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Memories of 67

- Elaine Taylor (now Lady Elaine Sacks) wife of Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks

I left school the summer of '67 and went to Israel on the WUJS [1] scheme.

This was a summer ulpan [2] followed by a year at the Hebrew University. Plus tiulim[3] etc.

Anyone who was there that year will know what an amazing time it was to be in Israel. Everything opened up. There we were in Jerusalem.

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The following year, while still studying at Cambridge, he saw Elaine Taylor, his future wife, in the courtyard of King's College.

Arabs were coming in but nobody was afraid and nobody was the enemy. They would stand and watch the traffic lights! On tiulim in the countryside, we would buy shiny red apples from local farmers. Some students rented rooms in East Jerusalem - it was ‘cool’ - don’t forget this was the sixties!

But no harm came to them.

On the other hand, this was post war. Israeli students had lost friends, and we chalutzniks were aware of our different backgrounds.

Many foreign students were American; a number of young men were studying for the rabbinate to avoid being drafted and s