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nataliesnews · 1 year

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Peisach 12/4/2023

Subject: I hate the heat and the Peisach holiday

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To start off my letter on a spirited note, I was out at supper the other night when my hosts pulled out this bottle of wine....agterPaaarl no less.

After the blessed winter today is a scorcher. I am so stupid. I was lulled into complacency by the winter. I decided to go to the pool after not being there for months. I now just have tickets and not a subscription. First of all it was so hot and when I went to the hotel I realised the hour and that now in Peisach one should only go first thing in the morning. There were innumerable buses parked outside and I had a view of the pool filled with screaming kids. So I decided in spite of the heat to take the light train and it was packed with all the ultras with their prams and children and no one got up for me. That is the last time I move out of Kiryat Hayovel until after this ghastly holiday ends. But then there is still the summer to cope with. If I have to go into town I do it as early as possible and if I have to make doctor's appointments I also made for an early hours

This is a very clever sign....it shows Netanyahu's son. Impossible to understand the power his wife and son have over him making state decisions. But it is a fact. It has to be understood as it says that the damage Bibi did in five minutes, (the birth of Yaier)....should make us realise what damage he can do in another four years. The Likud is evidently losing power but what worries me is where all these voters of the Likud are going now.... in the direction of Ben Gvir?

At first I was glad that so many of the supporters of Netanyahu and the religious were coming to the demonstrations in Jerusalem on Saturday nights. But this Saturday evening I was not happy at the takeover that they are making. There was a long prayer at the beginning which there has never been before. Afterwards a minute's silence for the two girls that were killed. I watched their funeral yesterday and it was heartbreaking and the mother is still fighting for her life but as one woman courageously cried out...what about all the Palestinians who have been killed? There are now two groups at the demonstration.....probably also so in Tel Aviv...but here in Jerusalem it is very much felt....the group against the government and the laws and the group which is also against the occupation.

I think that the following reports shows how easily what would otherwise be treated as a car accident.

Initial autopsy of alleged Tel Aviv attacker said to point to terror motive

Preliminary findings strengthen suspicions car-ramming by Yousef Abu Jaber, 45, on Tel Aviv promenade Friday was a terror attack, says senior police official

https://www.timesofisrael.com/initial-autopsy-of-alleged-tel-aviv-attacker-said-to-point-to-terror-motive/

Read the following and see how much is conjecture before the facts. No definite decision on his medical condition. The man worked as a janitor and was well liked and invited people to his home. He had no previous offences. It was immediately claimed that he had shot the tourist. This was then denied. Then we heard he had a rifle with him. It turned out it was a toy pistol. How many of you who have children have such toys in the car? Has the condition of the car been checked for some problem. And the worst is that the man was shot while lying on the floor and no danger to the soldiers. How often this is happening now. And I again say, if this report was about a Jew how differently it would be treated. And the police refuse to show the video of the affair.

I went with a friend to the kiosk at Sataf to have a coffee. The weather came up and became so windy that chairs and tables were blown all over the place. So we left and found a lane which neither of us knew…. I write this so that you know that not all of my life is demonstrations.

Wednesday. Heartbreaking to see the mother of the two girls has also died and as the father says, they are now a family of four. I admired him for not ranting and raving. But each time I see these scenes I am reminded of Palestinians and activists who are attacked and killed and are shown no justice. I just read Arik Ascherman's account of how he was attacked by settlers on Peisach when he was out with the shepherds and his phone stolen and his car vandalized and the reactions of the police. And the attacks on Christians which are becoming more and more frequent.

Thank goodness tomorrow life goes back to normal of what we now call normal here. We still have Ramadan to get through though this Friday the police seem to have had rather a shock after their previous violence in the mosque which went all over the world.

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thunderrabby-blog · 1 year

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belamore03-blog · 5 years

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Too much Love!!! 😌 Purple is the color of my heart. 🤘 (at Kiryat-Hayovel, Hadarom, Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1OQc7Al9Zv/?igshid=mip11jhf2jx8

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nataliesnews · 1 year

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DCI Etzion, 21.2.2023

Shlomit Steinitz, Natanya Ginsburg

There is nothing to report as all the people we spoke to had either been summoned by the Shabak or had problems with the police and we gave them the usual addresses and phone numbers

We also left early as Shlomit had a flat battery but luckily she had the leads and a man helped us and we drove off and home. Next week we will not be going out as I am in Dubai --

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nataliesnews · 1 year

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Fwd: I woke up this morning feeling like one does after a death 14.2.2023

Fwd: I woke up this morning feeling like one does after a death

Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 8:35 AM

Subject: I woke up this morning feeling like one does after a death

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I woke up this morning still very tired. I meant what I wrote above.

I know this is unfair but I hear on the radio talk of pictures, shows , places to see and I think how can they speak about this when my country is burning. I woke up at 4 and could not go back to sleep. My leg gets so stiff at night and I have to get out of bed and straighten the foot and what frightens me is that maybe the day will come when I will not be able to get out of bed to do so. I am going to the doctor today because of the streams of a sort of electricity which goes through my body. But for the moment I will write about yesterday.

I listened to Bennet and Herzog last night and could not believe what I was hearing. Two worms eating at the dead body of the country which they are helping to destroy.

This link should show you how the opposition to what is happening runs over a very wide section of the public:

Tens of thousands rally at Knesset against overhaul: ‘Worried for Israel’s future’

Opposition leader Lapid says 'we will not stay quiet as they destroy everything that is precious and sacred to us'; mass congestion as crowds converge on Jerusalem

https://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-rally-at-knesset-against-overhaul-worried-for-israels-future/

Last night already I was approached by some of our women who said that they were going to hold a demonstration here at Nofim against the new laws which promise a dictatorship to the right. I told them that I was going to the Knesset but I would try to get some posters or flags for them. This morning I found the flag which I had kept from the demonstrations against Netanyahu and also had the idea of photographing my shirt with Leibowitz on it and printing it out so that they could put it on cardboard or something like that. I am very proud of them. Many of them will only demonstrate here as it is going to be very hard to get to the Knesset...all the ways are going to be blocked. Last time we had to do a detour of 4 kilometers.

