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Israel Three - Text

Subject was born in Jerusalem in 1974 and grew up near Tel-Aviv, in Rishon Le-Zion. Moved to Tel-Aviv when she was 19 or 20, and later lived in Italy for about a year and a half. Now resides in Los Angeles. Speaks Hebrew, Italian, French and English.

Interviewed by Joel Goldes 12.02.2002. Edited by Paul Meier. Running time 00:04:14

TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH

In Israel I was [uh] I grew up near Tel Aviv.  I was born in Jerusalem.  And I grew up near Tel Aviv.  I [ah] moved to a city near Tel Aviv, it's called [um] Rishom.
R-I-S-H-O-M.  Um, pretty young, probably, um, two, three year old.  Yeah [uh] after I mo…  I grew up there and then when I was… when I was nine…nineteen, twenty I moved to Tel Aviv for [um] for four or five years.  Yeah.  At school.  Seven years old.  More British.  My mother's from Morocco and my father is from Poland.  I have no idea. 
Yeah.  [unintelligible]  I love school.  I hated vacation.  My mom said that every time that, every time there's a vacation it's bad for me because I wouldn't know what to do.  And I'm still like that.  Yeah.  Well now I read or I just relax.  Now I've learned to relax, but when I was younger I like to [unintelligible] Math. Math and biology and chemistry.  But math was my favorite.  I don't know, what is it?  I think, third grade?  Fourth grade is like when you really start to, yeah.  Hebrew, Italian, and a little bit of French, and [uh] English, and I understand a little bit of Spanish….

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH TERREL, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, May 30, 2008.

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