{"id":7425,"date":"2020-03-03T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moshepommyhadar.com\/?page_id=7425"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T11:43:03","slug":"about-pommy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moshepommyhadar.com\/en\/about-pommy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Pommy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The \u201cHE\u201d, pronounce \u201cWHO\u201d in Hebrew was Pommy\u2019s favorite column. It was written every day and published in each issue of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) pre-war and war magazines.<\/p>

He…was Pommy\u2019s version of T\u2019zimukim (Raisins) – a humorous topical material column for pilots, maintenance crews, IAF personnel and reservists. After Pommy retired from the Air Force, Danny Mold wrote, "He…Left" (IAF Magazine November 1985 48 (149). In the article Pommy said, "My daily column is called 'He' and its writing was my favorite. In this column, I commented on the recent events in the Israeli Air Force and in its airbases".<\/p>

In fact, a variation of "HE\u201d began in 1948 under the column, "Little Leaves", which published in the three (and only) issues of the \u201cfirst\u201d IAF magazine, "Leaves."<\/p>

The sprouts of the \u201cHE\u201d column could also be found in the earlier IAFmagazines appearing as columns such as \u201cFeuilleton,\u201d \u201cCrumbs,\u201d and \u201cGleanings,\u201d many published under Pommy\u2019s pen names.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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On August 24, 1926, Moshe Pomerantz, the newborn, emerged into the world, at the Hadassah hospital in Tel Aviv. The first and only son of Bracha Pomerantz, nee Zibenberg and Aaron Pomerantz.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Diapers serve people twice, once as babies and again as seniors<\/p>

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Aaron Pomerantz died on the second candle of Chanukah in 1930 from TB. He was 29 years old at the time of his demise. Aaron was buried in the Old Cemetery in Safed.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Shanna Tova postcard was sent to Pommy, on September 8, 1930, from his father, who was hospitalized in the TB sanitarium at the Hadassah Hospital in Safed. This is the most cherished and only item left to Pommy from his father.<\/p>

Translation of card:<\/p>

Moshe\u2019le my Favorite my Heart<\/em><\/p>

I am sending you and yours my faithful blessing to <\/em>the New Year that I will recover soon and fully and <\/em>we will reunite and live together soon<\/em><\/p>

From me, your father who never forgets you<\/em><\/p>

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The first working neighborhoods in Tel Aviv were built by the Histadrut or the General Organization of Workers in Israel. The neighborhoods were established with the aim of freeing the urban worker from the burden of high rent, improving living conditions and creating labor-workers culture. The first Workers Neighborhood \u2018A\u2019 was built between 1930-1931 and had thirty-five single-story private homes with an auxiliary half dunam farm adjacent to each home. It was designed by the engineer David Tuvia on a 30-dunams (7.5 acres) site. It was allocated on an existing almond vineyard owned by the Jewish National Fund, located between Shderot Keren Kayemet L\u2019Israel (today\u2019s Ben-Gurion Boulevard) and La\u2019sal Street. The price of each house was about 350 lira Eretz-Israelit and most of the landowners paid it in installments. Pommy's father, Aaron Pomerantz<\/a>, was the supervisor in charge of building the neighborhood (until he fell ill). The family home was located at 3 Shderot Keren Kayemet L\u2019israel.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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He ...Studied in the First Class at the Workers' Northern Tel Aviv Children\u2019s Education School <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pommy began his elementary education, in 1931, the founding year of the Northern Tel Aviv Children\u2019s Education School, after which it was named A.D. Gordon. His mother Bracha, a single mother, worked very hard and returned home late every day. The Northern Tel Aviv Children\u2019s Education School answered that need, it allowed working mothers to work during the school hours, while the school provided a long school day and a hot meal for the children of the working mothers. It was a labor movement school, in the days when there were still no state education. The pupils would call teachers by their first names and not like the "bourgeois" schools, like "Le\u2019Dugma,\u201d which called them \u201cteacher.\u201d<\/p>

Pommy\u2019s teacher was an 18-year-young woman named, Rachel Yanchal (Sokolka). Twenty-nine years after teaching Pommy, she became his son Ronnie\u2019s first grade teacher. And two years later his daughter, Etti\u2019s first grade teacher.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the age of ten, Pommy studied to play violin at the Music Art Studio in Tel Aviv under the violinist, Atara Glickson-Hertz. She was a well-known violinist and contributed greatly to the introduction of the refined musical taste during the first period of the growing Jewish settlement in the years following World War I.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1939, at the age of 13, Moshe Pomerantz was the youngest journalist in the State of Israel. Pommy was very fond of sports, strategy and tactics. He was involved in pole vault competitions, played soccer and was a gifted chess player. Pommy spent some of his free time, writing. One day he decided to walk all the way to the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, where a daily newspaper was published. Determined, he entered the printing press building that housed the newspaper offices. He asked to speak to the newspaper editor. The editor asked him, son what do you want? Pommy answered, to be a sports reporter. The editor, continued, have you written anything? Pommy took out an article titled, "A Glance from the Tribune." The article described the game through the eyes of a die hard soccer fan sitting in the bleachers. He handed the article to the editor, who took it and without looking, tossed it on his desk, laden with paperwork. He told the young Moshe to return in few days. Pommy, the driven young man, returned. The newspaper editor greeted him with a smile and said, you are the newspaper's sports reporter and you will also receive a press credential.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a kid, Pommy started writing with his left hand. Throughout the ages, left-handedness has been associated with weakness, impurity or evil. This stigma was alive and \u201cwell\u201d in the small community of Tel Aviv in the early thirties. The educators at Northern Tel Aviv Children\u2019s Education School forced little Moshe to undergo "conversion therapy" and required him to write with his right hand. Although Pommy had to switch his writing hand, nevertheless, he could not switch his natural brain functions. Pommy's dominant hand remained the left hand. He threw, a ball with his left hand and did most tasks with his left hand. The additional (right) hand function could have (using Pommy\u2019s style of word play) easily turned out to be a blessing in disgust but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise and set him apart from the rest of his peers. It guided him to find his passion and to live his dream as a writer and an idea man. This allowed Pommy to develop and train the two hemispheres of his brain, to thrive in the creative world and express his wide array of talents across multiple platforms. Having to overcome obstacles, and always challenge himself, ultimately proved fruitful.<\/p>

The tendency for left-handedness has a partly genetic contribution and usually higher in the males in the family. In Pommy's family, both his son and his grandson are left-handed.<\/p>

Interestingly, when Pommy once stumbled and fell, he tried to stop the fall with his left hand (the dominant hand) and broke it. He joked that something good had come out of his "conversion therapy," his important writing tool was uninjured and he could continue writing…with his right hand.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In September 1944, Pommy enlisted as a Noter lit. guard. The Notrim (lit. guards) were a Jewish Police Force set up by the British in Mandatory Palestine. Many of the thousands of young Notrim, were later part of the Haganah. Pommy first experience of military training took place in Mount Atzmon and in Ein Ha\u2019schofet. The Notrim forces wore a special uniform. Australian wide-brimmed hat, with folding on the left. This folding is designed to allow the rifle to be carried on the left shoulder for long walks. On the left margin of the hat was a triangle indicating the area to which the Noter belonged. They were equipped with weapons, such as shotguns and army rifles. Pommy had a horse named Diana. The British authorities maintained, financed and armed the\u00a0Notrim<\/em>\u00a0until the end of the Mandate, even though they knew that although the force was nominally answerable to the Palestine Police Force it was in fact controlled by the Haganah.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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