CURRENT MISSION

Preparing a research project on Israel/Palestine. Trying to teach European politics to students.

ABOUT ME

I am married with Lilian, a Swiss German lady and we have four children: three girls and one boy - Yasmine (13 years old), Emil (11), Nava (9) and Sarai (6).
Lilian works in the theater Le Maillon. In her free time she creates clothes and other stuff with her sawing machine and study to play the guitare. She also reads a lot instead of sleeping at night.

I work as a university professor to US students, teaching European politics and European institutions.
I also did some parliamentary diplomacy and EU lobbying about Israel/Palestine.

Between these activities I am also very active in the neighbourhood here and urbanism in Strasbourg, being part of the city council residents' committee for where I live and a new local organization, as well as a local workshop to fix your bicycle, a local printing house, etc.

I also sing in a chore!

PHILOSOPHY

Be the change you want to see in the world (Gandhi). Do your thing. Make the best of what you have. Don't be boring, and try to be as innovative as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We host quite many surfers. I would be happy to surf more too in the future.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted many very nice people, also families. I surfed some couches, mainly to attend conferences of political science of geeks and international political meetings.

Interests

Theater, bicycle, Waldorf education, Gardening, piano, politics, reading. Lilian enjoys her sewing machine and books and Yoav likes political sociology, party politics, ecology, and activism of all kinds.

• books
• theater
• education
• partying
• gardening
• clothing
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• piano
• ecology
• teaching
• languages
• political science
• sociology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

American Beauty. Siddhartta, letters to Lucilius, for there is nothing better than Greek philosophy in the WC.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking to city of Nablus in the West Bank via the surrounding mountains while it was sieged by the Israeli army just to visit new friends who live there whom I just met two weeks before that during a political tour they had in France.

Teach, Learn, Share

Sewing and clothing (Lilian), Languages (Hebrew, French, German, Arabic), political sociology, non-violent education, how to renovate this house...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Bicycle.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, India, Jordan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Israel, Palestine, Switzerland

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