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Just 8 days brazen of a elections, President Reuven Rivlin will applaud his 80th birthday, according to a Gregorian calendar. Rivlin prefers a Hebrew calendar date of 25 Elul, that will be in a final week of September. But a president’s transition into his subsequent decade will be zero like that of his prototype Shimon Peres, whose 80th birthday whack in Sep 2003 was hosted by boss Moshe Katsav, who had degraded Peres in a latter’s initial run for president. Rivlin also missed out on his initial run, yet that’s where a likeness ends. Rivlin will have a really low-key affair, if he has one during all. Guests during a celebration Peres eventuality during what was afterwards a Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv (now a Charles Bronfman Auditorium) enclosed Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, thespian Kathleen Turner and primary apportion Ariel Sharon, among many other dignitaries and celebrities.

The party enclosed teenage luminary Liel Kolet, who was 14 years aged during a time. She had been scheduled to sing John Lennon’s “Imagine” together with a choir of 40 Jewish and 40 Muslim children. Knowing that Clinton was musical, she invited him to join her on theatre and to sing a strain with her. The shave of their opening went viral and helped to springboard her ubiquitous career. She is not usually a good singer, yet an fervent assent activist.

■ APROPOS PERES, whose prophesy for a destiny enclosed a investiture in 1996 of a Peres Center for Peace: following a execution of his presidential tenure, it was stretched to a benefaction purpose as a Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, and has exceeded a expectations of a founder. Its venue is in Jaffa, one of a few churned Jewish-Arab neighborhoods in Israel. In offer to compelling a moneyed Israel, a common vital space and durability assent between all of Israel’s adults and all of Israel’s neighbors, a Peres Center also serves as a venue for tactful and other ubiquitous events, sporting events that illustrate a probability of coexistence, and a launch of innovative products and projects.

On Wednesday, for instance, a Peres Center will be a venue for a launch of an innovative module that uses artistic pattern methodologies to solve problems during a metropolitan level. Keynote orator will be Facebook Israel CEO Adi Soffer Teeni.

This beginning is a corner try of Bloomberg Philanthropies, a Interior Ministry and a Peres Center. The purpose is to emanate “i-teams” to work with 12 Israeli municipalities to urge a lives of their residents by pattern thinking.

Bloomberg Philanthropies has run identical programs in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheba (as good as other cities around a world) to residence a operation of issues, from at-risk girl to improving cost of vital for families and formulating an sourroundings enabling entrepreneurs to thrive.

The “i-teams” will request Bloomberg Philanthropy’s models for creation and problem-solving for issues identified by any comparison city’s mayor.

■ OVER THE centuries, several tools of Europe have been forged adult and annexed by empires and total regimes. There were residents of countries who went to bed with one inhabitant identity, and woke a subsequent day with another. In some cases, there were people who had lived in 4 countries yet ever holding a step outward their village. Poland was one such country, convalescent a autonomy during a finish of a First World War, in Nov 1918, after 123 years of partition.

In Sep 1939, Poland was again invaded by aggressors – initial by a Germans on Sep 1, and second by a Russians on Sep 17.

While there is no denying that antisemitism existed in Poland for centuries, and that many Jews with shining minds were denied entrance to universities due to a numerus clausus policy, Jewish life in Poland flourished, and Poland boasted a largest pre-World War II Jewish village in Europe.

There have been distortions of story both by Poles and Jews with courtesy to World War II and a Holocaust. The excellent line of debate, as distant as a Poles are concerned, lies in claims by many Jewish survivors and their descendants that Poland was in cahoots with a Nazis. Poland does not repudiate that there were sold antisemitic Poles who killed or tricked Jewish neighbors. But a Polish supervision in outcast did whatever was probable to move a predicament of a Jews of Europe in ubiquitous and Poland in sold to a courtesy of universe leaders. Such information was inter alia gleaned from firsthand reports by non-Jewish Poles who had been detained in thoroughness and genocide camps and had managed to escape.

Count Edward Bernard Raczynski, a unfamiliar apportion of a London-based Polish government-in-exile, in a note antiquated Dec 10, 1942, sent a nine-page minute to a governments of a member states of a United Nations, surveying what was duty to a Jews and propelling these governments to act in sequence to forestall offer killings.

Readings of extracts from what is famous as Raczynski’s Note, that was creatively created in English, were videotaped by a Polish Embassy, with Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski reading from a bizarre text, and Kan 11 Reshet Bet stream affairs anchor Aryeh Golan reading a Hebrew translation. Golan, a son of Holocaust survivors, was innate in Poland shortly after a war, and earnings there frequently. The video can be seen on a website of a Polish Embassy.

