{"id":579780,"date":"2010-05-26T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.35258"},"modified":"2010-05-26T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:05:43","slug":"rahm-emanuel-family-on-israel-defense-force-helicopter-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579780","title":{"rendered":"Rahm Emanuel family on Israel Defense Force helicopter tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s Israel visit is getting detailed attention from the Israel press&#8211;down to whether or not he is eating in kosher restaurants. On Tuesday, the Israeli Defense Force gave Emanuel and his family a helicopter tour of Israel and of bases in the north and south.  In Israel on Wednesday, Emanuel is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>According to Haaretz, &#8220;The IDF confirmed that Emanuel and his family were <br \/>\nthe guests of the IDF the bulk of the day, and added that the tour received <br \/>\nall the necessary approvals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel travelled to Israel for the bar mitzvah of his son, Zach and a nephew. He&#8217;s with his father, the Israeli born Benjamin and his brothers, Hollywood superagent Ari and Ezekiel, a White House health policy advisor. <\/p>\n<p>Haaretz, an Israeli paper, reported in its Hebrew editions about Emanuel&#8217;s movements. I asked a White House spokesman if the English translation version I am reporting off of had any fact errors and was told the report was accurate.<\/p>\n<p>From Haaretz: <em><br \/>\n* &#8220;Emanuel and his family toured yesterday  IDF bases in the north and south. Emanuel and his family came two days ago  to the Upper Galilee and after a tour that included a view of Lebanon from the mountains of Metulla and a visit to the monument in the memory of the 73 who died in the helicopter disaster near Kibbutz Dafna.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;It appears that the IDF, in coordination with the Foreign Ministry, gave <br \/>\nEmanuel and his son, who is celebrating his bar mitzvah, a touring-learning <br \/>\nexperience. Yesterday in the morning Emanuel came to the base of the <br \/>\nNorthern Command in Safed and from there continued via helicopter to the Air <br \/>\nForce base in Hatzerim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*This one might have been for Ari:  &#8220;The Emanuel family visited also the Kibbutz El <br \/>\nRom Studios in the northern heights, where a film on the battle in Emek <br \/>\nHabacha in the Yom Kippur War was screened.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;The family ended the day at the Sharola meat restaurant next to Mapalei Soar.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Below, English translation of Hebrew story in Haaretz&#8230;..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nWednesday, May 26, 2010<br \/>\nIDF gives Rahm Emanuel and family airborne tour of country<br \/>\nEli Ashkenazi and Anshel Pfeffer Haaretz Hebrew Print Edition 26 May 2010<br \/>\nTranslated by IMRA<\/p>\n<p>White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, and his family toured yesterday <br \/>\nIDF bases in the north and south. Emanuel and his family came two days ago <br \/>\nto the Upper Galilee and after a tour that included a view of Lebanon from <br \/>\nthe mountains of Metulla and a visit to the monument in the memory of the 73 <br \/>\nwho died in the helicopter disaster near Kibbutz Dafna, the family spent the <br \/>\nnight at the Pastoral hotel in Kibbutz Kfar Blum.<br \/>\nIt appears that the IDF, in coordination with the Foreign Ministry, gave <br \/>\nEmanuel and his son, who is celebrating his bar mitzvah, a touring-learning <br \/>\nexperience. Yesterday in the morning Emanuel came to the base of the <br \/>\nNorthern Command in Safed and from there continued via helicopter to the Air <br \/>\nForce base in Hatzerim. After that they returned via helicopter to the <br \/>\nGibor landing pad near Kiryat Shemoneh and toured Mount Bental in the <br \/>\nnorthern Golan, from which there is a view of Kuneitra, the Hermon and the <br \/>\nGalilee, with his family. The IDF confirmed that Emanuel and his family were <br \/>\nthe guests of the IDF the bulk of the day, and added that the tour received <br \/>\nall the necessary approvals. The Emanuel family visited also the Kibbutz El <br \/>\nRom Studios in the northern heights, where a film on the battle in Emek <br \/>\nHabacha in the Yom Kippur War was screened. The family ended the day at the <br \/>\nSharola meat restaurant next to Mapalei Soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel&#8217;s Israel visit is getting detailed attention from the Israel press&#8211;down to whether or not he is eating in kosher restaurants. On Tuesday, the Israeli Defense Force gave Emanuel and his family a helicopter tour of Israel and of bases in the north and south. In Israel on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}