Grapevine, August 24, 2025: An OK Israeli

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

Australia does not deny entry visas to all Israeli or ex-officers.

Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Special Envoy of Israel for fighting anti-Semitism, is expected to arrive in Australia this week for a question and answer session on world anti-Semitism. She will discuss Israel’s strategy on how to fight anti -Semitism and focus on how Jewish communities around the world can work together to eliminate this scourge.

He helps that Cotler-Wunsh is a brilliant speaker who is well known in a large part of the Jewish world and beyond, and happens to be the daughter of an international renown fighter and the former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler. She too is a political creature and is a former member of Knesset.

His visit to Sydney is under the auspices of the Zionist Council of New South Wales.

Hadassah to honor influential ambassadors in Jerusalem

■ If you say the name Barbara Goldstein or Barbara Sofer in the Hadassah circles, whether in Israel or the United States, there will be no need to explain who they are. Barbara Goldstein, who has been so part of Hadassah since her youth, has missed her own fiançaille party at the late Cantor Morty Goldstein because she was busy during a Hadassah event.

Morty did not mind being a Hadassah husband and was favorable throughout their marriage. Barbara Goldstein has long been the ambassador of Israel as a whole and, before that, represented Hadassah, the Zionist organization of women in America, in executive organizations of various Zionist organizations and accompanied by Hadassah missions in Israel, Poland and elsewhere.

Barbara Sofer, who is well known to readers of Jerusalem Post through her column in the magazine of the newspaper of the newspaper, has for many years the director of public relations for Hwzoa. As such, she made films, writes articles and spoken at many events in Israel and through the United States.

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The two Barbaras will be honored on Tuesday, September 9 at a gala dinner at the start of the Heritage Center in Jerusalem, where they will be awarded with the largest Hadassah Israel – the manufacturer of Jerusalem – in recognition of their extraordinary community, leadership and contributions to Hadassah Israel and the Hadassah community as a whole.

The two women are frequently described as “inspiring”.

Hadassah supporters and activists and activists Annabelle Yuval and Miriam Zefania.

The product’s product will go to the Gandel Rehabilitation Center in Mount Scopus to buy additional equipment for the treatment of injured soldiers and victims of terrorism.

Hebrew Catholics meet the Pope in Rome

■ Vatican News recently published an article by the father. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik and Karol Darmoros about a group of Hebrew language Catholics who have gone from Israel to Rome to receive a blessing from Pope Leo and to pray for peace.

While some of its members had already met Pope John Paul II and various upper members of the Vatican, it was the first time that they met as vicariate to meet the Pope.

Everyone in the group lives in Israel and speaks Hebrew.

“We are happy that we can meet the Holy Father. I told him that we are Hebrew Catholics, we have seven communities in Israel and that we ask him not to forget ourselves,” said the leader, the father. Piotr Zelazko, vicar patriarchal of Saint-Jacques for Hebrew language Catholics in Israel.

The Holy Father welcomed the pilgrims with a smile and an open heart, he said. “It was the culmination of our pilgrimage. The pope blessed us and told us. It was an incredibly moving meeting. ” Abi, one of the pilgrims, said he felt at home in Rome. “We are 100% Israeli and 100% Catholic, and we pray for peace,” he said. Another pilgrim, Nadav, stressed that the roots of the church are in the Holy Land. “Our boss, St. James, was Jewish and spoke Hebrew. We are a sign of hope, and we pray for peace in the Holy Land between Israelis and Palestinians,” he said.

The group was photographed proudly standing behind an Israeli flag, which two of its members held from corner to the corner, but the flag was absent in photos with the Pope.

Israel faces cultural threats but failures take the spotlight

■ Eurovision is still in nine months, but some countries are already threatening to withdraw if Israel is authorized to compete. Austria, which will host the spectacular event next year, and Israel is relatively good, but the final decision to know if Israel can remain with the Ubu, which manages Eurovision independently of the host country.

Israel faces a number of cultural threats and boycotts. The International Harp competition, which was to take place in Jerusalem in December, was canceled due to the low registration and the cancellation of participation by artists who had registered for fear of contacting their musical reputation by appearing on stage in Israel.

But not everyone has this attitude.

The harps may be in Jerusalem in December, but failures will be in it.

The Federation of the Chess of Israel, which this year celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, announced that an international chess tournament will take place in Jerusalem from November 30 to December 3 and features 12 of the best international chess players, notably the reigning world champion, the big international masters and the members of the national team of Israel. “This event is not only a tournament, but a cultural celebration with a clear message that Israel is here,” said ICF CEO Gil Borochovsky. The event is co-organized by the ICF, the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Municipality of Jerusalem.

The Minister of Culture and Sport, Miki Zohar, is passionate about chess who shares the excitement of the president of the ICF, Dr. Zvika Barkai, that the world media focuses on Israel in December will be on conquests of a different type.

Chamber music festival to present Strauss and Ravel

■ Even if the harp competition has been put in mites balls, the 27th music festival in the Jerusalem Chamber will take place from September 9 to 13 at YMCA, opposite the King David hotel. The artistic director, Elena Bashkirova, who is also a first class pianist who will play during the festival, is happy that this year’s program includes two important birthdays – the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Strauss and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel.

Other performers include the baritones Thomas Bauer and Thomas Hampson, the instrumentalists of Cordes Noga Shaham, Katrin Spiegel, Astrig Siranossian, Christoph Poppin, Nitzan Bartana, Fedor Rudin, Madeleine Carruzzo, Sharon Cohen, Matan Onsivitch, Korit Yamagami, Hanan Meltzer, oving, kaorit. Karizna, Tatiana Samouil, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Boris Brovtsym, Mark Karlinsky, Band Oris Brovtsyn; Pianists Yulianna Avdeeva, Alexander Melnikov, Anna Keiserman and Amit Dolberg; CLARRINETTIST Pablo Barragan, Horn Player Bar Zemach, Flatist Roy Amotz; Oboist Nick Deutsch; And the bassoonist Mor Biron. Before the concerts of 9, 11, 12 and 13 September, Gaby Shefler will perform on the Carillon.

The total program offers a great musical variety – something for everyone, from classics to something a little more modern.

Joan Collins still dazzling at 92

■ The actress, author, columnist and philanthrope awarded Joan Collins must have the most incredible DNA. Collins, 92, who claims that she has never undergone cosmetic surgery other than a few botox strokes, is still one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood despite her advanced age. Born in London of a Jewish father and an Anglican mother, she still works, and her next appearance on the screen will be like Wallis Simpson, the American divorced for which Edward VIII abandoned the throne.

Today’s royals probably do not think much, but it was not for Wallis Simpson, Elizabeth would never have gone on the throne to become the oldest monarch in Britain, and his son would not be King Charles III.

At the time of her death in 2022, Elizabeth had been queen for 70 years, exceeding the record for her great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who had reigned for 63 years.

Collins, who is currently on vacation in the south of France, has released photographs of herself in a sexy white swimsuit and a shiny and strawberry and wide-tip hat. She barely showed a sign of wrinkles, no varicose veins and legs that would always attract a wolf whistle. Lady lucky.