Noemi B from Israel

Hi Noemi! Not sure if I should be the first to post on your page, but greetings from Canada. My tradition is to drop off a few beavetail pastry form here, so I'm leaving you both a double chocolate fudge and an apple cinnamon pastry. Enjoy a Canadian treat, and welcome to your own page!

Hello Noemi thought I would be the second to welcome you and have bought flowers and some hand-made chocolates for you.

Have a happy Christmas and a peaceful New year x

Hope 2007 is a good year!

Hi Greg ! Thank you for the pastry ! It is delicious !

Hi Greg ! Thank you for the pastry ! It is delicious

Hi Noemi. Thanks for stopping in to my page and saying hello. You may be an 'old' member of Sudokuland, but you have also been a silent one. I do hope we hear from you more often. In temrs of managing your page, just click on the 'Update Details' on the top left of your page when your in it, and there is an explanation. If you have problems, either leave me a message and I'll try to help or contact Gath via his 'Contact Us' button at the top right of the page, and I'm sure he will be happy to assist you as well.

10 1/2 hours to go here in Ottawa until the new year creeps in. Best wishes!

Noemi, Happy New Year! I hope it's your best year ever!

Hello Noemi B, welcome to your own page. I hope you enjoy it as much as we all do.

Please come to visit me anytime you feel like it and I will bake a cake especially for your visit.

Happy New Year Noemi, While not seeing you post often, I do know a little about you in the few exchanges that I've seen and of course those that Kathy may have posted. I hope the new year will allow us to learn more about each other. I've met so many wonderful people on this site, and I look forward to getting to know more about you. Please feel welcomed to visit me at anytime to chat. I love to talk, as you may have guessed from my long post. May the year bring you good health, joy, and peace.

Hi Mamacita 2
I am so glad you visited me. You are right - I dont post very often , but I do read comments and I know most of the regulars. As you see I am from Israel , I am a teacher , better said ' retired ' teacher. Decided to retire and enjoy life .I love to travel ( came home from Morocco last week ), read , make powerpoint presentations ,write . I heard something nice - in our life there are 3 stages ( regarding travelling ) :
GO GO
GO SLOW
NO GO
so I decided to retire to have time to keep going as much as possible .
I am still unfamiliar with managing ' My Page ' , but I will learn - I hope. Meanwhile , come and visit whenever you wish, I will also like to get to knwo each other .
Happy New Year !

Noemi - Hello my friend!! Glad to see you are settling into your new ''page''. I have had a hard time keeping up with everyone. I wrote to Gath & asked how many Supporting Members there are now. He said about 160!! No wonder I can't find time to get around to visit everyone. Hope your new year is off to a good start. I look forward to seeing some of your wonderful photos here on your page soon.

Thurs 4 Jan: Hello Noemi, thank you for visiting my page. Like you, I have been on the site since the beginning but didn't post until about October 2005 so have been a regular posting for about 15 months now.

Red wine! I'll drink to that (or is it WITH that?)! Pretty sneaky of you to never mention YOUR birthday. I've been trying to remember the date you came back from Morocco - was it Dec. 24th? So was the 24th the day of your birthday? Please let us know so we can get you on the list for this year! Anyway, hope you HAD a very happy birthday.

Hi Noemi B
Wish I could join you in a welcoming glass of wine maybe next month. When, hopefully my new body will start to emerge out of its big thick cocoon!!!
By the way Budapest is on my to visit list, in the meantime Prague(Praha) must remain my favourite european city.

Noemi...ha !well i got to know more abt you from Kathy/fl...she has forwarded some of the most beautifl presentations to me from you..awesome..
and thanks for the wine..no i dont drink:)....
a light coffee will do..thats fine
hope to see you more in the site..
cheers

Hi again Nomei. You go from being a silent Sudoku supporter to a really intersting person in a few weeks. I'm so pleased you have decided to speak out. Between the comments you've posted on your page, and comments I received from Kathy, we are starting to get to know you better. Thanks for sharing! It's nice to 'virtually' meet you.

Nomei hello, Thought I'd drop in since I have learned that you had a birthday recently. Please let me raise a glass in your honor,although it will be water filled for the time being. May you live long, love well and continue to find joy in all that you do. Thanks for the visit. Its going to be nice getting to know someone with your interest. I'm looking forward to it. Kathy did try to share a presentation you had sent, but at this time I'm unable to open these. I do feel as if I've missed out. Perhaps that too shall change. Please come again anytime.

Hi Nomei. If it helps, check out my post to Tricia on page 3 of the Easy Sudoku comments on Saturday, January 6th. I have tried to explain how to post pictures to your site from Flickr.

Hi AP,
I dont know how to reach you , so I am leaving a message for you here in case you visit me again. I was very glad to hear from you , I've known you from your witty and nice comments on the site . I am glad you enjoy my presentations , there are some more on the way . Hope to keep in touch. Have a great week end !

Noemi lovely to put a name to the face. The photographs are wonderful. Have travelled a bit in Israel a few years ago now, dived in Eilat, beautiful country, brought back happy memories x

hello Noémi, my first visit to you - nice to meet another teacher! Catherine has spoken a lot about you!

Oh Noémi, I just viewed your flickr site and am in awe! I just fell in love with your shot of the sunset in the Negev. It reminds me of what molten gold must look like. WOW and double WOW! I saw the picture that started your friendship with Kathy's and I remember hers. Small world! Thanks for sharing, I look forward to other pictures. Peace!

Sun 7 Jan: A lovely selection of photos, Noemi, and a beautiful sunset.

Hi Noemi! Glad to see you got your page set-up. I had a look through your Flickr pictures. Thanks for sharing. My first personal view of sites in Israel.