This past Sunday morning, on a 80th anniversary of a German advance of Poland, Golan interviewed Magierowski in Hebrew on his early morning radio show. Magierowski finished a indicate that Poland’s story with a Jews was not singular to a six-year duration of a war, yet goes behind for scarcely a thousand years. When 3 million Polish Jews were murdered in a Holocaust, he said, “we mislaid partial of a Polish culture.”

When Golan asked him about latter-day antisemitism in Poland, Magierowski replied that it has to be noticed in suit to what is duty in a rest of Europe, where antisemitism is on a many larger scale.

Following a consult consecrated by a embassy, Magierowski and his group satisfied that many is lacking in believe about Poland in Israel. Yes, many people, generally high schoolers, revisit Poland, yet it is radically to turn some-more informed with what happened during a Holocaust. There is so many some-more to Poland, pronounced Magierowski, who sees it as his goal to fill in a gaps and learn Israelis about Polish culture, Polish cuisine, and Polish film personalities.

This year, in offer to commemorating a 80th anniversary of a conflict of a Second World War, Poland is also celebrating a 100th anniversary of a convalescent of a independence, a 30th anniversary of semi-free elections in that Solidarity won and shaped a new supervision holding Poland out from underneath a Communist yoke, and a 100th anniversary of Poland’s film industry, that will embody Polish Film Month underneath a streamer of Polish Zoom, that will embody screenings of Polish films during September-October during cinematheques in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Holon, Herzliya and Sderot, with heading total from Poland’s film attention entrance to Israel to inverse with audiences.

Polish Zoom is being reason underneath a corner auspices of a Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and a Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Poland.

The films date from 1917 to 2018. The oldest film is Beast, starring Pola Negri, one of a biggest stars of a wordless cinema. It is a usually remaining Polish film in that Negri stars. A theatre and shade thespian and singer, she motionless to increase her career horizons by going to Germany, and from there to a United States. She was a initial European thespian or actor to pointer a Hollywood contract.

One of a quite engaging films is The Last Stage, destined by Wanda Jakubowska, that was a initial underline film about what it was like to live in Auschwitz, where Jakubowska had herself been a prisoner.

■ JERUSALEM’S FABULOUS Shalva Band, that wowed a universe during a Eurovision semifinals, this week expelled a second singular underneath a pretension “I see something good in you.” The band, whose members are all immature people with varying special needs, is intensely talented, proof that no one should be judged on what they can’t do, yet on what they can do. The strain was created by Anael Khalifa, one of a blind singers in a band, and a balance that tugs during a heartstrings was stoical by guitarist Sara Samuels.

The Shalva Band is renouned all over a country, and is sealed adult with Zappa for during slightest 3 appearances in October. The initial of these performances will be during Zappa Jerusalem on Oct 16, followed by Zappa Herzliya on Oct 23 and afterwards Zappa Tel Aviv on Oct 31.

■ IN JULY 2016 and May 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rivlin any finished story as, respectively, a initial primary apportion and boss of Israel to revisit Ethiopia. Rivlin, during his revisit final year, met with several dignitaries, including Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whom he greeted this week as a initial Ethiopian primary apportion to revisit Israel.

Earlier in a day, Netanyahu told Ahmed that this was a initial time given a days of King Solomon and a Queen of Sheba that a leaders of their dual countries had exchanged visits. (Emperor Haile Selassie had come to Jerusalem twice before a investiture of a State of Israel, and a Empress Menen Asfaw had come in 1961 to spend Holy Week in a Old City of Jerusalem.)

Because a Ethiopian New Year and a Jewish New Year are within reduction than 3 weeks of any other, and given Ahmed distinguished his 43rd birthday on Aug 15, Netanyahu offering congratulations in Amharic and afterwards asked possibly he had used a scold pronunciation. He was positive that he had.

Ahmed reciprocated by opening his residence in Hebrew. Later when sitting with Rivlin, he pronounced “thank you” in Hebrew, after Rivlin had reviewed a centuries-old attribute between their dual countries, underscoring a fact that during a revisit of a Queen of Sheba, Jerusalem had been a collateral and is still a capital.

The assembly was attended by dual Ethiopian-born members of Knesset, Pnina Tamano-Shata and Gadi Yevarkan, who was conduct of Be’eri Military Academy and a distinguished romantic in a Campaign for a Equality of Ethiopian Jews before apropos a authority following final April’s elections.

