THE LOUNGE
Super Pharm
Leon Kupler, co-owner of the Super Pharm chain, and Yitzhak Keshet, the mayor of Harish, inaugurated the first Super Pharm branch in Harish last week. A number of Super Pharm’s managers attended the ceremony, and Kupler and Keshet arranged to meet again in the future to discuss continued cooperation.
Golan Einat
Businessman Golan Einat, co-owner of the Zappa Music Club and the Roladin Café chain, was recently surprised by his wife Tali with a party for his 50th birthday, at the couple’s home on their moshav in the Sharon area. As would be expected, the party included an impressive musical program, including performances by Idan Reichel, Aviv Geffen,
Rita, Shimon Bouskila, Shiri Maimon and the Ma Kashur Trio – Assi Yisraelof, Shalom Michaelshwili and Zion Baruch.
Everdure
Australia Ambassador to Israel Chris Kannan held a launching event in his house in Herzliya Pituach on Wednesday, for the Australian luxury grill brand Everdure in Israel. Everdure offers a wide range of grills and premium smokers from renowned 3-star chef Heston Blumenthal. Kannan congratulated Shay Habib, CEO and owner of Nine the importer of Everdure to Israel, for strengthening trade relations between the two countries. Chef Raz Rahav and the staff from OCD Restaurant provided the delicious meal.
Macallan whisky
Last week, the single malt scotch whisky brand Macallan, launched its 5th edition in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Pantone Color Institute. During the event, the Macallan bottle of scotch was introduced as the most expensive whisky to be sold ever in Israel. This is a bottle of Macallan 72 Years Old – the Genesis Decanter, which is the oldest ever bottled in Macallan. The bottle will go on sale in the coming months. There to taste the whisky and enjoy delicacies made by talented chef Oral Kimchi were: Esti and Mickey Ackerman, co-CEOs of M. Ackerman which imports Macallan to Israel; Top Macallan executives from around the world, including Simon Greenlaw, Macallan’s Middle East Sales; Sandra Mirance, marketing manager Of Macallan in the Middle East; and Judy Moyer, the brand ambassador in Dubai and the Middle East.
Seed-a-Memory
A unique tribute and memorial to Lithuanian Jews who perished in the Holocaust, was recently launched titled “Plant a Tree, Sow a Memory.” The project involved a new forest being planted in the Negev, as well as a virtual website: https:// seedamemory.org/, which allows people from all over the world to plant virtual trees to commemorate the victims of the Lithuanian Jewish community, to search for the names of their loved ones on the commemorative wall, and to add to the growing database. The digital site will, of course, allow visitors to donate and plant real trees in Israel, too, through JNF-KKL.
Over 25,000 trees were planted in the new forest, as part of a series of new ecological projects aimed at rehabilitating forests throughout Israel. The website and forest was established thanks to a significant donation from businessman and philanthropist Roman Abramovich, who immigrated to Israel from Lithuania, and who was orphaned from his parents at a very young age. He grew up with his Uncle Leib, who maintained a traditional Jewish home.