Renowned actor Moshe Ivgi has joined the Green Party in his pastoral home town of Zichron Ya'acov, afraid developers might move in and ruin the scenery.
By GREER FAY CASHMANMoshe Ivgi 88 224(photo credit: Jerusalem Post Archives)
IF ACTRESS Orna Banai can sit as the representative of the Green Party on the Tel Aviv City Council, there's no reason why celebrated prize-winning actor Moshe Ivgi can't sit on the Zichron Ya'acov Council. Indeed, Ivgi is technically running for office even though he doesn't really want to be a council member. In an interview to Israel Radio, Ivgi said that he didn't expect to get in because his name was last on the list, but he had agreed to run as a demonstration of his endorsement of current council head Eli Abutbul, who is running for another term. Abutbul really cares about preserving the green areas of the city, and trying to keep them safe from real estate developers who are destroying the greenery, said Ivgi, who has lived in Zichron for 11 years and moved there because he fell in love with its natural beauty. He is very concerned that developers will take over whatever green territory is left. Hanni Nachmias, another environmentalist from the entertainment industry, is running with the Greens in Ramat Gan.
NORTH AMERICANS from all over Israel gather annually at the memorial ceremony organized by the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel to honor the memories of North American immigrants or members of their immediate families who fell in service of the State of Israel or as victims of terror. These gatherings are held during the High Holidays at the AACI Memorial Forest near the Sha'ar Hagai Junction between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. This year's ceremony will be held on Monday, October 6 at 3 p.m. Three new names have been added to the list of remembrance: Yonadav Chaim Hirschfeld, Avraham David Moses and Ma'ayan Rothenberg.
FORMER SUPREME Court President Meir Shamgar, who is known to be a jazz aficionado and who annually travels from his home in Jerusalem to Eilat for the Red Sea Jazz Festival, will be the patron on Saturday of a musical tribute at the Tel Aviv Museum to jazz pianist Danny Gottfried. Some of Israel's top jazz musicians are also slated to participate. The event, to be moderated by actor and song and dance man Ili Gorlicki. has been billed as "Rhapsody in Blue for Danny Gottfried."
IT'S ALWAYS good to have an attorney on your side, especially if he's dedicated to your interests. Lawyer Dvir Katzman, a candidate for the Tel Aviv City Council, says that he doesn't want to be mayor, nor the mayor's puppet. What he does want is to be the true ombudsman of the people, tearing down bureaucratic barriers and getting the public more involved in the decision-making processes at City Hall. Katzman, who is running as an independent, believes that tax-paying residents should have a greater say in what's happening in their city.
GREEK MUSIC and culture have always been popular in Israel and it isn't just because of some throwback to the Hellenistic period. Not everyone may be aware that Salonika was once known as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans" and up till 1939 had a Jewish population of 55,000 people out of a total population of 120,000. Most of the Jews of Salonika were of Italian origin or nationality. The community was Sephardi and was considered to be the largest and most prosperous Sephardi community in Europe and one of the most important in the world.
Almost totally eliminated by the Nazis, who sent most of its members to Auschwitz, the remnants of the Salonika Jewish community have reason to be grateful to Italian consuls at that time - Guelfo Zamboni and Guiseppe Castruccio - who courageously saved hundreds of Jews from deportation by issuing them documents allowing them to travel to Italian-occupied Athens.
From this story, researched by the late Prof. Daniel Carpi of Tel Aviv University, former Italian ambassador Gian Paolo Cavarai and the Corriere della Sera's correspondent Antonio Ferrari conceived an international project in two parts. The first, to be called Salonika 43, is a dramatization of the documentation from the Italian Consulate General in Salonika, adapted and directed by Ferdinando Ceriani, with songs and live music by singer Fevelina Meghnagi and film sequences and audio testimonies by survivors. The second part, "The Gold of the Ashes," is a rhapsodic poem by composer Dov (Dubi) Seltzer, transposing Spanish songs and ballads of 16th-century Sephardi Jewry into the symphonic genre. The Italian Institute of Culture in collaboration with Tel Aviv University will present Salonika 43 and The Gold of Ashes at the university's Smolarz Auditorium on Tuesday, September 23 in the presence of Israel's fifth president Yitzhak Navon (who is of Sephardi origin) and Italian Ambassador Luigi Mattiolo.
FORMER MACCABI Tel Aviv basketball star Doron Jamchy, though retired for several years now and a successful businessman, has continued to maintain his contacts. How could he do otherwise when his new son-in-law, Raz Zehavian, is also a hoopster - playing for Maccabi Rishon Lezion, the club for which Jamchy himself played three seasons? Jamchy's daughter Dana married Zehavian in the beautiful setting of Prime at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, and the guest list, though top heavy with hoopsters, read like a who's who in Israel's sports. Among the well-wishers were Shimon Mizrahi, Aulcie Perry, Eyal Berkowitz, Tal Brody, Effie Birenboim, Nir Sevilia, and many other household names.
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