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| My Grandsons! |

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| 17 months old - Eitan on right, Omer on left. |
I'm 63 years old and feeling
a little posterity-minded. So here's how I want to be remembered: a writer and an Israeli Jew deeply involved
in peace and human rights activism. But here's the life I really led: Gila Svirsky played a lot of basketball and was quite good at it. Anyway, she
loved playing. She day-dreamt basketball to relax and to put herself to sleep at night. This was the defining
character-shaper of her life. Long live team sports. Especially women's basketball. And I have a great family. This website is dedicated to the three women in my life:
Judy, Mieka, and Denna. Here they are below, in that Kodak sort of way.
| My life- and love-partner Judy (right) and me. |

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| Judy works for the UN in Jerusalem when I can't get her to stay home with me. |
| Daughter #2: Denna Brand |

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| Denna, my scuba diver, lives in Kibbutz Sa'ar. |
| Daughter #1: Mieka Brand |

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| Mieka, an anthropologist, new mom of twin boys - my first grandchildren! |
| Mieka's husband, Tony Polanco |

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| Tony's a Caribbean chef. Lucky Mieka! |

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| Omer (left) and Eitan, hanging out. |
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“We
don’t believe in pressuring the children. When the time is right, they’ll
choose the appropriate gender.”
Robert
Mankoff, New Yorker, February 20, 1995
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