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A senior Israeli business del-egation consisting of 15 execu-tives representing diverse sec-tors of key industries visited the Philippines in February.

Headed by Ran Cohen, a former Israeli industry and trade minister and current Presi-dent of the Israel-Asia Chamber of Commerce, the delegation is looking at investment pros-pects in major industries. These include: machinery, security, real estate, water treatment and technology, agriculture, food production, aviation, business-process outsourcing, shipping, tourism and diamonds.

“Two-way trade between us and Israel is unfortunately just between US$200 million to US$250 million last year. We intend to triple that,” said Phil-ippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) President Miguel Varela, during his meet-ing with the delegation at a business matching session and forum.

“These numbers can grow at an unprecedented pace in the next few years,” Varela added, citing growing interest from both sides to boost trade and investment relations. He also

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regional newsA statue unveiled to honour Tsunami aid 3-8

Business newsTvinci wins contract with Singapore’s MediaCorp 10-12

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art and CultureTrojan Women performed at the Cameri Theater 22-24

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was held in March 2012.

More than 80 individuals from various industries and government agencies attended. The forum highlighted the po-tentials of both nations in terms of products, import-export accessibility, and investment incentives.

The Philippines and Israel have had active trade ties since 1947. The Philippines was the only Asian nation to vote in fa-vour of UN partition resolution that created the State of Israel and that formed the links be-tween the two nations. Philip-pine trade activities with Israel rank at 37.

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noted that much of the trade be-tween Israel and the Philippines is mostly in favour of Israel.

Also accompanying the del-egation was Doron Hemo, Is-rael’s Trade Attache for Taiwan, Singapore and Philippines. “We don’t have a commercial at-taché in the Philippines and we would like to have one. Right now, we want to expand our trade considering that we have reached US$2 billion in two-way trade with areas like Tai-wan,” commented Hemo.

Israel’s two-way trade with the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has reached US$28 billion.

One of the Philippine prov-inces that welcomed the delega-tion was Zamboanga city. Presi-dent of the local business cham-ber, Pocholo Soliven, met with the delegation and government officials and discussed trade op-portunities in Taguig City. Co-hen was accompanied by Israel’s Ambassador to the Philippines, Menashe Bar-On, and Generoso Calonge, the Philippine Ambas-sador to Israel.

Soliven, a well-respected business leader in Mindanao, underscored the strategic loca-tion of Zamboanga as the “Front Door” to the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore economic growth corridor.

This area will serve as a vi-tal link once the ASEAN inte-gration is realised over the next few years, according to local economic experts.

Members of the delegation were very positive and up-beat about what they saw and highlighted investment oppor-tunities in Zamboanga, areas around Manila, the country’s capital, Cebu and Palawan as the key areas for further discus-sions.

The delegation also met with the Philippine Vice Presi-dent Jejomar Binay, who re-cently visited Israel in October 2012.

“We came here as a friend of the Philippines. We would like to succeed and innovate together with you, collaborate with you,” concluded Cohen.

Israel and the Philippines established the Israel Chamber of Commerce of the Philip-pines (ICCP) in 2009, which maintains close liaison with other foreign chambers as well as business organisations such as PCCI.

More recently, the first official Philippine- Israel Business Forum in collabora-tion with the Bureau of Trade Promotion of the Department of Trade and Industry, the em-bassy of Israel and the ICCP

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A statue unveiled to honour Tsunami aid

Two years after a massive Tsu-nami ravaged the eastern sea-board of Japan, the people of one of the hardest hit towns, Yanmei-Sanriku, have inau-gurated a statue honouring the assistance that Israel pro-vided in their darkest hour.

The statue entitled, Rebirth and Resurrection, was produced by Israeli artist David Susanna, and was installed in front of the municipal offices and temporary Israeli hospitals established in the town.

Immediately after the Tsuna-mi hit in 2011, an Israeli medi-cal delegation was dispatched and worked tirelessly to aid the people of the entire Tohoku

Netanyahu re-elected as Israel’s prime minister

In a closely run election, Benjamin Netanyahu, Head of the Likkud Party was declared the winner of Israel’s election which was recently held in Janu-ary. Netanyahu will seek to build a broad governing coalition to tackle a range of challenges especially se-curity.

Netanyahu was quoted saying he wants to “build a broad governing coalition to face serious security threats to Israel, including Syria’s chemical weapons and Iran’s nuclear programme and that Israel must be ready for any development in the turbulent region.”

Netanyahu’s ticket won the most seats in the par-liamentary election, but with his traditional hardline and religious allies, hold-ing only a slim majority in parliament, Netanyahu has reached out to centrist par-ties in hopes of building a broad coalition.

Israeli doctors and a Japanese woman whose baby they deliv-ered amidst the devastation two years ago.

President Peres Chinese New Year Greeting

Postdoctoral scholarships granted to IndiaAs part of educational ties between Israel and India, as many as 66 Indian postdoc-toral scholars will travel to Israel in the coming months to pursue research at top uni-versities. The researchers will benefit from three-year schol-arships granted by the Israeli government.

In the framework of the scholarship programme, fel-lows from IIT Delhi, Osmania University, universities in Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai and other leading academic in-stitutions in India will conduct research in a wide variety of fields, including immunology, genetics, neurobiology, bio-

informatics, computer sciences, law and economics.

The research will be under-taken at leading universities in Israel, including the He-brew University of Jerusalem, Technion, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Open University.

“The annual amount per scholar is 100,000 shekel (NIS). That is equivalent to about R14.7 lakh a year, for three years. Of this sum, two thirds is given directly by the government and one third by the university (which is also

government supported). The cri-teria for selection are academic excellence of the candidate, academic value of the research proposal and interest of the con-cerned university department in the subject matter,” officials from the Israeli Embassy said.

This postdoctoral scholar-ship initiative was conceived during the visit of Israel’s Fi-nance Minister Yuval Steinitz to India in December 2011. Steinitz had met then Minister for Human Resources, Kapil Sibal and the two pledged their support to bolster Indo-Israel academic cooperation.

A call for research propos-

als for yet another round of this postdoctoral scholarship programme has already been announced. Applications can be submitted through Israeli univer-sities. “The second round means that in addition to those who have already received the schol-arships, Indian researchers can apply for another round of schol-arships (potentially up to 100 in number),” the officials said.

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region. The new sculpture sym-bolises Israeli solidarity with the suffering of the Japanese people.

The inauguration was at-tended by the mayor of Yanmei-Sanriku, numerous other mu-nicipal officials, the mayor of a nearby town who initiated contact with the Israelis in the aftermath of the Tsunami, repre-sentatives of various aid organi-sations and a large number of school children.

Attendees were treated to a short concert by famed Japa-nese violinist Nimura, but the highlight of the ceremony was an emotional meeting between

The statue: Rebirth and Resurrection

In his annual Chinese New Year Greeting, Israel’s Presi-dent Shimon Peres wished the Chinese community Xin Nian Kuai Le! Shana Tova!

In the Chinese horoscope, this year is the Snake Years, which are sixth in the cycle, fol-lowing the Dragon Years, and recur every twelfth year. This year the Year of the Snake fell on 11 -13 February 2013.

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Here is a summary of his message greeting:

“The coming 12 Snake years may be the most significant time for the future of all of us, for the world, for China and for the Jewish people. I am sure, these 12 years will be a great period for China.

I’m telling our friends here - if you want to know how to bring an end to your poverty, go to China and learn. China is the greatest lesson in history, to start at the lowest point and to arrive at the highest point. The highest point in my judgment is re-specting the old culture of thousands and thousands of years, and keep them fresh to this day, and at the same time on the line to climb at the highest degree of modern science and technology. It’s the rare combination to see greatness of age and promise of youth.

I think the world will change too. You should see many changes in science and technology. I think in those two domains China and Israel can cooperate deeply, profoundly and friendly. We have an instant understanding of China because we carry the greatest respect for China. And since we have the same age, but not same numbers, we can cooperate fully and freely, in the most important domains of our life, which is science, technology, agriculture, medicine, and the latest core for research, the human brain. If you should know more about human brain, you should know about ourselves and how to become a better person.

We pray in Jerusalem for China for a greatest achievement for the hope she spreads.” Shimon Peres

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It’s a dogs life! Chief of India’s Air Force visits Israel The Chief of Air Staff and Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the In-dian Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne, arrived in Israel on 19 January for his first visit to the country in his current position. The visit lasted four days.

Air Marshal Browne was hosted by the Commander of the Israel Air Force, Ma-jor General Amir Eshel. The marshal, previously served as India’s first Defense Attaché to Israel between 1997 to 2000, where he set up the defense wing in the Indian embassy.

Marshal Browne was re-ceived at Camp Rabin (Kirya) Base by an IDF honour guard consisting of soldiers from the ground, air and naval forces, to the sounds of the national an-thems of Israel and India.

During the course of his visit, Browne also conducted meetings with Chief of the General Staff Lt. General Benny Gantz, and with Israel’s Minister of Defense, Ehud

Barak. The meetings focused on cooperation between the two nations’ militaries.

According to local Indian media, Air Chief Browne was looking to upgrade the coun-try’s fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the status of a joint venture air defence system. Officials from India’s ministry confirmed the two main projects between India and Israel are the upgrade of all its UAV’s with the medium

Anil Kumar Browne, right greeted by Amir Eshel

The Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei held a seminar in January to pro-mote bilateral exchanges in the area of clean technology.

P a r t i c i p a n t s i n c l u d e d three Israeli companies in the clean tech industry who shared their experiences with their Taiwanese counterparts at

the seminar.

The agenda included discus-sions on environmental protec-tion, green projects, renewable energy and sea water desali-nation. Alona Sheafer Karo, Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Pro-tection, was also in attendance at the seminar.

Clean-tech seminar held in Taiwan

It was that time of the year when Jewish communities around the world dress up in fancy dress to attend the festival of Purim and listen to reading of the Megilah.

This year, the festival commenced on 24 February on Shabbat evening. Spotted amongst the Hong Kong Ohel Leah Synagogue members was Philip Jay, Publisher, Jewish Times Asia, disguised as a dog! Not sure if this is one way of becoming more affectionate or what publishers get up to in their free time impersonating animals. Judging by the outfit, an aggressive one!

range-surface to air missile sys-tem being co-developed.