I wrote that yesterday and after the difficulties I had yesterday I am glad they did not try to come. I have never been at such a demonstration in the 20 years tha tI have been here. Already as I left Kiryat Hayovel...people were walking to the Knesset with flags and banners. All the way along in the bus people were streaming. Old people, families with children, some in prams and, thank God, so many young people. There are no words to describe it. How Netanyahu and his criminal gang can try to pretend that this is a demonstration organized by money from outside makes the mind swim.

Even before we got to the High Court one had to wait for the crowd to go forward. I wanted to go towards the main stand but a friend stopped me and said not to do so as the crowds there were so dense and now, thinking how hard it had been for me to get out, I am grateful to her. I found a place to sit and stayed there. After two hours I decided to try to get home. It was so difficult to get through the crowd. Not even at Balfour did I have such a problem. The trouble is also because I am small and people do not see me. Some of them came past and knocked me with their rucksacks. The flags sometimes covered my face. At times I felt a bit panicky as if I would never get out of there. And it was not that people did not care. They just did not see but when I would tap someone on the back and ask to get through, they called to those in front to let me through.

There were very few people with Kippot on. One Haridi man and people were thanking him for coming. A religious men with a sign saying.....I think as it is hard to make it out..."Mein stetele brennt" , another with a saying from Genesis, chapter 11, 6. Even in English I did not understand it and then went to Google. Which explained.

A powerfully united humanity, inclined to do evil, could accomplish great wickedness. No matter how perverse, outrageous, or ridiculous something might seem, mankind can and will attempt it, given the opportunity. The following verse reveals that God has no plans to give humanity that kind of opening.

Then a couple from Kfar Saba. Arieh and Michal Raz...I phoned them later to thank them. I said I was fine but his wife said she would go before me to make a way and her husband would walk behind me. I don't know how I would have gotten out of there without their help. All the same it took I think nearly half an hour to get out of the crowd there to Cinema City where I wanted to go to the toilet before trying to get home. They accompanied me all the time. At Cinema city the rows of those trying to get to the toilets were unbelievable. Even then it was a struggle to get to the handicapped toilet. Just as well that I did as I started to leave the demonstration at 14.00 and only got home at 16.45. I have never been so exhausted after a demonstration as I was yesterday.

And before any of you say anything......I will go again and again but next time I will try to stay on the outskirts.

I made the wrong decision when I came out of Cinema City as I should have taken the road towards the light train. But you cannot imagine the crowds of people even there. You don't know the area and it is hard to explain. It was like looking over a sea of people and flags. But it completely threw me and I started to walk to one of the main streets hoping to get a taxi. A very bad decision. As soon as I got to the main street I saw all the taxis were full and even the Gett I tried to order did not get there. Not that it would have made much of a difference as the traffic was hardly moving.

I don't think Jerusalem has ever experienced such a day. All along people who were trying to get home were walking with their flags. There were no buses. I asked two women if they could give me a lift to the main road as I thought there I would get my usual bus home. I would probably have been better off walking but I was too tired. The car hardly moved.

When I got to the main street a bus passed after about 20 minutes. But it passed on the left side and made no effort to get to the bus stop. About 10 minutes later another bus came along but also in the far lane. A young man with me ran into the road between the cars signalling to the bus to stop....which this driver did...and the man also helped me through the cars in the other lanes and onto the bus. People were desperate. But this still did not mean that I got home as I waited another 15 minutes for my bus to come and I could only thank the heavens that this bus dropped me at Nofim. I had not eaten all day and not drunk either. I had water with me but no energy to get it out. Also a bad mistake. But I got home, ate and drank and did something I have never done before. I wanted to go to my Arabic lesson just to be in some sort of normal atmosphere and asked Gershon if they would pick me up at Nofim. Normally I walk five minutes to the bus stop where they pick me up but I had no energy to do it.

In the evening what was even more upsetting was the scene in the Knesset with members jumping over tables to get to the chairmen and more members being hauled out. It made me sick to my stomach and even more so now that I realise these were from our side. But I have often seen one or two being removed from a meeting but it seems here as if it were enough for an opponent to open his mouth to be removed.

And with the speed that the "lawmakers" are moving forward it would not surprise me if, in a week or two, demonstrations would be forbidden. I wish I was not going away next week. Not that I think that I can save the country but for my own sake.

#Fwd: I woke up this morning feeling like one does after a death 14.2.2023

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Fwd: Cadace, a different letter with mainly pictures, Jessie's cardigan, an aunt's knitted dress, Anita, Jill, Janeen....and no politics 4.2.2023 Inbox Natalie Ginsburg <[email protected]> 9:06 AM (5 minutes ago) to carmel, Ellie, Karen, me, nancy, Emma, Monica, Irving, Ruth, Stephanie, Phylly, Nadav, Ronnie, Eve, Jan ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Natalie Ginsburg <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:03 AM Subject: Cadace, a different letter with mainly pictures, Jessie's cardigan, an aunt's knitted dress, Anita, Jill, Janeen....and no politics To: The weirdest thing. Lying in bed I suddenly thought of the word cadace. With no reference to anything I had been thinking. I have no idea where it came from and that I have ever heard it before. I looked it up. A material for padding doublets from a middle English compendium. Now is that not weird. It is pouring outside. No way to go for a walk. Luckily it was not so yesterday. I went with Ellen to Hiriah. Something good that Arik Sharon promoted https://www.timesofisrael.com/recycling-a-park/ . It was difficult to really understand what was going on....neither I nor Ellen understood exactly how the carbage was differentiated. But afterwards there was a discussion and much was said about how much carbage and what kind there was when, I for one at least, was much younger. I am superficial and Ellen delves into everything so I will wait to see what she answers to this letter. But it is true. Think of all the telephones, computers, furniture, we throw out every day. Remember women sitting and and darning socks or holes in cardigans. Elbow coverings for school blazers. How many bottles we throw out. Plastic. I give my clothes away though rarely do I do so as I no longer buy anything. https://www.timesofisrael.com/recycling-a-park/ I remember once in Vietnam when we were walking through agricultural lands and I was going to throw away a coke bottle and the guide said to go and give it to an elderly woman working in the field. And the smile I got from her as she took it. Afterwards there was a discussion which centered around knitting and people were asked to give their memories. I got up and said that I was probably the only person there who remember during the Second World War going into the church hall with my mother.....I must have been about five or six then....and the woman of the village were sitting with the spinning wheels preparing the wool which would eventually be turned into hats and sweaters and scarves for the soldiers. Anita, Jill, Janeen do any of you remember this? Cynthia? I, also as a coincidence, was wearing a green jersey which Jessie had knitted for me years ago and which is still pristine. I have several of hers. I was once told that such knitted goods were out of fashion but everytime I wear one I get complimented. I also have a knitted dress which Milly gave me when I left for Israel. It had been knitted by one of the aunts...I don't know if it was for Milly or whom but it is still hanging in my cupboard and I do not have the heart to throw it out. One of the organisers gave me the name of a museum which might be interesting in it. It hurts me to think that when I die it will in all probability just be thrown out. Here are some of the pictures I took. A glass table made with tin cans. A bench made me shavings or pieces of wood IMG_3439.jpg IMG_3440.jpg IMG_3437.jpg A seat made inside an old rubbish bin IMG_3448.jpg Sign made of old records to show where the toilet is IMG_3446.jpg --the shop window with what was rescued from the rubbish IMG_3443.jpg A rocking chair IMG_3449.jpg A covering made of remains of wool IMG_3441.jpg And Jessie's jersey with even a nameplate which someone made for her IMG_3451.jpg IMG_3452.jpg And with a great effort I end this letter with no politics -- Natalie Natanya Ginsburg Henrietta Szold 2 Migdal Nofim Room 708 Kiryat Hayovel Jerusalem 9650230 Israel Tel 0528-375593 Nofim Tel 972-(0)2-6580222 Home 972 (2)6418387 no messages Cellphone preferable Displaying IMG_3439.jpg.

Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:03 AM

Subject: Cadace, a different letter with mainly pictures, Jessie's cardigan, an aunt's knitted dress, Anita, Jill, Janeen....and no politics

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The weirdest thing. Lying in bed I suddenly thought of the word cadace. With no reference to anything I had been thinking. I have no idea where it came from and that I have ever heard it before. I looked it up. A material for padding doublets from a middle English compendium. Now is that not weird.

It is pouring outside. No way to go for a walk. Luckily it was not so yesterday. I went with Ellen to Hiriah. Something good that Arik Sharon promoted

https://www.timesofisrael.com/recycling-a-park/

. It was difficult to really understand what was going on....neither I nor Ellen understood exactly how the carbage was differentiated. But afterwards there was a discussion and much was said about how much carbage and what kind there was when, I for one at least, was much younger. I am superficial and Ellen delves into everything so I will wait to see what she answers to this letter. But it is true. Think of all the telephones, computers, furniture, we throw out every day. Remember women sitting and and darning socks or holes in cardigans. Elbow coverings for school blazers. How many bottles we throw out. Plastic. I give my clothes away though rarely do I do so as I no longer buy anything.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/recycling-a-park/

I remember once in Vietnam when we were walking through agricultural lands and I was going to throw away a coke bottle and the guide said to go and give it to an elderly woman working in the field. And the smile I got from her as she took it.

Afterwards there was a discussion which centered around knitting and people were asked to give their memories. I got up and said that I was probably the only person there who remember during the Second World War going into the church hall with my mother.....I must have been about five or six then....and the woman of the village were sitting with the spinning wheels preparing the wool which would eventually be turned into hats and sweaters and scarves for the soldiers. Anita, Jill, Janeen do any of you remember this? Cynthia?

I, also as a coincidence, was wearing a green jersey which Jessie had knitted for me years ago and which is still pristine. I have several of hers. I was once told that such knitted goods were out of fashion but everytime I wear one I get complimented. I also have a knitted dress which Milly gave me when I left for Israel. It had been knitted by one of the aunts...I don't know if it was for Milly or whom but it is still hanging in my cupboard and I do not have the heart to throw it out. One of the organisers gave me the name of a museum which might be interesting in it. It hurts me to think that when I die it will in all probability just be thrown out.

Here are some of the pictures I took. A glass table made with tin cans. A bench made me shavings or pieces of wood

A seat made inside an old rubbish bin

Sign made of old records to show where the toilet is

--the shop window with what was rescued from the rubbish

A rocking chair

A covering made of remains of wool

And Jessie's jersey with even a nameplate which someone made for her

And with a great effort I end this letter with no politics

#Fwd: Cadace a different letter with mainly pictures Jessie's cardigan an aunt's knitted dress Anita Jill Janeen....and no politics 4.2.2023

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10.11.2022 The monster is 50

I was so happy today to go to visit my monster….I have cousins who remember being taken there as a child. But I did not stay long as I was so disgusted. I had been wanting to hear the mayor's speech especially because we are very worried about the way that all of Jerusalem is being turned into an asphalt jungle But mainly because besides popcorn and painting children's faces were in the background. Kiryat Hayovel is becoming mor and more religious and Beit Taylor, a swimming pool and an area which was used also on Saturdays for events is due to be destroyed in favour of houses. Already before, because of the religious, it was closed down on a Saturday

But what for me completely closed down any feeling of celebration was the fact that a large group of small children, mainly boys with kipot, were part of a new game with guns which were supposed to light up on someone you were "killing"….also "buildings" were erected with guns to show what they were for. And what prevailed over everything else was the sound of "gunfire".Some were like army installations. Interesting and so sad to see that each on had a gun on it. Now in Palestine small children and older were stripped of shirts which had a rifle on it. But young men with shirts showing the picture of the murdered Baruch Goldstein have no problem where ever they go. My shirt of which I showed a picture in my last letter….I would not dare wear it on the train or bus or in the street. "Looking the occupation in the eye". By the way, as a matter of interest, Ben Gvir always had a picture of Goldstein hanging behind his desk which he took down before the elections. The words on the installations are Comando.

I left in disgust.

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nataliesnews · 2 years

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Haifa, Women make peace, back to Balfour 17.7.2022

The week has been rather full which is why I have not written.

I spent last weekend with my friend, Shosh, in Haifa. I have not slept so well in ages and we went out for a lovely fish supper at the beach. I was very glad that at last I had made the effort to get out of town. But I am still suffering from brain fog. Also my balance seems to have been affected. But coming back I received a message that my good friend, Tammie, of the first days in the Kiryat Hayovel had died after much suffering and I went almost straight away to the funeral and the next day to the shiva. I will still write of Tammie and her parents and what they meant in my life. It was hard to go into her home and see the same chair where she had spent so much of her life in the last years.

