This year was an outstanding success. We had in excess of 400 members of the ESRA family united together in one evening, all having lots of fun and laughter together. We raised much-needed funds for the Kfar Shmaryahu youth club for young people with disabilities. The teams were from as far north as Naharyia and down south to Eilat. The Five Towns team - Caesaria, Hadera, Binyamina, Zichron - were worthy winners, only missing out on two questions at the beginning of the Quiz.
Many thanks to the twenty-one hosts, including a team from Protea Village. The Gina Gallery in Dizengoff Street kindly hosted the Tel Aviv team for the second year running.
All the quiz masters were amazing, making the event great fun. Below are some of the comments from our hosts, and we are looking forward to next year.
- A great job by you. That was fun. There must be some geniuses in the Five Towns. I thought our group was doing quite well with 157. Baruch Tanaman – Raanana
- Everyone enjoyed it, and I thought we did really well, seeing as we came last place last year. Miriam Crosby – Petach Tikva
- The evening was a great success. We all had the best laugh in a long time and can't wait till next year's quiz.Thanks for all your hard work. Glenda Fielding – Rishon Lezion
- We had a great evening. Tony had invited a mix of folk, meaning that people didn't all know each other. He did that to get a cross-section of people's knowledge. I must say it worked very well socially too and I'm sure everyone enjoyed themselves. Thanks for all you put into this, couldn't be easy to say the least. Thanks to Lawrence too as I'm sure he had been very involved. Natalie Elgrod – Little Green Men, Raanana
- Although Team Raanana-Akiva did not do so well in the results, we had a lovely time. Ida Copelovici – RaananaAkiva
- To my great Tel Aviv group, you were great. I had such a lovely evening with you. Looking forward to meeting you again and better luck next time! Thank you for an evening of fun. TaliIroni – Tel Aviv
- ESRA Haifa had a very enjoyable and fun evening. We have had a lot of feedback and compliments.Thank you Glenis and all others who helped in the preparation of the Quiz.We were having such fun and eating such a lot, that we ALL forgot to take photographs. Sorry.Congratulations to Jane and her Five Towns team. Harry Hiller – Haifa
- A very big thank you to the four of you – organizers, hosts, question master, adjudicator, cabaret stars – for a truly enjoyable evening. And no less important – it was for a worthy cause.Wishing you many more successful events.Ronald Cole (and I am sure Jenny would have agreed) –Raanana
- Hope all went well last night and everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did.
Another fun evening in Netanya. Barbara Kliner - Netanya