EVENTS
& PICTURES
2024
GO
TO DOREEN AND
EITAN'S HOMEPAGE
November
2024 - Sofia
We are in Sofia, Bulgaria where I am one of the
organizers for a
workshop for Bridge Tournament Directors.
Doreen explored Sofia despite the cold and snow and enjoyed
soup
in a bowl.
The staff of the workshop was invited by the Bulgarian Bridge
Federation to a
restaurant featuring typical local food.
Clockwise from left
bottom: Maurizio (Italy), Dimitris (Greece),
Catherine (France), Gordon
(England), Marc (Netherlands), Ton (Netherlands), Jacek (Poland),
Robert (Austria), Elitsa Georgieva (Sofia, President BuBF), Jacob
(Denmark), Doreen, Eitan, Fearghal (Ireland),
Georgi (Bulgaria)
Novemvber
2024 - In Eilat with Aviv and family
We are always delighted to be with our family and in
Eilat we had a lovely dinner with Eilat Levys.
like father-like son
Exercising
After 60 years Doreen finally persuaded me to start
an
exercise regime. Once a week I meet Hila my personal trainer and pull
and stretch and push and bend.
Lunch
at Reshta Restaurant
On the recommendation of our in-law Avram Segoli
we had lunch at the
Reshta Restaurant in the village
of Ein Rafa (Ein Naqquba) near Abu Ghosh.
The menu
consisted of local Arab dishes and we can
recommend a visit there for
something very different
from the usual local food restaurants.
October
2024 - Ella Ogden
Our dear friend Ella Ogden
passed away this week. We feel for Christopher and Dimitri who have
lost their parents Ella and Archie in
the space of a few days. We will always remember our good and joyful
times with Ella and Archie. A few years ago Doreen wrote about the Ogdens in her
column.
October
2024 - Mikhal and Maayan in Uganda and Rwanda
Daughter-in-law Mikhal Segoli and her son
Maayan visited Uganda and Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas
the
area is famous for. Their visit was a great success as can be
seen
from the pictures below and from the picture in the Archive files.
October
2024
The Rons, daughter Vered, Aviv, Dani and Lior, had
their flight to Greece cancelled and instead decided to spend their
vacation in Cyprus where they stayed in our apartment .
The salt lakes in Cyprus
are dry in summer and the Rons had a great
time walking on a dry lake.
More
pictures on the pages of Dani
and Lior.
October
2024 - Archie Ogden
We were saddened to hear about the passing of Archie
Ogden. When we were in St Thomas in the Virgin Islands we had lots of
good times with Archie and Ella, who were warm and welcoming. Archie
visited Israel last year and we had
lunch and talked about old times.
Our condolences go to his sons Christopher and Dimitri and to his
ex-wife Ella.
October
2024 - Papayas!
We have had an amazing crop of papayas this year and
we keep the family and friends well supplied with this delicious fruit.
When the Rons came for dinner last
Friday night we jokingly prepared an appetizer of papayas. We still
have tens on the trees waiting to ripen.
October 2024 -
Charles and Sheenagh in New
Zealand
Cousin Charles and Sheenagh Levy (see
Hershovitz/Levy
and Matz family trees)
are enjoying their New Zealand trip with daughter Katherine.
(see also here)
October
2024 - Memorial for Yael Segoli
We attended a memorial for our daughter-in-law Mikhal's
mother Yael Segoli (see Memorial Page)
who passed away 4 years ago. Daughter Ophra Ohanna eulogisesd her
mother as Yael's husband Avraham, niece NitzanYaniv and Mikhal and
Maayan look on.
October
2024 - Rosh Hashanah
In spite of the tense security situation we celebrated
Rosh Hashanah
this year at Moran and Mikhal's home at Midreshet Ben Gurion.
Unfortunately the Eilati Levys were unable to join us. We had a
lovely
time and too much food of course, including roast goose prepared by
grandson Maayan.
