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"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.
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"mariah fund" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"And all in one personal navigation device was basically a big telephone that did not make calls play games text or show pornography instead it had on it only a rudimentary version of ways into which you'd need to upload maps of wherever you were planning to go ahead of a band reunion, we had in a farmhouse near Milan in the spring of 2010 in the event just before a volcano in Iceland shut down most flights to Europe alone now member of canasta alone tal, uploaded maps of northern Italy to his all in one TomTom personal navigation device, put it on the dashboard of the car we rented it in mount penza airport after which we drove around in circles for four hours into the dark of night, which I guess just proves Tom Tom's point about how easy it is to waste time in the car. Interestingly, Milan has a traffic congestion level of just 28%. Dipping into the statistics for Tel Aviv, one learns that the standard deviation of the traffic congestion is great. It's feast or famine, especially last year in September, when, for instance, on September 14th and 15th, there was almost no traffic at all. Those being yom kippur even yongki borde, the most traffic congested day of the year, with 73% congestion, was last year October 12th, which mystified me until I Googled it and discovered that on October 12th the makabi Tel Aviv Premier League basketball team hosted none other than Milan, coincidence, I don't think so. No doubt, part of the reason why Tel Aviv's traffic is snarled these days is because main streets are totally or partially blocked these years for the construction of the light rail. This is what we call in Hebrew a Yuri dala shame Ali a descent for the sake of ascending because the light rail will improve traffic when it starts running anytime from 2024 to 2048. That's also true for all the excellent bike lanes that have been built here in the past two years, which reduced the lanes available for cars with hope that people will be switching to riding bikes, which is already happening before our eyes. Now, Tel Aviv's number 16 showing may seem mediocre, but consider that the very first city in North America does not make the list until number 43, that is New York with a traffic congestion level of just 35%. LA is famous for its traffic. Steven Soderbergh got a best directing award for a movie called traffic, which I assume is a cinematic interpretation of the TomTom traffic index. And yet LA enters the list at 59 with a congestion level of just 33%. Melbourne is number one 36 on the list with 25% congestion in my hometown of Washington D.C. is number 212 on the list with just 21% congestion. I swear if D.C. were a heart doctors wouldn't even do an angioplasty on it. That's how little congestion it has, which is why I think arguably nothing captures the spirit of this city. We love so well, television, a totally flat and compact city in which there may be no corner no matter how far flung that you can't get to faster in rush hour on a bus bike, a scooter and usually even by walking than you can in a car. And yet when it comes to traffic congestion, we leave New York, Paris, London, Sydney, Berlin, Copenhagen, Beijing, Bangalore, São Paulo, and hundreds and hundreds of world class cities in our dust choking on our exhaust. With us in the studio is a woman who's prose, much like Tel Aviv is known for its traffic density, is known for its graphic density for the way she brings such evocative images to her lovely insightful writing, obviously I'm talking about Alison captain summer, Allison has written for Politico, the new republic foreign policy, the Jerusalem post the jta the Ford and many other of your very best papers at magazines. She is a columnist with her arts. You have heard her on NPR PRI and the BBC, and you have seen her on I 24 television and Al Jazeera TV. Allison is also the host and the grand poobah of the weekend edition of the ariete weekly podcast, which you can find on art. Alison, how you doing? Well, you can't really understand the pain of traffic because you don't own a car first of all. And you don't commute like Don and I do, but it's been crazy in COVID, riding the waves of traffic because you used to at least be able to predict when you would be stuck in traffic, but with COVID, you know, you never know. Sometimes no one's going into the office, and it's great. Sometimes for weeks and months at a time, right? No one's going into the office. And then all of a sudden they're back. Absolutely. And I get Istanbul because you have never experienced traffic jam. If you have never been in an Istanbul, it is remarkable. It's crazy. I mean, it makes it makes Tel Aviv look like a walk in the park. But the best traffic jam moment in a movie is definitely the opening scene of La La Land. I'm many thoughts on traffic. Also with us in the studio is a man who just as Tel Aviv is world famous for its congestion is revered around the world for his willingness to question accepted wisdoms. That man can only be done. Donna is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He's also the man behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called one man show, Don, how you doing? Oh, I just came back from the north yesterday where there was no congestion and went to pick up my daughter in Tel Aviv. And it took me 15 minutes to go a mile and a half with in Tel Aviv. But I think look, I've been dealing with congestion since I was a little kid and the answer is to carry a pack of tissues with you. And every once in a while, just to blow it all out. Just clear it out, or you know, you can take medication to dry up the mucus. So I think of Tel Aviv adopted some of those strategies. We would be in much better shape. It's beautiful to think of that on a large scale. Exactly. As for me, my name is no effer. I don't mean to brag, but I have for the last while started every whirl with the word Torah, which at first seemed like a lark, but now that my streak is at 38, I am not 100% entirely sure that I haven't become just a little bit superstitious about it. Maybe not, but then again, maybe yes, just a little, and I am not boasting that is not the way my parents brought me up. But whatever rational things I may have absorbed as a kid in yeshiva day school, I definitely absorbed a lot of the other stuff too. I should add that bound and gagged in the studio and we are delighted to have shanghaied him is Andrew Haley, who, until now has been the halevi who got away after his partner Jill and daughter Noah visited a while back, leaving us to wonder and worry about Andrew, was it something we said. Anyway, we are so glad that you are silently here. Today, we will discuss three topics of grand importance. But first we have a matter that we're following with alert interest and great concern as part of an occasional series that we call the promised podcast ponders the poignant power of a prize precocious pop idol upon the occasion of her becoming a private citizen. If you are on Instagram, you might have found in your feed this week like I did, a post with a shaky handheld video of a young woman in jeans and a blue hoodie sweatshirt clipped in the middle showing her bare midriff, and maybe you noticed like I did that it was liked by 69,268 people. One of whom may be Instagram told you like it told me, was Gal Gadot. The young woman in the video is the pop star Noah kiro and the video is of her struggling with big scissors to cut into two her credit card sized army ID card, which ritual snipping has lately become a Rite of passage for kids just discharged from the army, walking out of the same induction center at telescore hospital where they were first drafted once again wearing civilian clothes. Carol shouts to her friends and family. What should I say and her mother, ilana kiro shouts back that it was fun and Noah kyro smiles and says, ah, it was great drawing out the word adieu. And then her friends run up and hug her, swipe right and there's a still photo of Noah Kyra standing between her mother and father Amir kiro, holding a quote certificate of appreciation for your contribution and excellence in your service as an IDF soldier in the text of the post Noah cure writes among other things, quote it is sad to finish the most meaningful and fun army service I could imagine. I won't ever forget how much fire I took when I enlisted. I'm sure she'll never show up. You call that army service and a million comments about famous VIPs in the IDF. I won't ever forget how hard it was for me to see those comments, especially since, because of my medical condition, they did not want to draft me at all, and I turned worlds upside down to enlist and to serve my country and the last thing I wanted was special treatment. I knew that only in the army would I be able to experience two years where I was like everyone else without preferential treatment. And it's reasonable to assume there won't be another chance for me to have that feeling and any other part of my very unregular and un normal life. And it's true, I can't say I had a completely normal service, but I did use it to make the most meaningful contribution I could. End quote. The army did not want to enlist Noah cure all at all because when she was two months old, one of Noah kiro's kidneys failed and between hospital stays, her parents took her to a rabbi who advised them to change the name they gave her at birth, to Noah, making it both harder for the angel of death to find her, and also because Noah means moves and as Noah kyro later hypothesized that maybe because her name is Noah that she dances and never stops moving, having just one kidney that works makes Noah cure all medically ineligible to be drafted, which is why she had to fight to enlist as a volunteer. Scrolling through the 1796 Instagram posts beneath this one with video. You can understand the skepticism that some people felt when Noah curle enlisted, and most of them, especially the more recent ones, she has fully these stepford look of an a list Instagram influencer wearing logo clothes, sometimes decked out in merch. You can get at NOAA kiro dot com. Very often with her arms extended above and behind her head, chest out, lips pursed. After the living my best life, I ain't no basic bitch fashion of social media pioneered by Kim Kardashian. Some of the posts are magazine covers featuring Noah curle. And some are of her standing in front of billboard's advertising Noah cure, or a Noah cure old record. And some are of Noah kyro performing on a grand stage somewhere in Europe, smoke machines and flashing lights doing what they do, which is why it is surprising when scrolling through her social media every now and then you come across a very different Noah K roll. Videos of her singing for soldiers, that was her army service, show her and run down buildings on jury rigged stages, boards on blocks, belting into lousy Mike's plugged into lousy amps, sometimes backed not by a band, but by just a tape, making your show karaoke in front of soldiers sprawled on a floor hooting and hollering. In every performance for soldiers I saw she wore a shapeless work uniform. My day bet be uniforms. That made her look like she hoped pretty much like everyone she was singing to. Yes, incandescently, charismatic, though to be honest, charisma is never lacking in a building full of 19 year olds wearing my day bet. In one video, kiro gets a special gift after performing for the golani brigade, a book about the unit called battalion 12, the power of lightning. It was never sold just given to the insiders and the dedication reads, quote, to Noah kiro, dedicated to the memory of your Saba Alex, a beloved company commander in battalion 12 with great appreciation until victory comes the golani family. Alexander kirill escaped Austria in 1939. He and one sister and a cousin are all who survived of his extended family of 220, the heroes and the waldens and the Reagan bogans, and here Alex Carroll became a paratrooper, taking a position after officer training in golani, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and it was as a lieutenant colonel that he volunteered in 1961 to serve on the security detail at the eichmann trial in Jerusalem so he could be witness so that he could later bear witness. Kiro talked about him with pride on one of her first TV appearances when she was just 15 after her first song or two had gone viral, saying how much it meant to her that Saba Alex was proud of her, though, before the episode aired just two weeks later in 2016, Saba Alex died. After that, Noah kyro told at the woman's fashion and lifestyle magazine, there was no way she was not going into the army, I am Alex kyros granddaughter. She said, my father too was a combat soldier. For me, I have to do this. Scrolling back through Noah kiro's feed between one post of cure all with long blue hair and patent leather platform boots eating cotton candy, hashtag. We are Samsung gallery a 70. And another post of a video of a new single called, or nervy, her Samsung galaxy a 70 in her hand as she sings, one comes across a very different sort of post about, quote, my personal journey to Poland. We, as the younger generation, we can not forget what happened there and must always remember what our people and our families went through there. There's a video of the trip that kyro made with her father Amir Alex's son, who at one point hugging his famous daughter in the snows of Auschwitz says, quote, this is a closing of a circle for me. The work is done. I feel better. It was a moral debt. I owe it to my father who didn't get to or couldn't or didn't want to come here, even though this was the most important thing for him in life. And Noah kiro hugs her father and says, to think that so many people with the surname hero died in this place, and I carried the surname kiro. And I give it some meaning. And her father interrupts her and says, the real closing of a circle is that the name kiro is a name that went extinct. We are the only kyros left. And from the day that you started and broke out, I think that most of the country now knows the name kiro. At this a tear rolls down the face of Noah cure all grade 12, and her father goes on, quote, as far as we are concerned, the Nazis did not win, they did not finish the job. They did not succeed because the name kiro lives breathes and is kicking, and no cure all says, I also remember when we would show Saba things they said or wrote or broadcast about me, he would be so happy that the name kiro, they know it. The video was watched more than 300,000 times. And 1272 people posted comments like tippi 25 O 9, sip Ben David, who wrote quote ha, I knew you were a poll like me. I am with you. I identify my Saab and from both sides where Holocaust survivors. Myself that for my father's side became mentally ill when all her family was killed and whoever wasn't killed was 6. So I understand you. My father grew up at boarding schools from the age of three because my software was sick. I identify with you entirely. Someone named Noah kiro love 56 posted a crying face emoji writing myself that was also in the Holocaust. Tanya Reese 26 wrote, Noah I won't forget on Holocaust day any of the people who died, especially not my two grandfathers who I'd never met. Yella underscore 21 four four 5 wrote first, Hitler may his name be blotted out in his memory burn a fresh and hell every time the Holocaust is mentioned, and each time people hear you sing. Second, when the dead are resurrected, everyone who has murdered will rise from the dead with God's help and God will exact our revenge. Third, you sing incredibly, you really move me. And it goes on like this hundreds and hundreds of comments by deeply affected kids. And there's lots more to say about Noah cure all about the remix of hatikvah the national.
