My tour took me to The Israeli Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv and The Center for Israeli Innovation. Sorry, but I need to use an idiom (all my books on writing frown on this). Here it goes, I was "blown away" by what I saw and learned there. Tel Aviv is called the Silicon Wadi …
Month: November 2019
Israel-Remembering The Holocaust
I was raised in the rural part of Western New York State and never knew any Jewish people. But growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, my teenage imagination and heart were pierced by the life and death of a Jewish girl named Anne Frank. During my childhood, the impact of WWII was still very …
Tel Aviv, Israel
I've never been so excited about going on a trip as I was about going to Israel. Friends on Facebook were looking forward to my posts and pictures, but many cautioned me to stay safe and be careful. One friend even asked why I wanted to go to a place "so, so dangerous". The morning …
Israel-The Left Turn
My trip, like my life, was subject to an unexpected twist. If you read my blog in the next few weeks, you will find out all the details of my surprise adventure in Israel. My trip took an unexpected left turn, like the gate at a fort built by the Crusaders in the early 1200s …
The Autonomous Traveler 