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Personal Recollections of Stephen Salt

I was then a London cab driver, and I remember picking a typical city gent of the time, pinstripes, black jacket, bowler hat with umbrella and leather briefcase in hand. I was listening on my…

Simon Plosker
April 27, 2017
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I was then a London cab driver, and I remember picking a typical city gent of the time, pinstripes, black jacket, bowler hat with umbrella and leather briefcase in hand.

I was listening on my transistor radio (radios were not allowed in the driver’s compartment at that time) to all the latest news of the war when the city gent poked his head through the driver’s partition, and asked in his best Old Etonian accent “How are the Israelis getting on?”

I replied “very well indeed.”

With that he said “Jolly good show!” in his same smart accent. How times have changed – in those days Israel was perceived as the underdog.

I lived in the Stamford Hill area, and I remember that when the news of the outcome of the war was known, cars driving up and down The Hill with their horns blaring, Israeli flags hanging out of the windows, and posters of Moshe Dayan in the back window. I felt so proud of Israel and to be a Jew.

– Stephen Salt, Westcliff-on-Sea

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Simon Plosker

With over two decades of experience in various non-governmental organizations in the UK and Israel, Simon Plosker returned to HonestReporting in October 2022 as Editorial Director having previously been part of the organization’s management team from 2005 to 2020. Prior to his first spell at HonestReporting, Simon worked in Israel for NGO Monitor, BICOM, and served for a short period in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. He was Managing Editor of the Geneva-based NGO United Nations Watch for two years before moving back to the frontline defending Israel from media bias. Simon has a BSoc.Sc in International Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. He immigrated to Israel in 2001 from London.

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