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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

South African immigrants in Israel

The 104-seat theater built by Grant and Daniella Crankshaw for their Ra'anana Center Stage venue, is under threat of closure due to the pandemic (Courtesy Center Stage)
October 7, 2021, 1:19 pm
Ra’anana’s Center Stage theater under threat of closure
English-language performance space built by South African immigrants was open for just 107 days prior to the pandemic
By Jessica Steinberg
Paul Charney (left) with house mother Isatou Sillah, who is holding child patient Sanusay Demba at Wolfson Hospital in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)
September 10, 2016, 5:19 pm
How saving kids’ lives in Africa is Zionism
Paul Charney is a South African-Israeli living in Britain, acting as a Zionist advocate while helping children in Gambia. Sound complicated? It’s not
By Jenni Frazer
South African Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba (screen capture: YouTube)
October 1, 2015, 5:39 pm
South Africa won’t push ‘anti-Semitic’ dual citizenship ban
Minister denies changes planned in policy, after Pretoria discussed law to prevent Jews from joining IDF
Obed Bapela (R), a deputy minister in South African President Jacob Zuma’s office, who threatened to summon students who visited Israel to an investigation. (YouTube)
September 7, 2015, 3:26 am
S. Africa may cancel dual citizenship to curb IDF enlistment
African National Congress considering change in bid to stop country’s Jews from serving in Israel’s army
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Barry (Dov) Sidelsky in his Jerusalem home, December 10, 2013 (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
December 12, 2013, 4:31 am
Jerusalem rabbi shares a lifetime of Mandela memories
Barry Sidelsky, eldest son of the only white man Mandela ever called ‘my boss,’ separates the mensch from the politics
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli president Ezer Weizman shakes hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Johannesburg, while South African president Nelson Mandela looks on, May 9, 1994. (photo credit: Yaacov Sa'ar/GPO)
December 6, 2013, 1:54 am
Nelson Mandela was close to Jews, resolutely loyal to Palestinians
Late South African leader had strong friendships with many in the Jewish world, but never forgot his allegiance to the PLO — or Israel’s support for the apartheid regime
By Raphael Ahren
Lisa Brink
October 24, 2012, 5:13 pm
Lisa Brink
A tale of bullets, new beginnings and finding true love
I’d fallen passionately in love with Israel as a starry-eyed 14 year old — but it wasn’t until the carjacking that my annual pilgrimages began to feel like a lifeline
Maya Isacowitz (photo credit: Ohad Romano)
May 28, 2012, 1:42 pm
Out of the north, a folk singer breaks forth
Singer/songwriter Maya Isacowitz takes on the Israeli music scene
By Jessica Steinberg
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