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The Promised Podcast
"don federman" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Respect and maybe even something like pride, the look of Harry deem that in the past was worn if at all only tongue in cheeky and maybe even mockingly things change and sometimes for the better. With us in the studio is a woman who you might have expected based on her talents and character to costume up as one of these Jane Austen Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bella abzug, Ida B wells, Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo, sacajawea, Gal Gadot, Joni Mitchell, or Mary curry, but instead she came in dressed as a wookie. Obviously, I'm seeking out Miriam Herzog Miriam, her stock is the ops and blogs editor of the times of Israel, where she created and presides over the biggest and greatest form of Jewish discourse and debate since the talmud was codified, Miriam was in the past the anchor of the Israel broadcast authority English language television news, and an editor and anchor for the Israel broadcast authority English language radio news. Ma'am, how you doing? I'm okay. You're a big fat liar, did not come dressed as a wookiee. To my mind, you always look like a wookiee. I don't think you should comment on people's weight. Yeah. Exactly. Also with us in the studio is a man who is really pulling off his forum costume, sexy, Bernie Sanders. That man could only be Don federman Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the man behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called one man show. Don, how you doing? Well, you know, I dressed up as volo to mordecai zelensky, who I think is this year's poor hero for all of us. So all over the world. So true. I wonder if he was hearing the Miguel last night. As for me, my name is no Efron. I don't mean to boast that is not how I was raised, but the tradition is to drink until you can not distinguish between the villain haman and the hero mordechai. And if we use this measure to gauge our piety, I think it's fair to say that I am pretty devout. Reminds me of the old college joke, one guy offers another guy a drink at a party and when the second guy says no thanks to the first guy says, what's the matter? Scared of a little alcohol in the second guy says, okay, I'll drink until I puke. That joke works on so many levels. Today we will discuss three topics of world historical importance. But first we have a matter that we're following with alert interesting great concern as part of an occasional series we call the promised podcast ponders the unpredictable paths by which the present may recast the afflictions of the past. Among the things coming from the war on Ukraine one very far from the most important but still is a kind of revision of what we thought we knew about Eastern Europe and ourselves and Eastern Europe. For me, what images I had until lately of Poland and Hungary and Romanian Slovakian Belarus and Lithuanian Latvian Estonian Moldova and most of all Ukraine were mostly in sepia they were pictures of countries once filled with Jews somehow my relatives and then emptied of Jews by Nazis, most of all, but also by the people who lived in all these countries who, given the chance, given the license turned on Jews from families they'd lived decide and traded with for generations glad for the chance to be rid of them when, like most of my friends, I signed up for a trip paid for by SSS J student struggle for Soviet jewry to visit Jewish dissidents to bring a message that they weren't forgotten and a suitcase of Levi's for them to sell in the 1980s Soviet black market. My grandmother, my mother's mother, called me up on the phone on the wall of my dormitory hallway, the only time she ever called me at school, and maybe the only time she ever called me at all, crying, saying, you do not know what those people will do, spare your mother the heartache of burying her son. Years later, I had research trips and conferences in central and Eastern Europe and save what I found in Germany, that miracle of national self reflection. I never found much to change the notion I had of those people and what they did to my people. That might let me say to my grandmother whom by now, of course, my mother buried long ago, that those people have changed in the days just before Russians attacked Ukraine three weeks ago. There was a good deal of talk here about what this country Ukraine is and who these people, these Ukrainians are, more talks than there had been here about the nature of Ukraine and Ukrainians, probably since the early 1990s after the second trial in Jerusalem of John demjanjuk, who was accused of being the sadistic Treblinka guard Ivan the terrible. A hard bitten and cynical journalist named daniela chemi wrote at the time about getting into a Tel Aviv's taxi and finding the driver listening to the trial on the radio in tears, he says, I already heard about the Holocaust in Germany, but I didn't hear about the other places. Tell me, where are all those millions of Jews buried? Chemi says to him. You just heard on the radio. They weren't buried. They were burned or they fell into pits where they rotted where they were murdered, and the driver rolls this around his mind and says they killed all those Jews and no one came to help them. The sons of whores, that is who Ukrainians were, the last time we talked about them on the news and in taxicabs. Of course, since then, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews moved to Israel, and since then they've produced hundreds of thousands of kids of Ukrainians, but still for most of us, the image of Ukrainians back in Ukraine and the poles and lithuanians and all the rest did not change that much as a result and when bombs nearly destroyed the memorial and babi Yar in the first week of the war a few weeks ago, most every paper here noted that when Jews were being murdered in 1941, it was only after Ukrainians themselves had enthusiastically helped to round them up. Over the past couple of weeks though, I think, I sense, I feel that we are witnessing what I think I sense, I feel one day people will look back at as a moment when the way in which we see the people of Eastern Europe changed. I first got this feeling listening on the radio to a man named Shiva Weiss, who has in the past week's been called on often as an expert on Eastern Europe, which he is many times over, shava Weiss is now a visiting Professor of political science at the university of Warsaw where 16 years ago back in 2006. He launched a chair in Israel studies, the first such chair in Eastern Europe before that he was Israel's ambassador to Poland. And before that, a labor member of Knesset for almost 20 years, including four as speaker of the Knesset under robbing in the last years of Robbins life during which time he wrote about Israel now and again for a Polish magazine called politica. Before that, he was a Professor of political science and hyphen Tel Aviv, and before that, a grad student who paid rent by writing brain teasers, quizzes, and jumbles for the paper and the radio, and before that, he was a kid in borislav, which was then in Poland now in Ukraine, where, during the war, he and his whole family survived in the hiding place, Java Weiss's father had built quote between the wall of our store behind the cabinets and the wall of the warehouse, my father, fashioned a room about 60 centimeters wide, where we all hid my parents, my sister, my brother and I, my mother, sister, her husband and son. There was also our neighbor bachman. And his parents and sister and brother survived because of their neighbors and borislav as vice explained quote let us remember that only in Poland, everyone who was helping the Jews was killed immediately and without trial, when we escaped from the ghetto, our first hiding place was at the home of miss Ana goro lova, a friend of my mother's her schoolmate, Anna was a deeply religious Catholic, and she simply hit us in a chapel. I sat in this unusual place with my mother and sister. We found shelter in the shadow of the arms of the crucified, literally. Miss Maria pote helped us to her name, which means powerful in Polish, matched ideally her unbreakable character because she helped us until the end of the war. I remember how miss patek brought me a small boy hidden under a bed, a glass of milk. I will remember this simple gesture till the end of my life. I met chevak vice once I had a seat to over from him on a plain home from Poland where I'd been at a history of science conference skipping one day of lectures to go see Auschwitz for the first time, sitting between us was a young Polish scholar, a woman maybe 30, blond, beautiful, viable, vice's girlfriend at the time, his wife having died a few years before. When vice overheard that I was perplexed about Poland, he switched seats with a woman, asked the flight attendant for a scotch and said he could maybe put things in perspective for me. I told him about these judeo file grad students. I met at the conference who struck up conversations