{"id":25472,"date":"2025-06-03T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=25472"},"modified":"2025-06-03T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:52:24","slug":"vintage-pride-the-torch-the-winery-and-the-officer-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/vintage-pride-the-torch-the-winery-and-the-officer-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Pride: The Torch, the Winery, and the Officer Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Outstanding Officer<br \/>\n<\/strong>At the start of the week (Sunday), Vered Ben Saadon, owner of the Tura Winery and a torch-lighter on Independence Day, shared a deeply personal and moving post. Along with it, she posted a photo of her daughter in Israeli Air Force uniform, holding her baby daughter\u2014Vered\u2019s granddaughter\u2014in her arms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve raised a remarkable generation\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis officer from the Air Force is my daughter,\u201d Ben Saadon wrote with emotion. \u201cThe outstanding officer who stood beside me at the torch-lighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that in the two years since that ceremony, her daughter has become a mother to sweet little Maayan. She described her as a young mother and career officer, juggling a meaningful military service with running a household, caring for a small child, and supporting a husband who is often away on reserve duty. \u201cWe\u2019ve truly raised a remarkable generation,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Vered Ben Saadon is the co-founder of the Tura Winery, which has received numerous awards for its wines. She has also become a prominent spokesperson for the Samaria region and previously served as deputy head of the regional council. On Israel\u2019s 75th Independence Day, she lit a torch in honor of Israel\u2019s farmers, the residents of Samaria, and Israeli wine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major achievements over the years<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2007: Silver medal for the 2003 Merlot at the Golden Cluster (Eshkol HaZahav) competition<\/li>\n<li>2008: Silver medal for the 2005 blend at the same competition; two gold medals at the TERRA VINO competition for the 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon and 2005 blend<\/li>\n<li>2009: Three medals at the Golden Cluster competition \u2014 gold for the 2005 Merlot, silver for the 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, and bronze for the 2006 blend<\/li>\n<li>2014: The winery\u2019s Mountain Peak wine received a score of 90 from <em>Wine Spectator<\/em> magazine<\/li>\n<li>2018: Mountain Peak 2014 won a silver medal at the Decanter World Wine Awards<\/li>\n<li>2023: Tura Winery won a gold medal (Mountain Peak 2018) and a silver medal (Cabernet Sauvignon 2018) at the same competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25476\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25476 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Air Force | Independence Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vered Ben Saadon, owner of the Tura Winery in Samaria, shared a heartfelt post about her daughter, the outstanding officer who stood beside her during the torch-lighting ceremony on Israel\u2019s 75th Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,2276,85,6],"tags":[6346,6347,2069,6345,1702,6344,6343,4946],"class_list":["post-25472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idf","category-people","category-positive-moment","category-security","tag-independence-day-torch-lighting","tag-israeli-agriculture","tag-israeli-air-force","tag-israeli-wine","tag-samaria","tag-tura-winery","tag-vered-ben-saadon","tag-women-in-the-idf"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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