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Your input needed! 
Ulpan La-Inyan (ulpan.com) opened two years ago in Jerusalem, where it has been offering its friendly, state-of-the-art, hour-a-day conversational Hebrew courses to the English-speaking population, in close cooperation with AACI. This fall, Ulpan La-Inyan is planning to team up with Telfed, offering its renowned classes in Raanana!  In order to for us to create the most ideal schedule that will meet the needs of Raanana and Sharon-area residents, we need your input. If we’ve captured your interest, please visit http://ulpan.com/raanana-input.html, where you can find out more about our program and then let us know what times of day and which courses would be ideal for you.  We look forward to hearing from you!  Shanah Tovah,  The Team Ulpan La-Inyan  www.ulpan.com
 

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The Israel Centre in South Africa has issued its latest newsletter describing an exciting list of education projects including the Na'ale program offering English speaking students the opportunity of graduating from Israeli high schools, the Shorashim tour with some 60 children from Habonim having a unique visit to Israel and plans for the forthcoming youth movement summer camps. To see details of the newsletter...

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Telfed function to welcome new Olim in Modiin and elections for a new Telfed Modiin Committee. Please join us for snacks and drinks to welcome our olim who came to Modiin in the last year or so. At the same time we will hold elections for a new committee. For details

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Telfed's latest printed magazine has been released with an inspiring cover story on how the gentle sport of cricket is helping to create better bonds in Israeli society. The story, entitled, "A New Pitch For Better Relations" describes how former S.African Herschel Guttman is coaching young Israeli children from all walks of life including Bedouins from the Negev, Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. Make sure you get your own copy of the new, full colour format of the Telfed magazine by contacting our office with your latest address details. For veteran subscribers please make sure your annual subs are up-to-date so that we can continue to produce a quality magazine. For those who wish to download and read an online copy ....

[source: www.haaretz.com]

By Raphael Ahren

After Mandy-Jo Levy's husband was shot dead two years ago during a car hijacking in Johannesburg, she decided to come to Israel offer her two children a better life. But when she disembarked from the plane last week, she thought she was going to die herself. Suffering from a bad case of gastroenteritis and confused, she was brought to a hospital by Telfed deputy director Dorron Kline because she was too ill to be taken to her new home.

[source : www.haaretz.com]  -  published 6.8.10

Telfed opens up Hadera project to avert ghetto

By Raphael Ahren

The South African Zionist Federation (Israel ) recently dropped the exclusivity for South Africans from its latest real estate project in Hadera to avoid creating an English speaking "ghetto" there, the group's deputy director told Anglo File this week.

"We're still encouraging South Africans to buy, and we're still advertising [the project] in our Telfed magazine, but we've opened the building to Israelis so that there will be a mixture in the building and not only South Africans - because that's not healthy," Dorron Kline said.

Telfed has posted a quick travel-related questionnaire on this website to gauge people's interest in various organised trips in Israel and abroad. You can find the five questions at http://www.telfed.org.il/content/travel-questionnaire

We look forward to your input - just a yes/no and a click on the submit button. All information remains absolutely anonymous.

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 On Monday 26 July, Tu Be’Av – the Festival of Love, 57 new Olim made the long journey from Cape Town and Johannesburg via Addis Ababa to Ben Gurion airport. After a 3 hour stop over in Addis that felt like eternity, the elated  yet exhausted Olim were greeted by the smile and warm hand shake of Maish Isaacson, Chairman of Telfed, together with Yehuda Katz, director of the English speaking division of the Jewish Agency Aliyah Department, as they stepped off the plane in Israel.