“Good Morning, Israel”
Check out the Israeli breakfast spead- a healthy and hearty way to start the day! Filled with eggs fish and cheese it differs from it's counterparts.
A Tour of Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s Street Food Scene
The Israeli street food scene is on full display almost anywhere in the Tel Aviv-Yafo area. Take a virtual mouth-watering tour with us!
The Great Braai Off
South Africa vs Israel South Africa evokes in many of us the visuals of sunshine, big five species animals, rugby and of course, braaivleis! South Africans love to braai. Give us a pair of tongs, some delicious boerewors, a chop or two and a Castle lager (or insert preferred brand of beer here) and we […]
Child Abuse – When Children Become Weapons
By Peter Bailey The world is a depressing place when children are used as the spear-point to achieve military or political objectives. Whatever the objective, however noble the cause might seem in certain eyes, nothing can ever justify parents allowing and even encouraging the brainwashing, and filling their children with hatred. The glory of death […]
The Myth of “Safe Space”
The term “safe spaces” has become the latest hot buzzword. It is “on fleek” with the trendy kids on campus who trot it out whenever they have an occasion to engage on a variety of divergent opinions and positions. There are safe spaces for every conceivable student organisation. Except for the Jewish or Pro-Israel groups, […]
The Hills are Alive – To the sound of music, history, nature and warm hospitality
In the center of Israel, amidst historical heritage sites and the national forest of Ben Shemen, lies the green and rural Modi’in region, home to the ancient Maccabees and present day Israelis who are ready to welcome you. The Maccabees were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea and founded the Hasmonean dynasty, […]
Illuminating Africa – With Israeli hi-tech
Innovation: Africa are a team of dedicated problem solvers with a mission to bring Israeli solutions and know-how to those in need living in rural African villages. Their aim is to introduce solar energy to pump clean water and provide schools, orphanages and medical clinics with light and refrigeration to store vaccines and medicines. […]
‘Cry Freedom’ – Cerebrating South Africa’s Freedom Day in Israel
Sandwiched timeously between the festivity of Passover – where Jews celebrate their flight to freedom from African bondage, to Israel’s Independence Day, where Jews rejoice in their return to sovereignty in their ancestral homeland of Israel, South Africans on the 27th April, too celebrate liberation – Freedom Day. In Israel, this momentous milestone is celebrated […]
BDS – Belligerent Double Standards
The issue of human rights is alluring. It appeals to our conscience and sense of altruism and who does not want to be on the right side of supporting human rights? But what happens when organizations and individuals who claim to be concerned with the cause of human rights discriminate against the rights of another? […]
Dream On
Thank you for reviewing on Israel Link our book, “Ideally Speaking”, which I am sure that former members of our Jewish youth movements in South Africa – now spread across the globe – will find most interesting. After all, who does not question the idealism of one’s youth and ask how we shaped-upped to our […]
Through the Grapevine – Israel’s wine route through the Judean Hills
South Africa has no shortage of spectacular wine routes. Wine farms across its mountainous and hilly landscapes – particularly in the verdant Western Cape – are producing superb varieties that even I can buy at my local liquor outlets, a continent away, in Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv. However, if South Africa has over […]
Sweet Surrender
Israelis get their just desserts It is a universally acknowledged truth that however full after the main course there is always room for a dessert. Of course, the more prudent might dispute this and feel the need to either eat less or dispense with one course altogether. Admittedly these are tough choices! Will one skip […]
Valley of Heaven and Earth
By Jonathan Zausmer Reviewed by Dave Bloom Jonathan Zausmer is a good story teller. Vividly capturing recollections from his childhood in the quant Western Cape coastal village of Hermanus in the fifties and sixties, the author’s style is both “whacky” and charming and will resonate with all South Africans with a special ‘close-to-home’ feeling for former […]
The Killer Within
Book Review Reading Solly Kaplinski’s ‘A WORLD OF PAINS’ on the Holocaust, two images of a personal nature came to mind. The first goes back to 2001, when I stood alongside Solly who was Director of the International Relations English Desk at Yad Vashem at the time and laid a wreath on behalf of the […]
A Leading Light
Over four decades later, his legacy lives on There are few Southern African Jews that have not heard of Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams – even if they were not from Cape Town. So, it was not surprising that members of the SA community in Israel congregated one night in 2014 to honour his memory on […]