by Marion Stone
Marion reports on a fascinating evening arranged by
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ESRA Modi'in with 2 representatives from the StandWithUs movement - Richard Corman, Development Director, and Yahya Mahamid, a 20-year-old Israeli Arab educator in the Jerusalem office.
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by Siri Jones-Rosen
An expressive report of the tension and stress on Aloney
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Yitzhak- a youth village founded by Youth Aliyah with international young residents where the author was living at the time of the six day war.
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by Cecily Hanson
An ESRA outing included visits to the Israel Guide
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Dog Center for the Blind and the Ayalon Institute Underground Bullet Factory – two completely different but equally fascinating places.
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by Dr. Gabriel Mayer
Historical museums are a type of museum in which the
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historical subject is confined to one topic or event. In Israel, they include Yad Vashem, the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum and Martef Ha’Shoah, as well as military museums. These historical institutions deliver a strong message about who we are and where we came from.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Women Wage Peace, an organization devoted to breaking
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down stereotypes and working toward living in our region in peace, held an event in which over 1,000 Jewish and Arab Israeli women participated. They boarded a Peace Train bound for Beit She'an, where the event was held.
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by Pamela Peled
An uplifting story how the efforts of three women encouraging
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joint singing ventures between the nations of our land can encourage a peaceful co existence and understanding of each other.
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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 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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