EVENTS
& PICTURES
2024
GO
TO DOREEN AND
EITAN'S HOMEPAGE
July
2024 - The Tournament Directors in Wroclaw
One of the main
reasons I enjoy being at the various bridge
championships is the opportunity to meet old friends whom we
have
known and worked with for many many years, and to meet
new friends, also from all over the world.
It seems like Dimitris Ballas from Greece and I have been
colleagues and friends forever. Sometimes we worked together,
sometimes parallel and sometimes with different positions. One of my
jobs
is to appoint the Tournament Directors (TDs) who are the judges at each
Championship. The head TD Marc and I also go back a long long time,
and Fearghal is a good friend.
Below on the left, Dimitris and I, and on the right the TD
staff, from l-r
Adam
Magyar (Hungary), Yossi
Fibert
(Israel, trainee), Andrej Boida (Poland), Jakub Kaprzak (Poland),
Dimitris
Ballas (Greece, Operations Director), Marc Van Beijsterveldt
(Netherlands, Head
TD), Eitan Levy (Israel, Reviewer and TD Com. Chairman), Yuval Ben
David
(Israel), Jacob Duschek (Denmark), Fearghal O’Boyle (Ireland)
July
2024 - Kohlrabi
Salad
In Wroclaw we had dinner one evening at the Lwia Brama Restaurant in
the Old City a few hundred meters from our hotel. The first courses
were interesting - I had beetroot humus and Doreen had a salad of
thinly sliced kohlrabi.
July
2024 - Wroclaw Dwarfs
There are over 600 diminutive dwarf statues in Wroclaw. The first was
created in 2005 part an anti-Communist movement and shows the dwarves
sawing a sword. In Wroclaw one has to keep looking down so as not to
miss the little statues positioned throughout the city. (see also more dwarfs on a visit a couple of
years ago.)
July
2024 - Vered and Caryn
Daughter Vered Ron has returned from a trip to USA where she
had the opportunity to again meet up with Caryn Sangupta, the daughter of
Frankie and my
late cousin Vivian Klaff. (see Goldberg
family tree).
July
2024 - The Chariot Festival
The Ratha
Yatra of Puri, is considered the oldest and largest
Hindu
chariot festival celebrated
annually, on the bright half of the lunar
month of Ashadh (June–July).
During
the
festival, three deities (Jagannath, his
brother Balabhadra and
sister Subhadra) are drawn
by a multitude of devotees in three massive, wooden chariots
on bada
danda (the grand avenue)
to Gundicha
Temple whereby they reside there for a week and then return to
the Jagnannath temple. (Wikipedia) .
For
more information link to
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48864239
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratha_Yatra_(Puri)
During
our visit to Wroclaw Poland Doreen saw the celebration of the Hindu
Chariot Festival, where devotees
pulled the chariot four times around the Market Square.
July 2024
- Some of the 31 countries taking part in the World Youth Bridge
Championships.
July 2024
- Doreen demonstrates
Doreen demonstrating against Netanyahu and our government
which seems intent on destroying democracy and our country.
July
2024 - Family Friday night dinners.
The Segolis went to Eilat for the weekend and
had Friday night dinner with the
Eilatis,
while we went for Friday night dinner to the Rons.
The
Greenbergs visit
We were delighted that Aura and Hilton Greenberg from Canada
could spend a few days with us on their visit to Israel. Aura was at
school with Doreen in Durban and I knew Hilton before either of us
was married. Although they live in Canada we keep in close contact and
see them fairly often, for
example here. We enjoyed a meal with them at the M25 Restaurant at
the Carmel Market.
Maayan
receives achievement certificate
We
are very proud that grandson Maayan Segoli was awarded a
certificate for excellence in
Physics at Ben Gurion University. We went
to the Ceremony where he was presented with his certificate. (see Archives).
After the ceremony we went for lunch
where granddaughter Danielle (who is studying for a degree at
BGU) joined us
June
2024 - Vered celebrates her birthday with friends.