with me because I wore a yarmulke. They loved Jews now. I said to vice. But when I was at Auschwitz, I thought those kids are the grandkids of the people who did this and vice said, I understand. He said, you're wondering if they're sincere. They are sincere. He said, there are always good people. I am sitting on this plane only because there are always good people alongside the evil one, but these kids, he said, it is beautiful what became of these kids. I teach them. I see them. I hear them. They are not their grandparents, whatever their grandparents were, which may not be what you think in the first place. And when the radio interview were asked, vice about the war, he says it's important to understand the very justified historical trauma of eastern Europeans from war and also from the Russians. For them, he said, quote, the Russian, the communist period after World War II was worse than the German period, as strange and absurd as that might sound to Jews. During the Nazi occupation, many polls did not suffer during the Russian occupation as they call it. They suffered from totalitarianism from torture from murder. So the kids starving behind the false wall and Poland slash Ukraine is now the professor understanding the suffering of the people he was hiding from back then. Over the past weeks, a lot of us have followed the efforts of a 46 year old woman named Sharon bass, whose grandmother fania rosenfeld boss was a teenager in a town in Ukraine called Rafael when the Germans invaded, rounding up and shooting over an open grave her parents and 5 sisters and brothers, but not her because she was taking home by a neighbor woman named Maria bliss who hid her for the last two years of the war after which fana moved to Israel. Last month, Sharon bas wrote to two granddaughters of Maria bliss, cousins named lycia or shoko and alona chew guy. And when they said they wanted to come to her home, she started a campaign to get them tickets and permits on social media and interviews to the papers and on the radio. And soon there was a groundswell and the foreign ministry said, we'll make this happen and then last week or shoko and chew guy were here. At the airport bass said, quote, when they say thanks, it's nothing compared to the thanks that we owe them. Yesterday morning on another radio show, they had on from Kyiv, the deputy chair of Ukraine's parliament, a woman from zelensky's party, named Olga vasilevsky, and the interview starts like this. Parliament, the 1410 Emily. Whether three months. And it was not until the 7th minute of an 8 minute interview that one of the hosts said, by the way, why do you speak Hebrew? And vasilevsky, small Luke, said, my grandmother passed away in Israel in 1990, but until then I came every summer. I love Israel. And this is how a place a lot of us until just a little while ago, pictured only in sepia. Now seems to have so much color how a place that was them came so quickly to feel more somehow like us, part of this and maybe a big part is because of volodymyr zelensky, who seemed now to be the soul of the Ukrainian people, leading a lot of us to wonder how did the country that raised the Treblinka guard Ivan the terrible to be who he was, how did the same country just a few decades later choose as their leader, a Jew, and then love him and trust him and find comfort in him and see themselves in him so powerfully and at their worst moment. But part of this is because this, I think, is the greatest talent of the very talented people of this country, we do, it is true, tend to see everything in us and them terms. When Anwar Sadat announced that he would come to Jerusalem if that's what it took to reach peace with Israel, IDF chief of staff Mota gore said that you can't trust a man like that and anti semite who for all the Jewish blood on its hands was eager for more. This was a treacherous step towards war, not peace. And a lot of people here saw things the way that gore did, but a month later, just a month later, stalls in the central Buffy station were stacked with t-shirts with face and fast grab food stands were changing their name to falafel has shalom. It is not that harsh history of Jewish life and death in Eastern Europe is being forgotten, but still the thick line that divided them from us, it is being smudged, blurred, redrawn in places, and all this in front of our eyes and fast, it is an awesome thing to see in a hard thing to talk about, what the evil eye and what with how sensitive all this is in a country where there are still thousands and thousands of people raised on stories of how the grandparents of the Ukrainians on Facebook today treated their own grandparents as a them so foreign as to not be human at all. Still, it is moving to see this smudging and blurring and all the more so because this talent for redrawing lines for making them into us is what made what we have here so much better, more decent than what our grandparents had here and will make what our grandchildren have here so much better, more decent than what we have today. Today, three topics admittedly not as good as the three topics the podcast is going to have in March 2052, which our grandchildren will be listening to, but still topic one, no place for politics as Ukraine asks yad vashem, Israel's national Holocaust museum to lend its grounds its name, its aura to the embattled state by allowing president zelensky to speak there via video to the country in the world, yad vashem says no on the grounds that such a speech would be political and it's not right to mix the Holocaust and politics, critics say this reminds him of the immortal rebuke of.
The Promised Podcast
"don federman" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Welcome to the promised podcast, brought you on TL V one. The voice of the city where this past week in high air park over by ramata hayal behind a suit of hospital, Lithuanian runner, Alexander ciroc, became the first person in history to run 100 miles or a 160.934 kilometers in under 11 hours in the event in ten hours, 51 minutes and 39 seconds. This by repeating a hundred times a circuit of a mile in the park, when he finished the hundred miles, sorokin did not stop, oh no, he went on until he also broke the how far can you run in 12 hours world record covering in that time 110.24 miles or a 177.41 kilometers. If you do the division, you will find that sorokin ran for 12 hours an average of a 6 minute and 32 second mile or a four minute and four second kilometer to put that in perspective for those of you who may not be runners by measuring it for illustrative purposes against my own pace when I last ran an official race just before the Corona, compared to I am a fat slob, or maybe a slug or a snail or one of those factory farm hogs genetically modified so they can barely stand up and raised in cages too small to turn around for illustrative purposes I am a worm, all of which I hope gives you a picture of how very fast is. Also, by the way, and this is true. So is powerfully good-looking a fusing a vitality that, again, in comparison and for illustrative purposes, makes me look like one of those Civil War soldiers photographed by Matthew Brady dead and bloated on the battlefields of an Tatum, but perhaps I digress. So successes were all part of the now annual Spartan ion, a 24 hour racing event organized by Israeli ultra runner Gilad Krause who was the first Israeli to ever finish the spartathlon in Greece and annual 36 hour long 246 kilometer race from Athens to Sparky the modern town built on the remains of ancient Sparta. The last 50 kilometers are all downhill. One of the reasons why Krause organizes the Spartan each year is to allow Israelis to qualify for the spartathlon. The name itself is a Portman two of criterion as in qualifying criterion and spartathlon, Spartan ion. Kraus says that anyone can run ultra races. It's just a matter of training right and staying focused. He starts his on Thursday mornings, so we'll end on Friday morning so that, quote, Sabbath keepers can participate in the Spartan ion without fear of desecration of the Sabbath. There is room for everyone as my late grandmother bacha honigman, who was the shortest person I know in height and the highest person I've ever known in virtue and stature used to say if there's a place in the heart, there's a place in the house. With that sort of warmth, it is maybe no surprise that each year the Spartan attracts more Israeli women and men than the years before dozens of whom competed this week in the hundred mile race and in the 12 hour heat and in the 24 hour heat for people just getting started in serious running, there is also a one and a half marathon heat or 62.29 to 5 kilometers, which I gather is considered by the more serious runners to be, quote, kind of cute, or sweet, or swell, or quote, no, really, that's really, really good what you did. And arguably nothing captures the spirit of this city we love so well. Tel Aviv, the afo, better than hosting a Lithuanian as he breaks an impossible record in a race meant to prepare folks to run from Athens to