Monday I went to the checkpoint as usual and in the afternoon took the bus to Beersheva as I had been asked to go to Msafar Yatta to write my personal impressions of the area. I have written a report on it which I will be sending in due course. You would have had hysterics about seeing two old ladies…..I stayed overnight with a friend as it is a two hour trip by us…… trying to order out in the evening. It was only afterwards that we realized that one had to do that sort of thing on the computer as they ask for all sorts of details such as zip code, etc. which one does not always remember and we found that when on the phone we tried to go back to it we had to start all over. I prefer the bus to the train and normally there is only half an hour or so difference in time and also I have to change trains which is a bind.

I have also twice met my cousins…or rather the younger generations…second and third cousins for breakfast twice which was a pleasure. Everything was much more problematic because of Biden's visit. This city is beleaguered when practically any foreign diplomat comes but this trip has been a nightmare for Jerusalemites. They had come to see their son swimming in the games. The light train here is not working between Har Herzyl and the egged bus company as they were lengthening the tracks which will make life easier as we will have a station near Nofim. But they did not tell us that Friday there would be no light train because of Biden to from the bus station to the city and people were running around trying to find out where there was a bus that would take them. At least now he had left maybe things will go back to normal….or as normal as they ever are here.

Women make peace. How different the police are with them even in body language when dealing with these nice polite ladies. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate everyone who calls out to end the violence and sit down to bring us a solution which both sides can accept. But they are not the demonstrating types and I must admit that it grated on me to hear them thanking the police for protecting them. They need no protection as at the worst they are cursed by fascists. But where the police are to give protection to Palestinians and leftists there is no such thing. Yesterday at Sheikh Jarrah things were quiet and the police did not make arrests. But we all knew that that because of the visit of Biden. I doubt he even knew that there were protests or that demonstrators were asking for justice for Shireen, the Palestinian journalist. Nor did the Israel media even mention either our march or Shireen. Next week we will be back to the violence of the police ….I am sure of that.

So we walked with signs for Biden. Palestinian women joined us from the occupied areas. I do not know how they go the permission to come. Again Biden. Wanting to make a good impression. They call themselves The women of the sun and come with their yellow banners. Someone cracked that we could be taken for the Ukraine.

And so last night we went back to Balfour to remind Lapid that there is still an occupation and that there is the threat of new settlements……this while we are destroying the homes of Palestinians. My sign says settlement are terror

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I was happy when we came there as the black curtain which Sara Netanyahu had demanded was open and then disturbed to see that as in those black days it was closed

The policeman in the picture ….one of the demonstrators went to him and asked if he had a chair for me and he himself brought it over and when we left and I thanked him he was so pleasant. Such a difference. Varda, standing with me, said "The days of the Messiah." I said, "He will probably come before the end of the occupation'

I did not understand why the police later put up a further barrier in front of the entrance as the demonstration was very minor but then I saw that it was there so that the police would have something to lean on

They had a peaceful night and so did we as the only heckler appeared as we were dispersing

Another week and at least no Beiden

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Banksy’s hotel 7.5.2022

As I wrote……I always accept Karin’s offer to go somewhere and on Saturday we went to a church which is on the one side of the wall and freedom on the other. It is in Bethlehem and as we drove in, Waze said, “You are going into a dangerous area for Israelis”. Neither of us were bothered. We have both often been Bethlehem as have many other Israelis. We got to the church too late to hear the lecture on the icons. Very frustrating. The turning to the church is just before the checkpoint ,which we did not realise, and so were stuck in the line for 40 minutes. We got in at the end of the lecture where the artist was showing how, in Russia, the icons are desecrated by having Putin and other leaders painted into them. And this is a famous icon painted on the wall of the checkpoint. The sad face of the Virgin Mary made me think of Rachel sitting by the wayside and weeping

Anyhow, feeling very frustrated, and thirsty we decided to do and have a drink somewhere and Karin suggested the hotel. You really must read the icon. It is fascinating. I had often heard about it and wanted to see it but never got there. They have a museum which tells the story of the occupation. We laughed because as we drove up, Karin said to me, “Ask the man if they are open” and I said “But Karin that is a monkey, not a man” and then a man came out who had been standing where only she could see him.

Opposite the hotel is the wall with graffiti some of which really pierces your heart. And we had ourselves taken with this graffiti which we saw many people doing after us

https://inspiringcity.com/2019/01/10/banksys-walled-off-hotel-in-bethlehem/

The museum is very well done. No ranting and raving. As far as I was concerned very factual. In the opening to the rooms sits Balfour

This was a mural on the wall….very graphic….a child trying to dig through the wall.

And another

But then two things happened which really made the day for us

The one room represented all the human rights movements and I suddenly saw two photos of people whom I know very well. We had been asked not to photograph inside so I went and asked at the desk if I could do so , explaining why. The woman came in with us and was fascinated by the story we told of the following..

Hanna Barag

Arik Ascherman

But that was not the end of the story.

As we were leaving we got into conversation with the people at the desk. This man asked Karin whom I was as he thought he might know me.

Karin said I was from Machsomwatch and Balfour and it turned out that years ago he had had a problem as he wanted to go overseas and could not get to the embassy for an appointment. He was told to contact Sylvia Fiterman and, as she could not help him, she referred him to Hanna Barag and he got his appointment and went overseas. He says they will not remember him but he remembers them.

He also asked me to give him the tag I have of Machsom as they would like to have it for the museum.

We spoke to the young woman you see in the photo . By the way we were talking to the young woman whom you see in the photo at the desk about Rachel’s tomb and saying how revolting they had made the touching little monument and she said well she would not know. As a Christian she is not allowed to go in. So next time you speak of how the Palestinians would not allow Jews to go into the Cave of the Patriarchs just remember that we are no better. We told her she was not missing anything. I have been there twice, once to see and once for Machsom and I will never go there again. It is a fortress

Quite a day which started with frustration and ended with a very good feeling.

