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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.
Meet Alex Levac, probably the best photojournalist in Israel. “The ‘Humans of’ project is one of the most interesting projects I saw in the last years. I love the Tel Avivian version, because it gives the outsider a good glimpse of this incredible city. I had an Iranian friend who wanted to visit Israel, so I told her to explore ‘Humans of Tel Aviv’ before in order to get a better understanding of what this city is all about. when she finished her trip she said visually, she understood where she is going but she didn’t expect the ‘roughness’ of Tel Avivians. In her eyes, Iranians are much more subtle and polite”
“Mad World” All around me are familiar faces Worn out places Worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere Going nowhere