Grapevine: Israel’s "open skies"

■ ISRAEL’S “OPEN SKIES” routine is formulating some-more options for a frequent, occasional and would-be flier. Last week Norwegian Ambassador Jon Hanssen-Bauer landed during Ben-Gurion Airport on a lass moody to Israel by his country’s inhabitant airline, Norwegian, that now has a unchanging track between Oslo and Tel Aviv. Passengers were greeted with soda and cake on arrival. Hanssen-Bauer tweeted “I am gay to accompany on this first. Thank we and Mazal Tov.”

A few days later, Michael Strassburger, El Al’s clamp boss for blurb and courtesy affairs, invited Portugal’s mercantile attachée, Irith Freudenheim, and Michael Itzhar Belachovsky, a boss of a Israel-Portugal Chamber of Commerce, to attend a ribbon-cutting rite imprinting a coronation of El Al’s Tel Aviv-Lisbon track and a lass moody of LY375 from Tel Aviv to Lisbon with 136 passengers onboard.

There were still a few empty seats on a 737-800 plane, that has seating for 16 passengers in business category and 138 passengers in traveller class. Flights will be twice a week, augmenting to 5 flights per week in Mar 2019.

■ ONLY TWO weeks after receiving a letters of faith of 5 new ambassadors, President Reuven Rivlin will again acquire new ambassadors who will benefaction him with letters of faith along with a letters of remember of their predecessors.

In a array of ceremonies due to take place this Thursday, Rivlin will accept certification of ambassadors Dr. Vesela Mrden Korac, Croatia; Ghassan Majali, Jordan; Martin Stropnicky, The Czech Republic; Khaled Azmi, Egypt; and Bold Ravdan, a nonresident envoy of Mongolia.

All ambassadors-designate, when they arrive in Israel, news to a Foreign Ministry and benefaction their documents. They are briefed by Chief of Protocol Meron Reuben on their rights and privileges, as good as what they competence not do. In addition, he tells them what to design during a rite for a display of credentials, that varies somewhat from one nation to another, generally if a display is finished to a monarch. Reuben also accompanies any envoy to a display rite and introduces him or her to Rivlin.

He now has a outrageous reserve of new ambassadors, he says, with another array of ceremonies scheduled for Dec and for Feb 2019. Reuben greeted a new Egyptian envoy early in a week, customarily as tenderly as he welcomed a Jordanian envoy a month ago. Azmi, who was before executive of a counterterrorism section in Egypt’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, succeeds Hazem Khairat. Majali, who was before Jordan’s envoy to Spain, succeeds Walid Obeidat.

■ LOSS OF life, possibly by an act of terrorism, murder, manslaughter, a outcome of illness or simply aged age, is always tragic, given life in itself is so altered and some-more frail than many of us realize. In a duration of reduction than a month, during slightest 17 people were killed and many harmed in trade accidents on Route 90, Israel’s longest and many dangerous highway travelling 470 km.

One of these cases assigned media courtesy for some-more than a day or dual given it concerned a whole Atar family – both relatives and 6 children. Before that a Avitans and their 10-month-old daughter were also deprived of a future.

Those deaths were no reduction comfortless than those of a 11 victims of a Tree of Life hatred crime. There were dual essential differences. Among those killed in trade collisions on a dangerous highway in Israel were a baby and a three-year-old tot as good as other children who had not nonetheless reached double-digit age. Most of a victims in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill were unequivocally comparison citizens. That does not make their deaths any reduction tragic, yet a hint of that tragedy is being perpetuated.

For some reason a iniquitous crime that caused their deaths continues to pull general village and media attention, given a highway deaths in that dual whole families were broken have already faded into obscurity, yet positively will be mentioned again during a Israel Road Safety conference, sponsored by TheMarker, during a Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv on Thursday, and will be dredged adult again when there is another genocide along a same highway – yet afterwards customarily briefly, as a statistic.

The Tree of Life electrocute was positively not a initial time that worshipers anywhere in a universe were pounded in a synagogue, a mosque or a church. Closer to home, let’s not forget that in Feb 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician, was a criminal in a sharpened electrocute in a Ibrahimi Mosque in a Cave of a Patriarchs. The misadventure rate was many aloft than in a Tree of Life synagogue. Twenty-nine worshipers, including children, were killed and 125 wounded. This horrible act sent startle waves via Israel and a Arab communities of a region. Even people not good likely toward Arabs were shrill in their condemnation.

