Sublime

After the end of the War of Independence, Shtrikman changed his family name to Sharon and started to work on his PhD dissertation at the faculty of agriculture in Rehovot. Thereafter, he joined the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, was promoted to the rank of professor, and gained a worldwide reputation based on his research on lectins and carbohydrat

Gruen eventually arrived at the Jaffa harbor—the same harbor that Herzl had described in Altneuland—on September 7, 1906, and shortly thereafter was working the orange groves in Petach Tikvah. A believer that physical labor was key to building the Jewish state (following in the tradition of A. D. Gordon), he migrated through the Galilee, working on

We were a group of some twenty students. Among us, there were ex-servicemen from the British armed forces (Y. Lipschitz, Romek Fein, and Adam Schatkai, who was an RAF pilot). In addition, there were ex-servicemen from the Palmach (reservists Nathan Sharon and Daniel Reich) and active members of the Haganah. There was also a deaf student called Emma

In the fall of 1945, I began to study chemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (the only university in Palestine). In Jerusalem, I also took an active part in the Haganah. Man-to-man combat training was conducted in one of the schools in the city, while the police station at the seminary in Beit Hakerem served as a base for rifle training.