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"Welcome to the promised podcast. Brought to Monte LV one, the voice of the city just determined by the generally considered authoritative for such matters global startup ecosystem report clean tech edition to be the second most productive global clean tech ecosystem in the world after Silicon Valley at number one, but then well ahead of Stockholm, London, LA, Boston, Amsterdam, New York, Beijing, and D.C. coming in at numbers three through ten. And I just want to say to all those cities, you made a super effort so much hustle and you keep at it and maybe your day will come to. One day you might even give us a run for our money. I mean, just super after all as the highly respected smart city journal put it in a feature headlined quote, Tel Aviv leads the ranking of the global clean tech ecosystem report ranking number two after Silicon Valley and there is a quote highly globally competitive landscape of technology based startups focused on reducing environmental impacts and solving the scale up gap in clean tech. End quote, and not everyone can be a winner in such a highly globally competitive landscape. Delving into the 112 page report, one finds that, quote, Tel Aviv might be of modest size, but Israel's high-tech capital is one of the leading cities in the world for innovation and technology. The beating heart of the startup nation boasts forgive our boasty hearts, but I digress. Boasts one startup for every 154 residents the world's highest ratio 2750 startups call this ecosystem home. End quote. Now let's run the numbers. Factoring in that 24% of Tel Aviv residents are under the age of 18 and very unlikely to have a clean tech startup at all. Oh, look at road them. She thinks she's so big with her clean tech startup. Gag me with a spoon, and yes, I am pretty sure that it's really teens do say gag me with a spoon and taking into account that 15% of the city's residents are retired, presumably having sold off their clean tech startups. One learns that if there is one clean tech startup in the city for every 154 residents, then there is one clean tech startup for every 94 residents of working age. If we further factor in that, according to the statistical data supplied by the center for economic and social research of the television municipality, just 16% of all those employed in the city work in professional scientific and technical activities compared to, for example, 28% who work in finance and insurance and 9% who work in wholesale and retail or repair of automobiles, we immediately see that the city has one clean tech startup where every 15 scientific and technical workers, which is pretty damn good. And if we take into account that my friend Michael, who lives just one building over, works in high-tech, but in telephony and not in clean tech, then it means that the number of clean tech startups for workers is even higher, which is to say clean tech wise, this is one hell of an ecosystem. And arguably nothing captures the spirit of this city we love so well Tel Aviv, better than a quick back of the envelope calculation, showing that if you look around anytime you say get on a city bus, at least one of the people you see is very likely to be the entrepreneur who are entrepreneurs behind one or another world class clean tech startup or he or she would be anyway if clean tech entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs ever took the bus. With us in the studio is a woman who is number one in the highly globally competitive landscape of the ecosystem of beautiful prose. Obviously, I'm talking about Allison Kaplan summer. Allison 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 magazines, she is a columnist with how arts you have heard her on NPR PRI and the BBC, and you have seen on I 24 television and Al Jazeera TV. Allison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage, and a Simon rocker award for excellence in covering Zionism aliyah and Israel. Alison, how are you doing? I'm doing good. You're making me feel like I should leave journalism and go into clean tech, you know, maybe write some copy for them, promote them. If you live in Tel Aviv, it would pretty much be a necessity. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, here we are, none of us are in clean tech and our Friends are relatives in clean Jack. Do you have people you know? In clean tech no, absolutely not, which is a little bit shocking because I know that one of every 15 people that I look at not only is in clean tech, but actually owns a clean tech startup. Well, there you go. I don't know. Are the numbers wrong? Are we unrepresentative? We'll find out. We're probably we won't. Also with us in the studio is a man who ranks number one in the highly globally competitive landscape of the ecosystem of making the country's schools better that man could only be non fireman. Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the beating heart boasting of a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, Don how you doing. I'm good. I mean, a lot of the people I know are actually clean. And that is the first thing they use tech. I won't be surprised if my sons end up in clean tech. You know, the technique I think is a good pipeline right right into that field. And we here are filling the world with words and words, except for when you're speaking, are usually right here. We do so much good. Yes, many of them are clean. And for me, my name is no iPhone. I don't mean to brag, but I just went straight from reading rob Sheffield's book about The Beatles, dreaming The Beatles. It's called to reading Mark Levinson's book about The Beatles, tune in, it's called to reading a 150 glimpses of The Beatles by Craig Brown to reading revolution in the head, The Beatles records and the 60s by Ian McDonald may his memory be for a blessing because it turns out that is the sort of intellectual that I am. Also, when I visit my folks in two weeks waiting for me in the flesh pots of Silver Spring is a copy of Paul McCartney's two volume set of the stories behind all his lyrics, and I'm not boasting, believe me when I tell you, that is not the way I was raised. But I think I have reached the highest rung the Nirvana, if you will of aging boomer self parody, which is true, but it is also true that life is very short and there is no time for fussing and fighting my friend. So I believe in yesterday because it's a fool who plays a cool by making the world a little colder. Today, we will discuss three topics of exalted importance. But first we have a matter that we're filing with alert interesting great concern as part of an occasional series, we are calling the promised podcast ponders the sunny, sustaining sagacity of savory snacks suitable for savoring with salsa, though sadly suspect by some and let us start with one of those suspicious sum, the day before yesterday as we record deputy mayor of Jerusalem are king of the far right national union party, tweeted a photograph of a bowl of corn chips and wrote, quote, we must for the mental and spiritual health of future generations boycott Doritos, who are trying to influence the natural family unit through the advertisements of their products. In the first comment, king added that insult to injury, Doritos carries two highly respected ultra orthodox kosher certifications, and yet they are hell bent on destroying the family. Kings was one of hundreds of calls to boycott Doritos, which multiplied on Twitter and metastasized on Facebook and Instagram and TikTok. What upset all those people was an ad for Doritos that was suddenly everywhere on TV and all over social media in the days leading up to yoma mica, or family day, which we celebrated here two days ago as I record on the last day of the.
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"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..
