Father had many hobbies including history, archaeology, a grand stamp collection in many subjects which his father started and which fill many cabinets at home. Another hobby was photography. He received his first camera as a Bar Mitzvah gift, and continued taking pictures until recently. We added a small sample out of thousands of photos and slides which he took.

Father received his first camera as a Bar Mitzvah gift, and since then he never stopped taking photos. He also had favorite subjects – sunsets and sunrises from every place in Israel and around the world, flowers, etc. Hundreds and maybe thousands of photographs and slides which he took were the source of many viewing nights at Mother and Father’s home.

Almost the only thing remaining from his father, Simon, he continued it and loved it very much. He dedicated many loving hours at nights to the stamps, there was not a single family member to whom Father did not try to transfer his love of stamps. As children, we received our general knowledge from the stamps, learning about nations, countries, animals, paintings, famous individuals, etc. Father taught us all this through the stamps. His stamps, bearing works of art, chess, Nobel peace prize winners, national costumes, etc. and many others and of course stamps from Yugoslavia and its nations and from Israel from its establishment, fill entire cabinets at our parents’ home to this day. We added only a few examples, which show the great dedication, each page was sketched manually, photographs and explanations etc. were added, each subject had subtopics, for example the Israel stamps are categorized as well according to geographical area, cities etc., and on each page there are also photographs from the place and different explanations.

: In the 1950s Father served as a medical doctor in the rural area in the south. As such, he would drive a jeep and could enjoy one of his favorite hobbies – hiking and archaeological findings. Since then he never stopped hiking, and we his children got the hiking bug as well, and we continue with this tradition to this day. We have learned to appreciate every flower, hill and tree. Father would see a chiseled rock protruding from the ground and would immediately know what period it was from and who built the place. He became and enthusiast of archaeological findings and we would run across the country just to see a few rocks found from the Herod period, for example.