The Voices Israel Group of Poets

in English

Our Team

We are always happy to hear from any of our members or potential members and anyone else who loves poetry. Our office-holders are listed below. 

  • For general enquiries and matters affecting our association in general, please contact our President. 
  • For anything involving money (e.g. membership and renewals, requests to buy our annual Anthology, etc.) - our Treasurer. 
  • For information about national activities such as Workshops, and anything related to our monthly newsletter - our Secretary. 
  • For more information about becoming a member: our Secretary or our Membership Coordinator. 
  • For anything related to our website: our Webmistress. 


If you are thinking of joining and would like to attend a local meeting, please contact the relevant area coordinator. We look forward to seeing you!

Please note that the phone numbers in this list are for phoning from within Israel. If phoning from abroad,  replace the initial zero of each number with 972, the Israeli area code. For example:  054-919-3575 (within Israel) will become +972-54-919-3575 when phoning from abroad.

National Office-Holders

Position and Current Holder
 Contact Details
President: Susan Olsburgh (also Netanya/Sharon Coordinator)
Email: president@voicesisrael.com; cellphone: 054-919-3575
Secretary:  Linda Suchy 
Email: secretary@voicesisrael.com;         cellphone:  054-497-8812
Treasurer : Chanita Millmann 
Email: millmanm@zahav.net.il
Membership Coordinator: Susan Rosenberg 
Email: susanndick@mail.com;          cellphone: 050-933-3804;
                                                                    tel. 04-838-1218
  Overseas Connections Coordinator: Helen Bar-Lev
 Email: helentbarlev@gmail.com        
Publicity Officer: Wendy Blumfield (also Haifa Coordinator)
Email: wendyb@netvision.net.il;       cellphone:  054-5240412   
Chief Editor of Voices Anthology: Dina Jehuda
Email:  bestdj@gmail.com           
Reuben Rose Competition Administrator: Mark Levinson (also Tel-Aviv Coordinator)
Email:  nosnivel@netvision.net.il;       cellphone:  054-444-8438       
Webmistress: Judy Koren
Email: webmaster@voicesisrael.com

Local Group Coordinators in Israel

Group and Coordinator
 Contact Details
Haifa: Wendy Blumfield (also Publicity Officer)
Email: wendyb@netvision.net.il ; cellphone:  054-5240412 
  Tel Aviv: Mark Levinson (also Reuben Rose competition coordinator)
Email:  nosnivel@netvision.net.il; cellphone:  054-444-8438
  Jerusalem: Ruth Fogelman
Email:  ruthfogelman@yahoo.com
  Netanya and Sharon: Susan Olsburgh (also President)
Email: olsburgh.susan@gmail.com; cellphone: 054-919-3575
  Bet Shemesh / Modi'in: Dr. Judy Belsky
Email: drjudybelsky@gmail.com
  Ashkelon: Chaim Bezalel
Email: bezalel.levy@gmail.com
  Upper Galilee: Reuven Goldfarb
Email: poetsprogress@gmail.com; tel:  04-697-4105
  Western Galilee: Phyllsie Gross
Email:  phyllsie@hotmail.com
  Gush Etzion: Mindy Barad 
Email: maber4kids@yahoo.com
  Southern Region: Miriam Green
Email:  miriamsgreen@gmail.com

Local Group Coordinators Abroad

The following groups have been active in the past and their coordinators are currently trying to restart them. Please Voices members and visitors, if you know of others, let our Webmistress or Secretary know!

Group and Coordinator
 Contact Details
  Berlin, Germany:  Britta R. Kollberg 
For information please  contact Britta:

brkollberg@yahoo.de
 London, UK: Esther Lipton
 For infomation please contact Esther: 
eblipton@talk21.com.