The inspiring story of this lady who learnt arts and craft skills at Beth Protea retirement home and today produces interesting and lovely creative work that she is able to sell.

After much deliberation Gloria Deutsch decided to change her worn out, real grass lawn for synthetic grass. She is thrilled with the result – constant greenness to look at, and water saved.

The Israeli Quilting Association held an exhibition at Shalom Towers in Tel Aviv.

Are you often looking for new ideas for gifts? How about a miniature – hand made, to one twelfth inch scale? A model where everything is a perfect replica. Small rooms, shops and gardens are popular themes.

“Third Proof Reader” Gloria Deutsch does the final proof reading for many of the ESRA articles. Grammar and spelling will have been corrected but there may still be mistakes that Gloria will find, read about her ‘bête noire’ in the usage of English punctuation

A few ideas for saving water on a practical level and an invitation to readers to add their suggestions too.

Amit Dressler owns a successful and unusual gift store in Raanana, but this is not all he does. Amit is a very active volunteer helping to care for disabled adults. "There are so many needy causes – I simply don't understand why everyone doesn't volunteer for something," he says.

The Anglo community of Raanana and surrounding towns was shocked and deeply saddened by the news that Stuart Elgrod had lost his hard-fought battle for life.