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"Life is about 10% below the national average in Don's khar sava is actually three points higher than Tel Aviv or 42% above the national average. In recycling, Tel Aviv, yafo is 71% higher than the national average, which is surprisingly only a few points ahead of bone Brock, but more than a hundred points higher than roho vote, which scores only about 70% of the national average with beersheva smack dab at the national average. And Don's far Saba about 55% above the national average or 16% lower than Tel Aviv. That is 16% lower than Tel Aviv, but still very, very good. Where Tel Aviv stands out most is access to a computer where a whopping 9 in ten of us are digital baby and also Tel Aviv rules at being gainfully employed with 7 out of ten of us holding down a job. We also lead the nation in the percentage of residents who spend at least 30% of our income on the roofs over our heads. 46.4% of us do that compared to a national average of only 29.5%, which peacock's tail sure will pay 10,000 checkers a month rent ostentation. You would think the central bureau of statistics to rack up in our favor, but for some reason, they count that against us. In khar Saba, they are less likely than the national average to spend more than 30% of what they make on their digs, which makes me wonder why the hell don't they just get bigger apartments? What are they kind of phobic, but I digress. Also, both Tel Aviv and farsa have among the highest rates in the country of California bacteria in our drinking water and the central bureau of statistics treats that like a bad thing too. It's probably worth pointing out that life expectancy in kwara Saba is among the highest in the country, fully two years more than the national average. And this is true. The slight difference in life expectancy between farsa and Tel Aviv is almost identical to the slight difference between Dons and my age, meaning that the two of us are going to die on the same day, while recording the podcast no doubt, and you'll know that that day has come because I'll say at the end of the show, we will not be back for you next week or any week. Demonstrating that not only do all good things come to an end, but also kind of okay things if you like that sort of thing come to an end as well on this, the promised podcast and arguably nothing captures the spirit of this city we love so well, Tel Aviv Alfa, better than hard facts collected by not some peripheral bureau of statistics, but the central bureau of statistics demonstrating that we may not have the best water, and we may not have the most affordable housing, and we may not have the fewest traffic accidents, and we may not have the highest quality of life, but still for most of us, there ain't nowhere we would rather live with us in the studio is a woman who sadly lives in a city with a population of only 75,421. But still who's enchanting presence is what accounts for the fact that the quality of our lives here on the podcast is so damn high. Obviously, I am talking about Alison Kaplan summer. Alison is written for Politico. The new republic foreign policy, the Jerusalem post, the ATA, the Ford and many other of your very best papers and magazine, she is a columnist with the arts. You have heard her on NPR PRI in the BBC, and you have seen her on I 24 television and Al Jazeera TV. Alison hold a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage and a Simon rock award for excellence in covering Zionism alia and Israel. Allison, how are you doing? I'm good. I'm in a silver linings kind of mood because normally the downside of living in places like Rihanna and khasa like Don and I do is the horrible traffic when you try to get to Tel Aviv to go to the podcast, for example. And now with half the country in quarantine, we just sailed along on those highways, trafficking. That's so late. Absolutely. Wow. That is a very odd little thing. Little fact. Also with us in the studio is a man whose kindness humanity and decency almost surely account for the fact that ink faraba and this is true. People are 44% more likely than the national average to report that they believe in the goodness of their neighbors. They are also 95.5% likely to be happy living where they live. That neighbor making far side of the place that it is accounting for that commonplace contentment is Don fartman 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 you find fine podcasts, as well as the other kind like this one done. I'm guessing you farsa people have been on a bender ever since the CBS published the good news. Yes. Absolutely. And we've noticed a lot of people in their 80s and 90s are moving to cars, but they're trying to get those extra couple of years. Two years really matter. And really in our good neighborly way we've been hunting down searching for the people who didn't believe in our neighborly goodness. And inviting them into our homes with their masks on showering them with brownies and puppies and Mr. Rogers paraphernalia and free tickets to ocean lands 18 theaters and cinema cities ten theaters to show what good neighbors we really are. See, that's beautiful. And Tel Aviv, I think we would just hunt them down. And for me, my name is no Erin. I don't mean to brag, but when I went over the 115 metrics to try to figure out scientifically what part I specifically play in bringing up Tel Aviv's quality of life, my most outstanding contribution seems to be that I personally have more than four times the national average number of computers. And it probably sounds like I'm boasting, which is something my folks always always told me not to do, but we all bring our own talents to the mix and my talent seems to be for pointless wasteful calamitous consumption. Today, we will discuss three topics of glorious 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 pretension and promise of the poems of poets. 50 years ago, this month in January 1972, and exactly 355 meters from where I'm speaking into this microphone at beta hayal, the soldiers club just over on white spin boulevard. The commander of the army radio station galle taha man named yitzhak Livni put on what he called an evening of poets songs, Arab Shirai machine reem, what he hoped would be the first of a series. Livni had lately taken it in his head that Israeli music was in decline. Its melodies migrating towards pointless pop and its lyrics celebrating trivialities. Israeli music live new thought needed to be saved from itself to be set on a different path and a way to do that live than you thought would be to take poems written by the best young poets. It was a golden age of radical poets who aimed to shake the dust off the great masters of the decades just before and just after the state was established. And to get some of the best young musicians to set the poems of the best young poets to music. Livni himself had been one of these young poets, part of a poetry circle called the meaning towards a circle that included not an REA sivan and met at the casita cafe at des goth one 17 in the late 1950s, and in 1958 Livni also married the great poet dalia rabi kovic, all this before Livni was 25, though he and Robert Koch would divorce after just three years. Live in the commanded the army radio, and before that, he edited the army journal by mahan, but he never strayed far from poetry. And by his reckoning, he never found himself in a place that could not be improved with serious and sustained attention to poetry for his evening, his first effort to save popular music to make it different and better and serious and eternal. Livni recruited the help of Michelle handel's alts, who, in our day, is known as the legendary culture critic and culture editor at haaretz. But at the start of 1972, was a 21 year old kid eager to make culture. Livni picked poems by uda ami hay David avidan and his old friends dalia Roby Kovac and Nathan Zach. And he picked some of the best composers in the country. Alexander Sasha argov at 48 the oldest of the group. And yet, ear rosenblum, who was 28 and a couple of years before, had written sir Lachlan. And slo-mo artsy, who was then 24 not long out of the army singing group, and matey Cosby, who had just turned 23 and more, Livni hired the revered stage and screen actress kana may run who had in the years just prior played at the camera theater Beatrice in much ado about nothing and Maria in 12th night and ibsen's had a gobbler and the title role in George Bernard Shaw's the millionaire and the lead in alterman's the inn of souls and other roles each of which had gravitas abetted by the twinge of a German accent to faded remnant of Berlin where miron grew up. The evening opened with meiron enunciating elocution narrowly a text written by Livni about as stiffly serious a text as has ever opened an evening of musical entertainment in Tel Aviv. She said the shame for not fraudulent Darla Shira hasimara. Shashi Shira, kasha Michael Fizik, vishap, his monim. In recent years, the paths of poetry in the paths of melody of parted. We have become used to the thought that poetry is too difficult to become a song and that songs do not need to, nor can they be poetry, we have grown used to thinking in many cases that the words, their level, their intelligence, their sensitivity, are not important in producing a song. But things were not such in the past, since time immemorial, the best poems of the best poets were set to music and sung for the people and from the stage on this evening we shall sing the poems of poets. These poems were not written to be set to music, but each has an inner musicality, as it was said, poetry is musical thinking. Our only wish is to try to bring together good poetry with good music and an audience. Before eat song, Hannah may own gave a short lecture about the quality of the poem set to the music. It's meter. It's time. It's illusions. And then called upon one or another colleague, usually an actor famous in acting circles or sometimes a radio announcer to give a reading of the poem only after all that, turning to the music. After describing value, Robert COVID has attraction to, quote, love, death, hunger for life, and efforts that lead to nothing end quote. She called on the radio announcer eris levy to read a poem called hemda the light that starts like this. Shamia daddy from the Tacoma. There did I know a delight beyond all the lights and it came to pass upon the Sabbath day as tree boughs reached for the sky with all their might round and round like a river stream the light and the wheel of the eye craved the sunlight that day, then did I know a delight beyond all delights? That in Hannah bloch and Hannah Crohn felt translation. And it's only after that was done that seal of dagon is allowed to sing. Shallow height I'll come up there has not hold on your motion. The next poem was Zach and it was called when God said for the first time. And it started like this. Kishi Lori ahmaud. Yeah. Who it eventually? When God said for the first time, let there be light. His intention was to rid himself of the dark, he wasn't thinking at that moment of the sky, but already the waters began filling the trees and the birds took shape and the air to fly. And then the first wind blew into the eyes of our lord, and he saw it with the eyes of the cloud of his glory and thought it is good. He didn't think then that the children of Adam would ever become a multitude..
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"Months of pleasant temperatures three months of humid inferno and four months of will my picnic be rained out for song better than a state of the art British study finding that yes, the 8th smartest thing that anyone and everyone can and should do is move to Tel Aviv for the weather. With us in the studio is a woman who's lovely probing prose occupies teams of research scientists eager to understand how it manages at once to be so warm and so cool. Obviously, I'm referring to the famous Kaplan summer paradox named after none other than our own Allison Kaplan. Summer, Allison is 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 arts. You have heard on NPR PRI and the BBC and you have seen her on I 24 television and Al Jazeera TV. Allison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing excellence in Diaspora reportage. And he Simon rock award for excellence in covering Zionism aliyah and Israel. Alison, how are you doing? I'm doing good, but you know as they say in Florida with the retirees, it's not the heat it's the humidity. So true. That is so true. But they're not taking that into account. They've got their metrics. Also with us in the studio is a man who, when life gives him rain, makes lemonade. Presumably because he's already got the lemons, or you can pick them up at any store. That man is Don fetterman. Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the auteur behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, which you can find wherever you find fine podcasts, as well as the other kind. Like this one done, how are you doing? Well, you know, we say that rain is a blessing. And there's something I have to add today because from California, Rhode Island, New York, across the State of Israel, we've gathered in this small space to celebrate another blessing, the birth of a boy from Plainfield, New Jersey, who came to Tel Aviv via glial yam Ying Judea from liquid Plymouth to the land of Israel. Noah, you have walked shoulder to shoulder among giants in the hallowed halls of swarthmore. Harvard MIT, Princeton bar Ilan, and the municipality of Tel Aviv before at last finding your true home here in the TL V one studio fulfilling your chosen destiny and essential purpose in life as Israel's leading purveyor of podcaster. You have given voice to Allison and myself and the select elective additional phenomenal co host. And each week for the past 11 years, you have enlightened the ears and brighten the minds of hundreds of thousands of listeners and countries across the globe offering them that rarest of rarities and honest and critical and loving discussion about this place we love. So we thank you for your tireless curiosity. Your unique sense of humor, your remarkable ability to facilitate discussion at the highest level while also entertaining and engaging in invisible multitude, sharing your insights as a historian citizen commentator, husband father, teacher, mentor, author, political leader, and podcaster extraordinaire and for being a mention and a friend. Masala. And happy birthday. Beautiful. Join us join us. These beautiful cake. Oh my God. I think it's life. Oh my God. This is so beautiful. Thank you. So you have to see. Okay. I'm now opening it. In here. Surprise. The cake is beautiful, man. Hey, doo doo. Mozina. It's a big sweatshirt with my visage. It says podcasting is life, and then I'm told in the back, I don't mean to boast. This is beautiful. Oh my God, I'm so touched and moved and overwhelmed and oh my God. And that brings us to the end of our show. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Don. That was beautiful. Everybody, this is amazing. Thank you. Happy birthday. You're 29 again. Take cake. So I'm moving on, deep thigh. Well, as for me, my name is no Efron and I am delighted and embarrassed and overwhelmed. And I don't mean to brag, but the other day I got an email with the subject line quote, Noah, we found a negative item on your reputation profile. And I'm not made of stone. So I opened the email and I clicking through while pulling out my wallet just to be ready. I found that I have quote unquote two damaging associates, which is the kind of fact that sparks your imagination. I've got two kids at me and Don? Is it them? That's what I was wondering. Is it my parents? 