Mazal tov, Vered. with Keren, Vered, Osnat
June
2024 - Welcome,
Maya
Mazal Tov to Naama and Mor Kadosh on the birth of their
first
child, daughter Maya. Congratulation too to parents Racheli and Avi
Gilad . (Goldberg family tree).
June
2024 - with the Porters
in Cyprus
Doreen writes:
One of the
pleasures of having a holiday apartment in Larnaca is to invite people
to join
us for a few days. First the Colin and Louise Kessel came and this week
we were
happy to welcome Basil and Noga Porter. We always have people staying
over at
our house in Kiryat Hasharon, but somehow sharing an
apartment overseas
with
friends is a much more intimate experience; talk flows and experiences
are
shared.
When the
Porters arrived we took them to the town promenade to enjoy a good
steak and
soak up the atmosphere. Little did we know that, a few days before,
Cyprus had marked
50 years of the illegal Turkish invasion. The main promenade was full
of music,
dancers and all kinds of stalls, making it all very festive. We were
particularly interested to see the many sellers of corn of the cob,
remembered
from the early days of Israel.
The following
day we drove to Protaras to swim in the amazingly clear waters of Fig
Tree
Beach. A real pleasure.
We found a spot on the grass to drop our things
–
umbrellas and chairs are all taken by 9.00 in the morning.
We then
continued to Capo Grecko to view the stunning scenery of the sea caves
in the
water and watch enthralled as people jumped off the cliff to the clear
blue
water, 10 meters below.
Noga and I went to the viewpoint and then
exhausted we
returned to our holiday apartment in Larnaca to rest.
After a rest we prepared (and ate!) the
fish that
Basil and Eitan had bought that morning.
Noga had picked
up a brochure at the airport that had an article about a charming
village in
the mountains called Vouni. So the next morning, since it was on the
way to our
planned destination to Kykkos monastery, it seemed a good stop.
After over an
hour of driving we arrived in Vouni, holding our breaths that there
would not
be oncoming cars in the narrow streets between the picturesque houses.
We
parked next to the church and walked to the café opened in 1908.
We joined two
couples, English Greek and German and talked. Cleo the wife of the
owner joined
us but Elias the owner sat on the side saying he had to serve the
backgammon
players on the other side of the road with coffee.
Chatting up the locals is a favourite
occupation of Noga and me and we spent a delightful few hours talking
with the
two couples.
Panicos, the
Greek man and unofficial ambassador for Vouni arranged for his German
friends
and us to visit the little museum showcasing life as it had been.
He then arranged for
someone
to open the Greek
Orthodox Church, richly decorated. In the late 1600’s there was a
plague and
the people who found refuge in the church were saved. They then settled
in this
beautiful tiny village. Once bustling with over 2000 people, today
there are
barely 200, mostly pensioners, but also the grandchildren of the owners
of the
houses who are returning and restoring them.
It was definitely a charming village and absolutely a good stop!
We then drove
to Omodos which we have visited before where had lunch. After lunch an
hour
drive to Kykkos no longer seemed inviting so we drove home.
The next morning we drove to Lefkira and liked our visit to this
village showcasing local crafts. Then we enjoyed a most satifying light
meal at the Liv restaurant back in Larnaca.
Tomorrow morning we are scheduled to return to Israel.
For another picture see the
Archives.
June
2024 - Happy
birthdays to Doreen, Vered and Aviv.
June is a special month for our family, Doreen and two of
our
children Vered and Aviv have June birthdays. The family decided to have
a joint
birthday party this weekend. We all had a fantastic time. We met
at the Nammos restaurant where we enjoyed their delicious food.
Doreen didn't expect any presents but she was absolutely delighted when
she received them. Of course the presents related to food!
The Segolis prepared a special edition of Doreen's cookbook A Potpourri of Memories with added
pictures of the recipes prepared by Maayan over the last few years. The
book is in a loose-leaf folder so recipes can easily be added. The
Levys
bought a salad bowl set which is perfect for Doreen who has a salad at
every meal. The Rons gave her a beautiful dish inscribed "I Love that
You're my MOM".
