Meet Rene. “I got my first tattoo when I was sixteen as part of my ‘rebellion’ against my parents. I don’t think my daughter will have one at that age. She will probably think it’s not that rebellious.”
Meet Ronia; “Did you ever hear about The Lost Tribes of Israel? Well, you’re looking at one of its descendants. I was born in Manipur (a state in northeastern India), and my family made Aliyah (immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel) when I was a year old. We’re the lost descendants of the Tribe of Manasseh, who were exiled during the Babylonian captivity. We were “discovered” by Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail, who recognized our Jewish heritage, which includes: Brit milah (male circumcision), religious Holidays that are similar to those of Judaism, and similar religious practices. I feel Jewish and I do feel part of this place, but sometimes you get the feeling that you need to prove your Judaism. Israel can be very “in your face,” where total strangers will ask you direct, personal questions. I have been asked many times if I’m a foreign worker ...
Meet Azam.”I’m 52 years old but I tell everyone I’m 44. The 8 missing years I left on the floor of the notorious Tora prison in Cairo. I was charged in espionage for Israel, but the charges where bogus. The hardest thing was the unhuman treatment I got from the prisoners. You are free falling down the rabbit hall and there is no parachute. The only thing that helped keep my sanity was that I knew Israel would never abandon me, even though I’m Druze. This is thanks to a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew captured or imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. What was the hardest memory you have from prison? “I had an Egyptian prisoner friend who was convicted to death. On the morning of the sentencing, he asked to come and say goodbye. He looked at me through the bars ...
Meet Rafi Eitan – The man who brought Adolf Eichmann to Justice “I knew there was a huge significance to the capture of Adolf Eichmann but I didn’t think at that time that it will be such an epic one. “In the mid 50’s David Ben Gurion (Israel’s first prime minster) asked the Mossad (Israel intelligence service) to bring to justice one of of the top Nazi’s commanders: Josef Mengele, Martin Bormann, Heinrich Müller or Adolf Eichmann (who has in charge of the Final Solution to European Jewry). In the early 60’s we got a tip from the Argentina Attorney General that there is a possibility that Eichmann is living in the Buenos Aires area. A blind German guy name Herman gave us the first clue on his location. Apparently his daughter started dating a young German boy named Nicolas in school. Herman had suspicions about the boy’s family background ...
Meet Alon. “I came from a house that is ‘Shomer Masoret’ (traditionally religious) but I consider myself an ‘Israeli’ more than a Jew. I see myself as a free spirit and sometimes that can contradict Orthodox Judaism . My philosophy is simple: Live and let live.” — with Alon Ben at Alenbi.St Tel Aviv.
