Reunions
I remain very close to my friends in Israel, and we speak often by phone. Most of their children are now married and have their own families. Little by little, we are all getting older. Many of our Israeli friends have stayed with us when visiting the United States. We go to Israel often and get together with them. We are frequently invited to someone’s place for a party or get-to- gether with five or six other couples. Ruth even jokes that trips to Israel are bad for her figure because she gains weight whenever we go there. I have two groups of friends in Israel. One is the “Dror children,” from Kibbutz Yagur. All of them are established, married with fam- ilies, and well-positioned in business or professions. Some have excelled in their work. Mordechai Aviv became one of the largest real estate developers in Jerusalem. Eleazer Fuchs earned a Ph.D. in Economics and was the head of Israel’s national adult education program. On my first trip back to Israel, Moshe Trosman heard I was ar - riving and came to welcome me at the airport. I was excited and surprised to see him and asked what he was doing there. “I came to welcome a friend,” he said. “Who?” I asked. “The man I’m talking to now!” We have not forgotten Shimshon, my friend and roommate during my first years in Israel. Leon Rubinstein, his wife Estelle, and Kal - man Offir once noticed when they visited Shimshon’s grave that it had only a cement marker while the other graves had marble over- lays. Leon paid for an engraved marble overlay so that Shimshon’s
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