by Sally Wendkos Olds
Sally fitted a piece into the puzzle of her husband's
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life while they were on a road trip following his footsteps as a US soldier during the Battle of the Bulge. She met members of his host family in Luxembourg, among them the pretty daughter of the house who had stolen his heart.
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by Buzzy Gordon
Buzzy Gordon introduces a tempting range of kosher
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and non-kosher Asian restaurants offering meals from Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand. He lists the menus, the specialties of the house and the price range of each restaurant
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by Bess Hoffman
A former ambassador to Ireland addressed an enthusiastic
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home audience in Herzliya on the situation of Jews of the Arab Countries today.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A compass was dropped in a forest over 70 years ago
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by pre-state heroine Haviva Reik while in Slovakia for the British army in 1944. Somehow the compass reached Israel from the forest and was recently discovered among the belongings of the late Moshe Gross of Kibbutz Ma'anit. Here is the story …
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
The Six-Day War began 50 years ago on the 5th June
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1967, and was a defining event in Israel’s history. In a special section in this issue – and in their own words – are the fascinating stories by the people profiled on this page.
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by Talya Dahan Dunleavy
Talya skillfully takes the reader into the mind of
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a 15 year-old as preparations for the Six Day War were in full swing. She describes how aware her generation was of what could happen to them, and their involvement in civilian preparations for impending war.
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by Judy Copeland
Some 12,000 volunteers came to Israel in the wake of
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the Six-Day War. The question arose as to how to build on that experience so that a number of them would subsequently make aliyah. Michael Copeland and Dr Justin Phillips found one solution: they set up the enormously successful WUJS Institute in Arad, which hosted thousands of students.
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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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