TELFED MARCH 2000 VOL.26 NO. 1 COVER STORY ISRAEL'S TRANSPORTATION W W L ' POLICY: -o- TIME TO CHOOSE I V iwm\ i''> m nm ei^Ci INSIDE; PEOPLE: B O O K R E V I E W •Former South Africans receive top awards. Hermann Kiillenbach, a friend of Gandhi HEALTH: ART SCENE: •Professor Leon Epstein back in Africa Dance as an antidote to violence, the art of baking PROFILE NUPTIALS, ARRIVALS Boris Senior: the SAZF and the Israeli Air Foire .... AND MORE ~LD 46 SOKOLOV (2nd Floor) RAMAT-HASHARON Tel. 03-5488111 Home 09-7446967 Fax 03-5400077 Dear Friends, Well, at least this year, we can say that we had a winter!!! So, as we look forward to the spring and summer, its a good time to start planning this year's travels. Wow, where can I recommend - there are so many "cheap" weekend deals to Europe that it is really a matter of checking the budget and deciding on a destination and type of holiday... A few days rest in Sharem (playing golf) or a more active week in Tuscany, or revisiting Paris, Rome or Prague, or even "Back to Africa." Believe me, a week in Kenya is a wonderful family experience with unbeatable game viewing. Brenda Miller's famous Music Tours are also filling up with the tour to Russia departing on May 16th for two weeks . There are only a few more seats left, so please call us. The tour to Prague is from the 18th to the 26th of June, and to Paris from July 2nd- lOth. Call us soon to register. The best advice that I can give is really to book early, as this year due to the millenium, flights are very heavily booked and many of the summer flights are already full. I wish you all a great 2000, and once again thanks for your support. Best Regards, 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. 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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.