Karnit goldwasser biography for kids

Captured soldier's family visits UK

Ehud Goldwasser's wife and father appeal to international community for help.

By JONNY PAUL
Karnit Goldwasser, wife of kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help get information on her husband's condition. Speaking at a press conference in central London on Tuesday, Karnit said: "I ask him [Tony Blair] to bring a sign that he is still alive, because until now we don't have any sign or any proof he's alive." Karnit travelled to London with her parents and father-in-law, Shlomo, to highlight the plight of Ehud and appeal for his return. "We came here to appeal for Ehud's and his colleague's release, and we came to bring their story to the whole world." While she also asked for help to end the hostilities between Israel and Hizbullah, she defended Israel's attack on Lebanon. "No one wants this situation," she said. "I really, really want the killing to be stopped. We as a family want the killing to stop. No one in the whole world wants their neighbour or son or husband to be killed. No one wants a war, but Hizbullah cut the fence and kidnapped the two soldiers by force. This and the rocket attacks on civilians in northern Israel are the what started this." Karnit and Ehud have been together for nearly 10 years. They are both Masters students at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, which just reopened after closing for a week following the rocket attacks on Haifa. Karnit talked about her husband's character and what he would be thinking. "Ehud is my soul mate. He is not a man of war; he loves music, he's a student of environmental engineering, he's very intelligent and loves reading books," she said. "Right now he would be figuring what is the best way to stay alive and thinking about positive things that will happen. Ehud is strong, he thinks before he does things." She said that she writes him a letter every night before she goes to bed, and although they aw
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    • Grapevine: Tel Aviv baby boom

    Tel Aviv City Council member Karnit Goldwasser gave birth to a girl at Ichilov Hospital.

    By GREER FAY CASHMAN
    ■ There's A baby boom among celebrities and public figures in Tel Aviv.Towards the end of last week, Tel Aviv City Council member Karnit Goldwasser gave birth to a girl at Ichilov Hospital. Goldwasser, 38, initially came to public attention in 2006 when she campaigned for the return of her husband Ehud Goldwasser, who as an IDF reserves soldier had been captured near the Lebanese border by Hezbollah in July of that year. It took two years before his body was returned, together with that of Eldad Regev. By that time, everyone in Israel and many people abroad had heard of Karnit Goldwasser; she had become a celebrity as a result of her efforts to bring her husband back to Israeli soil. Her mother-in-law, Mickey Goldwasser, who also campaigned vigorously for Ehud to be brought home, said afterwards that Karnit deserved to be happy and should find another life partner. Karnit has since been in a long-term relationship with Amnon Miranda, deputy editor-in-chief of Ynet; the little girl is their first child.■ Speaking last week at Ben-Gurion University at a conference on pensions, Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug said that women retiring from the workforce at an earlier age than men results in them having less money in their pension. In general, she observed, women live longer than men, and therefore there is no option but to raise their retirement age. But even if women’s retirement age is raised from 62 to 64 in 2017, it will not lead to a significant improvement in women’s finances in terms of pension, she conceded.Attempts by the Finance Ministry to raise women’s retirement age to 67, thereby putting them on equal footing with men, have been blocked by labor and social welfare committees in the Knesset as well as by women’s organizations, which for some strange reason do not seem to comprehend
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    After spending the past two years in the media trying to retrieve her husband from the clutches of Hizbullah, Karnit Goldwasser is trying to get over his death using the same medium. Starting in November, she will present a weekly segment on the environment for Channel 2's educational children's show 'Ossim Seder' (Arranging Things).

     

    Goldwasser, who received an MA in environmental engineering from the Technion, told Channel 10 in a recent interview that she did not feel able to return to her normal life as a researcher at the university. 

     

    In moving on, she is merging her experience in the media - acquired painfully over the past two years - with an issue that was close to her heart before her personal tragedy took place.

     

    "I see (green) issues as a sort of calling or public service. After the Israeli public did so much for us and supported us, I'm glad to try and give something back," Goldwasser said her upcoming involvement in the program.

     

    In response, Director-General for Israel Educational TV Yaffa Vigodsky responded that "I am pleased that Karnit Goldwasser, a woman who we all learned to appreciate, agreed to join our educational team, particularly on such an important issue."

     

    "There is a global problem and it's important to increase awareness constantly," Vigosky added.

    Ehud Goldwasser

    Israeli soldier taken hostage (1975–2006)

    Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser (Hebrew: אהוד גולדווסר; 18 July 1975 – 12 July 2006) was an Israeli soldier who was abducted in Israel by Hezbollah along with Eldad Regev on 12 July 2006, sparking the 2006 Lebanon War. His rank was First Sergeant.

    On 16 July 2008, the bodies of Goldwasser and Regev were returned to Israel in the 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange. Israeli officials claimed an examination of the bodies determined that the two reservists were killed during the ambush. A Lebanese minister claimed the soldiers were killed during the Israeli bombing.

    Biography

    Prior to his abduction at Israel's border with Lebanon, Ehud "Udi" Goldwasser lived in Nahariya. He was a graduate student at the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, from which he had earlier earned an undergraduate degree in environmental engineering.

    As a teenager, he lived in South Africa with his parents, Shlomo and Mickey, and two younger brothers. In 2005, he married Karnit, who would later campaign globally for his release. He was interested in environmental conservation, motorcycles, sailing and photography.

    According to the United Nations, the fighting of the 2006 Hezbollah cross-border raid began at around 9 AM when Hezbollah launched rockets on Israeli towns along the Lebanese border, apparently as a diversion. A force then attacked two armored IDFHumvees patrolling the border near the Israeli village of Zar'it with anti-tank rockets, and abducted the two soldiers. An IsraeliMerkava Mk. II tank was damaged by a 200 kg improvised explosive device, while attempting to give pursuit, killing all four crewmembers.

    In a prisoner exchange on 16 July 2008, Hezbollah transferred the coffins of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, in exchange for Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar