Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip - Gush Katif motivated me to write my debut historic novel, GRAINS OF SAND: THE FALL OF NEVE DEKALIM. I felt an urge to set down on paper, blue ink on white pages, what I was experiencing. I hope that my book will enable people to understand what we, the people of Gush Katif, went through. I hope to put a human face on what have been just facts, numbers. And I hope that the person reading my novel will, for a few hours, travel beyond time and beyond location - into my Gush Katif.

"Fronds in the Breeze" won first place runnerup in a youth contest.
A recipient of the "Letter of Academic Excellence" from the Israeli Ministry of Education.

GRAINS OF SAND: THE FALL OF NEVE DEKALIM is published by Mazo Publishers, 2007 ISBN 978-9657344194 and is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Mazo Publishers, select Jerusalem bookstores and others.

Grains Of Sand: The Fall of Neve Dekalim
The website includes book information along with my articles, poetry, short story, play, translations, interviews, and audio-video book promotionals. A literature study guide, in pdf format, is also now available.

Grains Of Sand: The Fall Of Neve Dekalim Book Trailer
Promo trailer on the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from its own land...destroying 20 thriving Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip.

The Expulsion From Gush Katif
This anthology is designed as an educational resource book on Gush Katif.

Ink and Quill
Shifra the Student has now become Shifra the Teacher - or anyway, she (that is, I) is trying very hard to do so. And let me tell you, it isn't easy... This blog shares some current experiences and challenges in teaching English.