Ziva Ben Reuven

Shalom, Mispocha!

Today is 26 Av, 5772....on the Gregorian Calendar it is August 14...Eighty years ago today, August 14, 1932, a remarkable woman was born...Ziva Ben Reuven is a legendary figure in the world of Israel that I work with and for...She is a true Sabra...born and raised in The Land of Eretz Yisrael...daughter of Russian parents who, by the grace of G-d, had come to Israel before the Horrors of the Holocaust swept Europe...

Ziva's life story is the 'stuff of legends'...I have encouraged her to write her story and put it into book form so that her grandchildren and the multiple thousands of lives she has touched, will have a record of this extraordinary life...I certainly want a copy of it even though her stories are pretty indeligibly etched in my heart's mind...

Speak to her of 'Golda' as folks like Ziva who knew and worked with her called Israel's first and only Female Prime Minister...ask her to tell you of the mission she was sent on by 'Golda' when the famous 3AM phone call was placed to President Nixon as Israel was under attack by those bent then - and now - on Her destruction...

Ask her to tell you of the Palmach and Haganah...and Uncles and a dear Husband who fought in these pre-IDF organizations...of the death of a beloved Uncle killed by arab terrorists as he fought to defend his Land...She will tell you of a night that there was music in the home which suddenly stopped when the news of the murder of this beloved Uncle was brought to them...

Music has played a very important part of this woman's life...a beloved husband who could play nearly any instrument given him...a son whose piano abilities and beautiful singing would have probably led him to a musical career had not the Yom Kippur War drawn him into the IDF, where he would rise to become one of the ONLY 20 Major Generals that Israel has ever had...she will tell you of a third generation of music that was birthed into a beautiful little 'porcelain doll' as the beautiful daughter of this famous Major General is called...

Israel owes much to this woman...she has given over 60 years of her life to raise monies and awareness for it...travelling back and forth across the Atlantic and all over the world in her quest for foundational support of this Land of G-d...she also gave an Uncle, a husband, and has shared her only child - Major General Eyal Ben Reuven - with this Land...

Many times when I introduce Ziva before she speaks to audiences I have shared her with, I begin to list all her accomplishments and legendary feats...then when she comes to the microphone, she simply says: 'I am a Mother of a Major General in the IDF'...she views her primary role as being the Mother of this highly decorated IDF Major General...

On this day that G-d brought into His World a woman named Ziva Ben Reuven, a life began that would touch so many and do so much for His Eternal Covenant Land and Children...and now, eighty years later, she is as youthful and full of passion and energy as ever...I am deeply thankful to The Most High G-d of Israel that He allowed me to meet and become friends with this woman...together, she a Jew and I a Christian Zionist, are working side by side to do all we can to build a solid bridge of mutual support and trust between His True Children:Jews and Christians...the Journey of my life is much sweeter because of this wonderful woman!

Mazl Tov, my dear Sister! Kol Ha Kavod! May you have many more! And may we, together, live to see the Messiah come to His Temple Mount in His Eternal City, Jerusalem! Many Prayers and MUCH LOVE and SHALOM!