The Air Marshal also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Me-morial Museum, where he laid a wreath in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust.

Lastly, he also visited the Memorial of Indian Soldiers in Jerusalem at the Indian War Cemetery, in commemoration of the sacrifice of Indian fallen sol-diers who helped liberate Haifa in 1918, in WWI.

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Chabad opens first Mikvah in Tokyo

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First ever Hebrew language and culture conference at JNUA three day conference on Hebrew Language and Cul-ture: Reception, Self-Con-ception and Intercultural Re-lations, took place between 28-30 January, 2013 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-sity (JNU), in New Delhi.

The event, organised by the School of Language, Lit-erature and Culture Studies in JNU’s Centre of Arabic and African Studies, hosted dozens of leading Hebrew and Judaism scholars from Israel and India. The confer-ence aimed at exploring the different aspects of Hebrew; the language, the people, the culture, the old and the new.

Amongst the subjects discussed in the conference were: The Revival of the He-brew Language, India in the Rabbinic Literature, Compar-isons between Judaic Thought and Gandhi’s Philosophy,

Raanan Rein holding a gift plate with Roderick Wong

Chabad in Tokyo completed a construction of a new mikvah in January, a much welcome development for Tokyo’s Jew-ish women who previously had no choice but to make the 325 mile trip to Kobe, for the nearest mikvah.

With construction in Japan at three times the cost of a simi-lar project elsewhere and end-less delays, it took several years until Rabbi Mendi and Chana Sudakevich, Chabad represen-tatives to Tokyo since 2000, finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel, or the water at the bottom of the pool.

Israel’s Ambassador to Ja-pan, Nissim Ben Shitrit, was also in attendance to join a grand opening. He described the Mikvah’s completion as nothing short of a “miracle.”

The Sudakevichs credit Yair

Levy, a Kobe resident, whose generosity got the cement trucks rolling. Levy, an Israeli living in Japan for many years, was inspired to support the new mikvah because he appreciates how integral it is to Jewish life. The mikvah is named Mikvah Mordechai after Mr. Levy’s fa-ther.

Chabad representatives from China and Hong Kong joined the celebration. Mrs. Dini Greenberg, Chabad rep-resentative to Shanghai where the first mikvah opened seven years ago, offered the women Jewish perspectives on mar-riage and family life.

Chana Sudakevich expects the new mikvah will pique the curiosity of Jewish women in Tokyo, and more will incorpo-rate the mitzvah in their lives.

At the Tel Aviv University, se-nior representatives from the campus warmly welcomed a delegation from City Univer-sity of Hong Kong headed by Professor Roderick Wong, Vice President, accompanied by Dr. David Cheng, Associ-ate Vice President.

The main focus of the group was on joint academic coopera-tion and both parties found ma-jor areas of interest to explore for collaboration.

The group met with Vice President Professor Raanan Rein and Professor Danny Leviatan, pro-Rector, as well as Ms Orly Fromer, Advisor to the President for Resource De-velopment. Further individual meetings were held with the Deans of both the Faculty of Management and Faculty of Engineering as well as the head of Tel Aviv University’s Inter-national programmes.

City University delegation head to Tel Aviv University

image of the academic pas-sion found in Israel for Indian culture, heritage, history and languages.”

“The key to our mutual academic fascination is the fact that both Israel and India have managed to preserve their ancient heritage while constantly moving forward with the rapidly changing world,” Ushpiz added.

Hebrew and Jewish Literature and Culture in India as well as various studies of India’s Jew-ish communities.

Israel’s Ambassador to In-dia, Alon Ushpiz, was amongst senior delegates that attended. In his inauguration address, he thanked the organisers from JNU and said that “the impres-sive depth of the discussions in the conference is a mirror

From left to right: Dean of JNU School of Languages Prof. M.A. Islahi, Ambassador of Israel Alon Ushpiz, Rector of JNU Prof. Sudha Pai, Chairperson of the Centre for Arabic & African Studies Prof. A. Basheer Ahmad and Rector of Ashkelon Academic College

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Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorated in Vietnamand ThailandAs all communities around the world observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to remember the six million victims of the Holocaust dur-ing WWII, Israel’s Embassy in Vietnam held its first offi-cial ceremony in the country.

In coordination with the representative office of the UN in Vietnam, Africa-Middle East Research Institute and University of Social Sciences and Humanities, a solemn and meaningful event took place in Hanoi on 24 January.

An opening address was given by Israel’s Ambassador to Vietnam Mrs. Meirav Eilon Shahar.

“The scale and destroyment of massacre was extremely dev-asting,” Shahar said.

“The event was not only for remembrance, but also today for warning and protection of eter-nal memory of the Holocaust and renew our commitment to human rights and mutual under-standing” Shahar added.

the impulse of switching chan-nels and shrouding itself in false comfort when seeing disturbing images and the suffering of oth-ers, and urged to resist injustice, intolerance and indifference to prevent and end atrocities such as those that took place in Cambodia and Rwanda or those taking place in Syria today.

“Hitler was able to carry out his plans because too many good men decided to turn their heads, to look the other way, to distance themselves from the pain and suffering of their neighbours,” he said.

A screening of a person-alised video message sent by Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, lent the oc-casion a sense of eminent state-liness.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, came es-pecially to Thailand to give his keynote address entitled: Lessons from the Holocaust for Asia. He spoke of the ignorant use of Nazi symbols by Catho-lic school children in Chiang Mai, T-shirts and jeans adorned with Nazi swastikas worn by the young in newly democra-tised Myanmar, and India where young businessmen purchase the book Mein Kampf, as they have been told it is the product of a highly organised mind.

Embracing these symbols and the horrors they represent will ultimately inspire intimi-dation of minorities and hate crimes, he said. Quoting the late Simon Wiesenthal from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, when asked if the Holocaust could happen again, his reply was yes, if three conditions exist: hate, technology and government cri-sis.

Dr. Sombat Suwanpitak, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Thai Ministry of Education, spoke, noting that it was impor-tant to look back at history to make the future a better place. Thailand may consider includ-ing Holocaust education in the Thai school curriculum.

Mechai Pattana Bamboo School

Bearing witness to his na-tion’s past, the German Ambas-sador to Thailand Mr. Rolf Pe-ter Gottfried Schulze, expressed his government’s obligation that racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism will never again take hold in his country or in Europe.

A moving rendit ion of Imagine by John Lennon was sung by the young students from the Mechai Pattana Bam-

boo School, and violinist, Jona-than Glonek and pianist Usa Napawan played an evocative and eerie piece entitled Vidui by Ernest Bloch followed by He-brew Melody by Josef Achron.

An accompanying exhibi-tion entitled The Courage to Remember from the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, was also translated into Thai, and the sequence of the horrors that took place during the Nazi

era was clearly conveyed to all. The event ended with attendees from all nations silently lining up, each in turn reading out a single name, place of birth, age and place of death of one person who perished during that dark era. Eleven candles, representing 11 million victims, were lit in their memory.

Additional material for Bangkok supplied by Ines Ehrlich.

In Bangkok, on 4 Febru-ary, Bangkok’s UN Conference Center filled to the brim with members of the diplomatic corps, Thai and expat dignitar-ies, elderly people from coun-tries worldwide and a choir of children from the Mechai Patta-na Bamboo School. The theme was The Courage To Care and the event was jointly organised by the UN Economic and So-cial Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the Embassy of Israel.

Simon Roded, Israel’s Am-bassador to Thailand, spoke of the need for humankind to fight

Meirav Eilon Shahar

Simon Rode lighting the memorial candles

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Chabad celebrates the Jewish Journey in Eastern Asia

To celebrate the collective ‘Journeys of Jews’ through-out Eastern Asia and the monumental contribution and growth of Chabad, over 200 people joined ‘Journeys’, the Annual Dinner of Chabad of China on 24 January.

The evening included a specially choreographed perfor-mance of Chassidic and Asian dancers, a sumptuous dinner buffet catered by the Aberdeen Marina Club and an inspiring address by the guest speaker.

“Wherever you are in life, physically, spiritually and emo-tionally, Chabad is there to as-sist you on your journey,” stated Head Shliach Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon.

Attendees at the dinner

Rabbi Avtzon dancing with Shluchim

Left to Right: Isaac Kamhin (Hineni Award), Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon and Andre Rofe (Etz Chaim Award)

Chassidic dance performance

Attended by Shluchim and Shluchot from throughout China and Eastern Asia, the evening celebrated the “home away from home” Chabad of-fers in China, Vietnam, Japan and Korea and the services that the fifteen plus centres provide

in a myriad of ways. A testi-mony to Chabad’s open door policy was the keynote address by Monique Sara Levy, who met Chabad while working as a project manager on one of the biggest developments on the Cotai Strip in Macau.

The Italian born Levy told of her upbringing “in a very watered-down” Jewish home, losing her husband and then re-locating to China with her two sons, Gillo and Jonathan.

“Chabad inspired us during our two short years in Hong Kong and will inspire us for the rest of our lives,” said Levy who flew in from Tel Aviv to

attend the event. “Without a doubt, meeting Chabad has been a turning point for me, my children and, please G-d one day, my grandchildren.”

The event also provided an opportunity for the community to pay tribute to this year’s honorees for their significant involvement and contribution to Jewish life in China and be-yond. A unique challah board made of rice and custom-crafted in Vietnam was presented to the two honorees Andre Rofe (Etz Chaim Award) and Isaac Kam-hin (Hineni Award).

Chabad of Shenzhen, direct-ed by Rabbi Sholem Ber Cha-zan, also made a presentation to its supporter Serge Choukroun, who is the key sponsor of the

soon-to-be-dedicated Chabad House there.

Each guest received a newly published Chabad of Asia Trav-el Guide that contains over 100 pages of important information for the Jewish traveller. Extra copies of this guide are avail-able upon request.