So given has a Squirrel Hill electrocute resonated to a border that it has? Possibly given Pittsburgh, that was once a Ku Klux Klan enclave, has managed to overcome all that xenophobic bias, and is now an thorough city in that people of opposite faiths and racial origins honour and support one another.

But this electrocute came as one of a many new in a array of hatred crimes that have jarred adult America. Those hatred crimes have to a vast border been facilitated by America’s magnanimous gun laws. Here in Israel, where so many people have entrance to guns for confidence reasons, a ratio of killings is distant reduce than in a United States, where not customarily Jews have been victims yet many some-more African-Americans. The entrance to weapons that can kill and censor is what bothers so many people.

Last week, during a 101st anniversary rite of a Battle of Beersheba, Rabbi Raymond Apple of Jerusalem, who is a former comparison rabbi to a Australian Defense Force, spoke of simple freedoms that embody a right to life, liberty, equivalence and a satisfactory trial, along with leisure from labour and woe and leisure of suspicion and expression. All these freedoms are inspected in speculation yet flouted in a unequivocally nations and universe bodies that explain to urge them, he said. “Human life is disregarded any day. It seems that customarily one leisure that is genuine is a leisure to bear a gun and slay decent people.”

■ ONE CANNOT assistance yet consternation what Israel would be like yet all a munificent assistance it receives from NGOs that support medical services, education, amicable welfare, informative endeavors, sole soldiers and a innumerable of other things. Notwithstanding surveys that prove that munificent support for Israel is waning, new foundations and support groups are ceaselessly being created, with many not customarily lifting and contributing supports yet also holding a hands-on approach.

Among a many recently determined of these support organizations is American Friends of Assuta Ashdod Hospital, an classification that was inaugurated final week during a central chateau of Israel’s consul-general in New York, Dani Dayan. In further to Dayan, those benefaction enclosed AFAAH house members: Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Peled; Rivka Kidron, owner of Passages, an classification dedicated to bringing a subsequent era of Christian tyro leaders to Israel; Prof. Joshua Shemer, authority of Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital; and Eli Nhaissi, authority of AFAAH.

The Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital provides evident caring for approximately half a million Israelis who live in Ashdod and surrounds, and a puncture dialect is staffed during all times by puncture medicine specialists. Even on so happy an arise as a AFAAH inauguration, a Pittsburgh tragedy was peerless in people’s thoughts.

“Even yet this tragedy happened thousands of miles from Jerusalem, it feels like internal news for a State of Israel, as a hearts are with those in Pittsburgh” pronounced Dayan.

■ THIRTY YEARS behind and more, Jews in a giveaway universe were entertainment demonstrations on interest of Soviet Jewry, with a pivotal aphorism taken from a Bible, “Let My People Go.” Now Jews are returning to Russia to do business, to rivet in politics, to settle some-more Jewish organizations and to open additional branches of existent organizations.

Last week Jewish leaders from Russia, Israel and Europe took partial in a opening rite of a Moscow bureau of a Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. EAJC boss Mikhail Mirilashvili, clamp boss of EAJC Temur Ben Yehuda (Khikhinashvili), clamp boss of a World Jewish Congress Robert Singer, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, Israel’s Ambassador to Russia Gary Koren, and authority of a EAJC and clamp boss of a WJC Aaron Frenkel were in attendance. The Moscow bureau will offer as a core for a organization’s activities in a nation and will be headed by Yana-Bella Waldberg.

Established in 2002, a EAJC represents dozens of Jewish communities opposite Eurasian countries. The Pittsburgh difficulty resonated even in Moscow, from where Mirilashvili uttered condolences to a families of a victims and wished a bleeding a rapid recovery. The EAJC eventuality was a delay of The Second Moscow International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, Xenophobia and Racism, that was underneath a caring of a Russian Jewish Congress and was attended by 600 representatives from some-more than 35 countries.

Mirilashvili thanked Russia’s leaders for their formidable defamation of antisemitism, and for a fact that Jewish communities and Jewish organizations can act openly in Russia. “We remember it was not always like this. But now Russia can offer as an instance of a onslaught opposite antisemitism, and we wish that no geopolitical hurdles will change this attitude,” he said.

■ YIDDISHPIEL THEATER was determined in 1987 by Shmuel Atzmon Wircer with a assistance of then-Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat, who was a good partner of Yiddish play and humor, and was himself a good storyteller of Yiddish anecdotes. Yiddishpiel, that goes on debate all over Israel as good as abroad, has not had a permanent home in a 3 decades of existence. In Tel Aviv, it customarily performs during ZOA House, yet ZOA is not a home.

