Beyond the fact that an Israeli, Natan Ben Havkin founded and named the organization TEVA (which means Nature in Hebrew and All-Esperanto-Vegetarian-Association in Esperanto), I visited a vegetarian village in Israel where there were always a few Esperantists. I lived and worked a few weeks there in the early 1970s. The village is called AMIRIM and isn't far from the town Sfad/Tsfat in Hebrew. One quite politically radical Esperantist (He was writing constantly to newspapers about several subjects) was the Esperantist, Shalom Zamir. There was a woman who learned Esperanto from the daughter of the founder of Esperanto, Lidia Zamenhof, in Poland---her last name was--I think--Nowakowsky. In the year 2000 I returned to Israel and after the World Esperanto Conference in Tel Aviv, was invited to Amirim by recent emigrants from Bulgaria, whose names are failing me. I rented a car for three days (the only time I ever used a car in Israel.) I recently discovered from the wikipedia article that the village was founded by Seventh Day Adventists or a division of them. (Link below)
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Vegetarianism, Israel and Esperanto
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