Natanya

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Fire 17.8.2021

16.8.2021 There has been the most terrible fire around Jerusalem…we have not been affected by it but last night I woke up to go to the bathroom and the whole house was filled with the smell of smoke. I wondered if I was imaging it but today several friends here in Kiryat Hayovel have told me that they had the same thing happened to them. As soon as this happens the police start throwing out that it is sabotage…..and the fire department says they are investigating. There have been at least three occasions in the last years when it has turned out to be started by carelessness and even by the army who shoot before they think.

I just looked out the window and saw that the whole world had turned pink. We are still not in any danger but this is what I photographed. And Yehuda just phoned me to say that my beloved Sataf is being evacuated.

17.8.2021 I woke this morning to the smell of smoke which seems now to have disappeared and outside I am not sure if what I am seeing are clouds or smoke. If the afternoon winds become stronger there is a frightening possibility that the fire will come to two moshaviem near the outskirts of Jerusalem ……not near Nofim. But I look outside and see the hills around us.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/jerusalem-area-wildfire-in-pictures-see-the-devastation-676877

This is a picture of how it looks before and after

When I look at the pictures on the link I can only imagine how terrifying it is for families who live in the hills. Varda’s grandchildren were evacuated from their nursery and the family is now hosting a family from the Moshav where they lived previously. Ellen, my friend also in the hills, said they are hosting families which have been evacuated. Last year she was evacuated. One can only pray that there will be good rains in the winter and that nature will revive. I just wonder how many animals managed to escape. I also do not know what will happen if the fires will reach the zoo.

Of course the police are claiming arson which of course is possible but they conveniently forget that in the past years I can remember at least 3 occasions when it turned out that three fires had been caused by a religious yeshiva, workers on a road and just by picnickers . The fire brigade says that they are checking. I myself have seen picnickers making fires …I am not speaking of a mangel …but actual fires and leaving them smoking if not burning. We do a barbecue but there is always someone next to the mangel watching what is happening and we always have a fire extinguisher and water next to us . In all the years we have done picnics we have never had a problem.

We can only hope.

And my heart goes out to the people of Afghanistan and especially to the women. I think we all have what to fear. And I include in that that all Moslems who just want to live normal lives and once again the women who are always threatened by extremists.

And on that note I will go out with my normal life and go for breakfast with a friend.

Natalie

#Fire 17.8.2021

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Abu Hummus, theatre, DCO 14.8.2021

13.8.2021 Something very strange has been happening with my drafts. Twice I have written drafts which have disappeared and I know that I have not deleted them as I checked before I switched off the computer that they were there. So let us see now. I also checked if I had sent them by mistake but I had not. I can well believe that one day automation will take over the world as already my phone seems to have a mind of its own and writes the words before I have even thought of it or changes my arrangements on the calendar computer so that I seem to live in a world which is completely upside

I was at a joyous performance of Theater in the Rough which you can read about above and also some good pictures. It means a lot of running round the park and also carrying your own chair. Not always easy to keep up or move around the grass but so far I kept my balance. My chair which is rather like an accordion is a bit heavy but fits into my rucksack and I can move from place to place.

I had a good laugh though when I saw Falstaff lying on his back and then I happened to look around and saw this dog lying in ecstasy with its stomach being caressed by its owner.

Unfortunately there are the usual things around me which are not so good. But still this evening I am doing a picnic and last night I had supper with Varda Levi (my friend on the right) and family. Nir and Dror whom I had not seen since the mohel removed an important part of his anatomy

And though the rest of what I write is not so good this afternoon we are having a picnic in the evening out in the hills.

A young boy of about 15 had been shot while he was entering his home. The soldiers, according to the father , were about 400 to 500 metres away. Also according to the father, the soldiers themselves said that the boy had done nothing to merit this. So what else is new. They had bandaged his leg and put on some iron contraption which looked very painful as you can see in the picture. He has no money for the operations the boy will have to have, nor does he have money to pay for a lawyer. We gave him both the numbers of the Doctors for Human rights and Yesh Din. Also some additional numbers which I was given by Aziza, a nun who is known to us. The leg was really messed up. The question is if the army admits that they were responsible, surely the IDF should be dealing with this. The man says that his family are law-abiding and there is nothing against him. They have been vaccinated and no one who is not vaccinated comes into their home.

He had not made a complaint at the police. The father said that the boy had been in hospital in Hebron but he had not been able to pay the full sum. The father said that a captain had told him to make a complaint with the police and had said that if they helped him, he would help them. A coverup? However the father was very vague on this point. It is sometimes very difficult to get exact details, not only because of the language difficulty but also because for we Israelis it is always not easy to deal with bureaucracy. How much more so for the Palestinians when they have to deal with the IDF who sees no reason to be polite to them or explain anything.

The demonstration at Shiekh Jarrah. There is nothing in the law which says one cannot wave a Palestinian flag but to the police who have IQs of minus zero it is like a red rag to a bull. Abu Hummus

Here is a little introduction to the political discourse of Ben-Gvir and King, who were caught on video shouting and insulting a wounded Palestinian protester. The video starts with MK Ben-Gvir disparagingly yelling at a Palestinian who was apparently wounded by Israeli police, yet, returned to protest against the evictions planned for Sheikh Jarrah.

Ben-Gvir is heard shouting, “Abu Hummus, how is your ass?”

“The bullet is still there, that’s why he is limping,” responds the deputy mayor, King, to Ben-Gvir. King continues, “Did they take the bullet out of your ass? Did they take it out already? It is a pity it did not go in here,” King continues, pointing to his head.

Delighted with what they perceive to be a whimsical commentary on the wounding of the Palestinian, Ben-Gvir and King’s entourage of Jewish extremists laugh.

While “Abu Hummus”, wounded yet still protesting, is a testament to the tenacity of the Palestinian people, King, Ben-Gvir, the settlers and the police are a representation of the united Israeli front aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians and ensuring Jewish majority in Jerusalem.

