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 1950's and1960's, my teenage imagination and heart was pierced by the life and death of a Jewish girl named Anne Frank. During my childhood, the impact of WWII was still very vivid. …
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 went as far as asking why I wanted to go to a place "so,so dangerous". …
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 Crusades in the early 1200's …
The Autonomous Traveler 