Israeli Air Force…I mean the first one, guys…look
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 12-02-2013
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This e-mail is from a friend of mine, who by the way is a retired Colonel and is a world traveler and seems to know everyone world wide…That’s a joke, but he does have friends world wide….This is a couple of his e-mails and a short video that I thought all of you readers would enjoy. Thank you Mark Welch and Mr. Reytan Avi for sharing with us.
Headings and e-mail addresses removed. Below starts his message…..
Avi is a retired Israeli Naval Captain, and is the husband of one of my classmates, Irit, when we lived in Israel.
Irit survived the holocaust and still has her Nazi identification numbers tattooed onto her wrists.
We went to a Scots Presbyterian school, Tabeetha School, in Jaffa (Joppa). We had a multitude of nationalities there – British, American, Israeli, Arab etc. Studied the Old Testament every morning, and New Testament in the afternoons. Every day. You would think I would be a scholar by now, but I am not. However, I am trying.
We were in Israel as part of the US Govt AID program, and my dad was there to help the Israelis develop their mineral industry. We had been in East Africa for 2 years prior to that, where he was attached to the British Govt doing much the same work, and then after Israel, off to Nepal for 3 years, again with the AID program.
— On Sat, 2/9/13, wrote:
From: Mark Welch
Subject: Re: : The beginning of the Israeli Air Force….!!
To: “Reytan Avi”
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 9:50 AM
This is wonderful. Thanks.I arrived in Israel in the summer of 1952 and lived there for 3.5 years in Ramat Gan and went to school in Jaffa, as you know, with Irit.Evangelical Christians, who are almost universally supportive of Israel, believe that the Lord God planned all of this in advance and was there protecting Israel, thru fighters like these guys.Take care,Mark — On Sat, 2/9/13, Reytan Avi wrote:
From: Reytan Avi
Subject: : The beginning of the Israeli Air Force….!!
To: “Mark Welch”
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 6:56 AM
Hi Mark
First of all I hope that you and Sharon are O.K.
I want to share with you our feelings and appreciation to the people of U.S.A.
for the aid that you gave from the day that Israel was born till today.
This short and moving video sheds a small piece of it…..!!!
Take care.
Avi
WHAT A PIECE OF MODERN HISTORY–PRICELESS!
Subject: : Israeli Air Force documentary
Password is: iaf
This is great! It puts real names and real “faces” on the nation of Israel, rather than it being a lost, mistreated nation out of the pages of history and of a little-read and often misunderstood Bible that we often get over the news Media and that many get from reading the pages of a misunderstood biblical historical record. These has to be real names with real faces because a name like Reytan Avi almost certainly has to be a real Hebrew person. One of my roommates at Kirtland was a person with the name of Benjamin (Ben) Mazal. This is another good Hebrew name. Ben and his family were reformed Jews, that is, they recognized the New Testament and actually studied it to some extent as being a genuine extention of their own Torah. Ben is the only Hebrew person that I’ve ever known and whom I can call a real genuine friend. He made the pages of the Bible come alive for me as these emails from Mr. Reytan and Mr. Welch do also for the many readers of this blog. Any person who will willingly loan a lonely and carless GI his own car and to allow it to be driven into downtown Albuquerque must be a really great guy. Whereever he is today, I will always remember Ben for his kindness, his generosity, and for the great times that we spent together before he shipped out for Viet Nam and became, for me, just another of the nameless GI’s who served in the Viet Nam War. He remained one of these nameless and forgotten war heros until my wife and I visited the Viet Nam Memorial in Washington D. C. where his name just seemed like it popped out of the was at me, yelling, “Here I am! Am over here! Do you wish to borrow my car again? I don’t need it now because I have golden chariots.” This was September of 2009. After 43 years thinking ole Ben dead, I finally found him alive and well with Jesus.
Type correction: “it popped out of the wall at me, yelling…”
Thanks, Errol, and I hope Mr. Avi and Mr. Welch reads your comments. Yes, it does put names to the early hero’s of Israel. And the list of hero’s will continue to grow as God’s kingdom continues to increase. And your story of Ben Mazal was great. Thanks for sharing that story with us. Pete