by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia Aisenberg describes her meeting with Ali Beurat,
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a bedouin whose family has lived in Wadi Ara for generations. The family surprisingly has a herd of camels and Ali explains to Lydia how this came about.
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The amazing heroic tale of the Portugese diplomat Aristedes
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de Sousa Mendes who was punished for saving the lives of thousands of Jews and others in occupied France during World War II. He has since been named as a "Righteous Among the Nations" and has received posthumous awards for his bravery
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One of the first settlers on the Golan Heights after
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the Six-Day War of 1967, Ramona Bar-Lev is a passionate and dedicated activist on behalf of the Golan residents. Lydia Aisenberg describes Ramona's life and dreams in Qatzrin, the main town on the Golan Heights and her and her husband's determination never to give up this very strategic area.
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Yair Shochet is an expert dog breeder and trainer who
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also competed and judged at dog shows. Lydia Eisenberg writes that with his wife Sasha they now concentrate on breeding pedigree Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.
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We meet a unique sporting character - the Israeli-Arab
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manager of the Achva-Haifa
Football club –who prepares his side for each game but doesn’t watch them at play. A fanatical Manchester United fan and hater of racism in every form living his philosophy through soccer.
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"What caught my eye was the handsome man on the poster,"
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writes Lydia Aisenberg, who visited the exhibition 'The Friend". The man was Orde Wingate, and the crumbling building served as his hq. where he trained and led the Jewish "Night Squads" in the late 1930s. Less well-known is the story of Lorna Wingate, his wife, who was an ardent Zionist. Entrance to the exhibition is free.
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Born on Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, Micha Linn has been
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an enthusiastic amateur archeologist since he was young. With Noam Mamon, who came to live on the kibbutz, a museum has been opened to house the artifacts and coins that have found in the Jezreel Valley.
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The Israel Tourism Exhibition recently held in Tel
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Aviv presented countries from
around the world. Particularly interesting were the Japanese and Portuguese stands which highlighted Jewish aspects of their countries
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British And American students participate in MASA Givat
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Haviva Intensive Arabic semester, learning the languages and cultures of Arabs and Jews in Israel. Lydia Aisenberg reports.
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Tony Benjamin and Ron Acker highlight the struggle
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to save the beauty of the area of Harish, near Wadi Ara, which is destined to become a metropolis to house thousands of ultra-orthodox families, displacing the mainly secular and mixed present community.
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Lydia Aisenberg vividly recalls the Yom Kippur War
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when she was living on a kibbutz with her husband and toddler son. She remembers how her husband and the kibbutz members reacted to the news of the war, within hours the men went off to fight and a new routine descended on the kibbutz.
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Cardiff Castle has an impressive history going back
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almost 2,000 years and boasts a roof garden against the backdrop of magnificent decorative tiles. Lydia, having grown up in Cardiff, takes a wistful look at the castle which was bequeathed by its owners to the city of Cardiff in 1947.
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Lydia describes the Holocaust memorial by Zeev Ben-Zvi
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on Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. It memorializes particularly the children who were murdered during the Holocaust. The Chanukiah crafted by Aviram Paz who lives on the kibbutz, also incorporates the horror of the Holocaust and honors the survivors of the Nazis.
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Tama plastic industries of the Jezreel valley in Israel,
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manufacture netwrapping for agricultural use, particularly popular with British farmers.This year the product for the UK was produced in bright pink to incorporate breast cancer awareness and the British landscape is dotted with this important reminder wherever one drives.
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A memorial grove at Sonoma State University honors
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victims of the Holocaust. It features a sculpture of railway tracks, which converge at a glass tower and eternal light, and a horse chestnut tree, grown from a sapling next to the Anne Frank home in Amsterdam.
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