Ilan’s stories describe many of his brushes with death which he met with a fierce determination to survive and thrive. He begins with the story of his mother’s harrowing escape from his bipolar father, with Ilan in her arms. On reaching Israel from Canada, he spent his younger years in a seaside town near the Gaza strip, with a freedom familiar to latch key kids. In adolescence, Ilan was moved first to Iran, then Ethiopia and finally back to Israel. The moves challenged Ilan both scholasti...