conference call with a thou- approached Kamen to create a prosthetic polemics, would be apolitical Horesh began working as a translator and code break- munal requirements of Jewish sand rabbis, Rabbi Glatt said, arm for soldiers who had lost their arms and — here he apologized — er. law, Rabbi Glatt concluded asking that they assist in the in wars. It needed to be computer operat- would be “non-controversial.” “I bade farewell to all my friends and relatives and that “there is no halachic ‘mitzvah’ of healthcare and ed and sensitive enough to pick up a The goal of the talk, which became an Israeli soldier defending our ancient tradi- was sponsored by the Ortho- obligation to provide every cit- saying, “We are G-d’s partners tions,” he wrote. See VIEW, Page 3 dox Union, was to “see if we izen with equal universal in matters of life and death.” One of his most notable accomplishments was to can come to a conclusion of healthcare but there is also no On the other hand, Rabbi break an Egyptian military code that enabled the what Halacha, what Hakadosh halachic prohibition to provide Glatt said, Republican mem- Masada Siegel is a freelance writer living Israelis to take Beersheba. Baruch Hu (the Holy One, every citizen with equal uni- bers of Congress consider it in Scottsdale. She can be reached at fun- See FORGOTTEN SPY, Page 9 Blessed be He), has to say,” versal healthcare,” since the [email protected] See HEALTHCARE, Page 10 Y That’s Life............................................................................2 Calendar...............................................................................6 Candlelighting: 5:44 p.m. I Shabbat ends 6:43 p.m. N AID 301 P Y Inside Shabbat T I Opinion.................................................................................4 Classified............................................................................10 Torah reading: Parshat Noach 0 GE STD C 3 NO A 5 N 1 E 1 D PRST R POST A PERMIT G US Long Island’s premier builder of quality homes, offering fantastic opportunities for everyone – st 11530 from 1 - time buyers…to those looking to “right-size”… to active adults seeking a new, resort-like lifestyle.
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