New T-shirts have crowds going 'ga-ga'
'Today's challenge is to let our people know'
Posted: April 14, 2008
10:16 pm Eastern
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Celebrity interviewer Aliza Davidovit is launching a website that encourages visitors to go "ga-ga" over prominent heroes in Israel's history as the nation approaches its 60th birthday.
Personalities including comedian Jackie Mason, CNN journalist Larry King and Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan are joining the effort to go "Ga-Ga for Ben-Gurion," "Ga-Ga for Golda," "Ga-Ga or Dayan" and others.
However, Davidovit said there is a serious side to the publicity plan.
"If the Jewish homeland is to have a Jewish future," she says, "then we must excite the younger generation to get in touch with the past. These trendy T-shirts are a proud tribute to great leaders who have built and shaped the Jewish state.
New T-shirts have crowds going 'ga-ga'
'Today's challenge is to let our people know'
Posted: April 14, 2008
10:16 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
|
Celebrity interviewer Aliza Davidovit is launching a website that encourages visitors to go "ga-ga" over prominent heroes in Israel's history as the nation approaches its 60th birthday.
Personalities including comedian Jackie Mason, CNN journalist Larry King and Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan are joining the effort to go "Ga-Ga for Ben-Gurion," "Ga-Ga for Golda," "Ga-Ga or Dayan" and others.
However, Davidovit said there is a serious side to the publicity plan.
"If the Jewish homeland is to have a Jewish future," she says, "then we must excite the younger generation to get in touch with the past. These trendy T-shirts are a proud tribute to great leaders who have built and shaped the Jewish state.
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"They invite the youngsters to ask 'Who's that?' It gives those in the know the chance to explain the heroism of great people and what they lived and died for," she said.
Davidovit, a published writer, author, journalist and former TV producer, spent six years with Connie Chung at ABC News' "20/20," helped launch Fox News Channel's premier live audience news show and is contributing editor to "Lifestyles Magazine International."
She also is editor in chief of WritEffect Productions Ltd., a public company that engages in biographical books for individuals, histories and Holocaust memoirs.
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She's interviewed Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Elie Weisel, Ivana Trump, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and others.
But she's also become increasingly concerned about members of the next generation, who know little about Israel's history and wouldn't know the difference between Ben-Gurion and Ben Gay.
"Today's challenge is not to 'let our go,'" she said, "it's to let our people KNOW."
Besides the tributary T-shirts, the site also includes a blog: "Who Are Your Ga-Ga For And Why?" that offers visitors a chance to extol the virtues of those who made life sacrifices for Israel.
The goal in addition to raising the level of awareness is to raise funds to help families victimized in Sderot through ONEFAMILYFUND, which works to rebuild the lives of Israelis shattered by terror.
The site, which also offers blogs to honor Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin and others, is scheduled to be launched tomorrow.
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