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Elie Wiesel and wife Marion in 2014 |
Elie
Wiesel Symbolized Memory
EMORY was the most
vital element of
Elie Wiesel’s passion.
That’s why such institutions as Washington’s
Holocaust Memorial Museum, New York’s
Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
and Israel’s Yad Vashem were so dear to him.
Wiesel said that Yad Vashem was the most important center of
Jewish memory in the world simply because it is in
Jerusalem,” he said when he was honored by the museum in
1994 in New York.
What is it that moves every visitor at Yad Vashem? He said
it happens when you come out of the museum. You are not
staying in the place that symbolizes the darkness of
humanity. But you see Jerusalem, the future of the Jewish
people.
“Yad
Vashem is essential to Jerusalem,” he said. “Without one
part of our history, the other will fail. You need to
remember both."
Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, recalled how
sad he was after the war when he realized that the world was
in no mood to remember what happened.
He said that his first Holocaust book,
Night, when first
published, hardly sold 2,000 copies. His publisher told him
that people don’t want to buy the book because they don’t
want the children to read it.
“It
was impossible then to speak about that period,” he said. “I
understood. Why should parents burden their children with
such stories?”
At
an Israel Bonds dinner in 1990 in New York, Wiesel told the
sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors in the audience
that he wrote Night
(which eventually became a huge bestseller) not for the
world. “I did not have that much trust in the world that
they would understand. I wrote if for your parents. They did
not want to talk about it. They would only talk among
themselves.”
He
showed that it was important to write about it, to remember
the past. As he put it: “I don’t believe in fanaticism, nor
do I believe in hate. But I do believe in memory.”
Wiesel died July 2 at his home in Manhattan at age 87.
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Bon Jovi and
Etai Eliaz |
Bon Jovi’s parting
message
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Bon Jovi Dazzles
RAMMY
Award-winning singer-songwriter
Bon Jovi
performed for an enthusiastic crowd of 50,000 in October at
Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv. Since forming his rock group on
1983, he’s been earning a reputation as a record producer,
actor and philanthropist. He checked in for two days at the
Dan Tel Aviv where he was hosted by general manager
Etai Eliaz in
the luxury Presidential
Suite overlooking the Mediterranean. Upon departure
Bon Jovi left his signature in the hotel’s bulging
guest book that features such luminaries as
Madonna,
Mick
Jagger, and Bono.
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Vigoda
Was Always Old
HE
world-weary Abe
Vigoda, who died at the ripe old age of 94, started life
old. His first-grade teacher formed a drama group and needed
someone to portray Baron von Richenhoffen, a 50-year-old
gent who finds his wife in the closet with a strange man.
She looked around and settled on a dour child. “You look
old, Abe. I think you’ll do for the part.”
So at
the tender age of six Abe was thrust into show business.
Even though he was often typecast as a heavy, he actually
started out in comedy. He was a regular on NBC’s
All Star Revue, a
live variety show in the 1950s that featured such stars as
Jimmy Durante, Ed
Wynn, Danny Thomas,
George Jessel and
Tallulah Bankhead.
Success came to him late in life when he made his mark as
the Mafia capo Sal Tessio in the 1972 blockbuster
The Godfather.
But he didn’t become affluent until he moved to this side of
the law. He won fame as the decrepit Detective Phil Fish in
the ABC series Barney
Miller (1975-82).
The
actor with the mournful countenance
died in his sleep on Jan.
26, 2016, at the home of his daughter,
Carol Vigoda Fuchs,
in Woodland Park, N.J.
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 GREETINGS
The president of Lithuania, Grybauskaite Dalia, and her
foreign affairs minister,
Linas Linkevicius, were greeted by Dan Tel Aviv general
manager, Etai Eliaz, when they arrived
at the hotel for the Global Lithuanian Economic Forum.
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 WELCOME
ABOARD Larry King makes his first trip to
Israel in some.20 years. He’d been busy with his CNN
interview show from 1985 to 2010. King took an El Al flight
last summer to participate in the 2015 Education Forum in
Holon. He spoke about Jewish education in the U.S. He also
produced a documentary that aired on Sirius TV. Photo by
Orly Halevy
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 BEAUTIFUL
HOTELS Dan
Eilat received the top prize for Beauty for the 10th
consecutive year, and Dan Tel Aviv got a certificate of
distinction for having earned the Five Beauty Flower award
five times in the last ten years. The Dan Carmel Haifa
received the Five Beauty Flower award. At the award ceremony
from left: Rafi Baeri VP marketing and sales at the Dan
Hotels; Yariv Levin, Minister of Tourism; Etai Elias, CEO
Dan Tel Aviv; Radu Mitroi, room division at the Dan Tel
Aviv; Chen Broner, director of food and beverage at the Dan
Tel Aviv; and Bertha Yogev, manager of the Dan Carmel Haifa.
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 MEET
AT THE DAN
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the new head of
Greenberg Traurig Cyber Security and Crisis Management
Practice, met with two of the firm’s shareholders at the Dan
Tel Aviv. Pictured from left: shareholder Alan Sutin,
Guiliani, guest relations assistant Jeremy Dery, and
shareholder Gary Epstein. During his visit, Giuliani also
met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and was honored
at a dinner of the
World Jewish Congress at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
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 FIDDLER
IN THE SKY
EL AL Israel Airlines flew violinist Itzhak
Perlman to accept the 2016 Genesis Prize in Israel. The
violinist was chosen for his work as a musician and advocate
for individuals with disabilities as well as his dedication
to the State of Israel. Previous winners were former New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor/producer Michael
Douglas.
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