110715 15th July 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope you are well and that you had a good week. So much has happened since our last conversation but I chose to talk about the beautiful things we did this week rather than world news. One event which warmed my heart however was the declaration…

110708 8th July 2011 Shabbat Shalom to you all and a special big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my son Gideon. Only one year til the Gideon Saul book. This week Israeli news broadcasts are all about the ‘mashat’ – the flotilla from morning to night. Turkey and Greece decided that they would not allow the flotilla…

110701 1st July 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this weeks letter finds you well and happy. Two days ago I did something I have never done before; I took the face of a grown man in my hands and simply said “Thank you”. The grown man in question was retiring Chairman of the…

110624 24th June 2011 Gosh, what a week. I am late with the letter and cutting it too close to the line before we leave to go to a Kabbalat Shabbat and dinner with the World Zionist Organisation which follows the Presidents Conference on a better tomorrow but precedes the Keren Hayesod meetings and then…

110615 15th June 2011 This is an early Shabbat Shalom, but for good reason! Sunday evening we drove down toward the Dead Sea on the Jerusalem -Jericho road, the one that Nomi Shemer wrote about in the last verse of “Yerushalyim shel Zahav” – the road to the Dead Sea via Jericho. It never fails…

110610 10TH June 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I hope this letter finds you well. The Shabbat dinner party I described last week went off like a dream. The conversation was delightful as were the guests and it felt somehow right to introduce our new friends to old friends and mix the past with the…

110603 3rd June 2011 Dear lovely people, today I not only nearly missed the Shabbat boat – cooking too much as usual – but I was trying to get my brain around the number of things I want to tell you without boring you to death!!! This week Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day with wonderful parades,…

110527 27th May 2011 Shabbat shalom dear friends How are you? I hope you are well and looking forward to fine weather, sunshine and kinder times. Rarely have I heard a more varied set of opinions than those concerning President Obama’s speech prior to Prime Minster Netanyahu’s arrival at the White House! He certainly dropped…

110524 24th may 2011 Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech before Congress may 24th 2011 received 50 rounds of applause and 30 standing ovations – yes I counted every one!!!! As you know I have not always been a fan of our current Prime Minister while never doubting his ability to speak brilliantly but today he said what…

20th may 2011 Shabbat Shalom dear Friends. I decided, taking into consideration the current situation in the Middle East and the abominable misreading of the cultural, political, strategic and logical map by our world leaders, to see if you are more knowledgeable than they are and if you are, to understand why you aren’t doing…