Ahmed told them that he respects them, is really unapproachable of them, and sees them as ambassadors for Ethiopia in Israel. Tamano-Shata was discerning to indicate out that Ethiopia has an central envoy in a chairman of Reta Alemu, who was also present, yet during a same time concurred that she has a feet in any camp.

Ahmed pronounced that he knew of Ethiopian-born Israelis or those of Ethiopian skirmish who were portion in a army, in politics, doing good in business “and changing a country.”

Rivlin introduced Yevarkan as a MK famous by everybody in Israel for kissing his mother’s feet before holding a promise of devotion as a legislator.

Rivlin stressed Ethiopia’s significance to Israel, generally with courtesy to Ethiopia’s intensity in Africa.

While a assembly was holding place, a tiny yet really shrill criticism was being reason opposite a highway from a President’s Residence, with remarkably shrill cheering by a megaphone – a sound perspicacious a walls of a presidential complex. The demonstrators, holding and wrapped in Ethiopian inhabitant flags, called Ahmed a rapist and yelled that there are homeless, starving children in Ethiopia.

At a assembly inside, Tamano-Shata, vocalization in English, pronounced that it was an respect to be benefaction and that Ethiopian-Israelis will continue to increase a team-work between a dual countries. What worried her was that there was still no word of what has happened to Avera Mengistu, who crossed into Gaza 5 years ago, and as distant as is famous is in Hamas captivity; a predestine of 150 immature Jewish group who served in a Ethiopian army before a revolution; and what is duty to those Ethiopian Jews who have been left behind.

Yevarkan chose to pronounce in Amharic, that he pronounced was his initial language. He explained that a Jews of Ethiopia were not migrants in a common clarity of a word, yet prayed for centuries to lapse to Jerusalem. “However, we sojourn Ethiopians,” he clarified.

Relating to a proof holding place outside, as good as a aroused demonstrations that took place in Jul formed on what many members of a village viewed as needless, discriminatory military assault formed on tone prejudice, Rivlin pronounced that like all other Israeli adults vital in a democracy, those of Ethiopian credentials have a right to demonstrate, yet he suggested that they uncover some restraint. Alluding to a unconditional domestic and mercantile reforms that Ahmed has introduced given holding bureau in Mar 2018, Rivlin pronounced that Ethiopia could do a lot to assistance Israel strech a assent agreement with a Palestinians. Under Ahmed’s administration Ethiopia reached a assent settle with adjacent Eritrea, including renewed flights, pier services and highway ride between a dual countries.

“Israel needs a sealed assent treaty, announced Rivlin, adding that this can be achieved usually by mutual building of confidence. “The Palestinians have to know that we are here, and we have to know that they are here,” pronounced Rivlin. “We are not cursed to live together. We can live together in harmony.” He charged eremite people on both sides with inspiring passion toward a other. “We contingency emanate a ability to live in a federation. We have a need to cooperate,” he stated.

Rivlin described a benefaction conditions as “volcanic,” fueled by speak of Muslims wanting to strengthen themselves opposite Jews, and Jews articulate about a need to strengthen themselves opposite Muslims. Ahmed responded that Ethiopia is committed to not usually fostering shared family yet also to informal and tellurian assent and would work toward a fulfilment of this aim.

Ethiopia’s initial womanlike boss Sahle-Work Zewde, who is now a usually womanlike conduct of state in Africa, was inaugurated final year and has been invited to Israel. Rivlin pronounced that he looks brazen to hosting her.

■ FORMER PRIME apportion Ehud Olmert has combined his name to a flourishing list of distinguished business, political, cultural, and party personalities who are doing whatever probable to forestall a deportation of Israeli-born children of Filipino mothers. The stream policy, they claim, runs opposite to policies of prior governments of Israel.

The signatories to a petition have asked El Al, whose escutcheon includes a inhabitant flag, to exclude to fly such children and their mothers out of Israel. Among a other signatories are Colette Avital, Nachman Shai, Gila Almagor, Ron Ben Yishai, Ehud Banai, Aviv Geffen, Yael Dayan, Dov Weissglas (who was director-general of a Prime Minister’s Office during a tenure of Ariel Sharon), Rabbi Michael Melchior, Ohad Naharin, Ahinoam Nini, Joseph Cedar, Eli Finish, Chemi Peres, Roni Kuban, Dani Karavan, Ephraim Shamir, Ra’anana Raz and former preparation apportion Prof. Yuli Tamir.

