Yocheved Golani made aliyah in 2002. She is a popular writer whose byline has appeared worldwide in print and online. Originally from Michigan, USA and based in Beer Sheva, Israel, she speaks fluent American English and Hebrew. Yocheved’s doctor-recommended self-help book EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge helps readers worldwide to build inner strengths and to overcome setbacks. A certified Health Information Management professional, she is a member of Get Help Israel. Certified in Spiritual Chaplaincy (End of Life issues) and in counseling skills, Yocheved's life coaching for ill people puts a healthy perspective into a clients’ success plan for achieving desired goals. Yocheved has been a featured speaker at a Nefesh Israel mental health professional’s convention and in other forums.

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Tamar Iancu came from England almost 50 years ago, and settled in Beer Sheva. She began teaching English even before she started ulpan, and has never stopped. She has two daughters, 5 grandchildren, and two cats. She volunteers for AACI, Hadassah, Yad Sarah, and va'ad habayit. She divides her free time between the country club and playing Scrabble.

 

Judy Neuman arrived in Beersheva with her husband and two of her six children in 1980. A retired English teacher, Judy volunteers at the AACI Library and is part of the Computer Library Team. To keep off the streets, she shares babysitting duties with her husband for grandchildren, learns once a week at a women's Midrasha and is still trying to learn to play the organit.

 

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Mark Shapiro  was born in Toronto and came on aliyah in 1970. Before moving to Be'ersheva, he lived in Jerusalem. He is a freelance translator and editor, as well as a poet in Hebrew and English.  He has four children and four grandchildren. 

 

 

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Reesa Stone, a native of Winnipeg, Canada, has lived in Beer Sheva for an awfully long time. Five kids and Five grandkids later, she's still here. Reesa has been involved with AACI since 2009.

 

 

 

Not pictured: John Grabinar, Elizabeth Homans, and Frieda Gilmour

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