Sparta. Facts that had I told them to my bubby may her memory be for blessing who lived in bone Brock may be a mile from the race site, a Lithuanian athlete, Athens, Sparta. She would have side and said, never mind. So much goias and Irish kite, which I guess it is, but then this is the place where Goya and nourish kite comes to find yidya enthusiasts. So enthusiastic that the lease up their shoes and run for 24 hours straight, but not at least some of them not on the Sabbath because there's a time to be Greek on the days of the week and there's a time for something else. With us in the studio, is a woman who is one of the highest people we know in virtue and stature. Obviously, I am talking about Allison Kaplan summer, Allison, has written for Politico, the new republic, foreign policy, the Jerusalem post, the GTA, the forward and many other of your very best papers and magazine, she is a columnist with her RS. You have heard her on NPR PRI and the BBC. And you have seen her on I 24 television and Al Jazeera TV Alison Jose beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage and a Simon rock hour award for excellence in covering Zionism aliyah and Israel. Allison, how are you doing? Well, if I said I was feeling positive that wouldn't sound good, but then again, I don't want to say that I'm negative either. So what do you say? I think people say fine. I'm feeling fine. I'm fine. Also, not with us in the studio, but calling in for pandemic reasons from our remote studio in far Saba is a man whose life work is making sure that all people have both a place in the heart and they place in the house. That man could only be Don federman. Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the heart and soul behind a series of podcasts, theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show. Don, the fastest a human has ever run a hundred miles and right here in Tel Aviv, did you ever think you would live to see the day? Well, I feel really bad for ciroc and because actually if he had only gotten straightened out, he could have reached the ramone, which is what he was intending to do that morning. He was supposed to go skiing. I would have taken him exactly that time. Yeah, those last few miles running up the hormone they could have been tiring, though he could have done it. I'm telling you, looking at the guy he could have done it. As for me, my name is no afraid. I don't mean to brag, but someone sent me a link to a website called hand eye system that biz where my name is nestled into what seems to be a string of porn keywords and skip ahead maybe 15 seconds if you want to avoid free verse profanity quote porn, high fucked cock lesbian booty cream pie dick, Noah ephron, naked sex. End quote. And I am not boasting that's really not the way that my parents raised me, but I always knew that they would come when I got the attention I deserved on the Internet. Today we will discuss three topics of sublime importance, but first we have a memorial matter that we're calling me promise podcast ponders the pure of heart. 48 years ago, in 1974, your own tar lab wrote a book with stories about growing up where you grew up. The book was called Jaguar farm, a draft. And before it came out, Carl traveled from his home in Tel Aviv, up to kiwi gore 9 kilometers southeast of Haifa to read passages from the book between rich readings, his friend and collaborator Matty Cosby, ten years younger and from kibbutz hanita, 50 kilometers north of Jaguar and right on the border with Lebanon, sang songs with lyrics by tarlev. The next edition of the Igor newspaper carried a report that among members of the kibbutz, opinions were divided as to the quality of the work, and now all that could be done was to wait for the publication of the book and only then the article said to pass final judgment on it. It could be that it was too soon. Your arm tarlev had left jagor just 9 years before at 27 in 1965 with his then wife, narita, who would later become one of our greatest children's poets and still later one of our greatest everyone's poets. And their oldest girl roney. Their second arella was born in petah tikva, where they set up house as they finished their philosophy degrees at Tel Aviv university. The family moved to rishon and then to Tel Aviv. And though by this time, tarlev had definitely left. Ya goer never much left him. Tara love was born on ya gore of his mother, yafa, tarlev said..
The Promised Podcast
"don federman" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"I am talking about Alison Kaplan summer, Alison has written for Politico, the new republic, foreign policy, the Jerusalem post the jta the forward and many other of your very best papers and magazine. She is a columnist with her Rx and you have her on NPR pri and the BBC and you have seen her on I 24 television analogy zero TV. Alison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage, and a Simon rocker award for excellence in covering Zionism alia in Israel. Allison, how are you doing? Oh, I'm rolling along, you know? Like, the cyclist. Sylvan Adams has really ushered in a golden age of Israeli cycling for you bicycle people, right? Oh, absolutely. This is an entirely different kind of bicycling than I've ever done. Do you have no brakes on those bicycles? Those bicycles just and they have no gears. Very intrigued. I'm considering maybe going over there and paying the just mere 40 seconds an hour, which is very cheap for something like that. And given it a try. It's a low price to break your leg or arm falling off of one. Also with us in the studio is a man whose life work, part of it, anyway, has been to make every kid feel that feeling of freedom and possibility in power that one feels on a bicycle propelled by one's own energies into a future of one's own choosing that man is Don federman Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the genius behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, which you can find wherever fine podcasts are downloaded. Don how are you doing? Well, as soon as I heard about this velodrome, I cut the rusty lock off and cleaned the banana seat on my orange stingray. And I was the best man. I have been in training, racing around my living room all week. And someone who spends your life going in circles, it feels like the right place. Pro tip, take a baseball card and a clip and flip it to the back. It makes such a great sound. It makes a motor. As for me, my name is Noah Efron, and I don't mean to boast, but we are recording today and this is true on November 11th or 1111. It is just about 11 a.m.. The promised podcast is in our 11th season. And this show is yes, our tenth show of the 11 season. Now, everyone probably knows that the armistice ending the first war was signed by German British and French officials in a railroad dining car at Le Franco, a little north of Paris had just after 5 in the morning on November 11th. And it was decided for the sake of poetical symmetry that the armistice should take effect only 6 hours later at 11 o'clock on 1111 and that until then the fighting should go on. During that 6 hour interval over 3000 soldiers lost their lives dying for the sake of that poetical symmetry. Now, I'm not made of stone, so I thought, what can I do to make this the 11th episode of our 11th season and not the tenth and across my mind last week that I could record a really short episode basically an anecdote of one toward or another, say for ten minutes and put it out before today, and that would be the tenth episode of season 11, making this one that we're recording right now on 1111, the 11th episode. And I considered it for a while, and then I thought, eh, and I'm not bragging God knows that that is not the way that I was raised. But I am pretty sure that if I had been in that railroad dining car near la franquet, when the idea came up of waiting 6 hours before stopping the war, I'm pretty sure I would have said, does this make me into a great humanitarian who, if only I'd been in the right place at the right time would have saved more than 3000 lives. I guess it's not for me to judge. Today we will discuss three topics of grand importance. But first we have a matter that we're following with alert interesting great concern as part of an occasional series that we call the promised podcast ponders the poignant and powerful proximity of paragons. Macquarie shown had a big article in one of its weekend magazines last week that should not have surprised me, but it did. It was called Hana from Anna's diary and it told the story of 93 year old Hannah peak ghost layer who lives in the kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, who, 80 odd years ago was Anne Frank's best friend, the two girls met in an Amsterdam kindergarten peak gossler than just Hana ghoster, did not know a soul and she did not speak a word of Dutch, German was all she knew. Her father Hans ghostly was an adviser to the minister of domestic affairs in Weimar, Germany, and for a time the head of the Prussian press office, her mother, Ruth gossler klee was a school teacher and the daughter of Alfred