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Because they were very Zionistic, my mom's parents and my dad's parents. Both of them came when they were children. And that's why I was born in Israel. And yeah, their Judaism was very strong. So in the community, it wasn't like here now, that now we're having so many different events and we make sure that people come and so on. At that time, we're talking, you know, even before I was born, they have ration to go and buy food. They were the ones that really built Israel. My grandfather was in Soleil Ubonet, meaning he built a lot of things in Haifa. They were really the people that came. And Israel as today is because of these people that came in the beginning, beginning and were ready to do anything and everything. The wars, I mean, my father was already grown up and so on, but he, you know, he's not dead. He went out and did what everybody did what they have to do. So yeah, so that's what... Where did your ancestors come from? So my ancestors came from, initially from Spain and to Syria. And they were all the time very involved in coming to Israel. There was a trend that the British built from Syria to Israel and to come to Israel or to come to Syria, even they had happening, going to visit Syria in the late 30s, 40s. They had to go to Syria. So anyway, my family used to come a lot to do business in Israel. And at the end of the day, they decided to come and live in Israel with their families. So this is before even the Syrian Jews were not allowed to leave Syria anymore. So, and we had other family still living in Syria. And when the community helped them to come to this community, all of them came living here. And some of them made Aliyah to Israel after a few years. Yeah. Can you tell us about your education in Israel? Okay, so my education, I went to the Allianz School. It was a French school. It was a private school. How did I get into that? Because my family, when they were in Syria, they got French citizenship when the French were there. So I was able to go really to a good school. It's called Allianz, or called Israel Haverim. Later on, I guess they closed it years, you know, after I left Israel and so on. It seemed that it was closed. But this is where I got my education. So was that a French school? So it was a French school in Israel. So they taught everything, French and English including. So... Very, very advanced French there? Yes. And you know Hebrew, English, and French? Very little French. I forgot. I haven't spoken yet. But my dad knew how to write in French. He knew how to write in Arabic, in Hebrew, because he learned in Syria. And when he came, he didn't forget. He used to write letters to his family in Syria. Or later on, people that went from Syria to Argentina, he would write to them to Argentina. So I remember, you know, him being very active to keep the family going on and alive. And, you know, yeah. So in the beginning, Hebrew of course. That was my language. And later on, when I came here, I started, not because I didn't want to, but I don't know, things happen. You live in the state where everybody talking English, everybody talk to you in English and so on. And they come and tell you, oh did you read this book or the other book and so on. And you get into reading English. And now, sadly enough, I find myself reading English, very little Hebrew. Sadly enough, I have to say. How many years I was in Israel? 16 years. I mean, about the future, did you have, did you tell us your career? Yeah, I have to say, because I was living in one house with four other family and a grandpa. With lots of children. Each of my father's brother had like eight, seven, nine kids. You could imagine being in a house with so many kids coming from school after not four or five o'clock, but by 12.31 we are home. My mother and the other mother had to prepare lunch for the kids. They had to sit at their seat and do their homework. My father was very strong and asked kids to sit. He taught, he would sit and help us with the homework and teach us Torah and give us all kinds of Musa from Mishnayot. And it was, yeah, so that's what it was. Okay, so career, I really didn't have in the beginning when the kids grew up. Because I already had a master's degree, I decided to teach. So I was teaching, I taught a few years in high school, in Solomon Schechter High School. And I taught Tanakh, Gemara, Hebrew grammar, which today we don't teach anymore, but yeah. And the students were very willing and ready to study. We had a very respectful kind of a classroom. The kids were very nice, very, they wanted to learn, yeah. Okay. So, yeah. No, it's, graduation was very, very, very interesting and very uplifting. Because you see your students finishing high school and now they're growing up and going to follow up on their study and eventually they're going to have a family. And I made sure to instill in them what it's all about to be Jewish, how it is to be a Jew that loves Eretz Israel. So, you know. To spend, sure. So, me and my husband went to spend when we got married in Israel. He was a relative of my mom. My mom is Fa'ur. Now she's Cohen. I mean, she was Cohen, marrying my dad. My dad's family are from Ki'in, initially from Ki'in in Israel, in Tzfon, in the Ki'in where all the Kohanim used to have their place to live in. This was the Kohanim place. And so these two families knew each other in Syria, in Israel. So, anyway, my husband came from Argentina to visit his family in Israel that he never saw. And we met and we got married. And so we went to spend because he needed another semester to get his Ph.D. in Semitic languages. And after he got that, we left spend and we came back to the community. He already was a lot of years here in the community teaching Torah. So, from here, you went to spend? To spend. So, almost a year. Okay. Yeah. Very short period. Very short period, yeah. And then you went out and went to America? And then we came here. And I was waiting to come here because there was really no community as I know it. Like in my family house, we are in Spain. In Spain, there was one small butcher area, kosher, in the shop of Spain, in the market of Spain. But if you're not a Jewish, you don't know that this is a kosher meat that comes from Madrid. Because in Madrid, they have the Shavita. And once a week, on Wednesday, we buy kosher meat from there. My parents sent us a lot of stuff from Israel. On Pesach, they sent us the matzo, the charose, everything. So, we'll be able to celebrate Pesach as we needed to. Yeah. So, I was waiting to come here because I knew that there is a very big Jewish community. And my husband said, but in Jewish Spain, it's such a beautiful place. And it's true. I didn't know. I didn't know how to enjoy it because I left my parents' home. I'm in a strange place. I'm learning to speak now Spanish. So, it wasn't so easy for me. Yeah. Right. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. My children are wonderful. I have two girls and a boy. And they are really taking care of me now that my husband is no more. Yeah. So, I live with my older daughter, and her husband, and they're wonderful. And their kids have grandchildren. So, I have grandchildren. And those little ones are really the ones that are giving me... I want to live even longer because it's such a pleasure to see these little ones growing up and laughing, and playing, and doing things, coming from the garden, and saying, and saying to me, I'm going to have soldiers coming to our room. It's so uplifting. You cannot imagine how uplifting this is. Yeah. Right. Right. So, future generation, what I want them to know, that we Jews suffer all, every generation, in their own time, always. That's why we have to help Israel, every each of us, in any way we can. Israel cannot let go of our hand. It's our only place that we know that we have, and this is where we should... At the end of days, this is where we should go. This is our place. There is nothing like living in Israel. So, when I came here and I grew up, I mean, I had three children. They grew up here. They studied here. They got married. Now, the children went to Flatbush where they went. Now, my grand-grandkids going to Flatbush. You know, they are still in gun, but it's very important to teach them all about Israel and how important it is always to hold on to Israel and not to let go, not to be upset. You know, there is things that we could see that upsetting us. The Mimshalah, the Tzavah, you know, all those general and so on. Don't let that, you know, put you down. Just be Boteach BeHashem because everybody has to know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will help us at the end of days. There is nothing like Israel. That's what I want to teach the children, that they have to study Judaism, Torah, and who they are, where they came from, and why their minhagim are so important because that's what held us for generation and generation. Your minhagim not like mine and your minhagim not like mine, but we survived through God only knows what because that's what held us. That's what held us, our Emunah in HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And yeah, so... Oh, you're welcome. Okay.