'cause I've always thought that my parents hurt my street Cred by davinia children and instead of KMS, is it them? And these thoughts kind of bring to life my stalinist sensibilities as well. And I found myself thinking, maybe I just need to cut off the lot of them, damaging associates. And then I notice on the site in bold letters it says that reputation is more important than credit and I am not posting, believe me, that's not how it's raised even if it turns out that my parents are damaging associates. But I realized at that moment that despite years of trying, I have managed to create pretty much no reputation at all, which means unlike most everyone I know I can not be harmed by negative items on my reputation file, give me your worst. I am pretty much a superhero when it comes to reputation. Now I have to add and I'm delighted to add that bound and gag in the studio today. We are also delighted are our absolutely favorite guests of all time, Marilyn and Stephen Kaplan, whom among their many, many, many, many accomplishments are also mother and father to Allison. Also, their engagement announcement in the times was laid out right next to an ad for la la bath perfume oil concentrated at sax Fifth Avenue here. See, I have the ad right here. Oh, wow. Yeah, my mom looks so pretty. That's how classy they are. And as we always say here on the promised podcast, any parents of Allison's our parents of ours, welcome. Today we will discuss three topics of intimidating importance, but first we have this matter that we're following with alert interesting great concern as part of an occasional series we call the premise podcast, ponders past faux pas pertaining to fab fortitude, like most people I've been watching get back the new documentary about the making of let it be in the last days of The Beatles and it's beautiful and it makes you think thoughts and one of the thoughts it has me thinking is about The Beatles concert that might have happened in Tel Aviv but didn't. This is the story. In January, 1964, a then 8 year old quote interministerial committee for the approval of the bringing of artists from abroad, met to consider among other things, the request of Israel's two biggest concert promoters avram boog tier and yakov uri to book The Beatles to perform in Tel Aviv, serving on the committee were men from the ministries of education, finance, and internal affairs, as well as the foreign ministry and the broadcast authority, men of gravity at the head of the committee sat the assistant director of the Ministry of Education and culture, a man named Ellie, who four years earlier in 1960, made headlines when he promised to keep Israel from embarrassing itself again by sending to the Olympics quote squads with poor skills to compete with teams with superior athletic knowledge who lose game after game end quote. Now, among the jobs of the interministerial committee for the approval of the bringing of artists from abroad was quote unquote, investigating the level of professionalism of acts that promoters and club owners wanted to bring to Israel. The minutes of the January meeting about The Beatles show succinctly what the committee members thought of the band quote decided, the request is not approved for fear the appearance of The Beatles is liable to be a bad influence on the youth. Quoting Socrates right there, they were doing. This is not the end of the story. The promoters appealed and that the next meeting on March 16th, 1964, the committee revisited the case of The Beatles, concluding this, quote, members of the committee looked closely at the letter in this matter from the department for cultural ties of the foreign ministry and also at many articles published about The Beatles band in Israeli newspapers and foreign newspapers and arrived at the conclusion that bringing the aforementioned band should not be allowed for the following reasons. One, from all the articles and stories, including those that do not outright reject Beatles concerts for various reasons, it becomes apparent that the band has no artistic value. And two, the band's concerts have caused mass hysteria and unruliness among youth. In response to this decision, a man named baruch gillon, the chairman of the union of the impresarios of Israel, which union was based in gillon's apartment at number 14, Gordon street in Tel Aviv, telephone number in its entirety two zero zero 6 one. Gilon sent on April 7th, 1964, a letter to advertise for Ellie, demanding that the decision be overturned. He wrote, quote, the committee determined that in its opinion, the band has no artistic value and it causes hysteria, et cetera. Such determinations gillon argued were of a sort the committee had no authority to make. What's more, the committee was flat out wrong. Quote, any artist and any band that exists and enjoys the appreciation of this public or that, whether they are 45 years old and more or 16 years old, has a right to exist and perform, as far as the hysteria goes, that is a matter for psychiatrists. And in the event of undesirable developments out of performance, the police letter was passed on to the legal department of the educational ministry, which quickly determined that the committee did have the authority to block concerts by groups of no artistic value, case closed. And the same day that the committee decided what they decided about The Beatles for what it's worth, the committee also rejected the request to bring another Liverpool band the searchers quote owing to its low artistic level end quote. This was just as the searcher's first huge hit tweets for my suite was rising in the charts, though it was before needles and pins and love potion number 9. After that, there were protests. I saw a letter written by the spokesperson of the Department of Education filled with new immigrant spelling mistakes, dated May 10th, 1964, and replied to a letter of complaint that has not survived, apparently sent by an angry teen named Jean. It begins, quote, dear gene, what a shame that you see grown-ups as so incapable of understanding the thought processes of youth. I am not convinced that this is the case. I will tell you a secret. The body of a man does not grow old at the same pace as his spirit, a grown-up's memory is better than you give credit for. We all remember well what young people feel like and very often we still feel that same way. End quote, the letter ends by cataloging the many complaints that have accompanied The Beatles wherever they go. And then this quote, don't you believe that the saying that there is no one is wise as one with experiences, especially true when the wise one learns from the experience of others and saves himself and his hour of need from going through the same things himself. Almost two years passed before journalists turned member of Knesset already, submitted an interrogatory to the minister of education Aragon, asking why The Beatles were banned and adding, quote, is it known to you, mister minister that several months ago, the queen of England awarded the band royal titles? Does this fact not make the men of the education ministry reconsider the matter? The minister responded that The Beatles MBE was well known to the committee and did not change their decision. The Beatles remained musicians non grata. In fairness, it was not just prigs that led to the decision to keep The Beatles away. Less than four months before the request to bring them made it onto the committee's agenda, cliff Richards in the shadows toward Israel sewing mayhem. The newspaper davar reported that, quote, a storm of enthusiasm by riled up masses, mostly youths before whom the police stood almost helpless, arose yesterday evening at load airport with the arrival of the renowned British entertainer and singer cliff Richards and quote, kids, quote unquote, captured the airport's observation deck, some climbing onto the terminal roof. There were those who brought thick rope which they sneaked down from the observation deck and used to slide to the runway and run to the plane. Anarchy followed the singer and band across the country, quote, riled up kids lead siege and surrounded the Tel Aviv cinema on the night of Richard's first show there. Police kept control with difficulty end quote. Rich kids from Haifa stole a gold watch from Richard's dressing room using the proceeds to quote fund entertainments and late night trips in taxicabs. Parents worried in letters to the papers about what they called the cult of cliff and what it said about the weakening state of youth and society. One reporter wrote after interviewing a juvenile judge a psychiatrist and an educator about the hysteria surrounding Richard, that, quote, in the absence of real ideals, like, for instance, in the period of the building of the land, they're protecting the homeland. Youth are drawn to emptiness, and then the phenomenon of cliff Richards arises. Adults worried they were losing their kids that the world was pulling them away, and they weren't wrong. In 1965, a 14 year old, a 15 year old, a 16 year old and a 17 year old formed a rock band called the churchills named after the 15 year old guitarist klepto, who was nicknamed after the British prime minister. That was Israel's first real rock band and it performed and beat clubs and run down south Tel Aviv and in ramla. Then 38 year old novelist and journalist Tamar avidar was her name went to see them and wrote a melancholy report on the front page of marib. Had I not heard them speaking Hebrew and what Hebrew, it was not bialik's. I would have had trouble remembering where I was in Tel Aviv, London or Rome. The youth that gathered for the evening of rhythm should have been asleep by the time the evening reached a tight at midnight, but they couldn't give up on the tumult and the commotion. They all had long hair and strange dress as colorful as possible. The rules were tight flowery, colorful and short. All the colors and Capri pants about to burst and mini skirts and long, long hair, was there anyone there who asked the question, this is who the youth are? What are they thinking? No, no one asked that question anymore because we realized a while back that this is who the youth are end quote. And something still bigger than that was going on. Just 6 months before the interministerial committee for the approval of the bringing of artists from abroad, banned The Beatles, levy escort took David Ben-Gurion's places, Israel's prime minister, and soon with quiet determination. He was undoing his predecessors, his mentors, harsh, rigidities, through symbolic acts, like finally letting the remains of zev debates come to Israel for burial and through acts who were much more than symbolic, like putting together a committee to bring television to Israel, which Ben gurion had kept out for fear of the tube's influence. And finally, putting an end to the martial law Palestinians had lived under since the country existed in a tense meeting with generals and intelligence heads, as goal famously asked of Israeli Arabs, quote, do we see them as eternal, sworn enemies, or do we say there is a chance for something different and better? The moment when an inter ministerial committee could unanimously with utter confidence, pass judgment on the artistic value of The Beatles, that was the high point and also the beginning of the end of a time of terrible and cruel certitude of ruthless certitude, a time of confidence that what this place is about is creating new Jews according to principles that have been set out in essays and poems and heroic songs. A time that believed that anything old or heterodox or loud or debauched or Goya, or for that matter, yiddish or Latino had to be kept out or tempt down. In 2008, Israel's ambassador to England prosor traveled from London to Liverpool with letter of apology he presented to Julia Bard, John Lennon's half sister. It was addressed to John and read among other things, quote, we would like to take this opportunity to rectify a historic missed opportunity, which unfortunately took place in 1965 when you were invited to Israel. Unfortunately, the State of Israel canceled your performance in the country because some believe that the time that your performance might corrupt the minds of Israeli youth, there is no doubt that it was a great missed opportunity to prevent people like you who shaped the minds of a generation from coming to Israel and performing before the young generation in Israel, who admired you and continues to admire UN quote. The same letter was sent to Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, both of whom later came to play in Tel Aviv and also to the family of George Harrison. At the time, the gesture was reported tongue in cheek as a ridiculous end of a ridiculous series of events from almost half a century earlier, a funny footnote to an already completely foreign history. By 2008, the idea that the state might decide whether or not a band was good for us, that idea was a distant memory. It was old and it was odd so long forgotten and so implausible that it was almost unintelligible. Those silly people, they did not know who The Beatles were and who they would become. We said to ourselves. But and this is what I've been thinking all this week, watching getting back. Really, what they did not know is who we are and who we would become. I'm there Easter Ellie and the dozen bureaucrats and all the journalists and teachers who thought that what this place was about, what this project was about was molding new Jews into the S beautiful, but so narrowed to bar image they had conjured. They were part of a world that no longer exists, watching John Paul George and Ringo on the tube this week, I couldn't help but think how much better off we all are for that. Today, three topics topic one fuck them as we learned this week that Donald Trump divulged in an on the record interview among other things that he's furious at Netanyahu for cravenly congratulating Biden on winning a stolen election, adding an expletive that we would rather not say ourselves on account of our gentle sensibilities. So we recruited a raft of a list Hollywood actors to capture the gist of it for us. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. I've got fuck you. Fuck you, fuck you. Hey, what do fuck you do? Fuck you fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Oh, fuck you. Hey, fuck you, mate. Fuck you, man. Fuck you, man. Oh, fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Well, fuck you, too. Fuck you, too. Fuck you, Ronnie. Fuck. You. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you, Ronnie. Fuck you. Fuck you, Ronny. Fuck you, Saddam Hussein of Iraq. Fuck you. Fuck you. In truth, about a third of those are Al Pacino. And another quarter again, Robert De Niro, but I think you get the point. What if anything do we learn from these trumpian revelations topic two, unit 8200 down en route 60 as with fanfare, the IDF announces that it is building a quote unquote intelligence campus down south near beersheva in part to fulfill the generation's old zionist dream of the country's founding prime minister David Ben gouyon to populate the negev desert causing career army intelligence officers to threaten to both the army for tries to force them to move from nearby Tel Aviv where the restaurants and shopping and we now know the weather is oh, so good. Should the army change its plans to move the fanciest soldiers to the hinterlands rather than face a rebellion and mass exodus of our best coders or should it instead say this to the computer geniuses trying to intimidate them? Fuck you, man. Fuck you. Fuck the lion, you fuck you all. Fuck you fuck you fuck you. You're cool and fuck you I'm out. You're fuck you, you fucking square? Well, excuse me, but fuck you, Derek. Fuck you, asshole. Fuck you, Harold. Fuck you, John. Fuck you, lady. Fuck you, asshole. And topic three torched as the deadline is quickly approaching to nominate candidates to light the 12 torches in the annual Independence Day torch lighting ceremony alongside nila and the pride parade arguably my favorite rituals of the year and we will each offer our own nominees ahead of me anyway actually submitting at least one real nomination to the real committee and for our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters in our access special special extra discussion, the link to which you can find in our show notes to on your podcast app or at Patreon dot com slash promise podcast on the worldwide web. We will talk about the newest government Corona edict, which says that you can chop in malls only if you are double vaxxed and boosted or had COVID for the past 6 months save for grocery stores pharmacies and clinics in malls and telephone stores and everyone entering them all will get a green wristband indicating a double vax and booster or a red wristband indicating anything less than that, which edict had more proprietors so apoplectic and forced one member of the coalition to vote against his own government until just this morning. It was taken aback by the government. Anyway, we will talk about this entire mess as the mall owners spit and.
