Menachem Bloch

Menachem Bloch made Aliyah in 1949, soon after the end of the War of Independence.He grew up in Philadelphia and in New York.During his student days, he taught in his Alma Mater, Yeshiva University`s Talmudical Academy and in the Yeshiva of Flatbush (where he was offered a steady teaching position and much more).After six summers of camp counseling [including four in the Hebrew-speaking camp "Massad"], he was offered a job as the director of a summer camp and the post of principal of a school in Cincinnati.He turned the job down when the armistice was signed in Palestine in 1949.

He had wanted to go to live in Israel for many years, but his parents had objected to allow him to go to a war-torn country.In 1949, his parents could no longer oppose his making Aliyah (although they beseeched him not to go, but rather to "view the land from afar" and to content himself with helping raise a generation who would identify with their brethren, their tradition and their culture).

In Israel, after completing his two-year army training, he served in many positions.He was the academic secretary of Mishlav and then became the registrar at Bar-Ilan University, from its opening in 1955 till the first class received its BA diplomas in 1959.He was the executive secretary of the Association of Hebrew Book Publishers, and the Director of the Yachdav Publishing House.He also served as a senior teacher of English at Bar Ilan University, and is the author of a series of textbooks.
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Salit and her husband, Menachem, have just recently left the kibbutz and have two children.Moshe is presently visiting the USA, and Didi is serving in the Israeli Defense Forces.