10th June 2022 Shabbat Shalom! How are you? I hope this week has been kind to you. Andrea Bocelli gave a performance in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night before an audience of over 20,000, and from what I hear, it was simply stupendous! Our lovely friends Anita and Robert Simons were there and Anita waxed…

3rd of June 2022 Shabbat Shalom! I hope you are well and that your week left you smiling For those of us who love Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, Wasn’t yesterday’s ceremonial event glorious? Everything from the various regiments of the Guards, the horses (and the truck that went around collecting their residue) the crowds in…

29th May 2022 28th Iyar,5782 Happy Jerusalem Day! Today commemorates that joyous moment of the 6 Day War, when Lt General Motta, (Mordechai) Gur, uttered the magical words “The Temple Mount is in our hands”  Har ha habyit by’adenu. Dreams, nay yearning, of 2,000 years came true, we could finally visit our holy places. Which…

26th May 2022 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. I wish you a weekend without tragedy I grew up in a country without guns. The police, with the rare exception of the Special Squad, didn’t carry guns, in fact they were the friendliest lot you could ever imagine, very child friendly. When I lived out in the…

20th May 2022 Shabbat shalom! Hope this missive finds you well. Lies soar on the wings of calumny. MIT did an entire study on the efficiency of lies as opposed to the truth. The result of their research “Falsehood diffuses significantly faster than the truth and the lie becomes the remembered truth” Such it is…

13th May 2022 Shabbat Shalom. Did you know that over the years nearly 23,000 war correspondents have been killed? To become a war correspondent one seeks the excitement of the job, the rush of adrenalin when in situations of danger, and the knowledge that a stray bullet may well end your life. In fact just…

6th May, 2022 Shabbat Shalom dear friends. Remembrance Day was deeply emotional as we remembered the lives lost to defend our beautiful little country then in an exceptionally prestigious and meaningful Yom Ha’atzma’ut  – Independence Day ceremony, this year’s beacon lighters were of the people and for the people leading to a decision to have…

3rd May 2022 ב באייר תשפ”ב Today we mourn those who died fighting to create and hold this little oasis of Jewish life, from before the forming of the nascent State until today. Thousands of lives snuffed out by hatred. In less than half an hour the first siren will sound across the country to…

28th April, 2022 27 לחודש ניסן, 5782 יום הזיכרון לשואה   Holocaust Remembrance Day Never Again? Really? Never again yet as I stood on the veranda with Zvi at 10:00 this morning, whereas in the past every car stopped, not a person moved, during the 2 minute siren which wailed over the whole of Israel. This…

220421 21st April 2022 Gut Shabbes, Shabbat Shalom, I hope you had a beautiful Easter and Ramadan Kareem Time and again I try to understand what drives the international media to villainise Israel. Let me set the scene. The Temple Mount, Harem el Sharif by whatever name you choose, is holy to the three monotheistic…