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"mariah fund" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Podcast, brought to you on T LV one. The voice of the city that is home to the merk, ha ha rati, the social space, a, quote, home for education towards engagement and gender equality. A building in Atari square that went a decade ago from being the pussycat strip club and some say brothel to being quote a symbol of the struggle against gender inequality, socioeconomic gaps exploitation and more end quote, which symbolic shambolic building saw this week. It's entire facade covered with a poem by the graffiti artist and poet Nissan mints in huge bold letters reading the window is getting smaller, the doors are closing before me. My name is not Alice, and this is not Wonderland. Nietzsche mintz is the 31 year old granddaughter of the sculptor Lea Maduro mint, who was herself the granddaughter of Shimon rok, who not long after leaving his old issue of Jerusalem hasi parents became in 1886 the head of the Jewish community in Jaffa and also one of the founders of the era Tsar L 8 society that funded the char tion Jewish hospital and the shards, Jewish library in the city, and who became in 1887, one of the founders of a new Jewish neighborhood outside of Jaffa called nive, in which new neighborhood he built a gorgeous house for himself and his wife Rachel and his daughter Hannah and his son Ye say, oh, which son used to el rokoff, Leah majoro mince his uncle, Nietzsche mince his great grand uncle was mayor of Tel Aviv from 1936 to 1948. It is from him that rok boulevard gets his name, rokoff boulevard being the too fast, urban highway that runs alongside higher cone park, where three years ago, Ari nesher, the beautiful 17 year old son of the great director, avina that share was killed when soccer star yik Asif crashed his car into the scooter arina shares high school friend was driving with Ari national standing behind him, holding onto his waist, but I digress. By the 1970s, the house Shimon rokoff built was in decay, beams breaking floors cracking all of the vates was indicated in those years. And it was then that Lea Maduro mints bought the place after a long fight against the city, which held the deed in which she argued that the fact that it was her grandfather's place meant that she ought to be given the chance to bring it back to its original grandeur. And after she won that fight, she restored it, board by board, tile by tile as maybe only an artist good as maybe only a granddaughter could, making it into a gallery for her art, which consisted mostly at that time of ceramic sculptures of languid naked women in all manner of repose so that when you went to visit the place, there were women on the walls and on the ceiling and on the floor and draped over chairs and splayed over stairs, small women and big women and women in between. It felt like a feminist utopia. The top floor of the old row car house, majoro mint renovated into a home with bedrooms and a kitchen, and it was there that Nietzsche mints the graffiti artist and poet grew up in a home covered with sculptures of women in a beautiful 19th century home built by her great, great, great grandfather, in a neighborhood established by her great, great, great grandfather, but now crumbling around her where you could when she was a little kid in the 1980s, find spent needles on the side of the narrow stone streets. Nissan mints said that she saw as a kid that she had a choice. She could hate her ramshackle neighborhood with no street lights and no sewers, or she could choose to love it, and that was a choice he made a choice that by the time she was a teen, she expressed by going out late at night and by the light of a flashlight tagging the walls with poems that she wrote, the graffiti community was still small when she started to work in earnest in the early aughts and Nietzsche mints time and again came across the work of another artist named whose tags were then and are still today, mostly band aids because dead there is all about the healing. After the two artists fell in love and as they got more and more famous, they were invited, maybe 5 years ago now to loads in Poland to the neighborhood that had been the Jewish ghetto during the war, where the people who live there now very much wanted the place they lived in to be tagged by Israelis by Jews so that at the very least there'd be a sign that once not long ago, this had been a Jewish place. And in an old row of storage sheds, sheds that somehow survived from when the ghetto stood, I think, spread over the 13 heavy wooden doors of 13 sheds, Nissan mints wrote a poem in huge bolt Hebrew letters, the same bold Hebrew letters. In fact, that now appear on the social space in O three and square. The loads poem reading, quote, we the mollusks return on our stomachs to the murky water of our childhood. We have broken joints return home. We have soft bones and gnarled limbs, just a few more steps, and we're there. We melt on the asphalt. We and the desk chairs and the computers on our backs. We are filled with purpose one final effort before the sun sets end quote. Nissan mints wrote not long ago on Instagram that quote, one of my biggest dreams is to travel the world and through art projects, leave pieces of my soul with people all over this wall in lots, for example, was left in the amazing carrying hands of the neighbors who protected and send me pictures every year. And on the same trip, dead there painted his band aids, which the people living today and what had not that long ago been the Jewish ghetto agreed the place was very much in need of. And arguably nothing captures both the constant reinvention and the casual profundity of this city we love so well. Tel Aviv, better than a once, but now reform strip club brothel being taken over and overtaken by a poem by the artist granddaughter of the artist granddaughter of akashi turned city founder, all of whom I would say have left great pieces of their souls around the city and they are not alone, accounting for the fact that this odd place, not much more than a century old is so great a repository of soul with us in the studio is a woman who's probing prose is forever throwing windows wider and casting doors open onto the world around us obviously I'm talking about Alison Kaplan summer. Alison is written for Politico, the new republic foreign policy, the Jerusalem post, the JT, the forward and many other of your very best papers and magazine, she is a columnist with her art. You have heard her on MPR 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 alia and Israel. Allison, how are you doing? I'm doing great. My folks are here from America. Congratulations. Welcome before the entry wall slammed down. But I'm officially on vacation from work, but I'm much more exhausted than when I'm working because showing them around the country is a big job. What a nice thing. Welcome welcome. Also with us in the studio is a man whose sole full life's work, part of it anyway, has been to turn for kids language into healing and language into love. This through the amazing writing for kids programs he has pioneered. That man is Don futterman. Don is the director of the Mariah fund in Israel and the director of the Israel center for educational innovation. He is also the auteur behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show, which you can.
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"mariah fund" 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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"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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"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..
