Judea Pearl

It's the second time, isn't it?

The Book of Why.

Well, I was born in a little town called Bnei Brak, which is seven and a half miles north of Tel Aviv.

And it was established in 1924 by my grandfather, Chaim Perl, with 25 other Hasidic families who came from Poland and decided that it's time to go.

Go back to where they belong.

Okay.

Well, my father was the secretary of the Mnabrak municipality.

But that only later, learning later.

He came in and became a farmer.

You come to Israel in 1924, you buy a piece of land and you schlep water from miles away and you grow radishes.

That's what he did.

First order, yes.

The idea was to establish a biblical town with religious orientation and make it into an agricultural success.

No, no, no.

My father didn't see.

No.

It was 1924, and the legend says, at least the family lore says, that my grandfather

Came home one day, he was accosted by a Polish peasant and called a dirty Jew.

And he came home bloody and he said to his wife and four children, start packing.

We are going to where we belong.