or Abraham klee and attorney once personal aid to Theodore herzl and eventually the head of the Jewish community of Berlin until he was dismissed after crystal nath. The gosselaar is fled Berlin for London where Hans Koster had been offered a position with Unilever, though when they arrived and hansel had been known that he could not would not work on Shabbat Unilever withdrew its offer. And the family moved to Amsterdam, where haunts and Ruth gor along with another emigre attorney opened an office to advise Jewish immigrants from Germany on how to set up their affairs in Holland. Haunts and Ruth gosselaar also worked on translating British chief rabbi Joseph Herman hertz's biblical commentaries from English to German, Ruth's parents, the clees, Hannah's grandparents also moved to Holland soon after crystal noct. It was in Amsterdam's Jewish emigres circles that Hans gossler met Otto Frank. They had a great deal in common, though there was also a lot that divided them. The orthodox Jews, if they had not been, they would have settled quietly in London. The Franks were free thinking Jews, Otto was a banker's son, connected at 19. He went to New York with his school chum Nathan Strauss to learn how Macy's is managed. And auto Frank was raised on opera and free thought. Cynthia Isaac once wrote of him that he, quote, breathe the free air of the affluent bourgeoisie. But both men were liberals of a sword. And when it came time to choose, they both sent their daughters to the 6th montessori school that had been established in Amsterdam just a few years before around the time when the international montes association moved its headquarters to the city. They're on their anxious first day in school on a recognized Khanna from the market where their mothers shopped and as go slower put it, quote, she ran straight into my arms and that was it. Quote, anyone who's ever had kids in school knows that when kids become best friends, especially little kids, often their parents do, too, and that was a story with a goal in the Franks. Hana pick go slow remembers that the Franks were often guests in their house, which being a kosher house was the best place for the families to meet. Otto Frank later remembered that one time in Auschwitz, a group of prisoners decided to say ki douche on Friday night, but none of them were religious. And none of them knew the prayer by heart, save for Otto Frank, whose memory was sharp and who remembered the words that he'd heard at the gospel of Shabbat table. Hannah ghostly remembered that, quote, Ada was a special person, children loved him very much. When he came into our House, it was as though the sun itself had entered. Of course, Otto Frank adored children right back and treated them with rare seriousness, listening to what they said closely and with pleasure on Sundays a working day for the parents, Hana goler and Anna Frank spent the day in auto Frank's office. He took Anna and me to the office. And then I met me, we had big fun. We would throw a little bit water at the people that were passing, we would play with a telephone from one room to another. This routine continued for a short while after the Nazis conquered Holland in May 1940 as everything got worse around them. Two years later on a day in July 1942, Ruth's gosselaar was making strawberry preserves and sent akana to the Frank's house to borrow a kitchen scale when she arrived, the door was opened by a tenant named Goldschmidt who told Hannah that the Franks had fled to Switzerland. Said, quote, all the dishes were in the house on his room, still had her things in it. Her cat moccio was wandering around crying, the family just disappeared. It was four months after that, that kind of goes through his luck, took a turn for the worse. Her mother Ruth died in childbirth, leaving is Khanna's family, her father haunts and her grandparents Alfred Andres a klee and her baby sister Gabriela or Gabi. The next summer the family was deported to the westerbork transit camp and then after that, the two gossler girls fana and her by now three year old sister Gabi, were sent to Bergen belsen to the Al Bala lager, the quote unquote privileged camp, where families were not separated, arms were not tattooed, heads were not shaved and such. When the Soviet Army came near and the war was coming to a close, the Germans transferred thousands from Auschwitz to Bergen belsen with the idea of sending them still further west. And gosselaar heard that among the arriving prisoners, there was a Dutch group. She went to the edge of the abala lager to the camp with no privileges where the new transfers were herded, calling in Dutch until someone answered. And at night I tried to go as near it was forbidden to go as near as I could to the fence. And somehow I call hallo hallo and one Dutch woman answers me and it was misses van pelt's the ladies that was in hiding with an spoke half a minute. It was too dangerous. And she only said to me, oh, you want Anna. And she really she went and after 7 minutes also, she came back with Anna. And really it was not the honors I knew for moms to set little girls. The first thing we both kite, how do you come here? And I would not in Switzerland and said no we never went to Switzerland, we were in hiding and that this office and we were betrayed. And then we spoke about the family, very short and then she asked if I can help with some food. And so I said, Anna, I will see what I can do. Come into a three days and really after three days I came with some little football with some of the cookies we got to know you have resisted bright. You can keep for a long time. Something offset and some diet bones. And I don't remember pieces sugar. And we put something too well and glowed and socks. And everybody gave me something and I said, I'm a careful. I throw it over the fence, but I couldn't see her. I had to throw it by hearing. And there are a lot of other hungry women and one of them caught the package, ran away visit. And another shouting and crying, it was so sad. And then I said, I know we will try again come again in two years three days. And we did it once again and she caught the package, but that was the end. Then I didn't see her anymore. Not long after that, 5 days before the camp was liberated Hana and Gabi gosselaar were loaded on a train. It was one of three that left meant to resettle prisoners into Asian stock away from the approaching Russians. The train Hana and Gabi were on would later recalled the lost train because for some reason it traveled back and forth for ten days with no clear destination and no food and water for the passengers until the engineer was given orders to drive the train into the elster river and drown its riders who were locked in the cars, but instead the engineer ran off, leaving the train still on the tracks near the city of tro bits with 600 of the 2500 passengers dead inside. But the gossip girls kind of aged 17 Gabby age 5 were alive. Freed from the train, the girls wandered. The countryside until they were eventually picked up by allied soldiers and taken to a master hospital. We're not long after she arrived Hannah received a visit from Otto Frank, quote it took him 8 hours to get to me from Amsterdam. Normally, three hours away, because nothing was working, no trains, no bridges. Gossler told Frank about how she had lately seen his daughter, quote, when I met him, we were thinking maybe she was still alive. But just a few days later, the Red Cross delivered the news that she was not. Over the next weeks, Otto Frank arranged passage for the gossler girls to Switzerland where they had an uncle. Two years after that in 1947, Hannah gossler moved to Palestine to a village for religious youth in far hasidim. And then in 1948, she went to Jerusalem where she studied nursing and lived at 60 rasche street. On October 13th, 1949, the religious newspaper had so far, ran a notice that read Hana elisha gossler and major pinhas peak are engaged, Jerusalem, sukho, 57 ten, 6 months after that on April 14th, 1950, the same paper ran another announcement made and khana elisha ghostly are married Jerusalem. Major pinhas Walter peak was the son of professor haimer Herman peak a scholar of semitic languages and a leader of the misraki religious sinus movement who took his family to Palestine with the rise of the Nazis. Was a founder of the IDF's intelligence unit. And a member of its central command, who later devoted his life to history, especially to this theory of trains in Palestine. It was just around when Hannah gosselaar and pink got married that Gabi goes through, moved to Israel, joining her sister. She was still in grade school after Hannah peak goes their finished her degree. She took a job as a nurse on the pediatrics ward and before kholi maho and as part of an itinerant nursing team traveling to mab a road transit camps taking care of new immigrants in time, she took a job in a Tea Party, a clinic for the mother and child. The name meaning a drop of milk. There she advised new mothers about how best to take care of their babies and toddlers, which babies