Barry Foreman: Barry's Blog
הופיע: אפריל 2025
The Blog was started at 11:30 am on Saturday 7th October 2023, initially to let my close family and friends, know that Norma and I, are both OK. That was the day that the awful massacre, by Hamas, took place in Southern Israel, in the towns, villages and kibbutzim, that are close to Gaza.
The Blog was written on "WhatsApp" and was me telling the daily story as it unfolded; in my words, to my family and friends in Israel, England, France, Belgium, the United States and Thailand.
To be a true Israeli, you do not have to have been born here, but you do have to have lived through an existential war. Unfortunately, I now qualify and I now consider myself, as one of them.
This book is called Barry's Blog ‑ How I became an Israeli, so who is Barry Foreman.
I was born in Westcliff‑on‑Sea, Essex in June 1948. I had my bar mitzvah at the Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation Synagogue; then married two fellow Southenders, and continued to live in the area until 2010.
Just to give a nod to my early years, they were troubled and home life, was difficult, both for my two brothers, and for me. I was not a high flyer at school, but as a late developer, I managed to make my way into accountancy, which was a good stepping stone.