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Korean delegation to boost tourism

Paying tribute to Scottish poet Robert Burns

The Scottish piper opening the evenings festivities

Burns Night , Hong Kong styleCelebrating Burns Night has become an annual event at Ohel Leah Synagogue in Hong Kong. This year, as it fell on a Friday evening, this much an-ticipated festivity, hosted by Richard Winston, became an ‘Apres Burns’ Night on Tues-day 5 February.

Twenty guests joined in the ‘spirit’ of the occasion and were piped into the King David Room by a piper in full Scots regalia. During the evening a special dinner was served including the inevitable and inestimable kosher haggis. This gourmet delight was accompa-nied by five special malt whis-kies– Cragganmore, Clynelish, Glenlivet , Glenfarclas and Lagavulin.

As a further tribute to the life of the distinguished Scot-tish poet, a number of his works were read by the assembled guests whose significant contri-bution to the success of the eve-

ning should be acknowledged as their brave attempts at a Scots accent were almost successful!

The evening ended with a toast to the Scottish Bard and a vow to continue celebrating this unique occasion.

Israel’s ambassador to Japan replaces Hitler with MosesIsraeli Ambassador to Japan Nissim Ben-Shitrit recently visited a book store at a To-kyo Metro station and was shocked to discover a Japa-nese Manga comic book with a drawing of Adolf Hitler on its cover.

An inquiry revealed that the book, which had been distrib-uted in many book stands in Ja-pan, was a Japanese translation of the Nazi leader’s autobiogra-phy, Mein Kampf.

Following the inquiry, the ambassador scheduled a meet-ing with the comic book’s pub-lisher, which was also attended by two of the book’s illustrators.

Ben-Shitrit expressed his discontent with the publica-tion and explained why it was so problematic. The publisher apologised, saying he did not think the book would offend anyone’s feelings.

The publisher told the am-bassador that the Mein Kampf comic book had sold tens of thousands of copies and was already sold out. As he could

able that an enlightened per-son would read Hitler’s book. Luckily, the book has exhausted itself and is no longer on the shelves.

“Now I’m hoping that young people in Japan will be exposed to the heroes of the Bible. I don’t think that they maliciously intended to publish something anti-Semitic. It’s a small company that publishes Manga books, and they thought their readers would be inter-ested in it.”

not repair what was done, Ben-Shitrit tried to come up with an idea to tilt the balance.

After contemplating several solutions, the publisher ac-cepted the ambassador’s offer to issue a Manga version of the Bible stories.

During the meeting, the par-ties agreed to publish three dif-ferent books.

The Bible stories comic books are now offered for sale in Japan’s book stores both in Japanese and in English.

“When I saw the drawing of Hitler with swastikas and Japa-nese captions, I was shocked,” says Ben-Shitrit. “It’s unthink-

The Manga comic book

A delegation of senior repre-sentatives of South Korea’s tourism industry visited Is-rael in February in a bid to in-crease public awareness of the country as an enticing tourist destination. The trip coincid-ed with the annual Interna-tional Mediterranean Tour-ism Market Fair, represented by 30 different countries at the Israel Trade Fairs and Con-vention Center in Tel Aviv.

South Korea’s Ambassador to Israel Kim Il-soo, hosted an event for senior embassy staff and representatives of the Israeli and Korean tourism industries. The meeting focused on ways to increase the flow of tourists between the two countries.The ambassador stressed that while there is very close Israeli-Kore-an cooperation in trade, in terms of tourism “Korea is at the very bottom of public awareness.” He also noted that the majority of Koreans are pro-Israel. The

number of tourists that visit Is-rael from South Korea is larger than from any other Asian country. In 2012, some 40,000 tourists visited Israel, while just over 12,000 Israeli tourists va-cationed in South Korea.

An embassy spokesman em-phasised that many South Ko-reans identify with the history of Israel and the bookshelves of numerous family homes hold a translation of the Talmud.

“It is not only a country that produces sophisticated cellphones and cars, but also a country that offers a rich cul-ture, that combines old and new, traditional and modern, along-side nature reserves, peaceful islands, exotic cuisine and a rich history,” Il-soo said.

This year marks the 51st anniversary of diplomatic rela-tions between Israel and South Korea, which share the same 1948 birth year.

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Tvinci wins contract with Singapore’s MediaCorp

Israeli diamond industry returns to India for show

Tvinci Limited, a leading POTT (Pay Over The Top) platform provider, announced that it has been selected by MediaCorp, Singapore’s lead-ing media company, to power its new cross device lifestyle service, Toggle.

Toggle will be available on PC, iPhone, iPad and connected TV. The service is available to consumers as a subscriptions service or as a pay per view service, and offers both linear and video-on-demand, con-tent, and access to a library of programming. The service will initially offer 11 live channels and thousands of hours of con-tent, including both local and Hollywood content. The service is expected to go on air from February.

“Consumers are increas-ingly using connected devices both as companion devices and as second screens, and so we made a strategic decision to make Toggle not only a direct way for them to watch MediaCorp content anytime and anywhere, but also a gateway to a brand new TV experience,” said Philip Koh, Managing Di-rector, Convergent Media Divi-

sion, MediaCorp.

“We’re happy to have Tog-gle powered by Tvinci’s OTT 2.0 backend, and confident in the way that our users’ devices and content are managed and delivered. Tvinci’s team demon-strated great technical acumen through the quality and speed at which Toggle has been de-veloped and launched,” added Koh.

“Toggle is the perfect exam-ple of a leading media company setting the standard in its local market,” said Ofer Shayo, CEO of Tvinci.

“The amount of content consumed via connected de-vices is increasing steadily every month. Leading operators and media companies such as MediaCorp understand the need to introduce an over the top of-fering,” added Shayo.

“We are excited to have launched Toggle with Media-Corp as our first project in the pan-Asian region, and we are looking forward to deploying our platform in other territories in 2013,” Shayo concluded.

Tvinci linked up with Me-

diaCorp following a strategic visit by MediaCorp executives in Israel in 2011 arranged by the Israel Export and Interna-tional Cooperation Institute.

Tvinci was founded in 2007 by Shayo and Business Devel-opment Director Ido Wiesen-berg. Last year, it tripled its rev-enue, with contracts including Finland’s largest telecommu-nications company Elisa, and Dutch company Chellomeida.

The Israeli diamond indus-try is heading back to Mum-bai for the IIJS Signature Show on 22-25 February 2013, for the third year in a row. The Israeli Diamond In-stitute Group of Companies (IDI) will once again have a national pavilion, featuring some of Israel’s leading dia-mond companies.

India is a key market for Israeli diamonds, and as such has become a major marketing destination for Israeli com-panies. IDI organises Israel Diamond Pavilions in three major Indian trade shows dur-ing the year – UBM Jewellery & Gem Fair in January, IIJS Signature in February and IIJS in August.

Based on the Israeli ex-hibitors’ experience at the January show, it is clear that the Indian diamond market is back on track and is keen

on Israeli diamonds. The IDI Pavilion, will include major booths by several of Israel’s largest exporters, including the Dalumi Group, Julius Klein-Eliaz Diamonds, Leo Schachter Diamonds, Lili Dia-monds, S. Juwal Diamonds, Shlomo Bichachi Diamonds and Vision International Dia-monds.

IDI Chairman Moti Ganz said that the reawakening of the Indian market bodes well for the Israeli diamond indus-try and its counterparts abroad. “The global diamond industry has had a very challenging year. The positive signs we see in India since the beginning of 2013 are very encouraging. We are optimistic that 2013 will be a much better year for our local industry and for our colleagues around the world,” Ganz said.

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Jackie Eldan (4th on right) with business delegates

Helping Israeli companies set up in ChinaA professional seminar en-titled: New Models for Setting up & Managing Operations in China was held on 2 January in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

The seminar focused on in-dustrial management and legal aspects, as well as trends and strategies for setting up and op-erating a successful business in China.

The Consul General of Isra-el in Shanghai, Jackie Eldan and Amir Hayek, the managing di-rector of the Manufacturers As-sociation of Israel, together with lawyers, experts of the Chinese business sector and leading Is-raeli CEO’s who work in China, were among the speakers.

In order to facilitate greater strategic business cooperation between the two countries, a Chinese delegation from the city of Chang-Zhou (next to Shanghai) gave a special pre-sentation of the business op-portunities the city has to offer for Israeli companies seeking to work with China.

The seminar, which was concluded by a Q&A panel honored by the participation of the Consul General, contributed to an exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas as well as to strengthen personal and busi-ness ties between Israeli and Chinese key leaders in the busi-ness community.


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AmeriCraft Imports quenches Hong Kong’s thirst for craft beers

Can-Fite transfers drug production to China

Have you noticed new and in-teresting beers appearing on menus across Hong Kong? Tired of finding the same mass-produced lagers at ev-ery bar and restaurant, beer enthusiasts Laurie and Adam Goldberg founded Ameri-Craft Imports in April 2012 to import their favourite craft beers from the US.

“ I l o v e d r i n k i n g b e e r and was disappointed when I couldn’t find any favorites here,” Ms. Goldberg said. “Peo-ple appreciate good food and wine in Hong Kong. I thought it just a matter of time before craft beer became popular also.”

While the term “craft beer” is not wel l -def ined, i t general ly refers to beer made by small, independent breweries using traditional ingredi-ents rather than the cheaper adjuncts (e.g., rice and corn) favoured by indus-trial breweries. The past decade has seen a craft beer

Can-Fite BioPharma, an Is-raeli biopharmaceutical com-pany announced it has trans-fered its drug production to China. The company has an advanced pipeline of proprie-tary compounds in phase II and III clinical development stage, which address autoimmune-inflammatory and cancer dis-eases.

The company estimates that production in China will save millions of dollars and also enable the company to supply active pharmaceuticals ingre-dients to its current and future strategic partners.

Can-Fite was established in 2000 by Pnina Fishman, Ph.D., researcher in the Rabin Medi-cal Center. The company was founded on the basis of Fish-man’s scientific findings.

The company’s lead drug, CF101, is in clinical develop-ment for the treatment of auto-immune inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis. The CF102 drug candidate is being developed for the treat-ment of liver diseases.

Can-Fite has a wealth of clinical experience. To date more than 700 patients have participated in clinical trials conducted by the company.