Hi Noemi - The picture on my page is Bodnant Gardens in Wales, we were lucky enough to capture the Laburnum Arch at the right time it was a wonderful sight!
I would love to visit your country again, have been there twice and can't wait to visit again, we had a friend there who introduced us to his family and were shown true hospitality x

Hi Noemi. Your photos are beautiful.

Noemi, you and your mother are a precious vision. The background view is also breathtaking. I have never visited Israel, but I've read a bit on it, and will hopefully go there one day.

Just a quick hello. Hope all is well with you and 2007 will be a good year!

Hi Noemi. Thanks for the link. I'll spend some time tomorrow looking through the page, but it lookks very interesting. Geeting late here and I have to be at work for 7:30 AM (it's 9:10 PM now), so it will have to wait. Thank you!

1/15/07 Noemi, just tonight discovered your new Flickr photos of Morocco plus our shot in common in the hotel lobby at Budapest! Left a comment on the Flickr site.

Noemi,Thanks for your visit and birthday wishes for Sully. I noticed somewhere you had described some of your favorite spots in Israel, or where you live, worked and play most often. I'd love to here something like that when you have a chance. I'd also like to hear your take on what's going on politically, or on any topic about current events that you might be willing to share. I've had friends tell me how beautiful your country isater they returned from a visit, but haven't known anyone who lives there. Please let me know if what I'm asking is something that will make you uncomfortable if you choose not to respond.

1/19/07 - Noemi, in the MORE section 'Travelling Grannies' I left a message about a website that lists all the countries in the world (194). Even though you're not officially a granny, you're pretty close, being such a good great aunt! Wondered if you would check that list & let the rest of us traveling ladies know how many countries YOU have been to. Bet it's a lot!

Noemi, I thank you for your visit and willingness to talk about anything that may be of interest. I understand your not wanting to become involved in certain discussions on the web. If you would rather use email, I'd have no problem giving you access to my email address. Kathy does have it and if you let her know its okay to give it to you, we should be able to be discuss whatever comes to mind. I currently have two topics that I'd like to know more about. The first is the reaction to Former Jimmy Carters latest book with the provocative title, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid; and the second which may sound as if it could be somewhat related, is the growing unrest, increased gang and drug problems among the Ethiopian Jews that have caused racial disharmony and economic strain. I have not yet read President Carter's book, but much of what I read speaks about the unrest among the Israeli leadership, steming from this book. Is this just to take attention away from the growing scandals? President Carter was to appear at Brandeis University last night to speak about the book. He has been critcized here, and did offer an explanation and an apology for a sentence in the book which was 'improper and stupid'. Since President Carter is a man that I admire, I am concerned at the uproar being created. Israel seems to be undergoing growing pains and from what I read, many things that are being done, seem to be following along some of the mistaken paths the the USA went through during the early part of the 20th century. I would hate to see that happen. I'm sure much good is also going on, I am not in a position to really know what is going on or to make any kind of judgements, that's why I'm so pleased that you are willing to express yourself and help me understand a bit more.

Hi Noemi. The Morroco set of pictures is a nice addition to your Flickr library. Thanks for sharing these pictures.

Noemi, thank you, your message brings tears to my eyes, I TRULY appreciate it. Thankyou for the compliments and support. You are a beautiful person~ AND I love your picture...
TAKE CARE

Noemi
nice to put a face to the name, great photo.
hope you enjoy the site as much as I have for the last year and a half plus.

Noemi, How are you. Safe I pray. Yes, you pretty well got my drift on some of the many things that interest me. You touched on something that I have wondered about, and that is the fear that must radiate through out your land. How does one retain his/her sense of humanity when faced with the many challenges you have in just doing the mundane everyday chores, wondering if the person next to you is on a suicide mission. Your point about the Black minister who was angered by the use of the word 'apartheid', was part of what was going on here when Jimmy Carter's book first hit the shelves. Carter said he used the word purposefully to show what he felt was an attitude of racism in the treatment of the Palistine prisoners. To have a true dialogue with someone who is openminded enough to share truthfully these things that you have direct knowledge of would be very beneficial to me in helping to understand your part of the world. I have no hatred of any people, but I have distrust for many policies which seem to foster misunderstandings among us. I believe we have more in common than in the areas where we differ. I come to you in hope that we can learn from each other, then spread that which we learn among others to narrow the misunderstandings. May peace be with you.

Hi,
I began a reply to you a few days back when there was yet another suicide bomber in Eilat and 3 innocent Israelis were killed ! Eilat is a wonderful spa in the south of Israel . This is the first incident there- hope the last. I couldnt go on writing. If you follow the news you probably know that there are very bad fights in Gaza between the Hamas and the PLO , they are killing each other for power ( the president is from the PLO, the prime minister from Hamas ) - Israel is not involved thanks God ! I feel it is injust to use the term Apertheid with Israel - My father was a doctor and the army used to take him regularly to the jail where palestinian prisoners were held and he treated them , gave medicine , they were treated in hospitals if needed . I am sure there were also cases of abuse - unfortunately ,but this is not apatheid ! Would you call the American or British soldiers who abused the iraqi prisoners - racists? No , they were not racists, they were very wrong in what they did , they even made videos and had fun, but I dont think they did it because of Apartheid !!!! I am very much against violence , no matter who does it , but I also strongly believe that our future is in danger and we have to protect ourselves and make sure noone destroys us . I pray to God that the politicians will be wise enough and find peaceful ways to do it !
About life here - Israel is a wonderful country, israelis like to live, travel, go to theatres and concerts,and we dont constantly live with fear , but we are always aware of the danger and try to be as careful as possible. Life goes on , terrorism cant paralyze a whole nation and it wont !

Mamacita , the reply to your letter is the previous comment.