The ‘legacy of linkage’ between South Africa and Israel is colourfully illustrated in the life of Arthur Goldreich who passed away in Israel in 2011. Goldreich’s role in the ANC underground was sensational if fleeting. Most of his life, following his dramatic escape from a downtown Johannesburg police station in 1963, was spent in Israel. […]
Dr. Mary Gordon never Stopped fighting So, who was the South African doctor who had left such a lasting legacy in Israel and has a unit at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon named after her? “Where and how can I best serve? Must always have prayed on the mind of Dr. Mary Gordon. She never took […]
When Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz of the Weizmann Institute was awarded the 2016 Israel Prize for ‘Chemistry and Physics’ with Prof. Meir Lahav, he was only the third South African Israeli to receive Israel’s highest civilian award. The other two recipients were Dr. Ian Froman in 1989 for his contribution to society through sport, and Hillel […]
Reaching out to countries in need is a long-standing Israeli tradition. Emergency teams went to Turkey after an earthquake in 1999, and again in 2011, even though Turkey initially declined twice because of eroding relations between the two countries. Israel sent a large team to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and in March 2011, it […]
Israel was there’ to repair’ There was a joke going around: “0.1/% of the world’s population is Israeli 30% of the international medical team in Nepal was Israeli. Will the UN condemn Israel’s “disproportionate response”?” The true nature of today’s ‘War against the Jews’ was aptly expressed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in May […]
Norman Lurie is most remembered as the founder of the Habonim Movement in South Africa. While studying at university in the UK in the late twenties, Norman heard a young man like himself, Wellesley Aron, speak about starting a Jewish youth movement in the poor East End of London. So inspired, Norman returned to South […]
I am a South African Jew. I was born in a country that provided shelter to my grandparents as they fled the death of Hitler’s Europe. Where Jews were to be tolerated. But where it was better than the alternative. I was born in a country where violent summer storms punctuated my childhood and where […]
Originally published on Israel Hayom. International Women’s Day, which will be marked worldwide on Wednesday, March 8, is of paramount significance and impact to all women. On this day, we should celebrate the growing presence of women in key positions, as well as stress the fact that, like many systems and organizations, the Israel Defense […]