At a celebration prolongation final week of a Abraham Goldfaden classic The Witch, maestro Yiddishpiel actor Yisrael Treistman called on Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai to work toward a investiture of a permanent home for Yiddishpiel, that given a pregnancy has dedicated itself to a refuge of Yiddish enlightenment and has lifted a new era of actors and actresses for a Yiddish stage.

In further to Treistman, a expel of The Witch includes Tal Avisar, Sapir Baumvel, Gil Weiss, Irma Stepanov, Dotan Amrami, Lauren Pitaro, Andrei Kashkar, Erez Regev, Miri Regendorfer, Yael Rochkind and Niv Shafir.

■ APROPOS TOURS, Eurovision leader Netta Barzilai, who rose from relations anonymity in Israel to general stardom, is about to embark on a European tour, commencement Nov 12. She will sing in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France and Britain.

Barzilai had a tough time flourishing up, and career-wise it wasn’t easy for her either. When she entered a Eurovision Song Contest, she unequivocally didn’t know many about Eurovision, and suspicion that a bearing in terms of competing to be Israel’s deputy would acquire her a few some-more gigs on a home front. She got a lot some-more than she bargained for in a many certain approach possible, and in a routine became an unaccepted envoy for Israel. A unequivocally splendid lady, Barzilai knows not customarily how to sing yet also how to talk, as Israel bashers will discover.

■ IN NOVEMBER 2009, Joanna Landau founded a nonprofit organization, Vibe Israel (formerly Kinetis), to change a approach people consider and feel about Israel. Vibe Israel leads initiatives to strengthen Israel’s code in a world, utilizing place branding techniques with a clever significance on a use of amicable media and a Internet to bond millennials around a universe to Israel.

Essentially, Vibe, in further to strengthening Israel’s code and fighting BDS, promotes good vibes about a approach people feel about themselves and any other by enchanting in amicable communication and a healthy lifestyle. Wellness and aptness have turn critical lifestyle factors.

London-born Landau, who is a granddaughter of Dame Shirley Porter and a daughter of Linda Streit, who was this year one of a recipients of a Nefesh B’Nefesh Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Prize, comes from a socially and philanthropically concerned family, with that she altered to Israel when she was 5 years old. She returned quickly to London for her high propagandize preparation and was enrolled during Carmel College Boarding School. After portion in a IDF as a paramedic, she again returned to a UK to review law during Cambridge University, where she warranted her BA and MA degrees. She also has an MBA, cum laude, from a Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

Prior to first Kinetis, she worked as a counsel in a hi-tech courtesy and determined dual Internet start-ups formed in Tel Aviv. Following in a footsteps of her mom and grandmother, she is a administrator of Tel Aviv University. She is also a member of a International Education Committee of Taglit-Birthright. In 2017 Landau was famous by Forbes Israel as one of a 50 many successful women in Israel.

Her work with Vibe has positively combined to Landau’s influence, as so many Israelis are meddlesome in aptness and wellness achieved by yoga, boxing, dancing, vegetarian and vegan diets, radical medicine and more. Israelis who caring about wellness are mostly shabby by wellness advocates in other tools of a world.

Landau motionless it was time that wellness gurus from abroad should come to see what’s function in Israel and sell knowledge. Vibe Israel orderly a debate for 4 successful American wellness advocates with millions of supporters on amicable media. They enclosed Koya Webb, an internationally famous African-American yoga teacher, Lisa Bryan, an consultant on gluten-free products who organizes seminars around a world, Leah Segedie, a food romantic and amicable media consultant, and Jessica Hylton, a owner of Jessica in a Kitchen, a vegetarian/vegan recipe website.

None of a party had ever been to Israel before nearing in a final week of October. While roving around a nation and training a history, they met Israeli wellness experts such as renouned yoga clergyman Maya Kremer; nutritive health teacher Mozna Bashra, who had been a member on MasterChef, and veteran chefs Udi Barkan and Osher Idelman, who horde a uncover Two Men and a Refrigerator. The 4 American wellness experts common their knowledge with millions of their amicable media supporters worldwide.

Aside from vehemence about a food in Israel, Bryan wrote that she had perceived many questions about how protected it was to be in Tel Aviv. “So let me tell you,” she replied, “I feel approach safer walking around by myself in here than we do in LA! Even during night, there are so many people out and about. It’s a vibrant, enterprising city.”

“Israel’s charity in a margin of wellness goes good over what people think,” pronounced Landau. “Not customarily are we a vegan collateral of a world, a tie between physique and essence expresses itself also in a village Friday night dinners and a health-tech start-ups. All this and some-more is what a guest experienced.”

