1967 Golan

Merom Golan Kazrin Aniam.
Tamara - Shibi has been on the Golan since 1969.
At Blich Highschool we visited the Golan in the winter after June 1967.
My Mother was 14 years at Merom Golan without membership.

1978 Holon and 2003

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1980 Egypt Cairo

19th November 1977 changed our lives. Saturday evening The Light at the end of the Runway was Anwar Saadat's Plane landing at Ben Gurion Airport.
A New Era started in The Middle East.
19th November 1980 I was in Cairo and saw the Colour TV's in Chan El Chalili Market showing Saadat in the Knesset.
A year Earlier I was in the Transit Hotel Cairo Airport as I was not allowed in to Egypt and I was sent back to Athens.
I visited Egypt a number of times in the Eighties twice under Saadat and twice under Mubarak.

2003-2010 Tel-Aviv Moadon Lev Echad

15th January 2010

יש דברים שרק נועה יכולה להבין - שבת שלום--פייסבוק

א- המועדון נסגר ביום רביעי למרות שאני אמרתי ומירב הסכימה איתי שהאוכלוסיה שזקוקה למועדנים גדלה ולא פחתה
ב- הבעלעגן לא רק בקדימה ואני כנראה נמצא באותו סירה עם אבא שלך
ג- אין לי עובדת סוציאלית של ממש ובעיות אחרות
ד- אתמול בלילה הלכתי בחזרה ברחוב יפת והיתה אשה שאיבדה את דרכה וחשבה שהיא קרובה לקינג גורג הזמנתי משטרה והגיע ניידת עם שוטרת צעירה ואני מרוצה מזה שגם אני יכול לעזור לפעמים לאנשים.
שוב אני אומר שיש דברים שרק נועה יכולה להבין בעולם של בועות סגורות
שמואל

2nd August 2007
I got from Moadon Lev Echad a free ticket to the Cameri Theatre to see Brighton Beach Memoirs.
I waited for over half an hour for the bus. So I had to take a Taxi for 30 NIS and I was still about ten minutes late. But by mistake I saw "The Big Sea" by Yoseph Bar-Yoseph
Strange they are similar. Beach in USA and Tel-Aviv Beach
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Eugene Jerome, a Jewish boy of fifteen and a half with raging hormones, recounts the story of his poverty-stricken family. Eugene’s energetic mother, who runs the household, his father, who struggles to support his extended family, and his frail aunt and her two daughters, all live under the same roof in an overcrowded house in Brooklyn of 1939, while World War Two rages throughout Europe.

The play follows Eugene’s process of adolescence, which is accelerated when he is forced to contend with the family’s financial hardships, as well as his sexual urges that are aroused by the captivating beauty of his cousin, who dreams of becoming a Broadway star.

This is a play about coming of age, loyalty and love, but especially about the complex power, for better or worse, of the Jewish family – or, in the words of Eugene’s mother: “The world wouldn’t survive without families”.

Joseph Bar Joseph's play, "The Big Sea"
As Karen wrote:
about a religious couple who come to live in Tel Aviv.
Actually the play was built well, if sketchy, and the protagonist could be fascinating, but she spent the whole time running back and forth on the stage looking for her husband and no time at all in the traditional tasks of the woman. I can imagine this as a multileveled film, because much more information and background can be provided without the limitations of the single view and limited access of the stage. All the characters need are the depth of perspective. - physical perspective - and then it will be perfect. The dilemma of the religious community encountering the world outside - and maybe the impossibility of happiness in either community - etc.etc.

1979 Amsterdam

Visited Amsterdam 3 times, Rotterdam and the Hague.
April 1979 I visited my Penfriend in Rotterdam.
She and her boyfriend showed me the statue with no heart in it.
The heart of Rotterdam was destroyed in WW2.
Took Canal tour through Amsterdam, Had sex with Bianca in Red Light Area.
Visited Anna Frank's Hiding place with museum there, bought her diary in English.
Saw Synagogue on Rembrandt's street. Van Gogh museum.
Took Hovercraft to England. Coach through Belgium.

1986 New York

On my way to Salem New Hampshire USA October 1986. I stayed in NYC, went up Empire State Building and The World Trade Center Twin Towers.

1949 London

22 7 1949 was a Friday and I was born at Queen Charlotte's Hospital South of the Thames.

1958 London We left for Israel, leaving Leyton.

1972 London I visited after the Army, On Portabella Road Market I got some 45rpm Singles including Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken" who was very popular at that time before he became a Moslem