Jul 24, 2021
Julia Fisher talks to David & Leah Ortiz – David, originally from Puerto Rico and Leah, an American Jewess, emigrated to Israel in 1985 with three children and settled in BeerSheva in the south of Israel. They had three more sons and after a few years moved...
May 25, 2021
It’s been three days since the ceasefire between the Hamas and Israel began. We had 4,360 missiles launched at Israel from Gaza which were aimed purposely at population centers. The Iron Dome which is the Israeli anti-missile defense system was able to intercept 90%...
Jun 1, 2017
Julia Fisher talks to Leah Ortiz – Recently I visited the town of Ariel in central Israel to meet Leah Ortiz. From an American Jewish family, Leah and her husband David came to live in Israel in 1989. In 2008 their son Ami was seriously injured when a bomb...
Feb 27, 2014
Julia Fisher talks to David & Leah Ortiz – Welcome to this week’s edition of The Olive Tree which finds us in BeerSheva in southern Israel talking to David and Leah Ortiz. They live in Ariel in central Israel and, as you will hear, work among both...