Abu Hummus is very prominent at these demonstrations. I find it hard to sit on the one little rock I have found….standing for me is harder than walking…. But as soon as I get too near to the action some people not so hot-headed drag me back to the pavement,

But he is tall and walks on two long crutches and even then limps has become a target for the police especially when he waves a Palestinian flag…..and again I emphasize that this is not illegal. This time they attacked him and beat him to the ground where I saw him bent over with the flag held beneath his stomach and one of the young men I know trying to protect him

I took the little Palestinians flag had been given and pinned it on to my shirt. One of the young men said, “They will pull the shirt off you.” and I relied that after so many years it would be a pleasure” But one day the police will kill someone here and it is not at all sure that it will be a Palestinian but rather a demonstrator as the police hate us more than they do the Palestinians. That is my friend Varda Heled with whom I often go to demonstrations.

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I had a good laugh though when I saw Falstaff lying on his back and then I happened to look around and saw this dog lying in ecstasy with its stomach being caressed by its owner.

And though the rest of what I write is not so good this afternoon we are having a picnic in the evening out in the hills.

The demonstration at Shiekh Jarrah. There is nothing in the law which says one cannot wave a Palestinian flag but to the police who have IQs of minus zero it is like a red rag to a bull. Abu Hummus

Ben-Gvir is heard shouting, “Abu Hummus, how is your ass?”

Delighted with what they perceive to be a whimsical commentary on the wounding of the Palestinian, Ben-Gvir and King’s entourage of Jewish extremists laugh.

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DCO Etzion 5.7.2021

Shlomiet Steinitz, Natanya Ginsburg, Shrea, a guest from India on a course at Tel Aviv University

As we pointed the work on the new road to our visitor,we again noticed the extensive work being done all along the main road for the new road with many lanes on which the settlers will travel in comfort. It is broken up in sections and nearly each section is being worked. When I, as a resident of Kiryat Hayovel, see how many years the extension of the light train is taking and how few workers there are on the various parts……I will keep my peace.

We have no idea what is being built on the main road leading to Gush Etzion near the shopping centre

We arrived at the DCO to find the door not only closed, but locked and of course no explanation on the door.

It reminded me of the old English poem “Is there anyone there, “ said the traveller . And as with the traveller , all our phone calls went unanswered. And that is the answer we gave to the numerous Palestinians who arrived, at least four of whom needed permits to go to the hospitals in Jerusalem. Two of them had been told yesterday to come today for a reply. One of them had again spent 50 shekel on a taxi. T6One of them was also from the Baptist Church and we suggested that they tell the officials there to complain for what it is worth.

One of the men who had gone to the gate inside found a woman on sentry duty but she said that she did not know what was happening.

However we can be calm as the Shabak, the GSS, was working and protecting us and also we saw settlers coming to look for cheap labor. For these there are always soldiers.

And in spite of the lack of help they got from us two of the Palestinians came to tell us how much they appreciate that we are trying to help.

Going back we saw an archaeological dig. I did not get a chance to photograph it. At first we were not sure what was happening there but then we saw our religious brethren running around there so we knew it had to be a dig. It looked quite large. We would have checked it out but did not see where we could drive in.

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Article which appeared in Ha’aretz 25.6.2021

* The protesters in Balfour look at their work with pride, but also with a little apprehension *

They protested near the prime minister's residence with the piety of believers and suffered insults, beatings and arrests. Now that the Netanyahu family is packing, the main activists are concluding a period, but for some of them a protest is far from over.

* Nir Hasson * 25.06.2021 06:00

Last Saturday night it was the first time in four years that Sami Alkalay did not go to the demonstration. "I've been missing two or three for four years," he admits after a thought. Instead of a demonstration he went with his wife to a movie. On the way they passed near Balfour. Several demonstrators gathered and shouted "Get out," in protest of the refusal of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the official residence. "I saw them together, and I did not miss it . I had done what needed to be done," Alkalay says.

There were bigger protests than the Balfour protest, but there seemed to be no more determined ones. Yesterday (Thursday), the black flag movement also announced that it had achieved its goal: "Removing the greatest threat to the State of Israel from the chair of the state's leadership," the statement said.

Thousands of activists have devoted a significant portion of their lives to protesting against Netanyahu. Most of them had not been political activists before, but in the last four years, and especially in the year since the major protests began in Balfour, they have made the political protest against Netanyahu an integral part of their lives and identities. They came to Balfour with the piety of believers, quarreled with family members and friends who were bibists or skeptics, invested thousands of shekels of their money in travel and signs, and suffered insults and beatings from right-wing activists and police arrests. Now that the main purpose of the protest has been successfully crowned and the Netanyahu family is packing their belongings at the official residence, they look back with pride, and forward with a little apprehension - about Netanyahu's return or corruption, but also about boredom.

Natanya Ginzburg, 82, a native of South Africa who walks with two walking sticks, was one of the symbols of the protesters in Balfour. Every week she used to not only come to the demonstration in Balfour, but also to the String Bridge, at the entrance to Jerusalem, and from there to Paris Square along with the crowds. "I had a hard time with going up of Bezalel street which is very steep," she admits. In addition to the demonstrations near the prime minister's residence, she demonstrated with her friends at the "Migdal Nofim" sheltered housing complex in the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood at the Monster Junction. Like many activists, she too has experienced violence from right-wing activists. During one of the demonstrations at the intersection, she was knocked down in an alteracation by a right-wing activist who got out of his vehicle. "I had no dizziness, I had no nausea. Nothing that a glass of whiskey can solve," she replied to the paramedic who asked that she be be evacuated. In another case, she was attacked by two in the Mahane Yehuda market. "I went with a T-shirt by Yeshayahu Leibowitz that says 'I told you so,'" she says. "I was alone in the market. He passed by a couple and started cursing me and dancing around me and saying it was a pity they didn't make me soap. It was not pleasant, but I got used to it too." Despite this she admits she will miss Balfour: "I will not miss the noise, but the young people, even though sometimes the attention was embarrassing to me, encouraged me saying that because of me they feel they have to keep going."

Meir (Moscow) Moskowitz was one of the permanent occupants of the sidewalk in front of the Prime Minister's residence. Until four years ago he was never in a demonstration. Like many, he finds it difficult to put his finger on a single incident that caused him to come, but the combination of the submarine affair and the dismissal of Mani Naftali, the head of the house at the Prime Minister's Residence, caused him to start protesting in Goren Square in Petah Tikva. “Like someone becoming a football fan, that’s how I became active in protest,” he says. "A lot of people said to me, 'What do you need this for?' "They understood that I was stubborn. To their credit, the day a new government was formed, they sent me WhatsApps and wrote that it was because of me, even though I did not think so."