No festive gathering of the clan is complete without gefilte fish, gehakta (chopped) liver
(real, vegetarian and vegan!) with chrain
(horseradish) and of course gehakta
herring.
My job was, as usual, preparing the horseradish.
No one who has ever
grated the pungent horseradish
will be surprised at me wearing goggles
and a mask.
We had a double
celebration this year for Rosh Hashanah fell on granddaughter
Danielle's birthday.
As has become custom Maayan prepared
something from Doreen's A Potpourri
of Memories
and read the story connected with it. In addition he
had prepared more pictures to be added
to the loose leaf version of the
cookbook.
This was the first time that 3 family dogs were together. We missed the
4th 'cousin', Oreo from Eilat. It was not quite plain sailing but there
were no big problems.
September
2024 - Sheenagh and Katherine in New Zealand.
Sheenagh Levy is in New Zealand visiting her daughter Katherine. Cousin
Charles will soon join them.. (see
Hershovitz/Levy
and Matz family trees.)
Double
congratulations to Devra Hock
We had the pleasure of meeting Devra Hock some years ago, and
have kept up some contact. We received some lovely pictures of her marriage to Zach
Reid and of her receiving her PhD last year. She is
at present Assistant Curator for Science Education at the
New Jersey State Museum. (see
Nochimovitz/Nickel family tree).
September
2024 - A short visit to Sydney
On our way back from Sde Boker we popped in to say hello to Sydney
Lossin, who is not only a cousin (see
Matz family tree) but also a fellow papaya grower. We
were amazed at the number of papaya plants she is growing - a virtual
plantation.
September
2024 - Dinner
at the Segolis
We're getting ready for our Rosh Hashana - New Year - dinner
which
I'm sure will, as in previous years, be more than ample with enough
left-overs for another few meals. Yesterday we has a "practice run" at
the Segolis with most of the family. For light entertainment there was
a game of Scrabble.
September
2024 - With the
Cartoons in Cyprus
We are in Cyprus with friends
(and almost relatives) Selma and Lennie Cartoon (see also here). We came yesterday
and will return on Tuesday morning.
Waiting for the flight
Today we drove to the Trodos mountains. We have visited Omodos a
few
times but today was special as a young theologian explained the various
objects and pictures and gave us a fascinating account of the
background and history of the Monastery of the Holy Cross there. The
church is home to two priceless relics: a piece of the rope used to tie
Jesus to the Cross and a small chip of the cross.
We visited Vouni and unlike our previous
visit (when apart from us and the Porters there were only 2 other
couples visiting there) the village was teeming with visitors. We had a
light lunch the in a crowded restaurant Tavern Lenias - open Saturday
and Sunday only) and ended a tiring but
enjoyable day with a visit to
the Chantra Falls. In summer there is
not much water in the waterfall but we hope to visit there again in the
winter when we're told the falls are full and impressive.
Enjoying a coffee break at Omodos
and a light lunch in Vouni.
September
2024 - A short visit to Dublin
We visted Dublin on our cruise to
Iceland in 2017, and were fascinated
by the museums and sites there, especially the Bog Men on display at
the National Museum of Ireland. We wanted also to visit our friends
Maureen and Paul Porteous especially since Paul fell and broke his
leg.So we decided to spend a couple of days there, and were happy we
did so.
There are pictures on the page of our previous visit. Here are a few
more - a statue reflecting the suffering of the people on the way
to America during the Potato Famine years, Paul and Maureen
together with us at Celtic Nights, and Doreen saying hello
again to Molly Malone.
We thoroughly enjoyed a visit to the excellent Emigration Museum which
we had not seen on our previous visit.
Our hotel was well situated, walking distance to everything we wanted
to see, and the dinner and Celtic Nights show was good fun and
showcased the amazing Irish dances.
Click on the picture
September
2024 - Contact with Bridget Glasser
We were happy and surprised to receive a mail from Bridget
Burrows, the great granddaughter of Doreen's grand uncle Yeina
Glasser, with this picture handsome updates to the Glasser family tree.
