For three decades, Rolley Horowitz has introduced visiting Indians to Israel.
During that visit, she surprised him by revealing that her original name is actually Savitri Mehta.
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The journey of Ms. Savitri from Kolkata’s Alipore to Israel began way back in the early 1960s when, at the age of 12, Savitri, daughter of the Military Attache in Indian Embassy in Tokyo rebelled against her parents Brigadier C.S. Mehta and her mother Sunita Roy.Ms. Savitriarrived from her Japanese lessons and declaredthat she would embrace Christianity .
She began as a volunteer in a Christian organisation but after studying in depth about ancient Christianity, she chose to become Jewish in 1989.
Months before Israel and India were to establish ties on January 29, 1992, Ms. Roley married Michael Arthur Horowitz, a barrister who was noted for fighting war crimes. Soon after the establishment of India-Israel ties, she and academic Shalva Weil and Indian conductor Zubin Mehta set up an organisation to foster India-Israel relations.
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