A view in haifa, where I spent a good fraction of my life
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A view in haifa, where I spent a good fraction of my life
I was born in 1972, in Ithaca, New York. a really nice place which I suggest you visit. Although most of my life (about 62% to be more exact, at least when these lines were written) I spent in the beautiful city of Haifa (Israel), I did spend some time (between a month and a few years) in other places as well (Tel-Aviv and various, other places in Israel, Pasadena, CA, Torotno, ON, Boulder CO., Tempe AZ, Palo-Alto CA, Ithaca NY, Cambridge & Leicester England, and Heidelberg Germany).
All my post-high school studies were at the Technion - The Israel Institute of Technology. Fortunately for me, they were brave enough to accept me before finishing high school. After I received my B.A. together with my high-school diploma (which I actually never bothered to take from my school...), I was drafted to a compulsory three year service in the I.D.F>. during which I was lucky enough to finish most of my Masters degree.
After being released from the army, I started my PhD, working primarily in the field of Gamma Ray Bursts, one of the interesting enigmas of Astrophysics.
My best friend (and wife) on the right, and our very good friend
Nahum, backpacking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
In the summer of 1996, I finished my PhD, but more importantly, I married my best friend Hilla (a "halo" in Hebrew, which she is to me) whom I first met exactly a year before (to the day, and it was a coincidence!). The wedding took place on the 1st of August in the ruins of the old city of Caesarea, built by King Herod in honor of his patron Augustus Caesar.
A few weeks afterwards, I started my post-doc at Caltech (California Institute of Technology), working in the Tapir group (Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Group).
My wife, my son and I, hiking near Ithaca, NY
Three years afterwards, our son Ofek was born and a short time later, we moved to Toronto, where I started a second post-doc at CITA (The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics).
My son Ofek
2 years later (and a week before 9-11) we moved back to Israel, where I accepted a position as a senior lecturer (aka assistant professor across the atlantic) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.