and toddlers, she weighed and measured and wrote their data in a ledger and vaccinated and cuddled and coude to. The peak ghost slurs had three kids, two boys and a girl. The oldest boy was named haim after his grandfather, and he grew up to be a professor too in the event, a Professor of anatomy and anthropology at the med school at Tel Aviv university, where he runs a lab on traumatic brain injury and also researched his stress among his recent articles from just a few months ago is one called social isolation and mice behavior immunity and tumor growth in the journal stress. Now has 11 grandkids and 20 odd great grandkids. And as I said, this story is well known, though, until last weekend, I did not know it. In 1957, when a Hebrew translation of the play, the diary of Anne Frank opened at the National Theater abema, a bunch of papers, ran articles on gossler. The headline of the one in marib was Anna Frank's friend in the land, saying how the best friend Anne Frank wrote about in her diary actually today lives in Jerusalem and keeps up a correspondence with Otto Frank. The socialist paper davar had a long story about pick go slur in an interview with her in its weekly kids magazine back then in 1957, Hana pick gosselaar was just 29 years old and ever since she has told her story when asked to to groups, especially to kids, and over the years, every so often there have been articles and TV shows. And now I learned from a Corey shown. There's a new Netflix movie. And you can see why because what a story it is. And still, all this week, I found myself thinking not so much about guns and cattle cars and barbed wires and belching chimneys or even diaries, but about how for 74 years in Jerusalem, sometimes the woman you were sitting next to on the bus where the woman davening in the Ezra nasim and the synagogue and kiriat Moshe, or the nurse who was bouncing your baby and making her laugh before laying her on a scale or the woman coming towards you in the street or the person in line behind you at the supermarket sometimes, that woman was the woman who was the girl who was on a Frank's best friend, and sometimes your anatomy professor at Susan's medical school sometimes he was the son of the woman who was the woman who was the girl who was Anna Frank's best friend. And I don't know just what this means this across the eye of the bus across the street across the campus proximity. The fact that this woman who lived that extraordinary childhood has lived her ordinary life among us as we lived our ordinary lives, I don't know just what that means, but I know that it means something. Today, three topics, topic one, what now as the prime minister says after his government passes budgets for 2021 and for 2022, that, quote unquote, we have brought the ship to safe harbor, the ship being, of course, the ship of state and the safe harbor being a future of quiet and effective cooperative governance. But is that really what we can expect now that a budget is on the books, topic two, some of the best standards are double standards as a TV consumer show discovers that a supermarket company shoe for sale in the event has been running a grocery website for ultra orthodox clientele that is tens of percent cheaper than the nearly identical grocery website that it runs for the rest of us. And it is as though the entire country stepped on the third rail, there has been wailing and gnashing of teeth, threats have been threatened, boycotts have been launched credit cards have been snipped into two and hashtags have been hashtag will wonder are these so many people who are so mad right now right or should we all be a little more understanding of the weird things that market forces do, including to supermarkets and topic three, the strange death and curious rebirth of the Israeli left question mark as our senior correspondent and most important friend of the promised podcast on Chelsea publishes a major essay of that name that is, in fact, heavier on the strange death part than it is on the curious rebirth. And we'll ask what we learned from the piece about the troubles travails and putative demise of the left ear and for our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters after a week of vigorous reporting by Alison about how reopening the airport to tourists has been pretty worryingly botched will ask about how we feel about the gates of the country finally being thrown open wide to let in curious well wishers with handsome disposable incomes.
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"Racetrack. And arguably nothing captures the wind in your hair as your career through life at great speeds and at odd angle spirit of this city. We love so well. Tel Aviv, better than a gleaming building with gorgeous parquet floors, dedicated to the sheer joy of moving at great speeds under your own power, even if, in the end, you are only going in circles with us in the studio is a woman whose prose is exultant like a victory lap at 80 kilometers an hour over smooth parquette in a radiant velodrome, obviously. I am talking about Alison Kaplan summer, Alison has written for Politico, the new republic, foreign policy, the Jerusalem post the jta the forward and many other of your very best papers and magazine. She is a columnist with her Rx and you have her on NPR pri and the BBC and you have seen her on I 24 television analogy zero TV. Alison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage, and a Simon rocker award for excellence in covering Zionism alia in Israel. Allison, how are you doing? Oh, I'm rolling along, you know? Like, the cyclist. Sylvan Adams has really ushered in a golden age of Israeli cycling for you bicycle people, right? Oh, absolutely. This is an entirely different kind of bicycling than I've ever done. Do you have no brakes on those bicycles? Those bicycles just and they have no gears. Very intrigued. I'm considering maybe going over there and paying the just mere 40 seconds an hour, which is very cheap for something like that. And given it a try. It's a low price to break your leg or arm falling off of one. Also with us in the studio is a man whose life work, part of it, anyway, has been to make every kid feel that feeling of freedom and possibility in power that one feels on a bicycle propelled by one's own energies into a future of one's own choosing that man is Don federman Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the genius behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, which you can find wherever fine podcasts are downloaded. Don how are you doing? Well, as soon as I heard about this velodrome, I cut the rusty lock off and cleaned the banana seat on my orange stingray. And I was the best man. I have been in training, racing around my living room all week. And someone who spends your life going in circles, it feels like the right place. Pro tip, take a baseball card and a clip and flip it to the back. It makes such a great sound. It makes a motor. As for me, my name is Noah Efron, and I don't mean to boast, but we are recording today and this is true on November 11th or 1111. It is just about 11 a.m.. The promised podcast is in our 11th season. And this show is yes, our tenth show of the 11 season. Now, everyone probably knows that the armistice ending the first war was signed by German British and French officials in a railroad dining car at Le Franco, a little north of Paris had just after 5 in the morning on November 11th. And it was decided for the sake of poetical symmetry that the armistice should take effect only 6 hours later at 11 o'clock on 1111 and that until then the fighting should go on. During that 6 hour interval over 3000 soldiers lost their lives dying for the sake of that poetical symmetry. Now, I'm not made of stone, so I thought, what can I do to make this the 11th episode of our 11th season and not the tenth and across my mind last week that I could record a really short episode basically an anecdote of one toward or another, say for ten minutes and put it out before today, and that would be the tenth episode of season 11, making this one that we're recording right now on 1111, the 11th episode. And I considered it for a while, and then I thought, eh, and I'm not bragging God knows that that is not the way that I was raised. But I am pretty sure that if I had been in that railroad dining car near la franquet, when the idea came up of waiting 6 hours before stopping the war, I'm pretty sure I would have said, does this make me into a great humanitarian who, if only I'd been in the right place at the right time would have saved more than 3000 lives. I guess it's not for me to judge. Today we will discuss three topics of grand importance. But first we have a matter that we're following with alert interesting great concern as part of an occasional series that we call the promised podcast ponders the poignant and powerful proximity of paragons. Macquarie shown had a big article in one of its weekend magazines last week that should not have surprised me, but it did. It was called Hana from Anna's diary and it told the story of 