Jewish Happiness in Israel

By Michael Rosen

The digest "Jewish happiness in Israel" consists of three short stories: "Jewish happiness", “Terrorist’s Lover», “Life and death beyond the green line." All these stories are based on real facts of modern Israeli reality. The purpose of these stories is to reflect certain processes taking place in modern Israeli society without myths, miracles and fantasies. The events described in these stories relate mainly to repatriates from the former USSR and their relations with representatives of other Jewish communities, as well as with the Arab population in Israel and in the "occupied territories".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Rosen
• Release date: Jan 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463427712

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JEWISH HAPPINESS IN ISRAEL

(Digest)

Brief description of the collection:

The digest Jewish happiness in Israel consists of three short stories: Jewish happiness, Terrorist’s Lover», Life and death beyond the green line. All these stories are based on real facts of modern Israeli reality. The purpose of these stories is to reflect certain processes taking place in modern Israeli society without myths, miracles and fantasies. The events described in these stories relate mainly to repatriates from the former USSR and their relations with representatives of other Jewish communities, as well as with the Arab population in Israel and in the occupied territories".

Contents

1. Jewish Happiness

Everyday Life

Life under Missiles

2. Terrorist's Lover

Olga

Weekdays and Entertainment

Unexpected Meeting

Instead of an Epilogue

3. Life and Death beyond the Green Line

Director Shapiro

Welcome to the Historical Motherland

The Return to Faith of the Fathers

The Jewish Settlers

The Palestinians

The Youth has own Laws

The Shahid

Well-being in Nahum's Family

The Bloody Night

4. The Biography of Michael Rosenbaum

Jewish happiness

(The story from first-hand account)

Everyday Life

The heroes of my story lived at ordinary Israeli street, located at the outskirts of the ordinary Israeli's town. The town was small and it was located close to the frontier of the Arab state of Lebanon.

The inhabitants of this town and this street were mostly repatriates of two great waves of Jewish repatriation. The first wave arrived into Israel from the Arab countries in the mid-50s of the last century. Repatriates of the first wave constitute today the majority of the population of the holy land. The second wave pour in Israel from the collapsed USSR.

Every repatriate knows: the Israeli people are unity! However, between the Jews of the two great waves of repatriation there was some difference, which we call the strange word mentality. The mentality did not prevent the natives from the East and the West from settling on one street under the flat roofs of gray houses. The reasons for this unity were rather banal. The reason was a price for housing lower than in other towns of the country.

Life under one roof had feature. The repatriates from the former USSR at the age 45+ having lived in Israel for more than ten years knew the language of the historical homeland much less than the first-graders of the Israeli school. Therefore, the repatriates from the Arab countries called of the repatriates from former USSR Rusim.

Representatives of two waves of repatriation settled in the eight apartments in the four-story house with the number 13 at the street Giora Iosiftal

Families of religious Moroccan Jews occupied two apartments on the first floor. In the apartment on the right lived the father of the family with his wife, three sons, and two daughters. In the apartment on the left lived his eldest son with two daughters and a newborn son. Father and son were very similar; they were always dressed in black clothes and had black beards. Religious families rarely communicated with neighbors. Religious families were the owners of the apartments. The rest of the residents were only tenants of their apartments.

The property owner of the apartment on the second floor was the young red-haired woman. She was the repatriate from the Moldova. Her name was Mania. She called herself Oren in Israel. Oren means in Hebrew bright, radiant. Mania-Oren made successful marriage in Israel. She married or, as they say in Israel, went under the Khupa, with the Jew from Iran. Her husband was the swarthy fat man. He held the high position on the public staircase. He was the police sergeant. He was the representative and of the authorities.

On the second floor on lived another significant personality. He was Vatik. Vatik it means in Israel old-resident. His name was Pinchas. He was one of Rusim. He was born in the Siberia. His parents were Polish Zionists. They died in the Stalin concentration camp in the Siberia.

Pinchas arrived in Israel in the sixties of the last century. He served in Israeli army, and then worked for 20 years in a military enterprise. He was in retirement age and received the large allowance.

Pinchas was considered rich man, but he lived modestly. His son Moshe was the orthodox Jew and lived in the religious quarter of Jerusalem. Moshe, like all the residents of this quarter, was engaged exclusively in religious activities, so he was the father of ten children and grandfather of six grandchildren. Pinchas assist the ever-growing family of his son with money.

Sam Bloch was the eternal opponent of Pinchas. He lived on the third floor. Sam was an engineer at a large factory in the former USSR. He was dismissed from the factory, because wanted to repatriate to Israel. He was in refusal ten years, and worked as the cleaner. His dream came true. He arrived in Israel in 1993. However, he cleaned the streets in Israel for another ten years, because he not can to learn Hebrew at the age of 60. Finally, Sam reached retirement age, but the private firm where Sam worked, did not give pension savings. Sam had debates with the neighbor on this topic: Why is his beggarly pension five times less than the pension benefit of Pinchas?

On one floor with Sam lived the family of two sister - twins. Our tragic age has cast the black shadow on the fate of these sisters. Names of these sisters were Bertha and Sarah. The twin sisters were born in the large and friendly family in a Jewish village in the Western Ukraine. The sisters were young girls when the terrible war began. Bertha studied at a medical school. Sarah was preparing for the wedding.

Bertha was mobilized to the Red