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"Captures the eccentric entrepreneurial. Spirit of this city. We love so well tel aviv. Alto better than a thirty something year old immigrant making a big in photo booths and eventually plowing much of his fortune into a prize for people pour over archives and manuscripts and pottery excavated from the middle of some desert all because he knows that the most human thing there is is wanting a picture of how we really were back at some time in the past say when the army was over and everything somehow was still possible with us in the studio. Today is a woman who is herself as you will hear this week like every week. No stranger to prizes celebrating outstanding achievement in the field of excellent. Obviously i'm talking about alan captain. Summer allison has written for political the new republic foreign policy. The jerusalem post the. Jt the forward any other of your very best papers and magazine columnist with our. It's and you have heard npr pri and the bbc and you have seen her on. I twenty four television and al jazeera tv alison. Hold a but with worlds and award for journalism recognizing excellence in diaspora portage and et. Simon rocked our award for excellence in covering zionism and israel. Alison how are ya. So i'm glad that you Said that charlotte khaleej The director of the dundee prize Has excellent taste because she was in fact the person who hired me. Yes those and my other connections. Slash namedrop is If you are an avid arts Reader you may have read brilliant articles on archaeology and history by one arielle feed. I don't know if you know the byline If i was done to kid i would probably be cruising my yacht. You know like eating the grapes and not doing a thing completely. Idle his son arielle divided Is an italian. Israeli mostly lives in israel. The biggest most modest sweetest hardest working meant she'll ever meet and again. He writes these the beautiful articles for our. It's where he delves into archaeology and history so no i would guess that he as as a dvd as the son of the of the people who created this prize probably isn't eligible to nominate people at don feed dot org slash nominate. Everyone else is someone nominee you. I'm sure as a board member he would. You know maybe look Very generously on that Nomination are you really a historian. I didn't know that. No i don't like to mention it. Also with us in the studio as a man who is in the business of understanding the present and reimagining the future that man is don fetterman. Don is the director of the mariah fund in israel and the director of the israel center for educational innovation. He's also the autour behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called fetterman. One man show an amazing series. Which if you haven't listened yet you ought to stop right now and listen dan how you doing. I'm doing good. We had a beautiful russia. Inaba i want to mention that last year when the when the covert nineteen condemning started Our pal charlotte's at the feed foundation called and said how can we help. What do you need and we said we got a lot of low income kids. That don't have computers. They can't any in any way. Take part in distance learning. You know whatever's going on there just cut off from it and immediately. They came through with some major major resources. That's beautiful that woman is an amazing women and also talk to her about rock and roll everyone to chartres or her about. She's an amazing woman. As for me my name is ron. I don't mean to boast but while we were in america lucy. The dog was at a puppy finishing school out near the airport. It's called cavallo d- moshe our old macdonald's farm where in addition to all the usual hostelry services a staff of trainers smoothed out some of lucy's rough edges the canine equivalent of learning which fourteen and also the equivalent of during that. You shouldn't stick a fork. In anyone's. I lose case when we picked up. Lucy head trainer went on a walk with three of us. Susan me and the dog and said that the dog is great. But susan and me. We need three sessions of intensive training stat the first of which is scheduled for this afternoon after. We're done with the podcast. And i'm not bragging. That is not how my parents raised me. But we have got a lot of years of schooling between us. Susan and i and yet this is going to be our very first formal dog training today. We will discuss three topics of existential importance. But first we have a matter that we're following with alert interest. Great concern as part of an occasional series. That we call the promise. Podcast ponders the cheer and care shared in prayer for the welfare of youngsters. Starting the year there was a new michelle. Bayrock prayer at our hub. Era last week michel barak being those blessings that are said when the tour is read. Its name comes from the first. Two words of the prayer of every prayer in the john ramesh. Abera may the one who blessed our ancestors x. y. z. Bless our contemporaries abyan see. There's an shapiro for sick. People may the one who blur. Ancestors abraham isaac jacob. Sarah rica raquel laya bill hahn zeal pablo's restore he'll and strengthen and then you add the names of everyone attached to the congregation in one way or another who may be sick. And there's also a pair for the state of israel blessed the state of israel the first manifestation of our redemption which is growing closer bestow your light and truth on its leaders ministers and advisers and grace them with your good counsel strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land etc etc. And there's also a prayer for our soldiers may the one who blessed our ancestors. Abram isaac jacob sarah raphael revka bill hansie pa blessed the soldiers of the israel defense forces who stand on guard over our land in the cities of our lord from the border of lebanon to the desert of egypt and from the great sea to the arafa on land in air and on c. May the lord caused the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before him made the holy one blessed be preserved and rescue our soldiers from every trouble in distress and every plague illness etcetera etcetera be lonzo by the way the handmaidens who gave birth to four of jacob's twelve sons who later became patriarch of tribes. God us share. Don enough tallied to be specific. Do not actually appear in the text. But as i've learned from susan they. So i've added them to these translations but they are the only things that i've added anyway this week along with those other blessings. There was a measham era for kids. Starting a new school year and their parents and it read quote may the one who blessed our ancestors abraham isaac jacob. Sarah revka raquel layer bill and zeal blessed. The boys and girls coming to the gates of their schools kindergartens and dormitories source of all blessings. Protect their souls and bodies from sudden fear and from wars grant. Our children are creative. Spirit the joy of curiosity and discovery simple peace with themselves in god and the power to recognize those good things they have had since the day they were born give them teachers know their tenders souls who see their pain and rejoice in the pleasures of their mischief help them to know wisdom and morality and understanding holy. One less. it'd be. He'd be still on their parents. The grace of enough routine days health and livelihood to raise them give us the humility wisdom knowledge intelligence joy and love to see them as the gifts of our lives through them open for us gate to see that which we have lost as we grew older and help us to be a piece with being good. Enough may be his will. And let's say a man now official. But i found that texan i did. I saw that. There were others besides bait east riley that lovely secular spiritual community that meets on the boardwalk at the port in the summers have a quote measham bayrock for students returning from summer vacation and quote. That includes this quote given the hearts of our sons and daughters the ability to understand to be enlightened to listen to learn to teach with love all the things in your torah and all the wealth of culture wisdom art and virtues reveal to them every day so that they discover each day something new and may be awed by the wonders around them and thrilled by every little discovery given their hearts the strength to do an act of kindness and charity every day and to know how to accept those who are different from them and to appreciate the unfamiliar and to find an each. Say something to be grateful for and it goes on like that. The reform movements blessing for girls and boys starting. The new school year starts like this may the one who blessed rabbi akiva with a love of words and the ability to learn love through words. Maybe you granted berea..
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"mariah fund" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"He was always funny like that. Because the man who sold them the transistor radio gave him headphones with a short wire. That preston strangled them at the neck. He absolutely deserved it because he wanted to listen to songs in arabic and news in arabic this memory in all seriousness of my abba. And it's not my fault mocked him with my friends in their houses. It was so fun. They drank tea with lots of sugar and not bitter coffee. they spoke yiddish. My father should have known that it's nice to be obstinate like my mother said everything there was back there is dead. She yelled at him in french. Something like that so your problem and he was silent. Avail of sadness settled over his eyes. And that's how i remember him shrunken alone with that. His problem after the black panthers appeared in jerusalem. Suddenly it seemed rising partly from a radical community theater group in a poor jerusalem neighborhood. She ran started taking the bus back from campus to a tc where she started a radical community theater group of her own with kids mostly teens some burning with anger. Some burning ambition and the thing grew at first. The city gave space and a little money mayor. Cheech lot figured what could be better than having someone like. Sheron had risen from the slum. Become a poet and was by now. A grad student at the university uptown. Coming back to inspire kids who had not risen anywhere to elevate themselves up to when she ron and other started a youth movement called ally and decided to set up a theatre studio. The city gave them an old abandoned scouts building and hatikva park. Not much more than a barracks but it was a room of their own but the mayor. Iran all wrong. She wasn't about showing kids how to make in places where they drank tea with. Lots of sugar. She was about showing kids that their parents had been mocked enough and that they'd been sold to many short chords for their transistors and at the time of being nice about such things was over when the city came to a vic the kids from their building she wanted worked out a plan of nonviolent resistance and press and megaphones and it was an act of resistance even now fifty years later people still talk about among the kids in the group where the poet erez beaten and the journalists drawer amini and a bunch of professors and a handful of knesset members and people who went on to start together with iran practically every important muse rocky protest movement salaj sihanouk lamontagne and the cash has democrats and not and others she wrote maybe one of the foundational essays of mizraki feminism decoding power and creating a better world it was called and she made remarkable documentaries one called the children of the jews about kids holocaust that one lots and lots of awards and she got a hold in advance of the scripts of the nineteen eighty-one miniseries mood asia pillar of fire the then biggest ever israeli television production about the history of zionism and she read the script and found that means rookie hardly mentioned in the series of nineteen hour long episodes and she and others in salah sued the broadcast authority up to the supreme court where the justices rejected with condescension so blunt that the ruling is today shocking to read she ron's demand that the series be stopped until the stories of those who had been left out of this show could be added thinking her word would have more force if you have the title doctor she went to cuny and wrote an eviscerating dissertation she called political corruption the power of the game case of israel when i first started going to meetings and demonstrations here in the city vicky sheron was everywhere speaking for women's rights for palestinian rights for the rights of foreign workers for the rights of poor folks us rockingham. She said quote when i fight for rahima. Arabs are women. It's not because i'm musically or woman. It's because i'm fighting for justice and justice doesn't have ethnicity or nationality or sex. Vicky sheron was beautiful. She was brilliant. She operated always if powered by some great furnace. Her energy was hot and it was consuming. She was intimidating and she was inspiring in the late nineteen nineties. I now novicki. Sheron got a diagnosis of breast cancer and she decided not to take treatment her husband the moroccan-born filmmaker hyme sheron says quote. I don't know why you can't look into the mind of someone else. As soon as she died in two thousand and four after hundreds and hundreds of crying people crowded her funeral. There were calls to name a street in the city for but it was a long shot. The mayor of tel aviv off. Oh then as now ruined the in one of his first acts of mayor just two weeks. After he took office had shut down the new democratic academic high school that had risen in hatikva a school. That a bunch of the no longer kids. Who'd been in sheron theatre group. And she ron to helped to set up. When there were protests they came to the neighborhood surrounded by bodyguards shouting down angry. Parents saying he wouldn't let hooligans push him around hooligans who had created a school hooligans with staff the school hooligans who insisted that mularkey kids in a poor neighborhood. They also deserve to learn poetry to hawaii. The iran was a hooligan but worse. Because she'd gotten out