I am refugee now, just like my parents were from Poland, |
I had a home; I had a big, successful business, a little piece of the land of Israel n all that was stolen from me. |
I have absolutely no where to go tonight. I have no house, so I'm coming here to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount to pray for the everlasting house. The holy Temple, that's the only house I have left, and that's what I'm going to go for. |
I have no regrets about the past, |
It is a victory. But we just won the battle. We didn't win the war. |
It was for nothing. Everyone knew that terror would continue and go wild. It was a total waste that they threw people out. Our presence there stopped terror from going wild. |
The first crops failed. The tomatoes grew large but fell off early. The sand could not hold them up, |
The majority of the people are trying to keep their heads up. [But] some are really depressed, We're looking forward to coming out of the freezer. |
The people were very happy to see each other. They were hugging and kissing. |
The secret, which nobody realized at the time, was that with this sand, which was 100 percent inorganic, you can control exactly what goes in it, |
This was the closest site to Beersheba, so we drove down one day with our three children, |
We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it, |