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The land of Rolexes and handouts

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 11:00.
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The land of Rolexes and handouts

By Cnaan Liphshiz

For 27 years, Owen has worked as a free professional at a large company. Now, his pension of 61 million Zimbabwe dollars will only buy him six apples at the central market place of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, where he lives. He says that while the economy is ruined, Zimbabwe's 270 Jews enjoy better personal security than in South Africa.

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Officials: Zimbabwe instability could double South African immigration

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 10:04.

 

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Officials: Zimbabwe instability could double South African immigration

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Zimbabwe's impending collapse will serve to double immigration from South Africa this year, absorption professionals in Israel and Johannesburg told Haaretz Sunday.

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Don't call it apartheid

Submitted by admin on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 08:11.

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Last update - 10:11 17/07/2008
Don't call it apartheid
By Tova Herzl

Every so often, when the comparison between Israel and the apartheid regime in South Africa is once again in the headlines, I am reminded of the racism conference in Durban in 2001. One incident at that conference, which became a milestone in the struggle to delegitimize Israel, remains engraved in my memory.

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Goodbye, Zimbabwe - The once-thriving Jewish community has all but disappeared

Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/28/2008 - 10:10.

(Source : http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080604_62366_62366 ) 

Goodbye, Zimbabwe

The once-thriving Jewish community has all but disappeared

MICHAEL ROSS | June 4, 2008 |


"If Cape Town is the top deck of the Titanic for the Jews of southern Africa, then Zimbabwe is the boiler room below the waterline," my guide Malcolm observed during my last foray into Zimbabwe in 2001 as an agent of Mossad, the Israeli spy service. If that was so, then the boiler room is now empty.

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Reports on Zimbabwe and its Jewish Community

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 12:04.


African
rabbi in Britain tells of crisis faced by Zimbabwe Jews
Jewish Chronicle - Jun 19,
2008
But following last week’s exclusive JC
report on an emergency evacuation plan made by the Jewish Agency, the
Zimbabwe Jews we contacted said that, despite the deteriorating
situation, they feel secure and have no plan to leave.
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