93 year old Hannah peak ghost layer who lives in the kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, who, 80 odd years ago was Anne Frank's best friend, the two girls met in an Amsterdam kindergarten peak gossler than just Hana ghoster, did not know a soul and she did not speak a word of Dutch, German was all she knew. Her father Hans ghostly was an adviser to the minister of domestic affairs in Weimar, Germany, and for a time the head of the Prussian press office, her mother, Ruth gossler klee was a school teacher and the daughter of Alfred or Abraham klee and attorney once personal aid to Theodore herzl and eventually the head of the Jewish community of Berlin until he was dismissed after crystal nath. The gosselaar is fled Berlin for London where Hans Koster had been offered a position with Unilever, though when they arrived and hansel had been known that he could not would not work on Shabbat Unilever withdrew its offer. And the family moved to Amsterdam, where haunts and Ruth gor along with another emigre attorney opened an office to advise Jewish immigrants from Germany on how to set up their affairs in Holland. Haunts and Ruth gosselaar also worked on translating British chief rabbi Joseph Herman hertz's biblical commentaries from English to German, Ruth's parents, the clees, Hannah's grandparents also moved to Holland soon after crystal noct. It was in Amsterdam's Jewish emigres circles that Hans gossler met Otto Frank. They had a great deal in common, though there was also a lot that divided them. The orthodox Jews, if they had not been, they would have settled quietly in London. The Franks were free thinking Jews, Otto was a banker's son, connected at 19. He went to New York with his school chum Nathan Strauss to learn how Macy's is managed. And auto Frank was raised on opera and free thought. Cynthia Isaac once wrote of him that he, quote, breathe the free air of the affluent bourgeoisie. But both men were liberals of a sword. And when it came time to choose, they both sent their daughters to the 6th montessori school that had been established in Amsterdam just a few years before around the time when the international montes association moved its headquarters to the city. They're on their anxious first day in school on a recognized Khanna from the market where their mothers shopped and as go slower put it, quote, she ran straight into my arms and that was it. Quote, anyone who's ever had kids in school knows that when kids become best friends, especially little kids, often their parents do, too, and that was a story with a goal in the Franks. Hana pick go slow remembers that the Franks were often guests in their house, which being a kosher house was the best place for the families to meet. Otto Frank later remembered that one time in Auschwitz, a group of prisoners decided to say ki douche on Friday night, but none of them were religious. And none of them knew the prayer by heart, save for Otto Frank, whose memory was sharp and who remembered the words that he'd heard at the gospel of Shabbat table. Hannah ghostly remembered that, quote, Ada was a special person, children loved him very much. When he came into our House, it was as though the sun itself had entered. Of course, Otto Frank adored children right back and treated them with rare seriousness, listening to what they said closely and with pleasure on Sundays a working day for the parents, Hana goler and Anna Frank spent the day in auto Frank's office. He took Anna and me to the office. And.
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"don federman" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Hour to keep from toppling over sideways or sliding down the parquette, what with physics being physics, which poke speed the most serious cyclists can triple or more reaching more than a 100 km/h at the highest level. The trick I'm told is in balancing out the centripetal force and the gravitational force and the friction. The word velodrome, which I like, I don't remember if I mentioned that is a portmanteau of sorts of the original French word velocio ped or hobby horse, the 19th century precursor of the safety bicycle and hippodrome from the Latin hypodermis for racetrack. And arguably nothing captures the wind in your hair as your career through life at great speeds and at odd angle spirit of this city. We love so well. Tel Aviv, better than a gleaming building with gorgeous parquet floors, dedicated to the sheer joy of moving at great speeds under your own power, even if, in the end, you are only going in circles with us in the studio is a woman whose prose is exultant like a victory lap at 80 kilometers an hour over smooth parquette in a radiant velodrome, obviously. I am talking about Alison Kaplan summer, Alison has written for Politico, the new republic, foreign policy, the Jerusalem post the jta the forward and many other of your very best papers and magazine. She is a columnist with her Rx and you have her on NPR pri and the BBC and you have seen her on I 24 television analogy zero TV. Alison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage, and a Simon rocker award for excellence in covering Zionism alia in Israel. Allison, how are you doing? Oh, I'm rolling along, you know? Like, the cyclist. Sylvan Adams has really ushered in a golden age of Israeli cycling for you bicycle people, right? Oh, absolutely. This is an entirely different kind of bicycling than I've ever done. Do you have no brakes on those bicycles? Those bicycles just and they have no gears. Very intrigued. I'm considering maybe going over there and paying the just mere 40 seconds an hour, which is very cheap for something like that. And given it a try. It's a low price to break your leg or arm falling off of one. Also with us in the studio is a man whose life work, part of it, anyway, has been to make every kid feel that feeling of freedom and possibility in power that one feels on a bicycle propelled by one's own energies into a future of one's own choosing that man is Don federman Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the genius behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, which you can find wherever fine podcasts are downloaded. Don how are you doing? Well, as soon as I heard about this velodrome, I cut the rusty lock off and cleaned the banana seat on my orange stingray. And I was the best man. I have been in training, racing around my living room all week. And someone who spends your life going in circles, it feels like the right place. Pro tip, take a baseball card and a clip and flip it to the back. It makes such a great sound. It makes a motor. As for me, my name is Noah Efron, and I don't mean to boast, but we are recording today and this is true on November 11th or 1111. It is just about 11 a.m.. The promised podcast is in our 11th season. And this show is yes, our tenth show of the 11 season. Now, everyone probably knows that the armistice ending the first war was signed by German British and French officials in a railroad dining car at Le Franco, a little north of Paris had just after 5 in the morning on November 11th. And it was decided for the sake of poetical symmetry that the armistice should take effect only 6 hours later at 11 o'clock on 1111 and that until then the fighting should go on. During that 6 hour interval over 3000 soldiers lost their lives dying for the sake of that poetical symmetry. Now, I'm not made of stone, so I thought, what can I do to make this the 11th episode of our 11th season and not the tenth and across my mind last week that I could record a really short episode basically an anecdote of one toward or another, say for ten minutes and put it out before today, and that would be the tenth episode of season 11, making this one that we're recording right now on 1111, the 11th episode. And I considered it for a while, and then I thought, eh, and I'm not bragging God knows that that is not the way that I was raised. But I am pretty sure that if I had been in that railroad dining car near la franquet, when the idea came up of waiting 6 hours before stopping the war, I'm pretty sure I would have said, does this make me into a great humanitarian who, if only I'd been in the right place at the right time would have saved more than 3000 lives. I guess it's not for me to judge. Today we will discuss three topics of grand importance. But first we have a matter that we're following with alert interesting great concern as part of an occasional series that we call the promised podcast ponders the poignant and powerful proximity of paragons. Macquarie shown had a big article in one of its weekend magazines last week that should not have surprised me, but it did. It was called Hana from Anna's diary and it told the story of 93 year old Hannah peak ghost layer who lives in the kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem, who, 80 odd years ago was Anne Frank's best friend, the two girls met in an Amsterdam kindergarten peak gossler than just Hana ghoster, did not know a soul and she did not speak a word of Dutch, German was all she knew. Her father Hans