(Must I really think up a headline for everything I write?)

March 12, 2005 - 11:45 AM by

The other night, outside a cinema in Tel Aviv, I saw two well-known Israeli women coming out of a movie. My first thought was ‘Don’t they look well?’. My second thought was ‘Isn’t it nice that they’re friends and go out to see movies together?’ My third thought was ‘Ooh, I can write about it’.

Then I thought ‘What am I, some sort of Paparazzi?’

On the other hand, it gives me an opportunity to mention two larger than life women a few days after Woman’s Day, which I previously ignored (Some one at work said ‘What about Man’s Day?’ To that the answer was ‘Man gets the other 355 days of the year’. Therefore I’m not too fond of designated days for people. Although I still would appreciate a proper Mother’s Day, but I’ll leave that sore subject. Those of you who visit my blog are probably fed up of my going on about it, by now).

So I’ll spill the beans. The women were Ora Namir and Orna Porat (scroll down). Now Ora Namir comes over as a bit of an annoying politician, and I never really forgave her the hullabaloo she created to get the main road of Derech Haifa in Tel Aviv changed to Derech Namir, after her dear departed, who was once mayor of Tel Aviv among other things. He’d already got Namir Square, which admittedly turned out to be horrible and sleazy. It just seemed a bit greedy.

Until recently, I stubbornly continued to call it Derech Haifa to spite. I stopped because fewer and fewer people knew what I was talking about.

Ora Namir’s last public position, as far as I know, was ambassador to China. She does give the impression of being extremely intelligent and is probably a very interesting person to talk to (or go to movies with), even though she is a politician. Maybe that’s why she’s friends with Orna Porat.

Orna Porat (scroll down), on the other hand, is pure magic. She was a non-Jewish German who came to live in Israel after the Holocaust and became Jewish. She is probably one of the best loved Israeli actresses of all time. There’s just something about her. I really loved seeing her in the street, like she was an ordinary person.

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