The list
A rabbi who has spent twenty years on access to this medicine; a man who came to this country, took on this people, and stayed; a soldier who came home broken and healed with plants; a writer whose community's aliyah was never finished; and a nurseryman of eighty-eight whose ground was taken out from under him.
Born and raised in Jamaica, Queens — PS 178 — and religious later in life, by choice rather than inheritance. He made aliyah in 2013 and lives in Jerusalem, married with four children. An ordained rabbi, educator and entrepreneur, with close to two decades in psychedelic medicine and the legal frameworks that let people reach it. His teachers, his beis din and the rest of the story are on his own page.
Six-time NBA All-Star, and then something considerably harder. He took Israeli citizenship in 2019, played for Hapoel Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv, and completed an orthodox conversion before a beis din in Bnei Brak in August 2020, taking the name Yehoshafat ben Avraham. He and Rabbi Rozenberg have learned together since 2011, when they met during his New York Knicks years, and he sits alongside him in the leadership of Trippy.vc. He did not arrive here for a season. He is standing at number two.
Known to everyone as Pashut. He served in the IDF and came home with post-traumatic stress, and he healed with plants — which is why he is not an argument for this platform but the evidence for it. He is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Geulas Shaul, which will stand on our ten acres at Sde Trumot, on the ground where Israel's first king fell on his own sword: a yeshiva on that earth, so that soldiers stop dying by their own hands. A kohen, and the draft plan on this website is his as much as anyone's.
Born in Ethiopia, where his father told him that one day he would speak for his people to the wider world. He spent some twenty-four years in the United States — a former New York Supreme Court detective, later an investigator and educator in conflict resolution and restorative peace — and came home to Israel with his wife and four children shortly before October 7th. He writes in The Jerusalem Post about the Ethiopian aliyah that was never finished, about the Black Jews the world argues over and never asks, and about why no Ethiopian Israeli has ever been seriously considered to represent this country abroad. His book, Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World, is drawn from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Tens of thousands came from Ethiopia. Thousands are still waiting. He is standing at number four.
Eighty-eight years old, and for sixty-five of them he ran the nursery at the southern end of Emek Refaim — the one the German Colony bought its seedlings from for two generations. His family reached that ground in 1948, from the Bukharim neighbourhood, which was then a front line. They farmed it, and then he built a nursery on it. Nothing was ever registered in his name, because nothing there was ever registered at all. The state called it state land, ran him through the courts for more than twenty years, and in June 2019 sent the bulldozers: the asbestos roofs first, then the greenhouses, then the fruit trees. Then it billed him 1.7 million shekels for the use of the ground. The plot was sold at tender and towers are planned on it. He still lives in the house beside it. “I gave my life,” he says. This is a party about land and what grows on it, and about holding ground in a way that cannot quietly be taken back. He is standing at number five.
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