Thank you for registering the Florida JCC's Book series on Thursday, April 21 at 1:00 PM, featuring Iddo Gefen, author of Jerusalem Beach: Stories.
At once compassionate, philosophical, and humorous, Jerusalem Beach is a foray into the human condition in all its contradictions. Through a series of snapshots of contemporary life in Israel, Gefen reveals a world that’s a step from the familiar.
Iddo Gefen was born in 1992 in Israel and currently resides in Tel Aviv. He is an author and neurocognitive researcher at the Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab at the Sagol Brain Institute. There, he leads an innovative study to diagnose aspects of Parkinson’s disease using storytelling and augmented reality. His first book, Jerusalem Beach, received the Israeli Minister of Culture’s Award in 2017.