Danny Danieli, former director of cultural institutions in Jerusalem and now an organizational consultant, joined the protest four and a half years ago. "There were moments I had a hard time," he says. "There were cold and stormy evenings. We had terrible years in Paris Square. Sometimes 20 people and sometimes 25. You seem to be the only one in the world who cares. But I said I was here until a result was achieved. When the young people started joining, I said 'no matter what happens, I dedicate it to All the time it takes. "

Many activists report criticism and misunderstanding from friends and family over the years of protest. "I heard it a lot," says Alkalay, "treated me like a hallucinatory god. 'What are you standing there for? It won't help.' I even had bitter arguments with my wife." "Family and friends is a sore point," Danieli adds. "I have friends who have disappointed me, people who did not have a different position in terms of the need for change, but they did not leave the house."

"My father would say to me, 'Find a life, make your home,' but in my eyes I do for my home, because I am really worried about the future of my children. That is why I am struggling," says Adv. Gonen Ben Yitzhak, a senior activist in the Crimea Minster movement.

"My brother said to me 'Leave, who will pay attention to you?' Says Rami Matan, 70, who is also a veteran of the protesters. Matan is the chairman of his hometown, Nataf in the Jerusalem mountains. He is a former IDF and police officer and was a battalion commander on the Chinese farm during the Yom Kippur War. "I never dreamed I would confront police," he says. Matan stood in the square with Alkalay and others. Three years before Amir Hashakel, the prominent protest activists, came for his Shabbat strike, which turned Paris Square into “Balfour Square.” “I told my wife that was my mission now. This is my life's mission, "he says. He was arrested twice - the first time after drawing the word" you "on the road at the Hemed interchange, and the second time after police came to his home on suspicion of hoarding equipment intended for an illegal demonstration." They claimed we were planning to break into the house of the Prime Minister, "he says." I told them, 'Are you crazy?' "

Last Saturday evening, Adv. Ben Yitzhak devoted himself to drafting a petition to the High Court against Netanyahu's stay at the prime minister's residence, "but then they announced that Bennett and Netanyahu had closed on a departure date and I did not submit," he clarifies. For him, the protest did not end. "Not a day goes by that I do not deal with it. This week we issued a letter exhausting proceedings on the center, on security for Netanyahu's children and a public letter to MK Galit Distel-Atbrian from the Likud, so that she can remove her immunity and be sued for a reward

Last Saturday evening, Adv. Ben Yitzhak devoted a petition to the High Court against Netanyahu's stay at the prime minister's residence, "but then they announced that Bennett and Netanyahu had closed on a departure date and I did not submit," he clarifies. For him, the protest did not end. "Not a day goes by that I do not deal with it. This week we issued a letter extending proceedings on the center, on security for Netanyahu's children and a public letter to MK Galit Distel-Atbrian from the Likud, so that she can remove her immunity and be sued for libel against Kiry Minster. I do a lot of things, I don't feel empty, and there are a lot of things that still need to be taken care of. Netanyahu is a symptom of a bigger problem. "

Since the election, Moskowitz has stopped coming to demonstrations and decided to wait and see what happens. Last week he demonstrated again, this time in front of the home of the new health minister, Nitzan Horowitz, in protest of the extension of the Corona emergency laws. "Everyone is in a coma, wanting to give the new government a chance, so there are not too many partners. But I'm waiting," he says. "I treat this government the way I treated the previous one - I don't make a distinction between right and left. I have a lot of good friends I knew in protest, but I don't need friends meetings. It was not a friends meeting for me. It was a war."

"I even shed a tear," Matan admits, recounting the day the new government was sworn in. "It was a huge relief. We did not get to rest and estate. There is still a lot to fix. Now I take care of the garden. I neglected it and the house as well."

Like many others in the protest, Ginzburg is now directing her activist energies to protest against the occupation and stepping up her activities in the Machsom Watch organization and in demonstrations against the settlers in Sheikh Jarrah. "I'll find something to deal with," she says, "but I was actually willing to be a little boring."

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Politics and when I came to Israel 22.4.2021

21/4/2021 I really suggest you watch the short movie on Netflix….The present…….and I endorse every scene in that movie. It could be a documentary. It is hard to watch. But believe me it represents every aspect of the lives of Palestinians. One example I always remember….Azzun…a man told he can only take one chicken through the checkpoint. He says it is for his family of 12. No he is told only one. Also a case when a soldier told a man that he was wearing an army jacket and forced him to take it off and the Machsomwatch person heard him saying, “Wow, my brother will really like this jacket”

The political situation. No comment. I cannot listen to Netanyahu on the tv. He is given prime time and primes himself. Easier to read and keep my blood pressure under control. I had an MRI for the brain as so often in the mornings when I wake up my left is absolutely stiff. They found no explanation but at least they found the brain. I will now speak to Michal, my orthopaedical friend if there is anything to be done. I take plenty magnesium and drink tonic so it can’t be that.

We (machsom) were at the DCO and twice men came up to us to say that they had been prevented from entering Israel for some time and just when the ban ended, without their knowing it, had been slapped on for an extra few years. No reason has to be given by the Shabak. All we can do is tell them to contact Sylvia and her team who deal with these cases. So often they tell us that they have already been to Israeli or Palestinian lawyers, paid them an arm and a leg, with no results. Sylvia has lawyers who are honest and often have very good results to deal with the problem. We are well known as sometimes, even when we stop at the grocery shop near there, people come up to us or the shopkeeper tells us of problems.

It is very worrying about this evening. Attacks from both sides but the problem is that while Palestinians are often arrested immediately, nothing is done about the Jewish extremists and even if the latter are arrested, the revolving door takes place almost immediately. I am wondering what to do as Tag Maier has written about it and there may be a decision to go to the city also to see and report on what is happening there. I am invited to a family in Hebron for the end of the fast day to share their meal with them but may decide not to go so as to go to the Damascus gate or the centre of town. Tomorrow also I am going with Anat, from Machsom, to the Old City as there has been a lot of trouble there. It is Ramadan and Palestinians come from all over Israel and the West Bank (for those who are lucky enough to get permits) to pray.