of the neighborhood and should have known better after she died undercover of night. One time a bunch of activists change street signs on allenby read vicky sheron street every year. Vicky ron's name was submitted to the committee to name streets and every year was overlooked. Finally woman named shula keshet a friend of vicki's together. They started a hotel. The radical means rookie feminist group. Shula keshet was elected to city council. And finally she got the job done and a few weeks back not allenby but a street. That used to be called one thousand. Three hundred and thirty three street was renamed for vicki sheron and who attended the ceremony. None of the news reports said where. Vicki sheron street actually is. When i got back from america last week i called city hall and the guy who answered the phone had me repeat my question three times before putting me on hold and when he got back on the line he said no. You're wrong there is no vicky sheron street. I said i was looking at an article on a paper that that she was and he said i. Don e sir. I'm looking at a map of every street in the city and there is not when i didn't give up. He gave me a phone number of the street naming committee saying just before young up that it would not be easy to get a hold of them instead of what's apt shula keshet. Who told me where the street named for her friend is an. I just got out of the post trip. Quarantine this morning so i haven't biked over yet to see the street. It is good to know that it is. They're finally still the street man everywhere you look you see stuff. That might not be here. Were it not for vicki. Sheron the names on the offices of the radical mizrahi professors enough tally. The social science building at the university the titles on the shelves of the bookstores of the volumes of poetry by the ars poetica means rocky poetry collective. The music you hear wasting from clubs you never would have fifty years ago. The voice you hear at the meetings of city council of shula keshet demanding an academic highschool finally now in this other neighborhoods where people don't drink tea with lots of sugar. The new curriculum in all the schools that include museum a curriculum devised by knesset committee headed by eras beaten. And lots and lots more. Himeji ron of wife. I don't think she died in peace. I don't think so. She didn't have enough time. She didn't have enough time to fulfill her vision. but then when is a vision ever fulfilled. I got a hunch that vicky sheron could somehow see the street named after her. She'd say oh look how much more there is to do. And i'm gone but he is still here still mayor and t- who's unveiling the street sign in my name and i guess she'd be right but still man. It is good to live in a city. That has a vicki sheron street. It is good to live in a city that everywhere on every street bears an imprint of vicky. Sheron with us in the studio is a woman who has been away so long and who he missed so much that we've named a microphone for here in the studio. It is the allison kaplan summer microphone. Allison has written politico the new republic foreign policy the jerusalem. Post the day the ford and many other of your very best papers magazines. She is a columnist with arts. You have heard on. Mpr pri in the bbc and you have seen her on. I twenty four television and aljazeera tv. Alison jose neighbors world for journalism. Recognizing excellence and they ask for reportage and they simon rock our award for excellence and covering zionism and israel alison. How the hell are you. I am great. i hope i'm not too rusty after so much time away But it was a wonderful trip and you don't really understand the meaning of the term global pandemic until you're a beautiful mountain literally across the world and you know you see people you know with the masks and the tests and it's all the same same thing so you know in a terrible terrible way. This thing is brought our whole world together. yes yes. It has what mountaintop by the way. It's actually i. I call it a mock tesche. Hawaii diamond head in wa who in hawaii we were up on the top of it did sort of a mountain created by the crater below and we sat up there and looked and And yes like even their even the most remote island paradise. You can't get away from the corona. That's great when i get away. I like to stay on. larry ellison's private island bb. He really just has to stop copying me. No he's he's gotta gotta get it on also with us in. The studio was a man who is one of those people still fighting in his own way. Some of the fights vicky sheron started. That man is dan futterman. Don the director of the mariah fund in israel and the director of the center for educational innovation. He's also the genius behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show. Which if you haven't listened yet you really really got to listen. Don how are you well. Yeah you know. i've i've always believed that radical theater groups should dictate national policy. So when you start to study the story in the early seventies of these radical theater groups like every politician every politician you've ever heard of was in a theater group when they were in high. School was unbelievable. Radicalising effect of these groups. Right it's no surprise because that's the place you can get a platform you create your own platform you get your voice out there and you can change the world and then there are these twenty year olds at that took these sixteen year olds and change. The world is unbelievable. As for me my name is. I don't mean to boast but yesterday at eight in the morning outside city hall. I did the cova test. You gotta do to get sprung from the post travel quarantine and just a few hours later. I got a call to come back. And do it again. Which i did at one in the afternoon all this by the way after the government decided earlier this week to cancel the quarantine requirement after travel for anyone. Who's gotten the third shot the vaccine effective tomorrow. Unfortunately which made the whole thing kind of kafka esque and i'm not bragging. That is not the boy that my parents raised. But as i get older. I think i'm coming more. And more to resemble joseph k from the trial truly. It is not necessary to accept. Everything is true must only accept it as necessary today. We will discuss three topics of existential 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 promise. Podcast ponders as a perhaps paradoxical parable a parade of paradigmatic paramount paragon and paladin paralympian and also a cursory anniversary discretionary as we record with three days of competition left. Israel has won seven medals in the paralympic games for gold two silver one bronze three of the seven medals. Count them to golden. Lebron's where one by mark molly are a twenty one year old swimmer from haifa with cerebral palsy. Who set a world record in the two hundred meter freestyle. And then another world record in the four hundred meter freestyle. The first metal is your one in the tokyo games was a gold in the one hundred meter backstroke attained by thirty four year old. Eob shelby from haifa. Shelby was born death and when he was twelve he fell off a roof and was left with paraplegia. He is the first arab israeli ever to win a gold medal for israel. This is what the end of his race sounded like showing bucky la course alive say according china Certain as a middle east asia. You've they're saying shelby for the gold for israel the first paralympic gold medal since two thousand four gold medalist in the pool for israel yod shelby with the metal and what metal it is the best there is gold for israel and then chalabi is on the podium. It and then shelby is crying. The papers report that shelby's mother. He shall be said that at that moment. She was in tears clearly trooper. The minister of culture in sport called shelby's father with choked up. Congratulations shelby's deaf. So trooper couldn't speak straight to him and then trooper road on facebook quote blessings to our israeli swimmer challenge for winning. Israel's first gold medal shot is inspiring. his life is a series of victories. Including today's brilliant victory. We are proud of you and quote the paralympics and the state of israel both started at the same time in nineteen forty eight and the two have been connected tight ever since the paralympic games. Where the idea of a german jewish neurologist named ludwik gutman who was a neurosurgeon and professor and breslau in nineteen thirty three when the nuremberg laws stripped him of his medical license. At least for aryans. And he took a job as the medical director of the breslau jewish hospital on kristallnacht gunman opened the doors of the hospital to anyone who wanted in no questions asked and when gestapo officers came the very next day to make sure that he wasn't harboring in his hospital healthy jews guthman went over each and every file with a gestapo inventing a reason why the patients needed to be there saving on that they dozens of people from deportation to the camps after he escaped to oxford gutman started england's national spinal injury centre and the ad the idea of sports competition for injured soldiers in wheelchairs the first games in nineteen forty eight or just for brits in nineteen fifty-three holland joined an israel. Also sent three athletes after that israel always participated becoming successful beyond proportion partly because at a time when most of the other countries that took part in the games. We're living mostly in peace. Israel's war were factories of injury of disability of paraplegia in the nine sixty. Four tokyo paralympics. Israel won twenty one medals seven of them gold in nineteen sixty eight. Israel hosted the games releasing five hundred doves oetzi paralympic. Torch was lit apac teacher university stadium in jerusalem in front of twelve hundred athletes from twenty eight countries in those games just after this war israel sixty two medals in toronto in nineteen seventy six three years after the key poor war israel one sixteen nine medals in new york and seoul in one thousand nine hundred four nine hundred eighty eight. Thanks in part to the lebanon war israel one forty four and forty five medals in the twenty twenty in twenty twenty one tokyo game so far israel seven metals are just a fraction of what the country used to win back when we had far more of a talent for producing in great numbers. Young men and women with bodies broken by war and bombs and bullets. These are the first games when the metals israel one were earned together by arab israelis and jewish israelis. Which is to say by all israelis. Our cursory anniversary cursory is just to say that. This show marks the end of the promise podcast tenth season. Which is i don't know what it is. It's amazing shocking. Ridiculous and there are so many people to thank. I made a list of the people who've been on the show or to make the show and the lest ran to well over one hundred names. And that's before i took into account all the people who support the show through on and the hundreds who have visited us through the years and the more than ten thousand people who have written in and it is a weird thing to do a podcast for ten years it is the ultimate act of loof mench kite the genius of so many people resolving literally into hot air breathed into a microphone. And i always say that. I never know if this show is something or nothing at all but i do know this. That this show has revealed to me week after week. The brilliance and decency and kindness and intelligence insight and concern and passion of so many people. Don allison i do more than anyone. And what a remarkable gift it has been for me. And what a source of optimism and inspiration all of which is to say thanks today. Three topics topic won the year. That was as the tom mood. Tells us that on rosanna. God judges the deeds of all creatures over the prior year. And we figured matatus montana's we'd get a jump on the job giving a hand and try to figure out what of what happened over. The past year matters most and what we did right and what. We did wrong topic to the defense minister and the president as we learned after the fact that defense minister bennigan's and palestinian authority president. Mock mood obas met earlier this week to discuss mostly had a shore up the down in the dumps economy of the palestinian authority and tighten up security pacts and such leading sources. Close to prime minister bennett to immediately clarify that. No one in this government. Heaven fanned would dare to try to talk peace with palestinians folks here on the right and the left attack the meeting and we'll scratch our heads and wonder what if anything it means and topic three afghanistan and the jewish question as lake folks all around the world. We watched and sad shock horror and heartbreak de messy american and british withdrawals from afghanistan and the victory celebrations of the taliban. Maybe unlike most folks all around the world some of us here found ourselves wondering what if anything we need to learn about our own situation in the world from this tragedy of others. Because you know it's always at least a little about us and for our most unreasonably generous patriot supporters. We will discuss the brouhaha though say to do over. An essay in tablet in which the l. liebowitz takes american rabbis to task for being overly cautious about bringing their congregations into their sanctuaries shoulder to shoulder for the high holidays. What with the kovin. Liebowitz writes quote. Jews celebrated chabad and silence under the inquisition lighting candles in darkened basements. Even though the flickers of holy light could attract the penalties of death. Jews bake matzos in the ghetto and observe junkie poor in the camps and quote to cancel the high holidays now. Lebron would suggest is craven retreat from all that has preserved judaism forever. The article spurs both a u. n. Decry from well practically everyone. We will try to make sense of the versi here. We're labeled his arguments have been put forth by ultra-orthodox leaders at the very least since we first heard of cova but before you get to any of that end in preparation for russia now the new year. Listen to this To.
