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My cousins Mike and Hanna live in Tselafon,
a moshav between Latrun and Bet Shemesh on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road.
Mike grows an incredible variety of trees and plants in a relatively small space using intensive agriculture techniques. They grow mainly tropical and subtropical fruit: papayas, passion fruit, figs, oranges, even coffee.

The moshav is named after the tselaf flower. The plant produces capers in addition to flowers and grows wild in much of Israel.	Tom and Bar Tidhar, Mike and Hanna's grandchildren (Gilboa and Sigal's kids) just pulled some long-awaited garlic.
Family picture (the Israeli way, from right to left): Dena, Hanna, Mike, Tom (with his bow), and Tsur.	Tsur, the youngest son, and his wife, Kinneret. Gilboa, the eldest, and his wife Sigal stayed out of the pictures. Noam, the middle son, lives in New York.
Here's Mike's wonderful garden.	Mike is proudly pointing to one of many, many delicious papayas that grow back here.

My father died seven days after Naftali was born, and he's buried near Bet Shemesh The last time I saw him was at my parents' house in Jerusalem a year before he died. The epitaph was written by my mother.