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Sunny despite the snow

December 22, 2010 11:42
Daniel Braunold (left) and Natan Wiesenberg

By

Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

1 min read

Heathrow chaplain Rabbi Hershi Vogel was a busy man this week, as you might imagine, answering pleas for help from passengers stranded at the snowbound airport

Except that Rabbi Vogel himself was a victim of the weather: he, wife Zelda and their youngest child, nine-week-old Elisheva, were marooned for more than a day at Amsterdam airport trying to get home.

Still, he took calls on his mobile from people in London looking for "places to stay, food and if I could help with tickets!"

Heathrow detainees included a group of would-be olim waiting for a flight to Israel - among them Daniel Braunold, 27, from Edgware and Natan Wiesenberg, 26 from Hendon, dressed as 1920 pioneers.

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