by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia describes a natural adventure playground, which
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is in fact sections of an aqueduct whose history dates back thousands of years. It is in fact the Jerusalem Aqueduct, which 2,000 years ago would have been conveying water to the city
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An old truck on wooden blocks is parked in Jaffa Road,
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opposite the main entrance to Mahanei Yehuda market in Jerusalem. It is an advertising office giving out information promoting Jerusalem to tourists. Lydia lists the most interesting spots to visit along the Jaffa Road, that are listed in the brochures.
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A best kept secret is the David Amar World Center Museum,
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celebrating the fascinating and rich heritage of North African Jewry. It’s like visiting a corner of Morocco in the City of Gold – Jerusalem. Specialists were brought in to recreate the authentic and colorful atmosphere from architecture to tiles to furniture, everything that made the North African Jewish Culture so rich and distinct and that so many hundreds of the thousands had to leave behind but never forgot…
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Lydia describes the Great Mini World museum of Moshe
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Samter, a 1930s immigrant from Germany. The museum in Yokne'am displays his beautifully hand-crafted scenes in miniature which offer a wonderfully detailed glimpse into all aspects of Jewish economic, cultural, and religious life in pre-WW2 Europe.
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When Lydia Aisenberg spotted a sign on a yellow cab
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at the Bulgarian Golden Sands resort in Varna that read "I speak Ivrit" she went to investigate. The 30-year old driver who had never been to Israel explained how he learned Hebrew and also showed Lydia and Israeli friends some wonderful sites, as she describes.
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Chaim Nadler is a man with an impossible dream –
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but one which actually came true. He wanted to create a soccer school to bring Israeli Jewish and Arab kids together through the sport he and they loved so much and, in so doing, to foster mutual appreciation and understanding to build a better future together. How did it succeed?
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Two iconic cartoon characters – one Israeli (Shrulik)
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created by artist Dosh, and one Palestinian (Handala) by artist al-Ali, appear on a wall of the Givat Haviva Art Center and Peace Gallery in a painting by Yuval Caspi. The two characters are linked arm-in-arm and symbolize the hope of a more positive and inevitable shared future.
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Lydia Aisenberg reports on the recent visit to Wadi
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Ara and Givat Haviva of Dwayne Zacharie, the Canadian First Nation (Mohawks) police chief. He was accompanied by Dr. David Mendelssohn, formerly of the Givat Haviva academic staff and a boyhood friend from the days of the Canadian national wrestling team.
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Current Norwegian ambassador to Israel, Svein Sevje,
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enjoys visiting Kibbutz Mishmar Ha Emek where he served as a volunteer in 1968 and 1971 recalling those carefree years exchanging ideas with a Norwegian member of today’s kibbutz.
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Now West Bank Charcoal Plants are forced to Close,
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writes Lydia Aisenberg, resulting in loss of livelihood for the Palestinians involved in this work. The closure is due to the danger to health and the environment because of the pollution issued in this work.
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Susita, founded in the second century BCE, was once
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the home of a small Jewish community. The site is well worth a visit. In modern times, it was captured from the Syrians by Israelis from Kibbutz Ein Gev in 1948.
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Lydia reports on the fascinating and extraordinary
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Pollock’s Toy Museum in London which dates back to the 1850s and is packed full of wonderful vintage toys.
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Joe Perlov is an educational tours operator with a
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special love for the Western Negev, generally considered too off-the-beaten-track for most foreign visitors. His tour includes sites ranging from the ancient to the contemporary, touching on defining events in history such as the War of Independence, peace with Egypt, and withdrawal from Sinai.
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Peter Viner, a farmer cum artist has created incredible
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“crop graffiti” in the fields of Kibbutz Ein Harod. People come from far and wide to see his artistic creations which each year have some topical theme.
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Sometimes the sun shines on the white buildings of
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upper Nazareth or sunlight reflects off some glass somewhere in town, blinking like a beacon across the valley. More often than not in the winter and spring months a halo of clouds floats over, and in summer Nazareth gets lost altogether in the early morning rising mist only to reappear again around noon.
Lydia Aisenberg describes a visit to the sights both natural and man-made of this ancient city and its surroundings.
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