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In the fall of 1928, Grete Winter joined an organized trip, of 4 weeks, to Israel. The trip was organized by the Young Mizrachi Movement and the Blau Weiss Movement. 40 young adults and three married couples participated in the trip. Batsheva Winter, Grete's mother, was one of the participants. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who also was on the trip, would take out a bible and read the sentence that applied to the different sites they were visiting. They eventually married. According to one of the other participants (see album Edith and Franz Steinhardt), the group embarked on the ship "Commisar Ramel" from the port in Marseille. The ship did not provide adequate food services, so the youngsters brought cans of food for the 5 day trip. The passengers were transferred to the Jaffa Port by row boats and there they waited for buses that took them to Jerusalem, stopping on the way at the agricultural school, Mikveh Yisrael and at the Ben Shemen Youth Village. They also visited Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim and Motza. Henrietta Szold met with them. They toured the Old City and Mount Scopus. They drove from Jerusalem, on dirt roads, to Jericho and the Dead Sea. On the beach there were Arabs who sold them sweet water for showering after coming out of the salt water. They continued travelling North via Jenin to Afula. In the Jezreel valley that stopped at Kibbutz Ein Harod, near the Gilboa and close to the spring. They visited Beit Alpha and Naharayim where they observed the building of the Rotenberg Electrical Plant. Their next stop was Tiberias, where the weather was very hot. They slept at the Tiberias Hotel which was established in 1896 by Richard Grossman, a German-Swiss. They continued on to the Galilee and stopped in Mahanaim, Kfar Giladi and Tzefat and from there to Acre. They then drove to Haifa, on the beach, because there was no paved road. In Haifa they were invited to meet with Arthur Biram, the Principal of the Re'ali School. From there, they headed south on the train to Rosh Hayin and from there they walked to Petach Tikvah. The remaining days they visited Tel Aviv, Rishon Lezion, Nes Ziona and Rehovot. After returning to Germany Grete collected more than 120 photographs from her trip. Based on the quality of the photograph and the paper they are printed on, we can surmise that they were taken by different people. Some of the pictures were arranged in an album with short captions in German. However most of them were left unorganized. A statement that was published in 'Netiva, the bi-weekly magazine for Issues of Religious Youth and Religious Studies in Israel and in the Diaspora, the World Alliance for Youth of the He-Chaluts and Hapoel Hamizrachi, reported, that "in this group of tourists who came to Eretz Israel this year, are the following: Dr. Leibowitz, Dr. Winter and her mother" (October 1928). Upon their return to Germany, the newsletter reported in its issue of November 28, 1928, that "an assembly was held in Berlin at the Hebrew Community Hall, where members of the Young Mizrahi group who visited Israel during the holidays spoke about their trip and presented a film. Grete Leibowitz was born on the 27th of April 1907 in Kempen, Germany. Her parents were Emil and Zelma (Bat Sheva) Winter. At the age of 21, she met her husband in Cologne. They were both active and influential members of the Young Mizrachi Movement and in 1930 were elected to the Board of the organization. At the annual convention Yeshayahu Leibowitz lectured on, "Judaism Faithful to the Torah and Social Commitment," and Grete lectured on "Our Commitment to the Halacha and Its Foundations." The couple lived in Cologne until 1931 when they moved to Heidelberg where Grete worked on her doctorate in History and Mathematics, under the tutelage of Carl Bop from the Heidelberg University. The topic was, 'Estimation of Volumes in the Middle Ages', which she completed in 1933. After the Gestapo searched for Yeshayahu at the home of Grete's mother, they decided to move to Basel, Switzerland, where he completed his medical studies. The couple moved to Israel in 1934. In Israel Grete taught physics and chemistry at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem. She also served as the scientific secretary of the Hebrew Encyclopedia at the time her husband was the chief editor. She wrote many of the entries in the field of science. In addition she translated from German. The couple lived for many years on Ussishkin Street #62 on the border of Rehavia and Nahalat Ahim neighborhood. They had 6 children. Prof. Leibowitz passed away in 1994. Grete died in 2001. اقرأ أكثر