Leon Madzhar and his wife Suzana Madzhar in Israel

This is a picture of me and my wife, Suzana Madzhar, in Israel, taken in the 1990s. I have been to Israel many times. I went to Israel for the first time with the ?Georgi Dimitrov? ship. I traveled with my wife and my son Morits, who was six then. The voyage was terrible, because the ship was a mess. We all got seasick, especially my wife. I remember that we carried apples, because our relatives didn't have any at that time. I carried 100 kg apples in a crate and some dinner sets. There was not much choice of products in Israel at that time, in 1960. I wanted to give each of my cousins a small gift and this was not easy, because my first cousins alone are around 80. So in order to support ourselves during our stay in Israel and not to be a burden to my sister, we brought 12 kg of walnuts with us, which we sold. There were no walnuts in Israel then and we sold them for 12 dollars a kilo. After that I went many times to Israel. I remember that I went with my daughter when she finished high school so that she would see her relatives. Then we went again with her husband when she married. I went there almost every year and when my son lived there I went every three months. I like it there very much. I think that the way of life there is much healthier than the one here. I think that the climate there is much more suitable for older people, it is not as cold as here. Well, July and August are hotter there, but I can stand heat.