Israel — Dreams and Realities
Israel — Dreams and Realities

Summary/Abstract: Ladies and gentlemen, friends, good evening and ‘shalom’ to all of you. It’s a very special pleasure for me to be in Lodz. When I was fifteen years old and I came in to live on my own in kibbutz Hulda, I was adopted by a couple of teachers who came from Lodz. They told me a great deal about this city, which they missed and I knew Lodz, even before I came to Lodz from the stories. I knew about the Jewish life here. I knew about the city. I knew about the famous places so I am in Lodz for the first time but not entirely for the first time. Now is for agenda of this evening. I am going to take five minutes to tell you about myself, five minutes to tell you about the Hebrew language in which I write and the rest of the evening will be about Israeli dreams and Israeli realities. I live in a small town in the desert, the Negev of the desert, the town in called Arad and it’s literally in the middle of the desert. Every morning at five o’clock, before sunrise, summer and winter I take a walk in the desert for about thirty to forty minutes.

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