Nirit and I first met during the summer of ’94 while working as counselors for the Israel Seminar in Jerusalem. Nirit was one of the local Israeli counselors, and I, a native Californian, was finishing up my junior year abroad at the Hebrew University.

We did not keep in touch after that summer, but re-met a few years later in Israel, after I had already made aliyah, and were married soon thereafter. We are still living happily in Israel today, in a small town east of Tel Aviv, and have two wonderful boys named Matan (5) and Ittai (3).