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Doreen and I have returned from our trip to Croatia. It is really a beautiful country. Last week Doreen decribed, with pictures, our first week in Croatia. She has added some more pictures and descriptions to the Croatia page. We took hundreds of pictures capturing some of the beauty of Croatia, and and it was a very difficult task to decide which pictures to post on this site. .
So we're back in Israel - but not for long, 5 days for me, 8 days for doreen. Then we're off to South Africa with the family. There we'll be touring (showing our roots to our children and grandchildren) and dedicating four school science laboratories in my late sister Fern's name. See Fern's memorial page.
Five days were enough for me to pick hot peppers from my garden and pickle them There was a bumper crop, and we'll have plenty of hot peppers for some time.
Friend and neighbour Yona Dotan found a novel way to celebrate her birthday. She invited two men, Israeli and Palestinian, from Combatants for Peace to talk about their efforts to break the circle of violence that threatens both our countries. What is remarkable is that both Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan have lost a daughter in the ongoing conflict. Rami’s daughter was killed in a terrorist attack in 1997 and Bassam’s daughter died when a rubber bullet entered her head. Despairing of politics they give talks to Israelis and Palestinians, in Israel and the West Bank. See www.combatantsforpeace.org and http://cfpeace.org/?cat=6&story_id=667&lang=en
While we are overseas Rebecca Engleberg and Benjamin are continuing housesitting and of course looking after Flopsy.
July birthdays and August birthdays are listed below.

July Birthdays: (not sure how and if you're related? Then go to the family trees section) Happy birthdays to Rebecca Mynarski (1), Roderick McCrimmon (1), Selwyn Bolel (2), Samuel Herr (4), Shari Beckman (6), Dov Bolel (6),Heini Drue (7), Margalit Sadeh (7), Tamir Klaff (7), Louise Bortz (7), Ruth Korbel (9), Maurice Levy (9), Solly Krengel (9), Claude Hakim (9), Daniel Feinstein (10), Steven Bacher (10), Lauren Berkowitz (10), Andy Loew (11), Jenna Cotton (11), Candice Pauwen (13), Jennifer Levy (13), Eileen Glogauer (14), Petronille Bloede (14), Tamara Klein (15), Glenda Cleaver (15), Isaac (Issy) Kirsh (16), Daniel Klotnick (20), Suzanne Lazarus (20), Arie Bortz (21), Adam Tal (22), Joel Feinstein (23), Shari Levy (24), Gavriel Bolel (25), Raymond Cotton (26), Edward Levy (27), Madison Brod (27), Limor Sadeh Levy (29), Leora Perlman (29), Melanie Cohen (31)

Happy birthday to our godson in New Zealand, Ari Davis (11)

July Anniversaries: Happy Anniversaries to Lital and Dvir Kasorla (1), Glenda and Roger Cleaver (8), Moran and Michal Segoli (10), Idit and Avraham Mizrahi (11), Caryn and Rhetck Sangupta (11), Mushe and Issie Kirsh (14), Moriah and Gil Pashas (14), Viki and Jack Gilbert (16), Joanne and Shaun Zagnoev (18), Julia and Steven Taylor (21)

August Birthdays: (not sure how and if you're related? Then go to the family trees section) Happy birthdays to Rebecca Engleberg Garbawy (4), Warren Nickel (5), Audrey Bloede (5), Lynn Weisz (6), Jordan Klotnick (7), Lori Hock (7), Danielle Glasser (7), Paul Taylor (8), Carmen Kay (8), David Bacher (9), Devora Klotnick (9), Anita Hock (10), Sarina Or (11), Yaakov Bortenstein (11), Jordana Glogauer (11), Leon Glasser (11), Louis Engleberg (12), Natalie Leibowitz (13), Nancy Burrows (13), Louise Braverman (13), Etti Nickel (14), Jules Hock (14), Ethan Galp (14), Yehuda Melamed (15), Barry Gurland (17th), (17), Joel Ezekiel (17), Sarah Glogauer (17), Mike Lewis (17), Terri Lewis (17), Zacharia Sklar (18), Geigie Santhaus (18), Yael Levy (20),Minette Skoczylas (22), Jeffrey Geffen (25), Richard Klotnick (25), Mark Or (Klotnick) (25), Melinda Shapiro (25), Henia Deul (25), Mildred Hock (25), Bruce Brod (26), Buna Friedman (26), Aviva Melamed (27), Benjamin Garbawy (27), Yaakov Hodes (28), Noah Glogauer (28), Raz Kirschner (29), Michael (Mellie) Braverman (29), Idit (Haiman) Mizrahi (30), Basil Royle (30), Dani Haberman (30), Max Melamed (31)

August Anniversaries: Happy Anniversaries to Vered and Yoav Shavit (2nd), Jennifer and Paul MacMillan (4), Adele and Bruce Cleaver (5), Amalia and Oren Klaff, (9), Anat and William Kirsh (9), Dafna and Ben-Zion Poupko (15), Deganit and Uri Haberman (15), Yael and Warren Nickel (21), Sorrel and Selwyn Bolel (22), Louis and Susan Glogauer (27), Shari and Joel Beckman (28), Jordana and Mark Glogauer (29)

This is a call for pictures and announcements! If you have a picture suitable for a picture of the week, please send it to me. Also, send me current items suitable for this column ("news"). And while you're at it, check your information in your family tree and send me updates (especially birthdays and anniversaries) to my email, levy.eitan@gmail.com