But a bottom line was a outcome – 150 million certain mentions of Israel online as a outcome of a visit. “I can safely contend that Israel’s story is one that a universe wants to hear. All we need to do is tell it well, be authentic and bond people to people,” pronounced Landau.

■ TIMING IS everything. Israel’s Ethiopian village will on Wednesday applaud a Sigd festival in Jerusalem, as it does any year. Coincidentally, or maybe not coincidentally, Alem Wondie, Bezabeh Mulugeta, Mesekerem Tadesse, Zemna Tadesse and Dawit Ayelign, a mother, siblings and nephew of Sintayehu Shaparou, who competed in a International Bible Quiz on Independence Day, were due to arrive in Israel Tuesday night. Their craft was scheduled to land during Ben-Gurion Airport during 8 p.m., that was over press time for this column.

It competence be remembered that a family was primarily denied entry, yet after a lot of lobbying on their interest by some good people, they were postulated residency status. The cost of a family’s flight, and initial vital expenses, have been paid for by a Heart of Israel, that lifted many of a income from Christian Zionists. Recalling all a bid it has taken to move a family to Israel, A.Y. Katsof, executive of a Heart of Israel, pronounced that it was unequivocally delightful to know that a efforts had not been in vain.

The family will for a foreseeable destiny be housed during Kibbutz Kiryat Menahem, and in all probability, if they will have arrived yet a glitch, someone will take them to Jerusalem for a Sigd ceremony.

The Sigd outlines a lapse to Zion and a yearning for Jerusalem and brings together a Ethiopian village for tab and soul-searching. The eventuality will take place on Wednesday during a Sherover Promenade in Armon Hanatziv, that overlooks a capital’s Old City. Rivlin and Aliyah and Integration Minister Sofa Landver will residence a many members of a Ethiopian village who will intersect from all over Israel.

■ HOW TIMES have changed. Not so prolonged ago during university ceremonies for a consultation of titular doctorates, there competence have been one or dual women in a group. But 2018 seems to be a year in that women are receiving larger approval in politics, a military, a humanities and academia.

This would comment for a fact that women will outnumber group subsequent week, when Ben-Gurion University of a Negev confers titular doctorates on inquisitive publisher and counsel Ilana Dayan, former veteran basketball actor Anat Draigor, who in 2006 entered The Guinness Book of World Records after scoring 136 points in a singular game, Prof. Nili Cohen, who is now boss of a Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Rona Ramon, who has finished many to inspire high propagandize students to embark on systematic and space studies and research, businessman and businessman Imad Telhami, and German counsel Arno Gerlich. The Yakir Hanegev endowment will go to thespian and composer Yossi Moustaki.

■ HISTORY OWES many to photographers who constraint moments in tellurian life that competence differently go unnoticed. Some tiny fact that competence be of small effect now develops huge significance in a face of changing amicable norms and systematic discoveries.

Motty Reif, who as a longtime writer of celebration conform shows in Israel and Los Angeles, where he spent several years, is widely regarded as one of a many successful total in Israel’s conform industry. In further to producing conform shows, he ran a rarely successful displaying agency. As a former indication himself, it was roughly second inlet for him to be means to discern, from a brood of fervent applicants, who did and who didn’t have what it takes to be a good conform model. He has also constructed many radio shows.

Over a years, he has grown some unequivocally tighten friendships with heading models, among them Linor Abargil, a Israeli beauty black who was named Miss World in 1998. He had famous her given she was 16 years old, and he was one of a people in whom she confided after she was raped customarily forward of a Miss World contest. He after constructed a documentary film Brave Miss World that tells a story of her distress and how she dealt with it. Abargil, who is now a lawyer, has turn a tellurian disciple in a conflict opposite passionate violence.

Reif is also a penetrating gourmet of photographs of all a events in that he has been concerned – not customarily conform runways yet assembly reactions, behind a scenes vehement shots, a precipitate and scuttle in sauce rooms, and many more.

Because of his prolonged and tighten tie to conform models, Reif is unequivocally many wakeful of a fact that so many of them have been targeted by passionate predators. It is for this reason that, in team-work with Michal and Guy Baram, proprietors of Baram City Press in Tel Aviv, he is displaying photographs from his private collection for a one-day fund-raiser in support of Ruach Nashit (The Female Spirit), that supports women who have been victims of passionate attack or who are former prostitutes who wish to make new lives for themselves.

The photographs, many of that were taken by Reif himself, are all for sale, and will be on perspective on Friday, Nov 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during Baram City Press, 6 Habarzel Street, Ramat Hahayal, Tel Aviv.

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