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Barbara Sofer
e-mail: bsofer@netvision.net.il |
Award-winning writer and lecturer Barbara Sofer grew up in a small town
in Connecticut, and moved to Israel in 1971. She is a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her
articles -taking on a wide range of subjects from ethnic cooking to
terrorism--have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston
Globe, Parents, Readers' Digest, Woman's Day, Hadassah Magazine and
Inside Magazine among many others. She writes a bi-weekly column
for the Friday Jerusalem Post.
Barbara has written five books and contributed to several others
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April 19, 2012
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The Human Spirit: Reasons I
Love Israel, 2012
By Barbara Sofer
Since 2004, I’ve given some 475 different
reasons I love Israel. In honor of Independence Day and Israel’s
64th Anniversary, here are 64 more.
1. Because of their experience, Hebrew University veterinary neurologists
were summoned to heal a paralyzed lion in Brazil, a country with
an area of 8.5 million square kilometers and a population of 192
million. The lion’s name was Ariel, a synonym for Jerusalem.
2. We can laugh at ourselves. The prime minister enjoyed the “Bibi-bomb”
photos which placed him at famous celebrations or monumental historic
events, and even created his own.
3. The government sent a sarcastic letter to Flytilla activists,
thanking them for choosing to protest in democratic Israel rather
than in Syria, where daily savagery pervades.
4. An Israeli cartoonist won the Golden Keg 2012 international contest
in Presov, Slovakia, for cartoons about beer.
5. British beer-writer of the year lauded the “incredible breadth”
of Israeli beer styles. Winner of the competition he judged was
the underdog Jerusalem Shapiro Brewery.
6. Sabra Israeli mathematician Elon Lindenstrauss won the prestigious
Fields Medal, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of mathematics. Today
he’s a professor at the Hebrew University, but in the IDF he served
in intelligence.....
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