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Winning Metals

Tablet Studios

Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re testing your metal in Israel! FIrst we meet Ben Zion David, an eighth generation jeweler from a Yemenite family. We met him at his shop in Jaffa to find out more. Then we talk to to two Iraelis using martial arts to better themselves and overcome PTSD.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's producer Josh Kross, back again because we just have too many things we want to share.

0:08.0

This week we're going back to Israel for two stories that Courtney Hazlett and Ellie Blyer reported.

0:13.0

First, we meet Benzion David, a Yemenite jeweler in Yafo who is keeping alive a very traditional

0:18.2

style of jewelry making.

0:20.3

Then we meet Rone Céfon and Professor Yaneva Soft, who are working together to study how

0:24.8

Jiu-Jitsu might help those suffering from PTSD.

0:28.9

But first, the jewelry.

0:30.5

Benzion Devit is the eighth generation artist from a family of jewelers

0:33.8

descending from Yemen. For more than 2,000 years since the days of King Solomon

0:38.0

his ancestors lived and worked successfully in Yemen, creating jewels for Jewish

0:42.0

brides, princes, and sheiks, until the family moved to Israel.

0:46.0

Executive producer Courtney Hazlett met him at his shop in the old city of Jaffa to talk about his craft. The only fitting place to start a story about an eighth generation jeweler is with the sign hanging in his workshop.

1:14.0

In Hebrew is a kwala mitzarim

1:17.0

with a hmzain, a shoe, a lidde haboreve, a birtzono.

1:21.0

All items in this site were designed and created by God's wheels. There is no

1:27.9

coincidence in the world. Everything is planned.

1:45.0

My name is Benzine David, in Hebrew, son of his eyes. Benzian David is 68 years old.

1:47.0

He's been making Yemenite jewelry in his family's workshop

1:50.0

since he was 13.

1:52.0

He knows the kind of things you'd expect a jeweler with his pedigree to know,

1:57.0

including what Jewish tradition has to say about the price of a wedding ring.

2:02.0

According to Judaism, the ring... the

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