#: The opera stars of Nabucco fired two little children wish me shabbat shalom 15.11.2020

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From: Natanya Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 11:55 AM Subject: The opera stars of Nabucco fired, two little children wish me shabbat shalom

 I woke up in the evening to hear thunder. Actually I was glad to have the opportunity of spending the morning at home. I always have the opportunity but hear I had the backing of the weather. Last night I was out from 15.00 to 20.00 and walked with the demonstrations of which there were two. Eight kilometre. I sometimes do eight kilometre usually it is divided at various times of the day. This time I did not manage to walk with the demonstrators from the  bridge to Balfour as there were only about 200 or them. I had three young women who stayed behind with me and did not feel comfortable. I told them to go on but they said that individual demonstrators had been attacked and they were there to help stragglers. I told them I would close my jacket and no one would see my Leibowitz shirt. We had a water bomb thrown on us but it hit the side. I am so glad when people say I am an anarchist. At my age it is a compliment that I can still be considered so dangerous. And I wonder how a young man in his 20s can call an old lady a prostitute…..but maybe that is all he can afford and at least the elderly ladies who work in that profession are earning their own livings. Not like the Balfour family with one son nearly in his 30s who has never done an honest days work in his life and when in the army had a nice safe job. Which he did not carry out very well.

 Two of the young demonstrators.

    Probably some people will see this as another one of Netanyahu’s achievements but Ethiopians do not have the same idea. He is keeping up the process of making peace with questionable rulers.

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SkNfawnuD

  “The recent announcement of a normalization agreement between Jerusalem and Khartoum has stirred feelings of anger and betrayal among many of Israel’s first generation of Ethiopian immigrants, who made the difficult pilgrimage from Sudan to Israel on foot over 40 years ago”.

  I had a very pleasant experience . About a week ago I met a woman and two really cute children  in the wadi and she saw that I had been collecting bottles. I explained to her about Mercaz Rachel and she said that they had about 4 big bags of bottles which they had been collecting for a needy family. The family had not come to take them so today I went with Karin to pick them up. She had put them in her yard which was very much on a slope and I was trying to help Karin to carry them down when, because of the slope and the heaviness of the bottles, I fell into her gate and could not  get  back on to my feet. I yelled for Karin and Lavana came running out of the house. Anyhow I was not really hurt, just knocked my shoulder a bit. But this evening Lavana sent me a message to ask how I was and I said fine. And then she sent me two voice messages from each of her little one so wish me shabbat shalom. A small thing? Yes but it made a good ending to a good day.

 Today’s TOI:

German whose grandfather bought Jew’s shop in 1938 ‎calls descendant to apologize

Benjamin Heidelberger was forced to sell to Wilhelm Edelmann due to Nuremberg laws; Edelmann's grandson found Heidelberger's 83‎-year-old Israeli granddaughter to make amends

https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-whose-grandfather-bought-jews-shop-in-1938‎-calls-descendant-to-apologize/

 It is hard to watch the tv. Each night people who have lost their livelihoods have the chance to speak and pour out their grief and fear. Netanyahu appears every night with piggy twinkling eyes telling us how well he is doing. Except for the beginning when he wanted to make a dramatic appearance and spoke to the felafel seller who was in tears he does not seem to be very affected by what is happening to these people. Every night we see people trying to tell what is happening to them. Men who would never  before have thought they were capable of crying in public, start speaking and then the tears come to their eyes and they turn aside in shame, try to speak again and then make a motion with their hands….”Enough, enough” and walk away from the cameras with the their shoulders shaking. Last  night I watched the opera stars of the Israeli opera weep as fifty of them were told that they were to be fired. And, in-between the interview with them, they sang the slave song from Nabucco and cried with them. I remembered the night  I sat with Charles and Arthur at Nabucco with tears in my eyes and pride in my heart as I listened to them singing  “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion” but how different from last night when I cried with them.

 Natanya