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THIS WEEK'S PICTURE
 14th February 2026
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about 30 years ago
A gift on my return to Israel after 4 years in the Virgin Islands, West Indies
In the 1980's I was in charge of Coral World in the Virgin Islands (and later in the Bahamas). It was hard work but both Doreen and I enjoyed our stay there. We took an active part in activities outside work and integrated very well with the the local population and their customs, food, culture and way of life. When I was due to return to Israel my staff wondered how I would adapt to the change of the more staid Israel life.  As a going away present Margaret, one of the staff, presented me with above drawing which still amuses me after more than 30 years.
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  • We had a lovely week enjoying meals with our children and grandchildren - at the Rons and at home with Ilay.

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 7th February 2026

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15 years ago - 2011 - the Eilat Levy Children
The cute children 15 years ago are now our wonderful adult grandchildren. Maybe we can no longer say they are 'cute' but they are definitely lovable. They met this week with parents Aviv and Limor, and with friends, for a family dinner.
(This is another picture from October 2010 to February 2012 when this site was not updated)

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  • Children get older and move out of home. Six of our 8 grandchildren are no longer staying with their parents even though for all of them "home" is still with their parents. We are lucky as some of them are now closer to us and we can see them more often. This week we enjoyed an excellent meal with granddaughter Lotem in Haifa.

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 31st January 2026
Hanssky Nishi
Vered Ron, Sheryl Tal, Shirley Kansky, me, Doreen, Wendy Kansky
I 'm always happy to see my older cousin Shirley. We've been friends since we were young. Somehow the 2 year difference in age - usually significant for pre-teens - didn't seem to bother us. Even though we lived nearly 1,000 Kms apart we saw each other often, usually in Uitenhage where she lived or in Port Elizabeth with her mother's relatives but also in Durban.
We enjoyed a lunch together at the Nishi restaurant with our daughter Vered and with her two daughters Wendy and Sheryl.

See Matz and Levy family trees.
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THIS WEEK'S PICTURE
 24th January 2026

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Snail Sale
We returned this morning from a short 4 day trip to Larnaca. The weather was cold, windy and rainy, so most of the time we relaxed in our flat. But we did visit the Faneromeni Tomb situated very near our apartment, about 2 kms away.
On the road at the entrance to the tomb we were fascinated by a women selling snails which are plentiful in rainy weather and very popular in Cyprus. In restaurants snails in butter and garlic - escargot - can cost between €10 - €25 for 6 snails. The price of the snails seen in the picture was €5 for a large packet. We were leaving the next day for home, but on our next visit we'll buy some and try them.,if she is still there.

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  • Our granddaughter Lior Ron and her 2nd cousins Yarden Levy and Amit Nickel were inseparable when they were young but have not met for many years. They were delighted (and so were we) when they met again.
  • Frankie Klaff (our good friend and 'cousin-in-law') celebrated her 80th birthday. (See Goldberg tree)
THIS WEEK'S PICTURE
 17th January 2026
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European Bridge Youth Champioships - Albena, Bulgaria July 2011
 
2011 was a good year for me and for Israel bridge. I was the Chief Tournament Director at the youth championships and Israel won the Gold Medal in the Under 26  Championship and the Silver Medal in the Under 21 Championships.

(This is another picture from October 2010 to February 2012 when this site was not updated)

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  • We spent a few days at the Dead Sea taking part in the GoBridge bridge festival there. Although our results were only average we enjoyed the stay and the extremely well organised festival.
  • The Vert Hotel where we stayed for the bridge festival had a performance by two of the Black Hebrews from Arad who sang and performed classic songs from way back, some from 60 years ago! They were excellent and we enjoyed the performance and of course the nostalgia.
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10th January 2026
Biblical Zoo
The Eilat Levys Visit the Biblical Zoo December 2010

(This is another picture from October 2010 to February 2012 when this site was not updated)
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  • Thanks to parents Melodie and Mark Nathan, daughter of Doreen's cousin Lucille Melamed (see Nickel tree) in Florida for sending us these pictures of their daughter Gabi who has just  graduated from High School. Gabi is an All America wrestler at the national level.
  • Tomorrow we travel again, not so far this time - to the Dead Sea to take part in a bridge festival there

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3rd January 2026
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The label of the Petrus Pomerol we drank in 1984 to celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary.
We are still in Cyprus and will be  here until the middle of next week. Last Sunday we went to a Carvery Luncheon at the Columbia Steak House in Limassol. We went there last Christmas as well and again we were not disappointed by the variety and quantity of the food. In addition to the carved meat, lamb, pork and beef, there was also chicken, duck, salmon, sushi, a variety of salads and mouth-watering desserts. 

But what impressed us the most was the wine list. which included Petrus Pomerol at the price of €6,500 for a bottle! We fondly remembered that we had celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in 1984 with Petros Pomerol.  We paid about $100 the equivalent of $300 today. At that time Petrus Pomerol was largely unknown.  Two years later Time Magazine published an article: " ....True wine lovers think nothing of paying $80 for a bottle of Chateau Lafite .... but many discriminating connoisseurs are paying even more for a once obscure, less aristocratic wine - Petrus Pomerol."

Doreen wrote a full account of how we came to buy and drink this wine in her cookbook A Potpourri of Memories. You can read it here.

And by the way - If I had not bought the wine but rather invested the money for 40 years at 5% my investment would be about $700. Even at 10% the return of $5,000 would not be enough to buy this wine at the Columbia Carvery.
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