Most days the press carries negative stories about Israel. StandWithUs, which started in California, is an organization set up to help counteract this. One of their projects is a one year Fellowship program in Israel where university candidates learn how to put Israel’s case to the world.

What can be done to repel mosquitoes. Marion Lebor gives us some excellent ideas on how to deal with these little insects.

UK born and a tailor all his life, Nat and his wife Freda followed their 2 children to Israel settling in Raanana in 1986. Nat continued to work as a tailor in Israel finally setting up a workroom in his own home.

In commemorating Judi Back’s life, generosity and devotion to the community, Marian Lebor describes the many ways Judi was involved. In appreciation of her contribution, her family and friends have established The Judi Back Scholarship Fund in her memory.

Get some exercise and fresh air for the whole family while contributing to a good cause: Come and Walk for Benji’s Home takes place on Friday May 4th. The home is built in memory of Benji Hillman, a major who was killed in the Lebanon War, three weeks after his wedding and is intended to provide a home for lone soldiers. Marian Lebor gives the details.

Bent Schalimtzek made aliyah from Denmark with his wife Pia and their three children in 1986. Although Bent had been seriously ill for two years, he was always positive and optimistic, so his death in August, soon after his 64th birthday, came as a shock. He will be greatly missed by everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him.

This summer, a quilt exhibition to commemorate 100 years of kibbutz, was held at Bet Gabriel, near Tiberias. It was organized by the Israel Quilters Association. Marian Lebor visited the exhibition and describes the unique and varied quilts many of which tell the story of the kibbutz movement.

Ankie Spitzer, widow of Israeli fencing coach Andrei Spitzer, one of 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, is at the forefront of the campaign to have just one official, public remembrance of the atrocity.