“Can-Fite is preparing for the completion of phase III clin-ical trials, and the progress of other drugs to more advanced clinical trials. As part of this ef-fort, the company requires much greater production capacity to support the hundreds of patients in the studies, and a produc-tion line to provide the regular supply needed for extensive studies,” commented Professor Pnina Fishman, Founder, Can-Fite.

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explosion in the US, and craft beer is finally starting to catch o n i n H o n g Kong.

AmeriCraft o f f e r s b e e r s a n d c i d e r s f r o m m a n y renowned and up-and-coming US breweries, including An-chor Brewing Company, Lost Coast Brewery, Kona Brewing Company, The Lost Abbey, Az-tec Brewing Company, Iron Fist Brewing Company, Julian Hard Cider and Shmaltz Brewing Company. Shmaltz is famous for its popular He’Brew beers, which AmeriCraft proudly sponsored for the 2012 Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival.

“When choosing beers to import,” Mr. Goldberg said, “we look for products that display a creative, thoughtful approach to brewing. And, we only bring in beers that we love to drink.”

AmeriCraft sells craft beer wholesale to bars, restaurants and hotels. It also offers home delivery through an online re-tail shop. The Goldbergs also spend much of their time host-ing beer dinners, tastings, and other events meant to spur craft beer awareness. One such event is ‘Beertopia’, Hong Kong’s only craft beer festival, which will take place on 13 April at the West Kowloon Waterfront.

“When people get to know these beers, they love them,” Ms. Goldberg said. “My job, and it’s a great one, is to lead consumers to better beer.”


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PrimeSense and TechFaith sign agreement to promote 3D motion technologyChina TechFaith Wireless Technology Limited an-nounced its game business unit 17FOX and PrimeSense Lim-ited, a leading Israel-based, 3D motion sensing technology leader, have signed a coopera-tion agreement to jointly pro-mote 3D motion sensing tech-nology, delivery platforms and games in China.

Under the terms of the agreement, 17FOX will coop-erate with PrimeSense on the development, marketing and merchandising of 3D motion sensing games and applications in China based on PrimeSense’s 3D motion sensing technologies. The games and applications will allow gamers to play and control games using video camera cap-

tured body movements.

PrimeSense is a leader in ‘Natural Interaction’ and 3D sensing, enabling devices to “see” environments and allow-ing interaction between people and devices in a simple and in-tuitive way.

The company offers afford-able solutions for consumer and commercial markets including: home computing, interactive entertainment, consumer elec-tronics, robotics, industrial, digital signage and healthcare.

“This agreement will give TechFaith’s 17FOX gaming unit access to critical, proven 3D motion sensing technol-ogy, which will give gamers new, immersive feelings when playing games as they will no

longer need to hold hardware in their hands to control games,” said Defu Dong, Chairman and CEO of TechFaith.

Founded in 2005 by Aviad Maizels, Alexander Shpunt, Ophir Sharon, Tamir Berliner and Dima Rais, PrimeSense is a privately held company head-quartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, It has offices in North America, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, China and Taiwan.

Maizel, President & Co-Founder, Prime Sense has years of experience in technology and leadership. He served as head of a technical R&D section in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and has a BSc in computer sci-ence from the Technion and an MSc in mathematics from the Weizmann Institute.

Israel is one of the regions for new Samsung fundSamsung Electronics an-nounced the launch of a new company-owned seed invest-ment fund that will focus on three geographic areas: Cali-fornia’s Silicon Valley, Massa-chusetts and Israel.

The New Samsung Catalyst Fund will announce a start-up competition later this year that will distribute US$100 million in seed investments to winners.

The fund will operate out of Samsung’s R&D centres in Israel, US and South Korea. “The new fund will nurture early stage start-ups to create new businesses, form strategic partnerships make strategic in-vestments and acquisitions,” a Samsung spokesperson said.

The fund will focus i ts investments on companies in the fields of cloud computing infrastructure, human-machine interface technology, and cyber-security and will work alongside the US$1 billion Samsung Ven-tures America Fund, Samsung’s principal investment fund.

“Our role is not to be an incubator,” Samsung President Young Sohn told Reuters in an

interview. “We are going to be bringing expertise to these com-panies.” Young also serves chief strategy officer of Samsung’s device solutions unit, and will be leading the new seed fund.

Samsung intends to provide early stage companies with access to the corporations or-ganisational resources by way of its seed fund, including its R&D, marketing and branding muscle. Last summer, Samsung opened an innovation centre in Silicon Valley’s Menlo Park for the scientists and entrepreneurs it funds. The company is also expected to launch a start-up accelerator programme that will operate in close proximity to the centre.

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Hong Kong Delegation

SwimmingAaron Zweig, ParalympicsAnna Scherer, MastersAriella Levy, Juniors

TennisBernie Pomeranc, MastersDan Aubach, Masters

SquashZack Bitan, JuniorsEli Bitan, Masters

FencingAdam Kleinberg, Masters

Futsal (Masters)Dima Applebaum, Daniel Suissa,Andrew Hyams, Neil Hyman,Avi Machlin, Daniel Gordon,Ben Tiaeb

The Maccabiah Gamesbuilding Jewish pride through sports

The Third delegation from Hong Kong- C h i n a w i l l b e participating at the

upcoming Maccabiah in Israel this year. From 18-30 July, approximately 9000 athletes, delegations from more than sixty countries, will partake in the 19th Maccabiah Games. The opening ceremony will take place in Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. The closing ceremony will be held on 31 July, in a brand new stadium in Haifa.

The Games are now the third largest sporting event in the world, after the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.The Games takes place every four years in Israel. It also ranks among the five largest sports gatherings in the world (in number of participants), and are considered Regional Games by the International Olympic Committee.

History of the MaccabiahThe original Maccabiah was first held from 28 March to 6 April, 1932. Its overwhelm-ing success guaranteed its permanent future. Originally conceived as an event to take place every four years. Mac-cabiah II was moved down a year to 1935 because of the ris-ing threat of Nazism in Europe. WWII forced the postponement of Maccabiah III, and it was 15 years later that the next Games were held, reborn in 1950 in the new State of Israel. Maccabiah IV was held in 1953, thereafter, the Maccabiah established its current quadrennial formula, held the year following the Summer Olympic Games.

This unique and spectacular sport and cultural extravaganza unites Jewish athletes from all over the world in Israel every four years symbolically recog-nising Zionist history.

There are many Olympic gold medalists, world cham-pions, and world record hold-ers who have competed in the Maccabiah. Most notably,

nadian Paralympic Swim Team for the 2016 Olympic and Para-lympic Games in Rio.

F o r B e r n i e P o m e r a n c the Maccabiah games have been part of his life for many years. Thirty years ago Bernie played tennis for the US delega-tion at the Maccabiah games. Later on his son took part in the delegation, playing rugby, and this year not only will Bernie play tennis for the Hong Kong-China delegation, but also his grandson will be there as a del-egate from the US.

Bernie represented Hong Kong in 2005 when the first delegation from this region took part in the games, in his words: “Being born in a rehabilitation camp in Germany to holocaust survivors, then shipped out to Israel, with empty suitcases, and no idea of the Hebrew language or the country and from there moving to Canada and later to the US and China, the Maccabiah games were a remarkable experience which is hard to express in words. My son’s Bar Mitzvah was cel-ebrated at the games and seeing him celebrating this unique oc-casion with Jews from all over the world and being carried by Israeli soldiers around the stadium was an unforgettable memory. The Games provides every Jewish child or adult an experience that is guaranteed to be remarkable”.

Maccabi World Union (MWU) opened a branch in Hong Kong and China in 2004. Raphael Aharoni, Chairman, MWU, remembers the first delegation which was sent out from the region for the 2005 games, and included 12 athletes. Under the chairman-ship of Rafael Aharoni and the leadership of Neil Hyman and Daniel Gordon, Maccabi has grown significantly in Hong Kong over the last five years.

E a c h S u n d a y o v e r 8 0 ch i ld ren , bo th boys and girls play soccer at Elsa High School with some of the best professional coaches in Hong Kong teaching them

Bernie Pomeranc (right), and his friends representing Hong Kong and China at the 2005 Maccabiah Eli and Zach Bitan, playing Squash at the Macabbiah 2013

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skills. Maccabi’s adults soccer team fields 2 teams in the city league and has around 30 play-ers. There is also basketball coaching at Elsa for children. The increased participation in the Hong Kong delegation at the Maccabiah 2013 could not have happened without the foundations of the Mac-cabi Hong Kong weekly sports programme.

This year Hong Kong will be sending the largest delega-tion ever comprising of 15 athletes. “The delegation is still looking and hopefully more additional athletes from Hong Kong, China and Macau to join. There is still time to apply,” said Daniel Gordon, Head of the Hong Kong Delegation.

For further details please contact Daniel Gordon. Registration for athletes is open until 31 March. Anyone interested in joining email: Daniel Gordon, [email protected].

Mark Spitz and Marilyn Ra-menofsky (swimming); Deb-bie Lipman (diving); Mitch Gaylord, Abie Grossfeld, and Agnes Keleti (gymnastics); Larry Brown, Ernie Grun feld, Danny Schayes, (coaches) Nat Holman and Dolph Schayes (basketball); Carina Benninga (field hockey); Lillian Cope-land, Gerald Ashworth, and Gary Gubner (track and field); Angela Buxton, Julie Heldman, Allen Fox, and Dick Savitt (tennis); Angelica Rosenau (table tennis); Isaac Berger and Frank Spellman (weightlifting); and Fred Oberlander and Henry Wittenberg (wrestling).

The Maccabiah these daysThe Maccabiah is the world’s largest Jewish athletic com-petition, and are often called “The Jewish Olympics”. The Maccabiah differs from the Olympics in that all of the ath-letes are Jewish and the games are always held in Israel. More

than forty different sporting competitions are offered. The games are divided into four separate competitions, Juniors, Open, Masters and Paralym-pics. Every Israeli citizen and every Jew worldwide is eligible

Aaron Zweig preparing for the Maccabiah

Ariella Levy, our youngest delegate swimming for Hong Kong

to compete in the games. The Paralympics category was recently introduced into the games and is gradually expand-ing, with Paralympic swimming being added for the first time this year.

