by Phil Bloom
Phil Bloom was a student at the University of Cape
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Town when the Six-Day War broke out and his life changed direction. He was on the first plane of volunteers to Israel, and stayed on. It was, he says, “an essential and significant step forward in defining who I was.”
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by Anthony Green
Mike Kahn and Meish Arenson amazingly had the presence
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of mind and sense of history even when going off to war to bring their cameras and use them to record the events. Here are some examples
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by Alan Caplan
Alan Caplan arrived in Israel a few days before the
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war broke out. He was posted to Kibbutz Maayan Baruch, where armed with an ancient weapon, he was assigned to stand guard duty in an observation post beyond Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Years later, he and his wife became part of the garin that founded the village of Manof.
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by Ilana Walsh
In 1966 the author graduated from Cambridge University.
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In early 1967 she moved to Paris, and then was caught up in the rising tensions of the Middle East. She registered on a list to replace those called up to war in Israel – but the war was soon over. She nevertheless decided to come to Israel. From here onwards the story starts getting hectic…
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by Dov Vogel
New Yorker Dov takes the reader through the emotional
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rollercoaster ride starting with his first encounter with Israel in 1965 until his eventual aliya in 1980. The progress of his journey coincides with landmark events in Israel's history such as the Six Day War and the fateful events of 1973.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
A selection of the beautiful art work by Rona Harris
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reflecting scenes in Jerusalem after the Six-Day War.
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by Rona Harris
A nurse from Montreal was inspired with Israel when
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volunteering for the Six Day War but was unable to fulfill her desire to live here until 45 years later.
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by Ben Novis
A Doctors story of how the Six day war influenced his
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life and later brought him and his family to Israel to live.
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by Richard Shavei Tzion
The author is moved to tears as he moves among the
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graves of the Mount of Olives cemetery. The first Jewish burials took place here about 2,800 years ago, but on that particular night homage was paid to 15-year- old Gracie (Yaffa) Harush and others who fell defending the newly-established State of Israel.
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by Flori Cohen
The Modiin Anglo community, including ESRA Modiin,
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hosted a moving commemoration evening for Yom HaShoah. Among the speakers were Dr. Teria Shantall, a clinical psychologist and specialist in Logotherapy, founded by Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl, and Sara Shor, Collection Manager, Artefacts Collection at Yad Vashem Museum.
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by Maia Aron
How do you wash a floor in Israel? To new olah Maia
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Aron, that was a mystery which took her some time to solve.
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by Henry Gild
A successful ESRA outing included a view of spring
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flowers on Mount Gilboa, archaology at Beit Shean, the 6th century synagogue at Beit Alpha and the Tel at Kibbutz Yisrael.
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by Marion Stone
The documentary film "Torn" tells the story of Yaacov
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Wecksler, who found out at age 35 that he was Jewish. Yaacov, who had become a Catholic priest at age 17, today works at the archives department of Yad Vashem, but to date has not been granted full Israeli citizenship.
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