Adamit 25 October 2008
Pictures of the 50th Reunion of the First Kibbutz Settlement
Organized by Itzhak Dahan
50th Reunion attendees sitting near the fence
Eilon, August 7th, 2006
I am sorry to inform that Shlomo Buchriss, who was a member of the Nahal ga'arin Tsukit at Adamit in the late 1980s was among the twelve reserve soldiers killed in the Katyusha attack yesterday at Kfar Giladi. -Barry
5th August, 2006
Mother, two daughters killed in rocket strike on Bedouin village
A woman and her two daughters were killed when their home suffered a direct hit in a Katyusha rocket strike on the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe, in the Western Galilee near the northern border, on Saturday.
The fatalities were identified as Fadiya Juma'a, 60, and her daughters Sultana, 31, and Samira, 33.
Hezbollah fired 170 Katyusha rockets across northern Israel on Saturday afternoon, 130 of which landed between 4 P.M. and 5 P.M.
At last something from the BBC about the Israeli side of things:[The view from Menara]
Subject: The other side of the coin: after the accidental deaths of Lebanese children
The terrible deaths of children in Lebanon has caused a wave of indignation against Israel. We in Israel deeply regret those deaths. But please stop to think. The difference between the pictures you see on these pages and between those you saw on TV from Lebanon, is that the deaths in Lebanon were unintentional and those depicted here were perpetrated in cold blood and intentionally. The world as usual applies a double standard to us and "the rest" ignoring the fact that this is war; that we did not start it; that NATO bombed Yugoslavia causing thousands of innocent deaths, just recently, and for less provocation than we have had and are having as this goes on. Daniel Weiler
[A PowerPoint display]: click here
Link to Bracha's website - local news, views and cartoons:
http://www.ismargad.com/tzafon.html
Link to Barry's article published in the Morning Call [daily newspaper in the Lehigh Valley]:
Link to Dan's interview with National Public Radio:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5568627
Hezbollah seizes Israel soldiers [BBC report, Wednesday 12th July]
Lebanese guerrillas have captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, triggering the first Israeli incursion into the country since 2000.
Planes struck outposts of the Hezbollah militant group in south Lebanon, as well as roads, killing two civilians.
Israel has called up reserve troops, signalling a large-scale campaign, as operations continue to free a soldier seized by Palestinians in Gaza in June.
Israel's PM Ehud Olmert said the attack was an "act of war" by Lebanon.
On Wednesday morning, Hezbollah launched dozens of Katyusha rockets and mortar bombs at the Israeli town of Shlomi and at Israeli outposts in the disputed Shebaa Farms area.
Civilians in northern Israel have been told to stay in their shelters.
The UN representative in Lebanon, Geir Pedrson, has condemned the escalation and called on Hezbollah to release the soldiers.
From a conversation with Barry this morning :
"It looks like just another insensible chapter in our lives. All this an adjunct to the fighting in Gaza. I can't think of anything more unproductive than the kidnapping of soldiers. It is thought that the Syrians are not entirely detached from these events."
"It looks like another violent summer in store for us. I have no specific information about Lebanese detainees. However, the release of prisoners has become a universal pretext for more violence, and the abnegation of responsibility for its consequences. All during the Oslo period, violence was rationalized or excused because Israel was not forthcoming enough in the release of prisoners. From the Palestinian viewpoint,the subtext of these incarcerations mattered little, even though the Israelis were within their "rights" according to Oslo. The Palestinians could only hope for gestures, and when not forthcoming enough, provided the Israelis with more reasons to add to their prisoner collection. Right now a very large explosion heard."
"Another large blast rattled the windows."
Our conversation by Skype was punctuated by such events plus heavy interference. However, all seems well with Our Local Correspondent. Ironically, I could also hear gunfire at our end as someone was shooting clay pigeons in the field. P.R.
Tribute to Naomi Shemer
This is a powerpoint presentation in Portuguese that I received from a family member in Brazil. It is somewhat after the event, but if you have PowerPoint, it is well worth viewing and listening to.
To go to the presentation click here.
Links to other sites about Naomi Shemer:
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/bios/shemer.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/shemer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Shemer
Incidentally, the song Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalyim shel Zahav) apparently was not an original creation of Naomi Shemer, but a copy of a Basque lullaby. But then the melody of the anthem, HaTikvah ("The Hope") was also "borrowed". It is a Romanian shepherd's song (with a version appearing in The Moldau, the symphonic poem of the Czech national composer Bedrich Smetana).
BBC : From Ha'Aretz:
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