The Segolis and Levys slept over at the Ron's and with us, and today we
had picnic next to the pool at the home of good friends Ruti and Dani
Erez. It was even a bigger success than we had hoped for.
June
2024 - Shakshuka
I got a gift of a breakfast for two at the Good Morning Sunshine
Baker for organising the ESRA
bridge morning, and we enjoyed the shakshuka there.
June
2024 - Brunch at the Cartoons
Lenny and Selma Cartoon our "almost relatives" invited
us for brunch. Not only was the food varied and delicious but we also
enjoyed the company of our good friends Basil and Noga Porter and Jeff
and Pam Bethlehem.
clockwise: Basil Porter, Pam
Bethlehem, Jeff Bethlehem, Frank (a guest from Australia), Noga Porter,
Lennie Cartoon, Doreen, Selma Cartoon, me.
June
2024 - With Colin and Louise
Kessel in Cyprus
We were delighted to entertain Colin and Louise Kessel as our
first guests at our apartment in Cyprus. We havc known them since our
youth in South Africa and see them and enjoy their company
regularly, and this time was no exception..
A short rest afer a walk along the Larnaca promenade
We thoroughly enjoyed a visit to Agia
Napa and Cava Grecho with its beatiful views, such as the sea caves.
See another picture in the Archives.
May 2024 -
Batmitzvah cake
It's now a tradition. Every year Doreen donates an elaborate birthday
cake (expertly made by Michal Kimchi) for the batmitzvah ceremony of
disadvantaged girls, a project of ESRA.
See last year's cake and Doreen's column from 2 years ago.
May 2024 - A
visit to Laura Nickel
We visited Laura, Doreen's aunt and wife of the late Julius Nickel. We were
delighted to see how cheerful and happy she was.
May
2024 - Congratulations to Nitzan Partuk
Congratulations to Nitzan on her marriage to Sagi Maor. Here she is
with grandmother Sydney Lossin my second cousin and a fellow papaya
lover and grower.
May
2024 - ESRA bridge morning
The ESRA charity had a morning
bridge competition to raise money for their project of music
instruction to under-privileged teenagers. The Israel Bridge
Federation
donated the equipment and I organized and ran the competition. Doreen
was supposed to be my helper but there was a player short so she also
played.
May
2024 - Cooking class
Doreen continues with her volunteering
with ESRA with cooking classes for disadvantaged children. (see Archives). This time
she had a helper - granddaughter Zoe.
May 2024 - Mike and Dafna Ossip
We renewed contact with old friends we have not seen for for more
than 20 years. We were very friendly with Mike and Dafna Ossip,
socially and through bridge. Mike and I regularly met at the bridge
table often as partners or in the same team. We had good times with
them including at the fishing village in Sinai.
This week we they came over and we
talked about old times and we enjoyed a game of bridge.
May 2024 - The
Segolis have a visitor
The Segolis live in Midreshet Sde Boqer, a small community in the Negev
dessert. There are a few large mammals that live in Israel's
deserts
including the very rare cats karakuls and leopards and the more common
camels and ibexes. The ibexes -"wild
goats distinguished by the male's large recurved horns"
(Wikipedia) - also roam in the populated areas of the Negev and
are common sights in towns such as Mitzpeh Ramon. They also roam
in the area where the Segolis live and are often seen. However I think
that this is the first time that an ibex has decided to visit the
Segolis. I hope they made him feel welcome.
The ibexes are not afraid of humans. When we celebrated our 50th
Anniversary with the family in Mitzpeh Ramon we saw many ibexes close
up. Click for a picture of granddaughter Lior Ron with an ibex.
May 2024: Yom
Haatzmaut - Independence Day
As has been the custom for many years Terry and Carol Kessel invited
long standing friends to an Independence Day luncheon. This year we
didn't
have much to celebrate, but the occasion was a celebration of long
time friendships - many going back to South African days. It is a
special treat to see each other, at least once a year. A big
thanks to the Kessels/
As usual the food was outstanding and despite our initial trepidation
the affair was a resounding success.