ghostly was an adviser to the minister of domestic affairs in Weimar, Germany, and for a time the head of the Prussian press office, her mother, Ruth gossler klee was a school teacher and the daughter of Alfred or Abraham klee and attorney once personal aid to Theodore herzl and eventually the head of the Jewish community of Berlin until he was dismissed after crystal nath. The gosselaar is fled Berlin for London where Hans Koster had been offered a position with Unilever, though when they arrived and hansel had been known that he could not would not work on Shabbat Unilever withdrew its offer. And the family moved to Amsterdam, where haunts and Ruth gor along with another emigre attorney opened an office to advise Jewish immigrants from Germany on how to set up their affairs in Holland. Haunts and Ruth gosselaar also worked on translating British chief rabbi Joseph Herman hertz's biblical commentaries from English to German, Ruth's parents, the clees, Hannah's grandparents also moved to Holland soon after crystal noct. It was in Amsterdam's Jewish emigres circles that Hans gossler met Otto Frank. They had a great deal in common, though there was also a lot that divided them. The orthodox Jews, if they had not been, they would have settled quietly in London. The Franks were free thinking Jews, Otto was a banker's son, connected at 19. He went to New York with his school chum Nathan Strauss to learn how Macy's is managed. And auto Frank was raised on opera and free thought. Cynthia Isaac once wrote of him that he, quote, breathe the free air of the affluent bourgeoisie. But both men were liberals of a sword. And when it came time to choose, they both sent their daughters to the 6th montessori school that had been established in Amsterdam just a few years before around the time when the international montes association moved its headquarters to the city. They're on their anxious first day in school on a recognized Khanna from the market where their mothers shopped and as go slower put it, quote, she ran straight into my arms and that was it. Quote, anyone who's ever had kids in school knows that when kids become best friends, especially little kids, often their parents do, too, and that was a story with a goal in the Franks. Hana pick go slow remembers that the Franks were often guests in their house, which being a kosher house was the best place for the families to meet. Otto Frank later remembered that one time in Auschwitz, a group of prisoners decided to say ki douche on Friday night, but none of them were religious. And none of them knew the prayer by heart, save for Otto Frank, whose memory was sharp and who remembered the words that he'd heard at the gospel of Shabbat table. Hannah ghostly remembered that, quote, Ada was a special person, children loved him very much. When he came into our House, it was as though the sun itself had entered. Of course, Otto Frank adored children right back and treated them with rare seriousness, listening to what they said closely and with pleasure on Sundays a working day for the parents, Hana goler and Anna Frank spent the day in auto Frank's office. He took Anna and me to the office. And.
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"don federman" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Real juice, blue raspberry with real juice, cherry with real juice, cherries, the bomb, peach perfect, red bang with real juice, sour orange and sugar free cherry limeade. And I know that you are thinking what I am thinking, that's all good and well, but this list is clearly not comprehensive. For instance, the 7 11 site lists slurpee flavors like pink think, kissing cousins, gully washer and sticky icky. Are these flavors kosher? Will we even get sticky icky slurpees in the 7 11 and these enough center? Apparently, only time will tell. And arguably nothing captures the cool in every sense, cosmopolitanism and the easy familiarity with the best of international culture of this city we love so well, Tel Aviv, better than the good news that very soon, like the most refined cultural in New York, Winnipeg, Sydney and Hong Kong, our cups two shall runneth over with somewhat frozen, somewhat carbonated red bang with real juice, though maybe not strawberry twizzler and monster black because here in Tel Aviv, it can truly be said that we drink in life in big gulps with us in the studio is a woman who's marvelous prose is not unlike a slurpee effervescent sparkling with life and full of froth and fizz. Obviously, I am talking about Allison Kaplan summer Allison has written for Politico, the new republic foreign policy, the Jerusalem post, the JJ the forward and many other of your very best papers and magazine, she is a columnist with her arts. You have heard her on mpr PRI in the BBC. And you have seen her on I 24 television and Al Jazeera TV, Alison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage and a Simon rock our award for excellence in covering Zionism Ali and Israel Alice and how you doing? So if you're a Broadway nerd like me, you hear 7 11 and slurpees and you immediately think of the iconic musical heathers, which was made after the movie, in which the psychopathic hero named JD who was played by Christian Slater in the movie, sings an ode to 7 11s and to drinking slurpees in the show. He travels around all over the country after his mom dies, and the only place he finds comfort is in 7 11 and he sings from Las Vegas to Boston linoleum aisles that I love to get lost in. I pray at my altar of slush. Yeah, I live for that sweet frozen rush. Freeze your brain sucking that straw get lost in the pain. Happiness comes when everything numbs who needs cocaine. Use your brain. Ah, the music of the muses, that's beautiful. I didn't know about that. I loved the movie and this is so for me. Also with us in the studio is a man who likes 7 11 is always there for you when you need them 24 6, and in his case, if you really need him, he'll help you out on that 7th day too. That man is Don federman. Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the genius behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, which you can find wherever find podcasts are pervade Don how are you doing? Well, I'm going to stay on the theater theme because when I was back in my theater days, my friend, Anthony, and itinerant actor, like most of us worked at 7 11, and I used to visit him at three a.m. for the weekly hold up. You know, so that was we had a set date. Now don't you think 7 11 is like a subconscious suggestion for all of us to be shooting craps? I'm going to open a rival train called snake eyes. We'll see how that one does. As for me, my name is no Efron, and I don't mean to boast. But I was once beaten up at the 7 11 over there on Amherst avenue in Wheaton, Maryland when I was ten years old, new to the area and I biked over. In fact, to get me a slurpee, and there were some tough kids in front. At the time, I estimated their ages to be maybe 18, maybe 20, maybe 40, though in retrospect, they were probably 13 and one of them said kid give us your money. And I said, no, I'm going to get a slurpee after which a spirited disagreement arose at the end of which we all agreed that I would rather give them my money than to get punched yet again. And I biked home penniless and crying all the way. And I am not bragging. That is just not the way that my folks raised me. I don't know about you. But while everyone loves slurpees, how many people have actually sacrificed for slurpees as I have? Today, we will discuss three topics of transcendent importance, but first we have a matter that we're following with alert interesting great concern. As part of an occasional series that we call the promised podcast, ponders the power and pathos of exhumation and posthumous repatriation. As we record on the morning of Thursday, October 28th, 2021, the 22nd of cash Evan, 57, 82, dozens of relatives alongside a delegation of worthy's representing the IDF and Israel's government are laying to rest in the military cemetery on mount herzl, private Martin davidovich, Martin davidovich would be 94 today if he were still alive. He was born in 1927, exactly two days before my mother in the event. In a town called de novo, then in Czechoslovakia now in the Ukraine, one of 7 kids four boys and three girls in a family that told seltzer with a beer operation on the side. He studied in a heter, but when he was old enough, he joined Hashimoto's ear. When Czechoslovakia was dissolved in 1938, de novo became part of Hungary and when Hungary was taken by the Nazis in 1944, davidovich was sent to mouth housing where he worked as a tailor and then to Auschwitz after the war, davidovich went home to learn that his parents and one of his brothers David fee and two of his sisters rift and Miriam were dead, but two of his brothers laser and naftali and one of his sisters hay been or Blanca survived with nothing to keep him at home. Martin davidovich wandered westward like so many Jewish kids alone after Auschwitz and other such places. And he joined a zionist group Hanoi and knocked around