The Hong Kong AthletesAaron Zweig will be our rep-resentative in the Paralympics swimming races. Aaron, who lost his leg due to a heart dis-ease, was encourage to swim by his dad as a form of excercise. “This is my first time compet-ing in the Maccabiah Games”, says Aaron, “It is a particular honour for me to participate in the 19th Maccabiah Games because this is the first year for paralympic swimming.”

It is also an honour to be a part of the Hong Kong delega-tion. For sure, this experience is something I will remember my whole life. However, I am not going merely to win. “Win-ning would just be a bonus!” Aaron just received his official Paralympic certification from Canada in February. He is now preparing to compete in several regional and international Para-lympic swim meets after the Maccabiah Games with the hope of qualifying for the Ca-

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Special Israel Supplement – Luxury HomesJewish Times Asia 1

By Steve K. Walz A select group of reputable real estate builders and developers continue to erect a variety of projects in hot property mar-kets such as Jerusalem, metro Tel Aviv and Netanya, where English- speaking buyers are avidly seeking a unique resi-dence that accentuates a high-standard of living.

Though real estate prices in many European and American cities are still suffering from the after effects of the global economic slowdown, real es-tate prices in Israel have con-tinued to rise at a steady clip, turning almost any investment in property into a valuable asset. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics home prices have risen in

value by 20% since 2010 and 50% during the past decade! Many buyers and investors from abroad are taking large mortgages simply because the Israeli banking system offers low interest rates.

During the past few years, several builders concentrated their efforts on constructing high-end real estate projects

geared toward the English and French speaking communi-ties along a corridor near the entrance to the Old City in Jerusalem. As those projects are nearing completion, one of the city’s most renowned real estate developers is about to transform several other “in demand” neighbourhoods into spectacular residential, cultural and tourist attractions that are

destined to change the com-plexion of Jerusalem.

Exclusive Sneak PreviewThe A. Hasid (Achim Hasid/

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Mr. Hasid is also the current Deputy Chairman of the Or-ganisation of Contractors and Builders in Jerusalem.

According to Arie Shmilow-itch, A. Hasid’s, Marketing Director, “This traditional Jerusalem family has built its reputation on creating projects in unique places in Jerusalem, where potential buyers can ac-tually feel and experience their connection to the Holy City. In addition, the company en-gages top notch architects and designers, where the accent is on quality. Combined with our personal devotion to each and every client, we are able to offer a kind of service that is almost unprecedented. We know this, because the children and even the grand-children of some of our original buyers have come to us to buy their own proper-ties in recent years. This is the ultimate compliment!”

At the present time, A. Hasid is engaged in developing four very different projects across Israel’s capital, several of which are bound to set a new standard in residential and commercial real estate enterprises.

Mr. Shmilowitch revealed that the company’s “Jerusa-lem Theatre” project, which will be built adjacent to the city’s prestigious Jerusa-lem Theatre in the upscale Talbieh neighborhood, will highlight “one of the most exclusive real estate ventures in all of Israel.” The com-plex will feature three 5-story buildings that will house 22 apartments. Within the same complex, A. Hasid will erect a super-premium 80 room boutique hotel and residen-tial complex, where the first four floors will comprise the hotel, while the upper four floors will feature 22 exclu-sive apartment suites, where residents will also be entitled to the hotel’s planned pam-pering amenities. The resi-dential and hotel complex is being designed by Feigin Ar-chitects. These distinguished architects have designed some of the country’s most prominent hotels including the new Waldorf-Astoria Ho-tel in Jerusalem.

The apartments within the Je-rusalem Theatre project, which will be completed in 2017, will accentuate the essence of “exclusive living.” Mr. Shmilowitch added, “Each apartment will be quite large 160x320sq. meters, where the buyer can purchase either a half-floor or full floor. You are essentially purchasing open space. The buyer has the option to design the property any way they want, either using our

designer or using an outside person.”

Less than a five minute drive away, A. Hasid is developing another grandiose real estate project in the trendy Ger-man Colony/Emek Refaim

neighborhood that will re-semble some of the same el-ements found along the trendy Sheinkin St. area in Tel Aviv. According to Mr. Shmilow-itch, Ada Carmi, another elite Israeli architect who has de-signed some of the most archi-tecturally compelling build-ings in the country, will be charged with meshing old Je-rusalem with the modern city within the context of trans-forming two preserved houses into a 40 room boutique hotel. In addition, the surrounding land space will feature a row of high-end stores on the ground floor with chic apartments above them. “The German Colony-Emek Refaim neigh-borhood is considered to be a very dynamic, hip place,” said Mr. Shmilowitch. “Like our Jerusalem Theatre project, this high-end residential and hotel complex is aimed at young, affluent couples or financially well-off retirees, who wish to enjoy the upscale lifestyle.” The German Colony/Emek Refaim project is also sched-uled to be completed in 2017.

The company’s two other projects, Zion Towers in the Arnona neighborhood and

Bayit B’Gan in Har Homa are aimed at families with children, as well as young couples and retirees. Zion Towers, will fea-ture 200 impeccably designed apartments in two 24 storey buildings, the tallest in all of Jerusalem. The towers will be

completed and ready for occu-pancy at the end of 2016.

Bayit B’Gan will also become the first private residential com-plex within the Har Homa neigh-borhood, with 77 garden apart-ments and penthouses spread out over 7 buildings. Bayit B’Gan will mimic A. Hasid’s impres-sive Ganei Zion apartment com-plex in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood, where a signifi-cant number of English-speak-ing couples and families pur-chased apartments. Like Ganei Zion, Bayit B’Gan residents will enter their building via a beauti-fully designed two dunam park, which is featured in the middle of the complex. Residents will receive their keys to the new apartments during 2015. World-Class Beachfront Lifestyle

While there are a variety of real estate investment op-portunities and vacation ex-periences available in Israel for foreign tourists, there is only one income produc-ing property, which allows discerning foreign clients to invest in a prestigious vacation residence located on one of the last parcels of

prime Mediterranean beach-front real estate in Israel, while also benefiting from all of the amenities associated with a world-class hotel. Wel-come to The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton in Herzliya, Israel (RCR).

“There is nothing like this available in the Israeli mar-ketplace today. For Diaspora Jews, The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton in Herzliya rep-resents the fulfillment of a dream, as it offers incredible value for the money. And, when they are not vacationing in Israel, investors can rent out their Ritz-Carlton resi-dence and receive income,” said Miri Azouri, Director of Marketing & Sales at RCR.

Scheduled to open in June 2013, The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya is the brainchild of the Tid-har Group and Adi’s Invest-ments, which worked with the world-renowned Ritz-Carlton Hotel Corporation to create and maximise the unique property’s potential. “The Tidhar Group is rec-ognized as a top developer of high-end commercial and residential properties across Israel,”said Dalia Mandel-man, General Manager of Tidhar Investments. Adi’s Investments, led by the dynamic team of Adi and Irit Strauss, are deeply in-volved in devising a variety of unique concepts for both

The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya

Israeli and foreign connois-seurs of upscale living.

What is a vacation residence? Ms. Azouri revealed, “It is NOT a timeshare. Clients purchase a vacation residence that they can use as they wish for up to 6 months at any time dur-ing the year, while the Ritz-Carlton company, which manages high-end vacation residences all over the world, maintains your property and offers it to guests during the rest of the year. Up until now, there weren’t any real options available to foreign tourists with an interest in investing.

They either had to buy an apartment without any on-going maintenance services or they had to go to a hotel several times a year, which represents an expensive alternative if you wish to enjoy luxury services. The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton allows you to enjoy an elite lifestyle when you are in town and earn income while you are abroad. Why leave it empty when you can benefit from it?”

The majestic 12-storey build-ing, which is located above the ritzy Herzliya Pituach mall and looks down upon the colourful marina below, highlights im-pressive studio vacation apart-ments, impeccably designed one & two-bedroom units, chic duplexes, as well as breathtak-ing penthouses. The modern interior and exterior design of the vacation residences and hotel were initiated by a first-class architectural team, who’ve worked on various upscale projects in Israel and abroad, including the famous Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.

The 82 vacation residences are spread out over 6 floors above the plush hotel below. The residents have full access to the hotel’s luxury ameni-ties including the magnifi-cent rooftop pool, pampering multi-level spa and state-of-the-art fitness room, busi-ness center, event rooms, on the premises synagogue and the first-ever upscale Kosher Chef’s Restaurant in Israel, with gastronomic delights prepared by Jonathan Rosh-feld, who appears on the Is-raeli TV version of “Master Chef”.

“Nothing has been left to the imagination, “boasted Ms. Azouri. “If you have ever dreamed of having a beauti-ful vacation solution to enjoy, as well as to entertain family and friends, the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya rep-resents a smart investment and incredible value for the money”.

According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics home prices have risen in value by 20% since 2010 and 50%

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Bank of Jerusalem’s private banking branch on Keren Hayesod St. Roni Rachmian

By Steve K. Walz

Recognising the steady growth in the numbers of prosperous English-speaking Jews who are either in the process of making aliyah or wish to make short and long-term investments in the State of Israel, a select group of renowned Israeli financial insti-tutions are offering a myriad of private banking and mortgage services via native English-speaking banking professionals.

“What’s important is that the bank offers foreign custom-ers a mortgage in the currency that they are living with (such as U.S. dollars, Euros, British Sterling etc.), as well as docu-ments in their native language, so they know what they are signing even if many custom-ers who live abroad hire a lo-cal Israeli attorney or broker to handle their transactions. This allows the customer to feel at ease with what they are doing,” added Menachem Levinsky, Manager of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank’s Mortgage Centre for International Clientele.

Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank, which is controlled by two of Israel’s strongest economic entities, has acquired a stellar interna-tional reputation for its wide-range of banking, mortgage and financial services in the Jewish State and abroad (USA, UK, Switzerland etc.)

According to informed real estate sources, foreign inves-tors (including potential new olim) are responsible for 25% of all real estate transactions in Israel on an annual basis, which means that hundreds of foreign buyers are actively involved in seeking out the best mortgage deals and other financial ser-vices from Israeli banks.

