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Gidon and I had the very good fortune to have been introduced to Yehuda Bacon earlier this month. On top of being one of the most cheerful, gregarious, funny people I have ever met, Yehuda, who survived Terezin, Auschwitz and Matthausen, has an encyclopedic knowledge, of well, everything! He is also a very well known and respected artist and has a detailed Wiki page! This is an interview that Yehuda gave to Yad Vashem, which tells his harrowing story. How foolish I felt that

"Gidon and I both feel is the climate today of racism, hate and ignorance. We were both stunned by the results of that CNN survey and h

In late 2018, as Gidon and I were hard at work on his book, we had a very special visitor. Hannah is from Germany and she came to Israel on her own and was backpacking around. She met a mutual friend of ours in Jerusalem (Israel is a small country!) and got our information. She wanted to meet Gidon. Hannah told us that her grandfather was a Nazi and that her grandmother had been very proud of him and displayed his picture in their family home, something that Hannah felt very

Gidon Project contributor Elisabeth Becker wrote a beautiful article for The Wisdom Daily about her first encounter with Gidon and what it meant to her. It is a beautiful piece of writing about a very touching encounter. Read the article here. #KeepingBusy

Last week, Gidon and I had the enormous privilege of meeting up with Yossi Klein Halevi, the author of, among many other books, Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation. Yossi was incredibly generous to the both of us and we had a lovely time in a cafe in Jerusalem discussing Yossi's books and Gidon's Project. In fact, Yossi was so touched by the project that he is now an advisor of the project and may even contribute to

Gidon loves to camp. Maybe it comes from a long life of outdoors activities with his family, and being in the IDF and a kibbutznik, but you cannot keep him from the Great Outdoors. Here he is, camping near Lake Kinneret, on the banks of the Jordan River! #KeepingBusy