Schlaglicht Israel Nr. 16/14 Aktuelles aus israelischen Tageszeitungen 1.-15. Oktober Die Themen dieser Ausgabe 1. Schokopudding-Kampagne.............................................................................................................................. 1 2. Schweden und GB planen Anerkennung Palästinas........................................................................................ 3 3. Netanyahu in Washington................................................................................................................................ 5 4. Medienquerschnitt............................................................................................................................................ 6 1. Schokopudding-Kampagne Vor drei Jahren entfachte die Preiserhöhung für Hüttenkäse die Massenkundgebungen für soziale Gerechtigkeit in Israel, diesmal könnte es ein Schokopudding sein. In Berlin kostet ein„Milky“, so das israelische Synonym für Schokoladenpudding mit Sahne, nur die Hälfte, in manchen Läden sogar nur ein Drittel vom israelischen Preis und viele andere Lebensmittel genauso. Die Facebook­Gruppe„Olim le Berlin“, frei übersetzt:„Wir ziehen um nach Berlin“, lockt zum Wegzug aus der teuren Heimat und löst damit eine heftige Debatte aus . Detached in Berlin (…) No one who has tried to understand the prices paid so that the Jewish people can have a state of their own-- no one who asks where they came from, who they are, and where they are headed-- would ever think to build a home on top of Gestapo base­ments and spend their Saturdays sailing on the Wannsee lake. No matter how much a Milky pud­ding costs at the corner market. The Berlin trend presents us as a society with questions: What leads young Israelis to give up life in Israel so easily, and why is it so important to a certain group of them to encourage others to do the same? The answer, which should worry us a great deal, is a broken identity, the identity made up of a connection be­tween our memories of the past and our ambitions for the future. When a person's memories are about himself alone, his ambitions are only for his own future. When a person's memories extend beyond his life back to his grandparents and the memories shared by his community and people, his ambitions are also broader and more inclusive.(…) Almost all our holidays are days of memory, but when these holidays are drained of their content, and Hannuk­kah, rather than stressing the miracle of a great bat­tle against evil, is reduced to children's festivals and doughnuts, or when Independence Day is nothing more than a family barbecue, it's no wonder that the memories and culture of young Israelis are left with­out meaning or power. If memory is culture, forget­fulness and ignorance are the opposite of culture. Unfortunately, forgetting and ignorance rule the lives of too many of the young generation and lead them 1