“Many of our customers are new olim (immigrants) who are looking for a wide array of services but usually start with a mortgage, as they look to purchase real estate in Jerusa-lem or other cities around the country,” said Roni Rachmian, Manager of International Pri-vate Banking at the Bank of Je-rusalem’s special private bank-ing branch on Keren Hayesod St. in the heart of the Holy City.

Bank of Jerusalem, a public corporation that is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is a renowned commercial bank with a substantial number of lo-cal and international clients that specialises and excels in the real estate, capital market and inter-national banking arenas. Valuable Advice…

At Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank, the client will receive his/her loan from Mr. Levinsky’s depart-ment and then he personally re-fers the client to a branch close to where there property is locat-ed and where the bank’s mort-gage experts speak their native language. “I’ve had many calls from olim and investors who took mortgage loans from other banks and then called us because the other banks had no one who could speak their language,” he recalled. “I personally re-fer them to a banker who will take care of all of their bank-ing needs, throughout the life of the mortgage without worrying about a language barrier. Many of my clients also communicate with me by email. We don’t make suggestions as to where olim or investors should buy properties, though we are quite aware of the fact that many olim and investors purchase apart-ments or homes in Jerusalem, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Netanya etc. Some will buy properties a few years in advance of their aliyah,

so they can feel secure in the fact that they’ve also invested in the State of Israel before they make aliyah. If a client comes to us and mentions the price of a property in the city they want to invest in, we share with the client our experience and views, based on visible trends and this will help the client decide if the price of the property is reasonable, based on market conditions.”

Mr. Rachmian revealed that Bank of Jerusalem will assist clients in finding the right prop-erty to invest in and metaphori-cally “hold their hands” all the way through the mortgage pro-cess. “We can finance properties throughout Israel, especially in cities that are quite popular amongst English-speaking olim or investors including Jerusa-lem, Tel Aviv and Ra’anana,” he claimed. “Some investors actively seek out small prop-erties in places where there is substantial business from local residents who want to rent the property. This is how investors are able to realise a return on their investment. Some of our clients are in the real estate busi-ness themselves in their home countries. For other clients, like new and future olim who are looking to buy in a certain area, we could refer to a reliable bro-ker or real estate attorney who knows where the hot properties are located. Some clients actu-

ally hire mortgage brokers and attorneys in advance who scout the banks to see where they can get the best deal. It’s like putting together a business triumvirate-real estate broker, attorney and mortgage bank, as in many cases the customers is still liv-ing abroad. We work together to provide the customer with the best mortgage rates.” Private Banking & Financial Services

First-class private banking and financial services for foreign and local investors have also played integral roles in the suc-cess of both banks.“Mizrahi-Tefahot operates four branches dedicated to serving our international clientele and foreign language speakers in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya and Ashdod, and offers what I call a ‘one-stop shop’ for all of their private banking and financial needs,” said Marc Reiss, Mizrahi-Tefahot’s, Deputy Managing Director for International Activities & Private Banking. “What makes us so innovative is that we offer ease of access, convenience, a wide range of financial opportu-nities and boast a strong name amongst Jewish people living around the globe, including ex-patriate Israelis. It is important for us that our clients feel like it’s a home away from home. This is the level of service we

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Mr. Reiss maintained that his division works with many English, French and Span-ish-speaking clients who are wealthy but economically con-servative when managing their money in Israel. He explained,” Many of them are successful business people who are living abroad and are keeping a con-servative nest-egg in Israel for a rainy day. We are offer them sophisticated deposits in many different currencies with a wide range of tenures and link-ages. We are very proactive, and in constant contact with our clients to offer new and relevant products on a regular basis. The range of clients we deal with are wide, from those who are already retired to those still in the peak of their careers, both young and old. Some tend to be more conservative and in-vest in less risky instruments. Some clients are more aggres-sive and inclined to taking more risks with their money, and may want to invest in more aggressive financial products. Either way, we make sure that we understand what it is they are looking for in terms of re-turns and explain the up and down side to each investment. It is critical to match a client’s needs and expectations and we do so using our process of risk profiling and a resulting suit-able asset allocation.”

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Trojan Women performed at the Cameri TheaterIsrael’s Cameri Theater, in conjunction with the Metro-politan Theater of Tokyo, pre-sented the Greek drama Tro-jan Women Euripides’ time-less masterpiece. The perfor-mance was on 29 December.

The production was staged by prominent Japanese theatre and film director Yukio Nina-gawa.

Trojan Women is Euripides’ third tragedy in a cycle. The an-cient Greek play follows the fate of the women of Troy after their city has been ransacked, their husbands killed and, as their re-maining families are about to be taken away as slaves, they are to be married to the enemy.

Taking part in this unique co-production were Japanese and Israeli (Jewish and Arab) actors. The Japanese premiere of this production took place last year and was a great suc-cess. Ninagawa, together with a team of his colleagues, came to Israel for a brief visit, during which he held auditions.

Ninagawa, who is famous for his productions of Japanese drama and mostly for his ren-

ditions of Shakespearean and Greek tragedies, started his the-atre career as an actor.

Ninagawa says that this production is a direct result of watching the news, specifically as regards the seemingly never-ending dispute between Israel and Palestine. “It is a sad fact that this is a Greek play from before the time of Christ, and today nothing is different,” he said. Adding that we all have to do our part to understand the sit-uation, as well as to try to make others understand. This is why

despite the difficulty of staging a play in three languages, he has made such an effort.

Cameri Theater’s Artis-tic Director Omri Nitzan, was hopeful that with same lines spoken three times in different languages, the audience will have a recollection of them and take them to heart because of the tediousness of listening to them. “The same words, the same feelings in a different lan-guage. The message was ‘listen, absolutely everything is alike. That is the irony.”

David Stein art exhibition

An exhibition of oil paintings by Hong Kong-based Swiss artist David Stein will be on show at the Voxfire Gallery in Sheung Wan throughout March 2013.

Stein’s debut exhibition in Hong Kong features 12 abstract painting on canvases with the theme of Life, Hope and Love, which painted in striking co-lours titled such as; Life Journey – We choose Joy or Abyss, Mon-ty, Birth, Life, Death, Circle of Life, Ecstasy, Life is a Mystery and Step outside Yourself.

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On 1 Jan, 2013, the Shanghai Photographers Association held an opening ceremony for the photo exhibition Focus On The Israeli People. Oren Rozenblat, Deputy Consul-General of Israel in Shanghai was invited to cut the ribbon and give an opening speech. This exhibition was open to the public during the month of January, at the cultural centre of Xuhui District Shanghai.

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Second Jerusalem International Ice Festival brings Asian Culture

After the huge success of the first International Ice Festival in Israel last year, the festival is returning for a second, ex-tended run, from 20 February to 30 April 2013 and will take place in the old Jerusalem Train Station compound in a unique 1500 square metre complex brought especially from Belgium.

The entire train compound will be decorated in a Far East style, and will include three central arenas: Ice City, Perfor-mance Arena and the Ice Skat-

ing Arena. The festival will showcase tens of artistic and colourful ice sculptures that will take visitors on a thrilling journey to far away views and experience some unique Asian culture. This year’s festival will feature a variety of exciting ac-tivities for visitors: huge slides, mazes, rainforests, snowstorms, bridges and more.

The “Ice City” journey be-gins upon entering an airplane made of ice, where you can see the view of ice-sculpted Jerusa-lem. The visitors land in a magi- ters. At the end of their journey,

visitors will arrive at a sushi bar made entirely of ice – but the su-shi will be edible and delicious!

Visitors will also be able to view a spectacular ice skating performance, showcasing over 20 artists, acrobats and Chinese dancers dressed in costumes, as well as complex dance and acro-batics shows.

Around 60 Chinese artists have been flown to Israel to as-sist in the preparations: sculp-tors, designers and builders who have experience in constructing ice exhibits around the world as well as the show dancers.

This festival is a joint initia-tive of the Jerusalem Munici-pality and Ariel Development Company, sponsored by the Is-racard Company.

cal world of ice starting with the magnificent views of India, the unique animals and one of the seven wonders of the world- the Taj Mahal. The course of the journey includes forests, tunnels, rivers, bridges and mazes, as well as famous sites such as the Great Wall of China and the Pagoda in Japan, and even panda bears, cheetahs and authentic charac-

A musical event entitled: Tribute to Jewish Theater and Musicals was performed at the Hong Kong Jewish Com-munity Centre on 2 February. Guests arrived for cocktails to be greeted by a solo violinist perched atop the Ohel Leah Synagogue. The fiddler enter-tained with light classical fa-vorites based on the repertoire of Yehudi Menuhin, whilst guests mingled in the court-yard.

The Garden Room was transformed into a candlelit ha-ven where guests made their way to tables decorated with swathes of sparkling fabric and ostrich feathers. In keeping with the show theme, the tables were named after famous Jewish per-formers, writers and composers.

Filled to capacity, one hun-dred guests waited in trepida-tion as the house lights dimmed and sweeping blue spotlights lit the stage. The opening strains from Fiddler on the Roof filled the room as a spotlight centre stage lit the same violinist who had now come down from the synagogue roof. As he exited the stage, five performers walked out to kick off the show.

The evenings event paid

tribute to the talented Jewish artist’s, writers and composers of the last century. The musical numbers Tradition and Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof opened and closed the evening.

A medley of songs made fa-mous by Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler entertained din-ers – from a mesmorising per-formance of Some People from Gypsy by Sandra Leung Waters, to a breathtaking version of Don’t Rain on my Parade from Funny Girl by Michael Shar-mon.

Other crowd pleasers in-cluded The Way We Were, Hap-py Days are Here Again and The Wind Beneath My Wings. A comedy skit from the great Woody Allen had the crowd in stitches.

Perhaps one of the high-lights of the evening was a tribute to Stephen Sondheim’s Company with a performance of his very wordy Not Getting Married by Sheri Dorfman.

The show cast featured Sheri Dorfman, Howard Paley (as MC), Michael Sharmon, Mike Brooks and Sandra Leung Waters.The event was produced by Golden Voice Entertainment.

