Exhibition International Premiere – Tel Aviv What a buzz! It was early evening in downtown south Tel Aviv, with folk standing around a pavement bar, wine glasses in hand at the entrance to the prestigious art studio of Shuki Kook. The occasion was the solo exhibition and International Premier of wildlife artist –Ralph Resnik. There […]
Google ‘Kibbutz Revivim’ and you will find that it was established in 1943 by a youth movement group from Rishon LeZion that included new immigrants from Austria, Germany and Italy on land given to them by the JNF (Jewish National Fund). Nowhere does it reveal the South African connection! The story begins in the 1930s […]
By Peter Bailey “You’ve had two glasses of water already, Johnny; it’s enough; you know the situation; have Coke!” This “setting” at a South African dinner table may appear as over-the-tap – pun intended – but the “situation” is real: Demand for water in South Africa outstrips supply. When one compares South Africa receiving an […]
By Rod Mazinter Water, or rather the lack of it, is an issue that looks set to affect the lives of every person on earth. Governments and the media quite rightly give high priority to the consequences of the devastating droughts being encountered throughout the world, more recently in South Africa. Reliance on natural and […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Linda Sarsour would appear to be a rising star of feminist causes. She organizes rallies, cleans up cemeteries and protests at every conceivable opportunity. She is a veritable pin up for girl power. In the last few days, Sarsour has made sweeping comments that Zionism and feminism simply do not go together. It just doesn’t […]
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. […]
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 […]