There are an estimated 5 million children in countries from Africa, Asia, South and Central America and more who cannot attend school because of mobility handicaps. Children in developing countries in these areas are often ostracized because of the stigma of being physically disabled in their communities or unable to afford wheelchairs and cannot attend […]
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw this website. I go to a university in South Africa where we are often told that Israel is evil or an apartheid state. I don’t know much about the history of Israel or about the relationship with South Africa but I do know that all this attention must […]
We often tend to see only the negative side of things around us, but if we dig deeper we find so many positives. It is not all doom and gloom. The perception is that the South African mainstream media publish only negative reports about Israel. While it is true of many of these papers, there […]
NASA launches a satellite built by Israeli high schoolers into space Is it any wonder that Israel is referred to as the ‘Startup Nation’ when its school kids are hardly hanging around waiting to become adults before pursuing their dreams – like delving into space! Such was the case of a group of students from […]
*Harris Zvi Green Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed. This tactic has always been a key ingredient of the propaganda strategies created by totalitarian regimes to justify their ideologies. Success of this technique is achieved by confining the argument to a few key issues and then repeating them over and […]
As Jews throughout the world reflect each year on Pesach (Passover) on how their ancestors fled from bondage over 3000 years ago from Egypt, Israelis reflect too on a more recent mass flight to freedom of African Jews to Israel – the Jews from Ethiopia. There is much speculation on the origins of this ancient […]
There is something quite remarkable happening on the African continent. A groundswell of love and support from African Christians is swelling for the State of Israel, forged in biblical ties and a mutual love of the land. It is a relationship that has endured and survived political hardships defying voices calling for boycotts, divestment and […]
Name-calling Israel an Apartheid state has nothing to do with truth and everything to do with trying to destroy Israel by other means. It’s not working! If the enemies of Israel were parties in a traditional duel and asked “Choose your weapon”, no prize what they would choose. It would be the lie that “Israel is an […]
By Peter Bailey Observers are quick to compare the current situation in Israel with that in South Africa prior to the first democratic elections in 1994. The facts show that nothing could be further from the truth. The parties to the conflict in South Africa desired peace; the parties to one side of the conflict […]
By Berl Ratzer* Masada is one of the many UNESCO World Heritage sites in Israel and the most visited National Park and historical site. Many millennia of erosion have separated it from the rest of the ridge overlooking the Dead Sea leaving it to stand alone, majestic and imposing. Masada is not a tel (In archaeology […]
“Sitting here today are some of the talented young people who will make an incredible mark on the future of South Africa,” declared then South African Ambassador to Israel, Johann Marx at the graduation ceremony on Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael in June 2001. Sponsored by South Africa Mizrachi, HEATID offered four-week intense leadership and entrepreneurship courses […]
South African enterprise in the early days of the State was recognised by the naming of a street in Netanya after a company founded by South African investors and its manager, the late Zundel Segal. When Zundel, immigrated to Israel in 1952, “he was a man with a mission,” said his widow, artist Tziporah Segal. […]
*Courtesy of the South Africa Israel Chamber of Commerce. By Andrew Zaleski, special to CNBC.com David Furst | AFP | Getty Images Israeli soldiers march in front a Merkava tank More than $680 million was invested in cybersecurity companies in 2016. But it wasn’t in Silicon Valley. It was Israel. Some of the biggest investment […]
“Feel the Spirit” By Adrian Wolff* One picture is worth a 1000 words. But one emotion is worth a 1000 photographs, and a tour of Israel is a compilation of emotions that appear not in your photo album but embedded in your memory. A visit to Israel is not like any other country. Somewhere, at […]
Throughout the days of Mandela’s passing in December 2013, it rained incessantly. So too in Israel! During the memorial service at the residence of South Africa’s Ambassador, Sisa Ngombane in Tel Aviv the heavens opened. It was said in tributes that as rain brings “life, rejuvenation and hope,” so too “has Mandela’s life on earth […]