The picture above was taken in December 1970 at the Betar Student Hostel in the Old City of Jerusalem.
My wife and I (the two youngsters to the right) hosted a Chanukah party for the veterans of the Brit Chasmonaim youth group, a sort-of religious branch of Betar. Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Segel, who blew the shofar illegally at the Western Wall at Yom Kippur 1930, and Shimon Barmatz, of Lechi, who still lives in an Arab neighborhood near Shu'afat in Beit HaShivah, is there, too.
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I had help making the potato latkes. Eliezer Shochet (who became a very popular mohel) helped me grate the potatoes, and Chana Shmurak and her daughter Dafna (now married to Ido Netanyahu, the youngest of the 3 brothers) helped fry them.
Oh, and the lady sitting to my right (in other words, to the left in the picture) was Rebitzen Rachel Segel, mother of Rav Moshe's eight children, one of whom is married to Australian Uri Kaplun who is the father of poet Yonadav Kaplun. Segel's oldest girl, Uzit, was born when her father was arrested in 1939 and she's the mother-in-law of American Rav Yitzhak Ginsburg.
Shimon's still at beit HaShivah? Last I saw him (a few years ago) he was considering moving in with some family or something owing to some health difficulties. Seems from your mention though that he's alright which is really good news. I take it Ezra's still there. Yael too? Anyone else?
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Oh, and as an aside, that bunch of senior citizens are the coolest and craziest badasses in the land.
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