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Art and Culture

The film Shoah to be screened at 37th Hong Kong International Film FestivalWith eleven years in the mak-ing, 350 hours of raw footage, and shot in 14 different coun-tries, Shoah (1985) is, in the words of world-famous film critic Roger Ebert, “an ex-traordinary film... one of the noblest ever made”, justifying every minute of its epic nine and a half hour runtime.

Concentrating on the heart-rending accounts from sur-vivors, witnesses and even perpetrators, director Claude Lanzmann travelled around the globe in order to conduct these interviews. However this documentary is hardly a succes-sion of talking heads; its most emotional scenes occur when some of his subjects return to the death camps and the ghettos and relive their agonising past.

The 8th Eilat Chamber Music Festival, an annual tradition that brings top tier interna-tional musicians from the classical music world for thir-teen chamber, orchestral and world music concerts in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, will take place this year in the Dan Eilat Hotel from 28 April – 4 May.

To add to the richness of this cultural vacation experi-ence, Hollywood star John Malkovich will play the lead role in the successful musical-drama, Confessions of a Se-rial Killer, accompanied by the Wiener Akademie Baroque Orchestra and two sopranos: Claire Meghnagi (Israel/Italy) and Barbara Bobro (Slovenia). A cross between chilling crime drama and Baroque opera, Jack Unterweger (played by Mal-kovich), mysteriously returns back from the grave for an au-tobiographical book tour. Un-

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terweger oozes disconcerting charm, as he narrates his sor-did and shocking history. Each chapter concludes with an aria from Gluck, Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Boccherini and Weber, sung live by stun-ning sopranos all too tempt-ing prospects for Unterweger’s bloodlust. The production was first raised in 2009 in Vienna and has since been performed on the most important stages and festivals in the world.

Other additional highlights of the festival will include the Baroque orchestra, in an orches-tral concert including music by Mozart, as well as a cello con-certo by CPE Bach, performed by the renowned Japanese cel-list Hidemi Suzuki, who spe-cialises in period performances.

The violinist Valeriy Sokolov, will return to the Eilat Festival, after last year’s great success, and will play chamber music by Bach,

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Shoah

“While the Hong Kong In-ternational Film Festival So-ciety (HKIFFS) is known for introducing new films to the local audience, we value the preservation and appreciation of cinematic heritage with equal importance,” said Li Cheuk-to, Artistic Director of the HKIFFS. “Even today the cultural legacy of these landmark films con-tinues to inspire and enrich the imagination of filmmakers over the world.”

HKIFFS is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation. This year it will screen well over 300 titles from 68 countries and regions. The lineup is as eclectic as ever, boasting 56 world, in-ternational and Asian premieres. “In recent years, Hong Kong has seen a proliferation of film festivals with distinct themes

and styles, offering audiences countless choices beyond main-stream productions,” said Wil-fred Wong, Chairman of the HKIFFS. “Indeed we love cin-ema for its very diversity, and as one of the most established and largest film festivals in Asia, the Hong Kong festival has dedi-cated itself to presenting quality works from all over the world,

while drawing luminaries and young talents from the indus-try to engage with the public through seminars, exhibitions, parties, and much more.”

Through its year-round pro-grammes, the mission of the society is to strengthen global appreciation of Asian and Chi-nese film culture and to promote

inspiring films from around the world, enriching the cultural life of Hong Kong. The society organises three annual flagship events in March and April: The Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Asian Film Awards and the Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum.

Shoah will be screened in two programmes over the week-end. Shoah part 1 on 23 March, at the Grand Cinema, Elements, TST: 7.45pm – 12.18am. Intro-duced by Jeremy Amias, Direc-tor, Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre (HKHTC). Shoah part 2 on 24 March, at the Grand Cinema, Elements TST: 12:20 pm – 5.22 pm followed by a discussion led by Glenn Timmermans of the HKHTC.

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The Doric String Quartet from London will join pianist Alexander Melnikov for the per-formance of the piano quintet by Brahms. The quartet will col-laborate with violinist Valeriy Sokolov and pianist Igor Tch-etuev and will also give a solo recital with music by Haydn, Schumann and Schubert.

Homage to Gueseppe Verdi, the Festival will celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the birth

of Verdi in a special concert fea-turing the solo oboe player of the Rome Opera House, Gianfranco Bortolato and soprano Claire Meghnagi (Israel/Italy), who will perform chamber arrange-ments for arias from Verdi’s op-eras as well as other pieces.

Salamandrum percussion duo, Tomer Yariv (formerly PercaDu) and Gilad Dobrecky, will give the premiere of their new programme Voyages, a mu-sic project of rhythms, musical

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The Russian pianist Igor Tchetuev, who enjoys a suc-cessful career worldwide, both as a soloist with orchestras and as a chamber musician, will give a recital with the finest piano repertoire of Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt.

The Eilat Chamber Music Festival, under the musical di-rection of its founder Leonid Rozenberg, is one in a long list of cultural events and festivals that offer tourists and visitors to Israel’s premier vacation resort an added dimension to their va-cation experience.


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Supporters Dr. Judith Diestel Edwin Epstein Rabbi Shimon Freundlich - Beijing Yaron Geiger Dan Hoffmann Michel Jospe Moty Kafry Isaac Kamhin Eitan Livne Mark C. Michelson Daniel Moldovan Robert L. Meyer Avraham Nagar Elan Oved – Shanghai Bernie Pomeranc - Shengzhen Caterina Rajchenberg Shay Razon Andre Rofe Joe Teichmann

Two years ago, we celebrated the 18th World Maccabiah Games

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The Maccabi spirit is working wonders all over the Jewish world. MWU has enjoyed a year of excellent mass events infused with Jewish and Zionist motivation, all working towards the Maccabi answer to the difficult times that we live in. Six years ago, the 17th Maccabiah Games took place on 11th July 2005 in Israel was absolute success, especially when China, Hong Kong and Macedonia participated in the games for the first time since 1932. We, Hong Kong brought some medals back.

With 8,500 athletes competing, including 5,000 from abroad, the Maccabiah Games was a celebration of sports and Zionism. Competitors from 55 countries gathered to celebrate solidarity between our people.

Today, we are looking forward to the 19th Maccabiah Games in 2013. With the larger team from Hong Kong, Macau, China which will participate in the games. Hope you can all join in July 2013. Please start saving your money for the trip to Israel. I promise you will have the best time of your life.

On behalf of the Macabi World Union, Macabi Hong Kong – the Board of Directors and myself, I wish you all a splendid evening. Enjoy yourself and God Bless!

Yours truly

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Skipping over regular order of thingsand better state of things, into a much higher level of existence.

Beyond the forced labor that the Israelites were required to do for the Egyptian rulers, this oppression had a much deeper and significant effect on their lives: they were also slaves in their personality and world-view.

Furthermore, the sons of Jacob and their families surely had a spiritual and religious tra-dition of their own, but it was not organised in any kind of religious structure. During the years of oppression the tradi-tion was forgotten. Possibly, the Israelites in Egypt did retain some elements of their past, but on the whole they became more and more assimilated into the Egyptian atmosphere and cul-ture.

Therefore the exodus from Egypt required a very profound change of the entire human and social makeup of the Jewish people. For a person born into slavery whose entire life was spent obeying other people’s or-ders, the transition into a state of freedom called for a thorough-going personality change. So

The Hebrew name f o r t h e f e s t i v a l o f P a s s o v e r , P e s a c h , c o m e s

f r o m t h e H e b r e w r o o t ‘PSH’ which means to skip over, to pass over.

This name appears in the Torah in the context of the Ten Plagues, in which God skipped over the homes of the Israelites while the rest of Egypt suffered. However, on a deeper, more fundamental level, the entire festival of Passover is based on this idea of passing or skipping over the regular order of things.

The redemption of the Is-raelites from Egypt was not a gradual, evolutionary process but rather a leap from one state of things to another, seemingly unconnected, state. It was a tran-sition, not just from slavery to freedom in the practical, politi-cal sphere.

Mainly it was a spiritual transition, from external and in-ternal oppression to redemption. Thus the redemption from Egypt was a leap over an extended, orderly and consistent histori-cal course into a new, different

Today we, too, expect mira-cles to happen to us, as it says (Micah 7:15): “As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvelous things.” But beyond the expectations, pleas and prayers there is a great les-son here for every individual in every generation: everyone can “pass over,” make a leap. Not only slow, painful and indeci-sive changes are possible; we all also have an inborn ability to make quantum jumps. People can decide to make transitions that are not gradual but rather revolutionary, into a different kind of existence.

This message of Passover not only teaches us that such a jump is possible, but also stimu-lates us to make that jump, and promises us that we will indeed, in actual fact, be able to leap over the multitude of small and big obstacles on our path and reach a better, more perfect state of things, both physically and spiritually.

With best Wishes for a Happy and Kosher Pesach 5773

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

much more so for an entire na-tion that identified with the low-est levels of Egyptian culture, and had to detach itself com-pletely from that culture, while acquiring a new set of totally foreign concepts that required an infinitely higher degree of abstraction.

All of the Israelites’ blun-ders and failures during their wanderings in the desert are therefore totally understand-able. The greatest wonder is that despite these personal, social and cultural impediments, this broken, naked nation succeeded in transforming into a new na-

tional entity and in taking a new path.

The prophet Ezekiel ex-presses this in his poetic style, as follows (Ezekiel 16:6-7): “I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said unto you: In your blood, live; yea, I said unto you: In your blood, live … yet you were na-ked and bare.”

Over and above all the mira-cles of the Exodus that occurred in the sky, on earth and in the water, the most profound mira-cle of all is the fact that Jewish people could indeed come out of Egypt and become a nation.

During the 8-days of Pesach we eat symbolic food such as Matzah, which is unleavened bread, made simply from flour and water and cooked very quickly. This is the bread that the Jews made for their flight from Egypt.