Baby Bridget with great
grandfather Yeina and grandparents Stanley and Susan.
September
2024 - Wt. Dani and Lior in London
We are in London with granddaughters Danielle and
Lior Ron for their 'batmitzvah'
trip. Yes, we know they
are both in their twenties but we never took them on a batmitzvah trip
and they insisted that they should have one, like the other
grandchildren.
Both Dani and Lior were born in September, so we treated them to
a birthday meal at Pied a Terre, a Michelin star restaurant, which had
vegan and regular tasting menus, both delicious.
September
2024 - Doreen Demonstrates
Doreen demonstrating against the government and especially about the
Prime Minister.
August
2024 - More
pictures from Cyprus
Vered Ron and the Segolis in
Protaras and a view of the popular and
lovely Fig Tree Beach. (Thanks to Aviv Ron for the pics)
The last few days of the Segoli
trip
Walking on a dry Cyprus salt lake. In winter the lakes
fill with water and flamingoes stop over here during their migration.
See more pictures on the pages of Lotem and Zoe
Lotem and Mikhal looking at the sunrise while having breakfast on the
verandah at our Cyprus apartment.
August,
2024 - A family visit to Cyprus
(see below for Ilay Levy's visit)
See some more pictures on the pages of Lotem and Zoe.
The Segolis stayed for a couple of weeks (partly in our apartment) and
toured the island.
The Segolis at Lefkara Reservoir
Peacock Falls and the Caledonia Trail
and waterfall
We joined the Segolis and had dinner at Charmers Restaurant
Shortly after picking up the Rons
after their sail we visited Aphrodite's Rock
The last few days we, Vered and Aviv, and the Segolis have been
together. We enjoyed a visit to Agios Minas Monastery and the
wine tasting at the nearby Christoudia Winery.
But the highlight was probably a visit
to Ayia Napa and the caves at Cape Greko where the Rons and Segolis
jumped into the sea from the cliff. They also enjoyed swimming at the
"3rd best beach in Europe" (Trip Advisor) at Fig Tree Bay In Protaras
Lotem Vered Aviv
and of course Moran
Moran's jump - click on the picture or
here for a short video.
All good things must come to an end. Tomorrow Sunday 18/8 the Rons
return to
Israel,
the Segolis will stay on for a few more days until Saturday 24/8,
and on Tuesday 20/8 we
will wake up at sunrise in time to catch our very early morning flight
back home.
August 2024
- Ilay and Esther enjoying their visit to Cyprus
The girls enjoyed a visit to the large Jumbo in Larnaca, and ice-cream
at Gelato Pagotomania after a delicious fish meal prepared by Doreen.
See another picture here in
Archives and here for Ilay's page. .
Vered
and Aviv sailing to Cyprus
Daughter Vered Ron and Aviv are sailing in Cyprus and will later join
us in our apartment.
August
2024 - Gabi
Nathan is an Eagle Scout
Congratulations to Gabi Nathan on becoming an Eagle
Scout. She has earned 39 Merit Badges - 18 more than required.
Gabi is the daughter of Melodie and Mark Nathan and granddaughter of
Doreen's cousin Lucille (Nickel) and the late Graham Melamed. See
Nochimovitz/Nickel
family tree.
UPDATE: (September 2024):
Gabi's grandmother Lucille joined the family at Gabi's Eagle Court of
Honor ceremony.
Melly
Braverman and Family
Melly Braverman, our ex brother-in-law, had a family reunion with
his children at the summer home of Fenella Bishop, his former
companion.
Back row, On the left: Yael (Braverman) with son Rafael and husband
Donny; Tamara (Bishop) Morrow and Melly; Denise Braverman and Shai.
In front: Tamara's children, Nevaeh and Lily.
(Fenella took the picture)
July 2024
- Friends luncheon
Left: Talking about old
times, Ziona and Maureen. Centre: Doreen reminiscing about old times
with her friends. Right: Vered and Louise sharing a joke.
Another picture (in Archives) here.
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. (see later pictues of our
family jumping.)
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