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"mariah fund" Discussed on The Promised Podcast
"Is written for politico the new republic foreign policy the jerusalem. Post the jt the fordham. Any other of your very best papers magazine. She is a columnist for our at. You have heard on. Npr pri in the bbc and you have seen her on. I twenty four television and aljazeera. Tv alison holds a beneath world center award for journalism recognizing. Excellence and i asked reportage. And as time and rock our award for excellence and covering zionism and israel alison how you doing. I'm in a great mood. I clearly have not suffered enough to do something. I may become an also with us in. The studio is a man who when life gives him limes. He makes lemonade. That's how resourcefully is that man. Is dan futterman. Don is the director of the mariah fund in israel and the director of the center for educational innovation. He is also the autour behind a series of podcast theater productions of autobiographical monologues called federman's one man show. Which if you haven't listened to yet go listen to honestly right now. Don how're you doing I believe the jewish people have turned the art of suffering into one of our great Statements but you know. I think we have to Develop our capacity for joy. and so. that's what i'm working on. i'm working on it. This scooters are pretty good for joy yes we all have scooters in our house Actually building is surrounded by them because they have scooter rally every night. It's very hard actually to get to the mccullough now as for me my name is no ephron. I don't mean to boast but the ninety proprietor of medals wine and spirits shop up. The block has taken lately to sitting in a plastic chair outside his store drumming up business for instance saying to me each time i walk by so maybe a bottle of wine for chabad. Some scotch. mental family lost their vineyard in austria to the naughty and they used all their savings to escape to czechoslovakian then palestine on an illegal boat organized by jabotinsky himself. And once here because mandela's father was a revisionist and refuse to join the socialist leaning. He said labor union. The family got no government help and they struggled for years so when mandel says so maybe a bottle of wine for chabad you buy a bottle of wine for shibata and i used to buy all of my wind from him. A few years ago though a guy named johnny haddad opened a store called wine and more just up the street from mando closer to our house actually and he runs it with his family. And it's the only palestinian israeli owned business on my block. So what kind of schmuck would i be not to buy their. And i'm not bragging because that's not the way that i was raised but lately my life has taken kind of beautiful balance if a fragile one every time i buy alcohol and either one of the two places. I am overwhelmed with guilt. That i didn't buy at the other place. However nothing tamp down the guilt for a little while anyway like drinking and i am pretty sure that this state of affairs is sustainable. I mean why wouldn't it be today. We have three topics of knocked me over with a feather importance. But first we have a matter that we're filing with alert interest in great concern. As part of an occasional series that we call the promised podcast ponders the credence feats of a tweet bleated or really excreted to repudiate castigate irritate agitate deprecate excoriate and character assassinate a minister of state earlier this week yet year netanyahu benjamin and sarah pugilist eldest son who takes great pleasure in trolling his father's real and imagined enemies on social media and who has a talent both for end trollers tweeted this quote okay. You have to admit it's astonishing that kastner's granddaughter is today responsible for the trains and quote. That tweet stopped me cold after i read it. I couldn't get it out of my mind to see what year netanyahu meant. You have to go back a ways on first. nineteen fifty. Four trial started in the district court of jerusalem. Judge bean levy presiding against a man named malki l. greenwald who was accused by the israel workers party of libel against a man named dr easter l. Or rudolph or renzo. Kessler kessler had been a leader in the jewish community and when the city was occupied by the nazis a decade before in march nineteen forty four. He became the executive vice. President of the city's jewish aid and rescue society by may just two months later. Nazis were sending twelve thousand budapest jews to auschwitz each day and kessler met with aikman to negotiate that number down. There was talk of a trade of ten thousand trucks for a million jews in the end. Just one train with one thousand. Six hundred eighty four jews aboard left for switzerland getting their only after a weeks long nerve rattling diversion to bergen. Belsen it fell to kastner to choose. Who would and wouldn't get on that one train and when he was done making the list included in how could it. Not his mother helen. His brother air no his pregnant wife. Bogo or elizabeth. In english her father joseph fisher and a few other family members and three hundred eighty eight people from kastner's hometown of kluge. Most of the people got on kesslers train survived. The war of the hundreds of thousands of hungarian jews left calf manifest most were murdered. Greenwald grew up in the ancient village. Sop ron on hungary's border with austria. The son of the town. Rabbi you went to palestine with his wife son and daughter in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight a beating in vienna anti-semites thugs led to the move but by one reckoning fifty two members of his family did not escape the nazis. His son died later in the war of independence in europe. Greenwald was a journalist and an editor but in palestine. He converted savings into a ten room boarding house on zion square in jerusalem that he ran with his wife he never lost his drive to right though. And he put out an occasional newsletter. He called letters to friends in these rocky that he mailed gratis to a list of several hundred in august nineteen fifty two he devoted an issue kastner describing them as a trader and a criminal who helped nazis in exchange for the lives of his own family and friends greenwald wrote quote the smell of corpses tingling in my nostrils. Dr rudolf kastner must be eliminated and quote on greenwald's mailing list was a journalist named y'all marcus who repeated the accusations in a short article on the right wing root newspaper kastner the item but ignored it but since coming to tel aviv kastner had risen in the pie workers party and was the spokesperson for the ministry of trade and industry and also down this candidate for the knesset. Party leaders decided that the accusations had to be answered and that the government would file a libel suit. Kastner could either help with a suit or quit his job in the party there was no other choice. Which is how against his own better. Judgement kastner went to court. It was a decision. He regretted almost right away. The trial started with his own testimony. Customer described all done a decade before with a confidence so dignified and persuasive that when it was over judge levy press greenwald to recant his accusations over cross examination though kastner's poise collapsed greenwald's lawyer jerusalem native named shmuel tamir who later became menachem. Begin's minister of justice said that castor could have saved thousands and thousands of hungary's jews if he'd warned them about the nazis plans for them instead. He helped the nazis by keeping secret. What he knew of the final solution in exchange he received safe passage for his own family and friends to miracles accused. Kastner of being a lackey for collaborationist. My pie labor leaders in palestine he brought to the stand katerina sanish the mother of hana senate the beloved paratrooper hero. Who jumped behind enemy lines. Wisconsin and killed kathrina sanish testified that kastner ignored or when she begged him to intervene as their daughter was being tortured and murdered leaving the impression that to cast their not taxing his good relations with nazis meant more to him than saving the life of hana sanish eventually. The trial ended with ruling against greenwald. Who was ordered to pay damages in the amount of a single lira about kessler judge how levy said from the bench that quote. He sold his soul to the devil. There would be an appeal in nineteen fifty eight. It reached the supreme court which completely exonerated kastner that exoneration though came posthumously on march fourth nineteen fifty. Seven kastner was murdered late at night in front of his home at number six manual. Romi street just off our lahser off near the old check in tel aviv. An apartment the kastner bought with money collected for him by people who survive because they made it onto his train wanted to thank him. Kastner was done in a three-man right-wing assassination squad including a twenty one year old intelligence officer named zev eckstein who sixty years later in two thousand and fourteen finally said that in time he had come to regret the murder inside. The small apartment at six emmanuel hiromi were bougainville kastner renzo wife and usually kessler their daughter then twelve after father's trial but before he was murdered giuseppi later remembered quote each morning. I went out and heard that. I am the daughter of a murderer and a nazi and they threw stones at me and they beat me up and they threw me into a pit filled with water and i almost drowned. The taunting was ceaseless. Usually casta remembered. Hey i'll on alarm looney marsh lane orlando and learn a you. Sheila to it was every day every day. They never tired of it. There was never a day that i didn't experience. This way. usually kessler grew up a man named micheli and the two of them had three girls one who runs a venture capital firm another and oxford phd. Whose legal counsel for the united nations refugee agency and the third merimee who became a journalist and then a labor mk and then the head of the labor party last week minister of transportation where among other things she is responsible for the trains. The first words that may rob me highly ever said from the podium. In the knesset plan on at the start of her maiden speech in two thousand and thirteen where these volcanoes shimmy slow shabby yu-lian champa. In valbe amadou did neighbor fab social adolf eichmann. Budapest off your team. Another aikman xactly offish auschwitz. On monday morning. July third nine hundred and four zionist jew stood in a suit in the office of adolf eichmann in budapest. Your nerve seem aflutter. Argument said to him. Maybe i'll send you a little vacation and auschwitz designs. Do facing didn't get flustered. He drew a box from his pocket and let himself a cigarette. An equal among equals. That man was dr yusra kessler. He was in the office because he was negotiating with eichmann and other nazi officers and then this way saved tens of thousands of jews from annihilation. After that he made aglietta israel was a candidate for the knesset of the labor party. Renzo kessler was my saba end quote last week. Two when she was sworn in highly made a point that her grandfather's name kastner's name and her mother's got into the record. The knesset milov mullaly with kosheh an email of mcreilly but emmy michaela visually. We have covad. Sheila schmo muneem lyndon hooper lemonade. Ramona at dick have item. Shalah will cam at the knesset. And i know that yet. You're netanyahu's tweet. Was a piece of arch mischief and cruelty to it was meant to shame mirow valley. I guess. Yeah you're netanyahu's tweet was a way of pushing kastner's daughter's daughter into a pit. I know that. But i know too that read for what it says. The tweet is right. It is astonishing. The castanos granddaughter is today responsible for the trains and the buses and the bikes and the scooter is and the roads. It is astonishing that so little time divides us from july third. Nineteen forty four when kastner smoked with aikman and from january i nineteen fifty four when the trial started from march fourth nineteen fifty seven when kastner was killed meters from sleeping daughter. My own dad says the mistake we always make when we talk about. Israel is we forget that practically no time has passed for sure not enough. No what this thing is what this place is and whether it will be. And he's right though at the same time for all that no time has passed. It's amazing how much we already see has changed. A grandfather forced to barter lies with nazis making cost benefit analyses. We're both the costs and benefits are measured in human lives grandfather. Who for all. His dignity was as close to powerless. Is anyone who has saved. Thousands of lives has ever been begging for a train successfully and then baking for trains and failing and now a granddaughter. His granddaughter overseas budgets have billions and experts and advisers and diplomats and steam rollers and earthmovers in the day to day of politics life. Here you can forget how far we are from where we were just a couple of generations ago. No time at all and how astonishing miraculous really. It is where we've arrived since then. The torah portion of this week is by lock and it tells the story of a prophet named tom who sets out to curse the people but ends up instead. Blessing them. This was on my mind this week when i read the tweet of a kid. Who meant to disparage him belittle but ended up instead showing something splendid that without him we might have missed today. Three variations on a theme topics the theme being the dilemmas that arise when it is you who has power and when it is you who leads topic one my way or norway as what is known as the norwegian law allows most of the thirty one ministers and deputy ministers in the new government to resign from the knesset and be replaced by brand new knesset members last year. When it was netanyahu's coalition that was bringing in hordes of new. Mk's under the norwegian law practically everyone in the then. Opposition said that paying all those extra salaries was a scandal in the sort of corruption. But now that they have the power those critics are doing exactly what they criticize norway ing up the place real good. So we'll wonder is the norwegian law a scandalous corruption or a handmaiden of good government or something else altogether topic to d- unification by reunification as the new coalition faces. Its first crisis over whether or not it will extend a two thousand and three provision to the quote unquote citizenship law that keeps young palestinians from gaza and the west bank from getting automatic israeli citizenship. When they marry an israeli citizen the left as opposed this provision. For as long as it's been on the books and sued all the way up to the supreme court against it but now leftist politicians are partners in a government with people who insist it'd be renewed. So what do you do when politics demand something. Your conscience cannot allow and topics three a brooke of one's own as the first big move by new minister for environmental protection tamar jon berg of the liberal left meretz party is to put the kabosh on plans of the nature and parks with authority to designate times. When some springs streams rivers and lakes will be open only the women only demand gender segregation. She says is inimical to equality others though say nah is not. We'll try to unpack the debate and for our most unreasonably generous patriots borders in our extra special special extra discussion. The link to which you can find in our show notes on your podcast app or at patriotair dot com slash. Promise podcast on the world wide web as the corona curve begins again to point skyward even though the actual numbers remain low which low numbers might be comforting. Save for the fact that one in three of those still low numbers are sick. People who have gotten to vaccines we will go and ask what ought we make of the recent aaliyah of the delta variant to this land which until just a few days ago really kind of believed that pandemic was behind us. But before we get.