Jewish extremists plan rally in Jerusalem’s Old City amid rising tensions

Police to deploy in force as Lehava head says members of anti-miscegenation group will march Thursday to Damascus Gate 'without fear'; report of plans by activists to bring weapons

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-extremists-plan-rally-in-jerusalems-old-city-amid-rising-racial-tensions/

4 arrested, 1 ‎hurt, in Jewish-Arab clashes in Jerusalem; reporters assaulted

TV crews attacked by mobs, shoved to ground and beaten; violence comes amid rising ethnic tensions in capital

https://www.timesofisrael.com/4‎-arrested-1‎-hurt-in-jewish-arab-clashes-in-jerusalem-reporters-assaulted/

I was listening to an interview that Idit Teperson sent me about her father and was reminded of when I came to Israel and the reception I received at the airport. I am alone and my aunt and uncle, Bessie and Joe, took me to the airport. Those were the days when you walked to the plane. I remember the tarmac as being deserted except for me and my small suitcase…..or was is the lonesome feeling I had inside me. I arrived in Israel and got off the plane completely confused. I knew I was to be met. I don’t know if it was by someone from the SA Fed or the Jewish Agency. All I know is that I stood there not knowing where to turn. The first time I had left SA, the first time I had flown. I went to a policeman and said that I was to be met there but I did not know whom to look for.

He must have helped me because I remember going to Tel Aviv in a taxi with two men. One was evidently a local and the other was more evidently a big macher. All I know is that neither of them addressed a word to me all the way to Tel Aviv, hardly a welcome, nothing. Looking back on it again I think what a pair of shits. I was going into something completely unknown. They dropped me off at what I think was then the South African hostel and I don’t think that the man even took me inside. I was taken to a room where the other girls were not present but found a note from them welcoming me and telling me to help myself, also in the morning, to anything that was in the fridge. I don’t remember much about the next day or two but then another woman and I were put into a taxi and sent to Beit Hashita to the ulpan. The woman was Tanya. I am not sure what her surname was but she was very different from anyone I had ever known.

She had been in the theatre scene in South Africa as far as I remember where she had had a non-Jewish boyfriend. I don’t know that had brought her to Israel. But a few weeks after we arrived on the kibbutz it turned out she was pregnant by him. Looking back now I ask myself if I asked her what had brought her to Israel but I know that the boyfriend was the father. They were very good to her on the kibbutz and eventually she gave birth to a little boy, also like her a redhead. He was adopted and I often wonder what happened to him. Today he must be nearly 60.

She continued what was a very different experience. On the kibbutz we had a lovely woman who looked after the ulpaniestiem. We learned Hebrew half day and worked in the fields or wherever half day. I started writing this and find that it opens up so many memories. What a pity we did not have internet in those days. Ruthie Shemi. I think that when we arrived she was not yet divorced and she was very good to Tanya. Her husband, Aaron, afterwards left the kibbutz and married Tanya but then I lost contact with her.

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Peisach 31.3.2021

The elections have left us in no better state than before though really I do not think even the wildest optimist thought it would. I can only pray that the extreme fascist party will not receive any important positions. It will be bad enough having them in the Knesset. I started to write before but lost heart.

For Peisach I went to my friend, Shosh, in Haifa as her children did me the honour of telling her to invite me and as always, I loved being with them But over a year of not moving out of Jerusalem, it was quite an effort. I couldn’t even remember how I managed with the two sticks and a case until I remembered that I always folded the one up. The bus is the easiest way for me. I have only used the new train station once (Not to be confused with the light train which I doubt will travel in my life time). I loathe going down through that new building and it is almost as much of a drag as getting on to an aeroplane besides the fact that there is practically no view especially when you got through a tunnel.

The Friday night Shosh and I went out for supper. Our waitress was lovely and I said to her I would like to tell the manager what good service she had given. She came back and said that he had said he was very busy so she told him that we wanted to complain. He was there in a second. I told him first of all that she was a very good waitress but that she was wasted as such and should go into the diplomatic service. I had a wonderful cocktail!!

I was lucky coming back as because we are now on daylight saving bus travel and the train only start at about 8pm at night after Saturday or the holidays. Luckily her kids came through the next day not only to Jerusalem but to Kiryat Hayovel. Travel in Israel over weekends or holidays is only for the rich or those who have cars.

What was very pleasant to see was that one of the guests has a Philippino helper and after the seder the family sat down to play chess with him.

Irit Teperson had told me that a group of them were going to be a Balfour last night and in the beginning I thought I would get back to late but having the day before me as the result of the lift I went to Balfour in the evening. There were about 100 people there but it was bitterly cold and I had not dressed appropriately as the day had been warm. I also did not realise that they were only going to walk to President Rivlin’s house later that night so I made my appearance and then after an hour Sarah Sherman said she had also done her civic duty and that she would give me a lift home.

When I arrived I found a tree stump to sit on but immediately a young man brought me a chair and a woman an extra coat

But I did not stay long. I had a laugh on one comment on facebook……one woman wrote, “I did not know she knew how to sit down.

”But I have just received a message that there will be a demonstration outside the president’s house calling on him not to set Netanyahu up as a former of the government. And it looks as if there will be more than one. Well we will see. I am doubtful how many people will turn out for this but I will be there. Walking my way along

The threats are already arriving on Facebook. There is a character who like so many on the right hide their true identity. Some years ago I received a threat through facebook. I had been at the checkpoint and a kitchen knife had been found in my rucksack. Luckily I am not an Arab or I would have been arrested. I thought nothing of it until later that day a friend phoned me very worried because the Zel (Shadow) had written that a soldier who had been at the checkpoint (not the soldier who had checked and let me go with no problem) had informed the Shadow that a member of Machsomwatch had tried to kill a soldier at the the checkpoint. So the brave man who hides behind no name had called on all his followers to deal with me accordingly. He also published a photo of “me” to help them identify me……the only problem was that if was the photo of another friend of mine taken some years previously at a completely different checkpoint and luckily not clear. But now he is threatening everyone who is against Netanyahu.

Weird though that Rivlin is calling in the the heads of parties to meet with him Monday, the same day the evidentiary stage in Netanyahu's trial starts, and is expected to decide on whom to tap to form the next government two days later.

#nataliesnews Peisach 31.3.2021

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