Following our trip to Australia we made a brief visit to the UK to see the family and then brought Mum back with us for a winter break and to meet Liel. The sun shone and we had a lovely two and a half weeks of quality time together. With Mum due to fly home on Sunday 1st March, accompanied by Malcolm, we were looking forward to our last Shabbat together until our trip to England for Pesach (Passover). There had been much talk in the press about a potential war with Iran, bu

The day before we were due to go to Australia Malcolm and Tzvi went to Jerusalem for Tzvi’s Grandfathers stone setting. About an hour after they left Jerusalem Tzvi rang. “Nothing to worry about but……..” They had been driving on Road One when the traffic suddenly slowed. Malcolm also slowed but the car behind didn’t and smashed into them. The police came very quickly and the traffic was brought to a standstill. Although no one involved seemed to be hurt, the police insist

The last few months have seen dramatic changes here in Israel and we have also been busy on a personal level. After Ozzy's birth at the beginning of July we returned to England in August. Gila and family were supposed to join us but Tzvi couldn't get released from the Army and then Gila was found to be too anaemic to travel at 20 weeks pregnant. It was a great disappointment for all of us, especially Gila who would not now meet Ozzy for several months . The times we are

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I think I have described our life as a rollercoaster at least once before in my blogs, but I really can't think of a better way to...