Miriam (Ages) Ben-Shalom
Miriam‘s direct connection with Israel began in 1955 in Ottawa, Canada where she met and married Zvi who had recently
Miriam‘s direct connection with Israel began in 1955 in Ottawa, Canada where she met and married Zvi who had recently
We present a fairly recent addition to our group, but a pair that have been movers and shakers from the moment
Holocaust survivor Mike Shwartz made his way to the shores of Israel to fight in the War of Independence. After
Chicago-born Sarah came to Israel in 1959. At Kibbutz Nahal-Oz she met and married husband Aharon Levin, with whom she
These two, Ruth and Avraham Schwadron, are among our most veteran members – true “chalutzim”. Ruth came to Israel in
Rivka Tzidkony arrived in Israel just a few years after the birth of the nation. She spent 9 years at
Nehemiah Engberg, native of San Diego, California, Nehemiah has been in Israel since 1984. An Orthodox rabbi, Nehemiah devotes much
Yitz Hochstein was born in the Bronx, U.S.A., Yitz fulfilled his Zionist dream in the kibbutz before settling down in
Raymond Abraham was born and raised in Bombay, India. He was Secretary of the Halutz movement when the first Jews
Diana Martin was the quintessential New Yorker – smart and sassy. She came on aliyah in 1982, and was among