Fanny
Levy's death certificate
The death certificate of Fanny Levy, one of my father's sisters, who
died before I was born. My sister Fern was named after her. See also Archives.
May 2024
- Zoe
Segoli's batmitzvah celebration
The Levy and the Segoli families celebrated Zoe's batmitzvah with a
gathering at the Gofra Beach on the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). It was
fun to be together and the venue, though very basic, was suitable
for the event. Most slept in tents though a 'caravan' was available.
Everyone brought food and everyone pitched in to help prepare the
meals. It was an enjoyable event.
Click here for another picture.
May 2024
-
Welcome, Yuval Haberman
Congratulations to Dani and Tali Haberman
on the birth of son Yuval their first child. They are in Washington DC
where Dani has a medical fellowship.
And special Mazal Tov to grandparents
Shuli and Eitan Haberman on the birth of their 6th grandchild.
See
Goldberg
family tree.
April 2024 Eating
lionfish in Cyprus
Wikipedia: "Pterois is a genus of venomous
marine fish,
commonly known as lionfish,
native to the Indo-Pacific.
It is characterized by conspicuous warning
coloration with
red or black bands, and ostentatious
dorsal fins tipped with venomous spines.
Lionfish are a recent and significant invasive
species in
the west Atlantic, Caribbean
Sea and Mediterranean
Sea.
While culling by marine
protection agencies and volunteer divers is an important element of
control
efforts, development of market-based approaches, which create
commercial
incentives for removals, has been seen as a means to sustain control
efforts.
The foremost of these market approaches is the promotion of lionfish as
a food
item."
The fish is well known (and avoided) in Eilat and we have
never heard of it being eaten. However it (with the venomous
spines removed) is fairly popular in Cyprus and it's common to
see them in various sizes in supermarkets and at the fishing marina
close to our apartment. So we helped the fight against invasive
species and bought a good sized lionfish which Doreen baked in the
oven. The very white flesh was tasty and didn't have a fishy taste or
smell. Visit us in Larnaca and try it!
Cooked and uncooked!
April 2024
- Panos Steakhouse
There are pepper grinders and there are pepper grinders ..............
April 2024
- Vered
and Aviv in Brazil
Daughter Vered Ron and Aviv in Brazil (after multiple flight issues
lasting 50 hours). But they got there in the end. Here they at the
Iguazu Waterfall between Brazil and Argentina, considered to be the
biggest waterfall in the world.
March
20254 -
A visit to Yaffa Loew
Second cousin Yaffa Loew was in a traffic accident. Her car is a total
write-off and she is suffering from some injuries but fortunately
nothing was broken. She will need more treatment and we wish her a
speedy recovery. We, Doreen, her sister Louise and I, made a lunch and
visited and in spite of the pain, she was her
usual positve self. After visiting Yaffa we visited her brother
Yaakov
and Ziva and spent an enjoyable couple of hours with them.
March
2024 -
Maureen Fain's 80th birthday.
(see another picture, of
Doreen raising a toast to Maureen at her 80th), in the archives.
and a picture of Maureen's 60th twenty years ago
Maureen and
Doreen
Maureen
Maureen
and Dick
March 2024
- Lotem amd Amit get their driver's licence.
March
2024 -
A preview of
Doreen's planned vegan cookbook.
The Eilatis' visit was a good opportunity for Doreen to show
them how her vegan cookbook is progressing. They were very interested
and promised to submit their contributions for the book.
March
2024
Son Moran and Mikhal paid a surprise and welcome visit to relative
Yaffa Loew this weekend. (see Schank
tree)
March 2024 -A
visit
to Galit Rubin
While in Cyprus we drove to Limassol and visited Galit Rubin who now
lives in Cyprus. Galit is friend of our son Moran and we haven't
seen her for many many years. We enjoyed meeting her again and received
some useful information about life in Cyprus.
