h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Elly,
You would have been four years old when I lived at Gilgal in the summer of 1981. I don't remember you but I do remember a very sweet little boy, about the same age as you would have been at the time, named Barak. His father's family was from Egypt and his mother's family came from Yemin. Her name was Etti.

I was a meetnadev, considering making my home there, or somewhere in Israel, but as all of my family is here in the U.S. they objected.

I learned a lot of Hebrew that summer as few people on the kibbutz at that time spoke English. The population, then, was made up of Sabras and a large garin from France. Even those who spoke English were very good about not letting me depend on it too much, so I could learn Hebrew quickly.

The two and a half years, all together, that I lived in Israel December 1980-June 1982 were among the most fulfilling of my life and I miss Israel every day.

~Aaron Feldman