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Page 15-THE NEWS May, 1987 601^, mi^iH Ok. So we don’t spell too good. Gone. Mission! Sound mysterious, intimidat ing? It’s not. Think of it as a great vacation, only to Israel with a lot of extras thrown in. Different? You bet. From the moment you land and see cotton growing by the runway, you’ll know. Buy a live fish at the super market. Experience real Shabbat peace on a quiet Saturday morn ing. Be part of the majority for a chance. See the sights—and the sites. Better yet, meet the folks—the prime minister, the tank com mander, the kibbutz dweller, the just-arrived immigrant. That’s the real difference. Go east, young man—instead of wherever else it was you were thinking about going. And get this—we may even subsidize part of the cost, under certain circumstances. Such a deal. Shalom. 1987-1988 MISSION CALENDAR For Information and Details Call; THE CHARLOTTE JEWISH FEDERATION 366-5007 June 14-24 FAMILY MISSION June 28-July 7 FAMILY MISSION July M5 SINGLES MISSION Aug. 5-19 SINGLES MISSION Aug. 9-19 FAMILY MISSION Sept. 9-17 UJA PRESIDENT’S MISSION (1) Sept. 13-21 UJA PRESIDENT’S MISSION (1) Oct. 18-26 UJA PRESIDENT’S MISSION (1) Nov. 2-11 FALL STUDY MISSION (2) Dec. 20-30 FAMILY MISSION SE SINGLES MISSION (3) SE REGIONAL MISSION (4) Required as shown below: Gift $10,000 Gift $ 1,500 Gift $ 365 AVAILABLE Feb. 1988 Mar. 1988 Minimum Gifts (1) Minimum (2) Minimum (3) Minimum (4) SUBSIDY A Docent For All Seasons CABLE 3 Jewish TV Magazine Every Mon. at 2 p.m. Every Thurs. at 9 p.m. Watch your Federation in action! By Betty S. Silver Just as we at the Mint try to give our visitors a taste of the museum, so do the guides on the private buses in Israel share the same intention. The difference is they are portray ing a taste of a country, sm^ as it is — the size of New Jersey with a population of 4,000,000. Charlotte’s popula tion is 350,500. Alex Fleisher, a penetrating eyed, leather-faced John Wayne type of man, was the guide on Bus ^6 March 1-10, 1987. He was born in Israel and has been a guide there for 18 years having completed £m intensive two year training course. He is married to an Israeli and has three children. The eldest child is a daughter who will become 18 this sum mer which means she will go into the army, having first passed entrance exams for that service. As a painter sizes a canvas preparatory to spreading col or on it, so Alex deftly stret ches his listeners’ attention. He is a story teller with a can- torial lilt in his voice that sometimes mesmerizes his listeners. He frequently in tercedes a Yiddish phrase or joke to emphasize his point. Anthropology is his hobby and sometimes the rocks, rills and valleys seem to speak to him. An acute observer of nature with a deep respect and love of his fellow man, this guide can teach you more than you think you want to know. To hear Alex tell about the in vention of the tank is to hear a man show his love of his fellow man. In his low, slow voice he begins, “You start with four men. He demonstrates with his grouped fingers. Then he portrays in a silhouette how the perimeter is spread to safeguard the lives of the oc cupants inside the tank. The Israeli tank is the only one ex tant with a trough beneath to shield the occupants against land mines and the only one with a 360“ swivel. It can also shoot in all directions while in motion. Throughout the tell ing, Alex is stressing the im portance of each hfe sadly engaged in war. Alex is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in Lon don where he was a full-time student. He supported himself there by washing cars, dishes and bodies, the latter in a mor tician shop. He has continued to paint and still enjoys char coal, oil, pencil as well as watercolors. He is also a print- maker. But I believe he feels his real and first profession is “painting” Israel’s present and past to the passengers on his bus. He has fought in aU of Israel’s wars, speaks Spanish fluently and interjects Yiddish in his pungent jokes. As long as people of Alex’s calibre are in the forefront, “There’ll Always Be an Israel”. Editor's Note: Betty Silver was one of a group of Chariot- teans who went on the Federa tion SE Regional Mission to Israel led by Richard A. Klein. Have You Heard? We Have Moved! Visit us in our new showroom at The Courtyard 2400 Park Road We appreciate your patronage in the past and look forward to seeing you at our new location. Happy Birthday, Shalom Park Leather Gallery Lfd. 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