Zipporah Porath is a free-lance writer/ editor/ and publications consultant. Born and educated in the USA, she arrived in pre-state Israel in 1947 on a one-year scholarship to the Hebrew University. Caught up in the War of Independence, she joined the underground Haganah, served as a medic during the siege of Jerusalem and in the fledgling Israel Air Force, and has been living in Israel ever since. Her eyewitness account of the war and the birth of the state, “Letters from Jerusalem 1947-1948,” as well as her monograph on “Col. David (Mickey) Marcus”, Israel’s West Point General, have been widely acclaimed.
Zipporah is a popular lecturer, who brings history alive for study missions and youth groups in Israel and abroad. She is a prominent member of the World MACHAL Committee, which represents overseas volunteers in the Israel Defense Forces. (zip@netvision.net.il)
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A poignant letter written a year after the formation
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of the State of Israel by a soldier from a hospital bed reminiscing on the soldiers still actively engaged in freeing the State from attack a year later.
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Zipporah Porath’s letter describes Seder night in
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Jerusalem in 1948 with a Sephardic family in a city short of food and under siege.
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A young partisan from Jerusalem writes to her family
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how she accompanied a group of wounded men to Tel Aviv during Jerusalem’s besiegement in 1948, illustrating the extreme contrast between life threatening Jerusalem and safe Tel Aviv during that time.
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This is a letter Zipporah Porath she wrote to her mother
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from Haifa in 1948. Only someone who was living in Israel at the time knew what was really going on. The fledgling state had people arriving from all over the world and all their differences had to be catered for.
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Zipporah Porath was a student living in Jerusalem when
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it was bombed in February 1948. She describes the chaos and devastation caused by the bombing and then describes the various areas of the city.
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In a long-distance call Ammu Stephen's mother gives
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instructions on how to create a costume for the three and a half-year old. As Mother Teresa, Ammu wins the competition!
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A warm tribute to the late Stanley Medicks, Chairman
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of the British, Scandinavian
and European Machal, at the inauguration of The Stanley Medicks Machal Room in the Michael Levin Center for Lone Soldiers in Tel Aviv. The event was attended by many who initiated the project together with Machal. The exhibit highlighting the heroic and inspiring history of volunteering by Jews and non-Jews from abroad, who rallied to the defense of the State of Israel will be on permanent display at the Tel Aviv Center
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The story of Col. David (Mickey) Marcus, the American
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officer who was recruited in 1947 as military advisor to David Ben-Gurion and the underground Haganah forces, and who played a significant role in the success of the War of Independence as told by Zipporah Porath
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Bless her memory and bless her mess. This is the tribute
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the author bestows on her mother whose habit of collecting everything of interest throughout her life was the catalyst that promoted Zipporah Porath's first internationally popular book!
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New ideas and approaches have been around for decades
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but in this new fun and challenging method of learning everything is expressed in abbreviations and is self taught by missions and the children are taught how to think by solving problems. Zipporah Porath gives a mind-blowing peep into an innovative puzzling world and hopes that this experiment will (WOW) work out well.
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