■ IT’S EXTREMELY singular for severe Israeli assent activists to place a vast announcement in a eremite worried announcement that supports Israeli cast of a West Bank. But bizarre bedfellows infrequently have mutual interests, that might comment for a fact that final week Besheva, that is deliberate to be an organ of a settler movement, ran a nearby full-page announcement in that a open was urged to not underneath any resources supplement their names to a Noam Party signature campaign.

The probability of mutual anti-Noam interests might have depressed by a wayside given that a Noam announcement that took roughly one-fifth of a page was placed directly next that of a assent camp, with a Noam choosing pointer indeed overlapping a severe advertisement.

■ VETERAN JOURNALIST Yaron Enosh, one of a heading experts on Greek song and culture, fell in adore with a song of Mikis Theodorakis when he was 6 years old, and saw Zorba a Greek for a initial time. The youngest of 3 siblings whose relatives were Holocaust survivors from Poland, Enosh had an halcyon childhood in that his father possibly owned, was a partner in, or worked for, cinemas, that meant that a immature Yaron saw a film any singular day, and was means to get his friends into a film museum giveaway of charge, a cause that extended his popularity.

Even during a proposal age of six, Enosh was enchanted by Greek song and one of a many noted Zorba quotes, in that he pronounced to Basil, his immature egghead companion, “You have all yet one thing: madness. A male needs a small stupidity or else he never dares cut a wire and be free.”

To applaud a 25th anniversary of his Israel Radio Reshet Bet module Kol Shishi, that transitioned from a now gone Israel Broadcasting Authority to Kan 11, Enosh, in and with Kan 11, is hosting a reverence to Mikis Theodorakis during a Herzliya Cultural Center on Sep 25.

Readers who listen to Kol Shishi could good ask because Herzliya, if Enosh, who lives in Jerusalem, frequently talks on atmosphere about his forays into a Mahaneh Yehuda market. The answer is simply that it was in Herzliya, where he was raised, that Enosh detected Theodorakis, and by him grown a adore for things Greek – a islands, a food, a people and a song so mostly listened on his program. He is a visit flyer to Greece, has befriended philosophers, entertainers, restaurateurs, diplomats and others, and has spasmodic promote from Greece.

■ READERS OF final Friday’s Jerusalem Post might have taken note of a fact that a John Pritzker Family Fund has donated a Pritzker Family National Photography Collection to Israel’s National Library. One of a heading detailed collections in a world, it not usually traces some-more than a century of a story and growth of photography, yet also contains some of a many critical images of a 19th and 20th centuries. The John Pritzker Family Fund will support a continued digitization of all of a library’s detailed land so that they can be accessible to a wider open and used in several exhibitions.

For readers who might be unknowingly of who a Pritzkers are, they possess a infancy batch in a tellurian Hyatt hotel chain, that used to have properties in Israel, yet for several years now there have been no Hyatt hotels in Israel. However, a Chicago-based family, that is among a wealthiest in America, and is also active in politics, continues to support Israel in many ways, generally Israel Bonds, that they support to a balance of during slightest $500,000 any year.

Another famous family member is Jay Robert Pritzker, popularly famous as “J.B.” He now serves as a administrator of Illinois and is a third member of a Jewish faith to reason that position. His estimated personal resources is $3.2 billion, and financial publications have listed him as a second-wealthiest politician in America after Michael Bloomberg.

Another family member who is politically active is Penny Pritzker, who enjoys a longtime loyalty with former US boss Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle. She was one of his financial supporters in his 2004 Senate campaign, a vital fund-raiser in his 2008 Democratic primaries campaign, and was a inhabitant financial chair of his 2008 presidential campaign. Obama subsequently nominated her to offer as US commerce secretary, a position in that she served from 2013 to 2017. She is a vital actor in a several and sundry Pritzker enterprises.

John Pritzker started his operative career with Hyatt hotels, and rose on a basement of consequence to tip executive positions, yet left to bend out on his possess – something that he has finished with good success.

■ WOMEN WAGE Peace is not fielding possibilities of a possess in a Sep 17 elections, yet a members are creation it their business to accommodate candidates, to learn of their commitments to assent and to put brazen WWP proposals.

WWP, in a faith that women should be partial of a decision-making routine regardless of their domestic affiliations, is hosting a assent discussion on Friday, Sep 6, during 9 a.m. during Talkhouse during Tel Aviv Port to sell views with Eli Avidar from Yisrael Beytenu; Stav Shaffir, a Democratic Union; Amir Peretz, Labor Party; and Ofer Shelah, Blue and White.

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