2nd March
2024 -
our first day in our holiday flat in Cyprus.
After some months of negotiations we have a holiday apartment in
Cyprus.
It's
on the fourth floor with a sea view and an easy 2 minute walk to the
beach promenade.
Our first meal - breakfast this morning on the verandah
Then a short drive (we could have walked 7
minutes!) to a local marina
where fishermen sell their catches in a small wood shed. Today there
was a large selection of fish, and octopus, squid and prawns.
We chose a labrak, which Doreen baked in the oven. It was absolutely
delicious.
February
2024 -Gabi Nathan's project
We received this from Melodie and Mark Nathan ( see Nochimovitz/Nickel tree)
showing
daughter Gabriella's Scout Eagle Project work. She and her volunteers
made 20
elevated dog beds for as local rescue organization. Well done,
Gabi!
February
2024 -
Congratulations Yahel and Donny
Congratulations to niece Yahel Braverman and Donny Dvir on their
marriage this month. Yahel and Donny have been partners for a long time
and decided to tie the knot. Congratulations too to their son
Rafael and Donny's daughters Gaby and Avigael.
(see Gordon/Glasser and Schank family trees)
February
2024 - Happy Anniversary to Charles and Sheenagh
Compare this picture of the "second" traditional wedding of Charles and
Sheenagh to their 'first'
civil wedding.
February 2024
-
Simon wine
We received an unusual bottle of wine from daughter Vered and Aviv.
Simon winery is a small family boutique winery in Kfar Tivon in the
north of Israel. The wine was being bottled when news of the 7/10/23
attack was heard but the bottling continued. This is written of the
back
label of the bottle:
This wine was bottled on
the morning of black Saturday 7.10.23 as a sign of the continuing
production of Israeli products in the
face of the attack
on our country, and is dedicated with
love to the memory of all casualties of
that accursed Saturday.
February 2024
- Keeping warm
We were invited by granddaughter Lior Ron to brunch at a local cafe. It
was very nice and it was lovely being with her. I was a little cold but
managed to keep warm.
Ziona is 95
We attended the 95th birthday party of long-time friend Ziona
Glassman.
We have known her since our days in Hofit nearly 60 years ago and
shared many
moments with her and her late husband in many places,
including Eilat,
Sinai, The Bahamas and the Virgin Islands.
The bucket
On our first family motor home trip in 1975 we all had jobs to do
to keep the motor home clean. Moran and Aviv went to empty the garbage
bucket.. On the way back Moran wandered a little off course and
big brother Aviv 'helped' him find the way. 😏🤣
January
2024 - Another short visit to Cyprus
We spent 3 days in Larnaca Cyprus and enjoyed the rest and the quiet.
Cyprus is
an ideal "get away" destination as the flight time from Tel Aviv is
only
40 minutes. We enjoyed two excellent meals at restaurants that were an
easy walking
distance from our hotel (Hobos Steak House and Ocean Basket) and quick
meals at the local Metropolis Mall, including of course KFC.
Ocean Basket
Although I do like eating at KFC (usually hot wings) my main rerason
for eating there is to add to the list of KFC restaurants visited by
our family.
Here
are links to some previous
family KFC visits
Beersheva
Israel, Wuhan
China, Brasov
Romania, Moscow
Russia, Shenzhen
China, Mongolia
and Istanbul,
Berlin
Germany, Belfast
N.Ireland, Prague
Czech,
Madeira, Wroclaw Poland, London., Nicosia
Cyprus,
Sinai Egypt, Netanya Israel , New Delhi India, and Marrakech Morocco
January 2024 -
Ari Lossin
We were saddened to hear the news of the passing of Ari Lossin, husband
of second cousin Sydney Lossin (Matz family tree). We have kept up
contact with Sydney and Ari and as always, enjoyed our visit to them a month or so ago. We
send condolences to Ari's children Yonat and Adi and grandchildren and
share in the grief of Sydney and her daughters Michal and Yael.
Ari Lossin ז"ל
1933-2024
