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Jul 4, 2018, 2:02 PM

Awakening in the Knesset

As a child of WW2 I have experienced fear, living in shelters, food shortages and separation from parents. However, I am one of the lucky ones who did not live under occupation. My late husband who left everything behind in...

May 23, 2018, 2:11 PM

An intimate perspective on British Jewry-Green Park Hotel!

Living in Israel one tends to become caught up in "the situation," "the conflict," the ongoing Bibi/Sara saga and the Festivals, religious or pop. The past life in another land seems of little consequence. However, we Brits are mostly a...

May 13, 2018, 5:58 PM

A “wow” weekend

On Thursday, May 10th several hundreds of people came together in the elegant and comfortable Residence of the British Ambassador to Israel, in celebration of the 100 Aliyah of British Immigrants to Israel since its inception 70 years ago. Sadly...

Apr 29, 2018, 3:12 PM

Fight for your life

Fight for your life that's what the Ministry of Transport slogan says in hebrew. The slogan itself explains it all. Why should we the ordinary citizens have to 'fight' why can we not feel safe on the roads?. Is road travel a...

Apr 26, 2018, 11:26 PM

Glaring omission

Something has been niggling inside me during these glitzy celebrations for the 70th year. Something is not there. Narratives galore, heroism, dedication, bereavement altruism, Zionism but unless I am mistaken not a word about the volunteers from overseas, who came here at...

Apr 12, 2018, 2:10 PM

To Berlin and back

I had absolutely no desire to set foot in Germany, until 1989 when like so many Israelis, I watched on my TV screen the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a surrealistic scene reminiscent of the destruction by allied bombers...

Mar 25, 2018, 3:51 PM

Jerusalem: Heart of the world

It was a beautiful sunny day and I had enjoyed an excellent journey on a faithful EGGED bus from Savidor Central to Jerusalem. As is my wont, I approached the line of taxis opposite to where I had descended from...

Feb 20, 2018, 2:58 PM

Did I find “peace in Jaffa”?

"Yes indeed," I answered. A walk on the beach from Tel Aviv to Jaffa and then lunch, what could be a nicer way to part from a dear friend from the UK, who had been in Israel on a fact-finding visit? He had...

Jan 25, 2018, 2:05 PM

In the early hours of this morning, I was rudely awakened by thunder and lightning. Since I live on the top floor of my apartment house we get the brunt of extreme climatic conditions. For me though, my panic attack during such storms is...

Jan 15, 2018, 8:09 AM

Concerned Citizen of Israel, Chaim Herzog z”l

"Remember to write Chaim with Ch and do not call me Vivian" he said to me when we first met in 1978. Also, for every weekly meeting between the two of us, I was to prepare bullet points.He had no time...

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About Me

Zelda Harris first made aliya in 1949, then again 1958, and finally in 1978. She is a longtim activist for Israel and Soviet Jewry. Together with the late Chaim Herzog, she founded CCC for Electoral Reform, she was the director of BIPAC, and a co-founder with Ivan Pope of Metuna, the organisation for Road Safety