2 March 2013 / 20 Adar 5773: KI TISA SHABBAT PARAH

A census was conducted by every male over the age of 20 to give half a shekel. This was collected annually during the month of Adar for the communal daily sacrifices. The Para-sha also includes instructions to make the washstand, anointing oil, and the incense for the Mishkan. And the appointing of Betzalel and Oholiab to head up the architects and crafts-men for the Mishkan. The portion continues with the infamous story of the Golden Calf. The people wrongly calculated that Moses was late in coming down from Mount Sinai and the people were already seeking a replacement for him by making the Golden Calf Moses sees them dancing around the calf and in anger breaks the Two Tablets; he then punishes the 3,000 wrongdoers (less than 0.1% of the 3 million people), pleads to God not to wipe out the people, requests to see the Divine Glory, and receives the second set of Tablets of the Ten Commandments.There is an additional special portion read for Shabbat Parah from a second sefer torah. It deals with the Perah Adumath, the Red Cow. It gives the procedure through which people can purify themselves from the contamination caused by a human corpse. Shabbat Parah normaly falls on the week after Purim. The special reading coincides with the requirement to purify themselves before coming to Jerusalem for the pilgrimage of Passover.

9 March 2013 / 27 Adar 5773: VAYAKHEL / PEKUDEI PARSHAT HACHODESH SHABBAT MEVARECHIM

The Parasha Vayakhel deals with the construction of the Tabernacle. The craftsmen selected for the various types of works involved. An explanation in detail of the specific parts of the construction including the curtains, the cover for the Tent, the colours selected, the making of the Table, the Menorah and the Coutyard.

Parasha Pekudei, details the amounts of silver, gold and cooper contributed to the construc-tion of the Temple. Explanation of the vestments, breastplates, tunics, head plate to be worn by the High Priest. And the commandment to set up a tabernacle to make it holy for the glory of G-d to dwell amongst us.

16 March 2013 / 5 Nisan 5773: VAYIKRAThe Parasha deals in details with the various offerings known as Korbon, to be bought to the Temple, such as animal offerings to during the time of the Temple. The types include; animals notably birds, sheep and goats, fire offerings, meal offerings, peace offerings, sin offering and the variable offering. The Parasha also deals with contamination of the sanctu-ary when delivering an offering.

23 March 2013 / 12 Nisan 5773: TZAV SHABBAT HAGADOL

The Parasha primarily also describes the offerings and teaches additional laws of the of-ferings to Aaron the High Priest Kohen Gadol. And the various descriptions of the types of offerings. The Parasha covers instructions regarding the Olah - ascent offering, and the Mincha - The special meal offering of the Kohen Gadol and the special inaugural meal of-fering of the regular Kohain is described. Additional laws of the sin offering, and the guilt offering are detailed. The Shabbat before Pesach is called Shabbat Hagadol, the Great Shabbath, because in Egypt it was the day when the Jewish people took the sheep they would bring as their pesach offering. Each family tied their sheep to its bedpost, this infuriated the Egyptians as it was there dietary food and the sheep was to become a sacrifice to G-d.

30 March 2013 / 19 Nisan 5773: SHABBAT CHOL HAMOED PASSOVER

The Torah reading for Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach is taken from the Book of Exodus, chapter 33:12-34:26, Parasha Ki Tisa. Moses pleads for G-ds nearness. Moses spent 40 days on Mount Sinai praying to G-d that G-d would restore Israel to its previous state of eminence. G-d responsed to Moses that there were limits to what even Moses could per-ceive of G-d’s ways.

CambodiaChabad Jewish CenterHouse # 32, Street 228, Phnom Penh, CambodiaTel: (855) 85 807 205 www.jewishcambodia.com

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Kehillat beijing (Reform): Capital Club athletic Center, 3/F., ballroom, Capital man-sion, 6 Xinyuan nanlu Chaoyang district, beijing, PR China Tel: (86) 10 6467 2225 www.sinogogue.org

GuangzhouGuangzhou Chabad: 31 He Ping Lu, overseas Village, Guangzhou, China Tel: (86) 137 1050 5049 www.chabadgz.org

ShanghaiShanghai Chabad (Shanghai Jewish Center): Shang-mira Garden Villa #1, 1720 Hong Qiao Road, Shanghai, 200336, PR ChinaTel: (86) 21 6278 0225 www.chinajewish.org

Chabad of Pudong: Vila # 69, 2255 Luoshan Road, Shanghai, 200135, PR China Tel: (86) 21 5878 2008 www.chinajewish.org

Sephardi Shanghai Center: building b. apt. 3 (Room 103),1000 Gubei Road, Shanghai, PR China 201103Tel: (86) 21 6208 8327 mobile: (86) 15900808733Email: [email protected], [email protected]

ShenzhenShenzhen Chabad: no.4, block a, Guishan Xiaozhu Yanshan Road, industrial area, Shekou nanshan district, Shenzhen, PR ChinaTel: (86) 755 8207 0712 www.chabadshenzhen.org

HonG KonG Jewish Community Centre: one Robinson Place, 70 Robinson Road, mid-Levels, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2801 5440 www.jcc.org.hk

Chabad of Hong Kong: 1/F Hoover Court, 7-9 macdonell Road, mid-Levels, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2523 9770 www.chabadhk.org

ohel Leah Synagogue: 70 Robinson Road, mid-Levels, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2589 2621 www.ohelleah.org

United Jewish Congregation (Reform): Jewish Community Centre, one Robinson Place, 70 Robinson Road, mid-Levels, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2523 2985 www.ujc.org.hk

Shuva israel (orthodox): 2/F Fortune House, 61 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2851 6300 www.shuva-israel.com

KowloonKehilat Zion (orthodox): Unit 105, 1/F, Wing on Plaza, 62 mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon Tel: (852) 2368 0061 www.kehilat-zion.org

Chabad of Kowloon: 11 Hart avenue, 2/F, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Tel: (852) 2366 5770 Email: [email protected]

india (mUmbai) magen david Synagogue: 340 Sir J.J. Rd, byculla, mumbai Tel: (91) 22 23006675

Kenesseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, 43 dr V.b. Gandhi marg, Fort, mumbaiTel: (91) 22 22831502 / 22839617

Kurla bene israel: 275 C.S.T. Rd, Jewish Colony, Kurla (W) mumbai, indiaTel: (91) 22 511-2132

JaPan Kobeohel Shelomoh Synagogue and Community Center: 4-12-12, Kitano-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650, Japan Tel: (81) 78 221 7236 www.jcckobe.org

TokyoTokyo Chabad: 1-5-23 Takanawa, minato-ku, Tokyo Japan 108-0073 Tel: (813) 5789 2846 www.chabad.jp

JCC Japan: Tokyo Jewish Community Centre, 8-8 Hiroo 3-Chome, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 150 0012, Japan Tel: (813) 3400 2559 www.jccjapan.or.jp

nEPaL Chabad House: GHa-2-516-4 Thamel, Kathmandu, nepal Tel: (977) 980 324 1294 [email protected]

PHiLiPPinES beth Yaacov Synagogue: 110 H.V. de la Costa cnr, Tordesillas West, Salcedo Village, makati City, metro manila 1227, The Philippines Tel: (632) 815 0265 www.jewishphilippines.org

SinGaPoRE Chesed-El Synagogue: 2 oxley Rise, Singapore 238693

Jacob ballas Community Centre & maghain aboth Synagogue: 24-26 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187950Tel: (65) 6337 2189 www.singaporejews.org

United Hebrew Congregation (Reform): email:[email protected]

SoUTH KoREaChabad: 744-18 Hannam-dong, Yongsan-Gu, Seoul 140-893, South KoreaTel: (82) 107 730 3770 www.jewishkorea.com

TaiWan Taipei Jewish Center: 2/F no. 8, Lane 180, Songde Rd, Xinyi district, Taipei City 110, Taiwan Tel: (886) 9 2392 3770

Taipei Jewish Community: 16 min Tsu East Road, Second Floor, Taipei, Taiwan, RoC Tel: (886) 2 2591 3565 email:[email protected]

Taipei Jewish Services: Sheraton Taipei Hotel, 12, Zhang Xiao East Road, Section 1, Taipei, Taiwan Tel: (886) 2 2321 5511, (886) 2 2394 4240

THaiLand Jewish association of Thailand: 121 Soi Sai nam Thip 2, Sukhumvit Soi 22, bangkok, Thailand Tel: (662) 663 0244 www.jewishthailand.com

Chabad of Thailand: 96 Rambutttri St. banglamphu, 102000 bangkok, Thailand Tel: (662) 629 2770 www.chabadthailand.com

bet Sefer Chabad: 221 Sukhumvit Soi 20, bangkok, 10110 ThailandTel: (662) 258 3434

Chabad of Phuket52/32 Ratch U-thit Song Roy Pee Rd. (opposite Patong Post office), Second row of town houses, Patong, Katu district, Phuket 83150

Chiang Mai189/15 Chang-Clan Road, Chiang mai, Thailand, on street of night bazaar, 100 meters before The Empress hotel Tel: (66) 81 870 2249

ViETnam Chabad: 5a (villa) nguyen dinh Chieu St., dakao ward, district 1,Ho Chi minh, Vietnam Tel: (84) 90 9166770 www.JewishVietnam.com

JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ASIA

Candlelighting times are taken from Chabad.org.

March Parashas

HOLIDAYS/ FASTS/ ROSH CHODESH

Rosh Chodesh:12 march 2013 (1 nisan 5773)

Fast of the First Born:25 march 2013 (14 nisan 5773)

Pesach (First Night Seder 25 March):25 march 2013 (14 nisan 5773) 2 april 2013 (21 nisan 5773)

Countries 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 March

bangkok 6:08 6:09 6:10 6:11 6:12beijing 5:47 5:55 6:02 6:09 6:16Guangzhou 6:12 6:15 6:18 6:20 6:23Hong Kong 6:09 6:12 6:14 6:17 6:19Katmandu 5:46 5:50 5:54 5:58 6:01Kobe 5:36 5:42 5:48 5:54 5:59manila 5:46 5:47 5:48 5:49 5:50mumbai 6:26 6:28 6:30 6:32 6:34Perth 6:35 6:27 6:18 6:09 6:00Shanghai 5:33 5:38 5:43 5:48 5:53Singapore 7:02 7:01 6:59 6:57 6:55Seoul 6:07 6:14 6:20 6:27 6:29Taipei 5:37 5:41 5:44 5:47 5:50Tokyo 5:17 5:23 5:29 5:35 5:41

Candle Lighting Times for March


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