Tatas, boobies, knockers, bazooms or whatever you like to call them, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. A whole month has been dedicated to raising awareness but this is something that we should be aware of everyday. Did you know that one in eight women will develop this and it is the most common type […]
Palestinian reconciliation – Is it a time of promise or a leadup to another letdown? There was much anticipation in Israel this October week with the envoys from the PA (Palestinian Authority) meeting their Hamas counterparts in Gaza with the goal of reuniting Gaza and the West Bank under the ‘legitimate’ – last election was […]
SA CHRISTIANS AND JEWS UNITE TO SAVE LIVES When Israel was rocked by three separate terror attacks on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, Israel’s ‘Red Cross’, known as MDA (Magen David Adom – or Red Shield of David) could zip through the Tel Aviv area’s evening rush-hour traffic and save lives. They arrived quickly to the […]
A Perspective from under the shadow of Table Mountain By Belinda Silbert “Where the respect to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.” Emma Lazarus. The task of nation-building is never without sacrifices and the transformation of the ‘Walking Wounded’ who survived […]
I loved and still love Roger Waters’ brilliant music. It was difficult not to as a student in the seventies! So, without denying the impact of Pink Floyd on Rock culture and society, today, when I hear Water’s magnum opus, “The Wall”, I think he may be “off the wall”. Or worse! While the message […]
*Beverley Price chatted to Israelink Revealing the artistic talents of African Jewry through the journey of a South African jeweller Jews and Africa have a long history. Preceding the Jewish migration of the 19th century from Europe to South Africa, which many people are familiar with, there were Jews settled in Africa going back thousands […]
South Africans Find Solutions at water conference in Israel “Israel has successfully managed to turn a sandpit into a modern city and there is so much to learn”. This is just one of the many positive comments that South African delegates had to say after seeing some of the life changing innovations and hearing from […]
There is precedent. When the call goes out for help, Israel responds. Today it is Mexico! Time is always of the essence. No point arriving when the ‘party’ is over. The whole point is to arrive as soon as possible. This writer recalls regarding the same neck of the Southern Hemisphere that within hours of […]
No visit to Israel’s capital is complete without visiting its magical marketplace – Machane Yehuda. From shopping to enjoying authentic Israeli cuisine, this iconic market invites you to discover a microcosm of the ‘REAL’ Jerusalem. While there are several internationally recognized places of interest in Jerusalem whose names are synonymous with the city – the […]
The history of the Jewish people and that of many African countries is more similar than it is different. There are some striking parallels – tribal allegiances, love of the indigenous land and a shared history of persecution and colonialism. In the fledgling days before the founding of the modern State of Israel, Jews fought […]
“It was an encounter of a strange kind,” says Charles Abelsohn, a graduate of a South African University and a retired lawyer in Israel referring to his brief encounter earlier this year with BDS at the Birchwood Hotel & OR Tambo Conference Centre in Johannesburg. Staying overnight in transit before catching a connecting flight, Charles […]
Israel, United States and South Africa Connection The 9/11 commemoration on TV news networks was subdued this 2017. There was an explanation. While the attention this 9/11 remained death and destruction on mainland America, it had competition. The nature of wrath was not Islamic terrorism of 16 years earlier but Mother Nature of the present. […]
When hearing of a terror attack people tends to focus on the number of fatalities. An organization established in Israel by former Southern Africans, focuses on the injured. “For every person killed in a terror attack, there are on average 8-10 injured,” reveals Rocky Muravitz, who together with Vic Essakow co-founded TIKVOT (Hebrew for ‘Hope’), […]
No visit to Tel Aviv would be complete without visiting at least one market, or “shuk” as it is known locally. This gives visitors a chance to experience a slice of Israeli culture and to enjoy a ‘taste’ of its lifestyle. As my literati friend, Henrietta David so eloquently put it: “Reminds me of Alice […]
by Peter Bailey Any attempt to define antiSemitism must fail. The phrase itself derives from the German word Judenhass, translated to English means Jew Hatred, while the term anti-Semitism was introduced as a quasi scientific explanation of the dislike of Jews in 1879. And has stuck since that time. There are a number of truisms […]