planning to move when he could to a Jewish Palestine where Jews were at the time forbidden by the Brits to enter. In July, 1948, just before his 21st birthday, davidovich volunteered for something called the Czech brigade. The check brigade was the idea of a small group of Czech Jews who fought with the Nazis. Most as part of the Soviet Army, some as partisans, and they now had the idea of training Jewish survivors in the Jewish brigade that when their training was done with travel to Palestine to fight in the war of independence, the men behind the Czech brigade presented their idea to Ehud abriel the envoy to Prague of the provisional Jewish government in Palestine and also to check foreign minister Jan masaryk, who had always done what he could to help those trying to set up a Jewish state. For instance, signing in January 1948, a deal with Ariel to bring 5000 guns and 5 million bullets to Jews in Palestine, eventually check planes came to after maserak died in March, the leaders of Czechoslovakia kept on supporting the provisional Jewish government in Palestine. And that is how it happened that the check brigade got on the down low, check uniforms, check weapons. The use of check bases and some of the commanders of the brigade coming from Czechoslovakia with others coming from the issue from Jewish Palestine. The head of the brigade was high in gori, the great poet novelist and journalist who died just a couple of years ago in 2018. The brigade took up residence in barracks and training grounds that had been built by Nazis just north of Prague. Gory said, quote, I'm the gates of the camp. There was an inscription, fear is the worst crime. Everything was highly secret. The secrecy was such that outside the camp, it was forbidden even to speak in any language. When we went swimming in a nearby Lake, we were forbidden to utter a word. It was forbidden to photograph there is not a single picture of us there. There were misunderstandings. There were people who had been through the Holocaust on the one hand, and people who had fought the Nazis on the other hand, there was no common language, not everyone knew Hebrew, not everyone in new English, but there were lovely moments of meeting. Another of these Israelis there for training was yossi Agassi, who later went on to study philosophy of science under Carl popper at the London school of economics and married the granddaughter of Martin buber Judith boober Agassi and who supervised the dissertation of my beloved dissertation supervisor Monaco fish, and who once took over a keynote session of a conference I was in charge of denouncing all of us in the most vicious way for teaching our students heidegger, whom Agassi said was an unreformed Nazi, we whitewashed every new academic year of fresh in Israel, had we no shame when I was 18 in Israel for the year with young Judea, our Madrid Ronnie kahana now harad Roni kahana brought hi I'm gory to talk to us and he told us how walking the streets of Tel Aviv on evenings in the 1950s, one could not escape whales coming from apartment windows open to the cooling air. He said, survivors grew agitated as the sun went down, reliving horrors and loss that were then only a decade old and their screams were the dusk music of the city street. Gory added, none of this was ever mentioned during the day. And that image of the solitude of suffering is never left me, but I had no idea no idea of how much gory had seen. It was his reporting of the ackman trial for a now long defunct labor left paper called la mer havre that captured the trial best. He wrote of the parade of testimonies from the planet Auschwitz on display in Jerusalem that he worried that they would, quote, turn us all to stone. Gory was 25 in Prague trying to make a group of survivors and partisans and Soviet soldiers and provincial kids from Palestine into a paratroopers unit. Israel was then two months old under attack and very much in need of that paratroopers unit. And that is when the tragedy happened as part of exercise is one of the Czech commanders thinking his gun was empty, shot 20 year old Martin de vinovich, killing on the spot, this kid who had survived Auschwitz and all the rest. The body was brought to the new Jewish cemetery in Prague and buried. Gory later wrote in his book until the sunrise quote, I can not escape the image of that young man of ours, Martin davidovich, who was killed by the bullet of one of the Czech commanders. He was buried in secret, we called terrible tragedies like those training accidents when Martin davidovich died his brother enough Holly was also in the Czech brigade. He was the only family at davidovich's secret burial in Prague. And he and later moved to Haifa and then later to America. High avena or Blanca davidovich moved to the states too, eventually settling in Muncie. Already in 1948, according to archival documents that I have not myself seen, members of the quote unquote parachuting instructors team of the Czech brigade asked that the newly formed IDF recognized Martin davidovich as the first Israeli paratrooper ever to fall in the line of duty. But davidovich was not a citizen and there was a war to be fought. One of davidovich's friends from the brigade, a writer named yitzhak greenwald, who returned to Israel and served as a paratrooper published in Hebrew in account of davidovich and spent years collecting documents and petitioning the IDF. Finally, more than 50 years later, in 2001, davidovich was recognized as an IDF soldier at the rank of private, and in fact, as the first IDF soldier in his unit to die in uniform, though his was not an IDF uniform. Back then davidovich is surviving sister and brothers disagreed about whether Martin should be brought to Israel before she died though Blanca Friedman nay davidovich, told her daughter iris Friedman that she wished for Martin to be interred in Jerusalem. Eris Friedman told reporters that she visited Martin davidovich's grave in Prague for the first time in 2013. She said, quote, I felt strong vibrations. I felt that Martin's spirit was sending me a message. I went to my rabbi from habad in a long journey began. As I am saying these words, that long journey is ending this past Monday after three years of negotiating with the checks, a delegation of generals rabbis and at least one of David over his nephew's exhumed Martin davidovich flew his remains to Israel and right now with 60 of davidovich's relatives from all around the world in attendance, he is receiving a military funeral in a military cemetery in a country he trained to fight for and the country he died for, though he never lived to see it. He's a Robert. Today, three topics, topic one, burdens of proof as minister of defense Benny Gantz outlaws 6 Palestinian human rights organizations or depending on how you see it 6 quote unquote human rights organizations on the ground that they funnel money and support to the Popular Front for the liberation of Palestine, which has long been stipulated a terrorist organization. Guns did this as brilliant measured mild and wise political analysts due to Ari gross father of two, tweeted, quote, without offering a shred of concrete evidence to the public. And many others believe, of course, at the very fact that he banned the groups is all the evidence you need to see that they deserve to be banned, causing many to how and some like me to admit that maybe I kind of buy it sort of. We'll talk about it and whether I am more a knife or an idiot, though people, people, it doesn't have to be one or the other. Topic two, a great deal of new green as ahead of the cop 26 international climate change extravaganza, beginning tomorrow, as we record in Glasgow, Israel's cabinet approved a hundred count them hundred point plan to green up lots of things here. We've scrutinized the plan and we'll ask whether the whole, maybe doesn't turn out to be less than the sum of its 100 parts and topic three, breathing, easy, as Israel is experiencing a life threatening shortage of ready to be transplanted lungs for the COVID afflicted patients who need them. And one of the country's greatest transplant experts proposes that replacement lungs be denied to patients who chose not to get vaccinated until everyone who chose to get vaccinated gets the organ they need. This is based on a principle he calls reciprocal altruism, will wonder whether morality dictates that we give preference to the vaccinated or prohibits us from giving preference to the vaccinated or maybe something in between and for our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, we will discuss a photo es in The New York Times by two journalists who traveled to Israel north to south over a week and a half to learn that Israel is quote an unsolvable jigsaw puzzle a collection of incompatible factions each with its own priorities, grievances, and history. To which at least some respond in print and pixels, dudes, I think you may be missing something. We'll try first to make heads of the essay and then time permitting tales. But before we get to any of that, you lucky people listen to this..