Barbara Sofer
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Award-winning writer and lecturer Barbara Sofer grew up in a small town in Connecticut, and moved to Israel in 1971. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her articles -taking on a wide range of subjects from ethnic cooking to terrorism--have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Parents, Readers' Digest, Woman's Day, Hadassah Magazine and Inside Magazine among many others. She writes a bi-weekly column for the Friday Jerusalem Post.
Barbara has written five books and contributed to several others
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Jerusalem Post
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The various stories behind the abandoned properties in Israel By Barbara Sofer
In our small country, where so much of our lives is based on personal connections, we might assume that there isn't much so-called abandoned property. We'd be wrong. Tens of thousands of cases of unclaimed real estate and bank accounts are classified "abandoned." No known owners. No known heirs. |
