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The Beit Shean Valley
Municipal Council is
overseeing the park's con-
struction.
"There is so much going
• on, we just can't stop now,"
Shoshani says. "It's for
Israel."
Annual operating costs are
estimated at $350,000. Dur-
ing its first year of opera-
tion, Shoshani says, the park
• is expected to attract 65,000
tourists. Park officials pro-
ject that the number of an-
nual visitors will increase
gradually to over 150,000
within 10 years.
The park is in its de-
velopment stages, and no
opening date has been set.
Shoshani is one of a few
hundred elephant experts in
the world. He speaks
regularly at symposiums
throughout the world. He
has conducted elephant
research in Kenya, China,
the Soviet Union, Israel and
Burma. He founded the
Elephant Interest Group in
1977, which is head-
quartered at his Bloomfield
Hills home. The group
publishes articles on
elephants and tracks global
elephant news.
His days in Michigan may
be numbered. Ever since he
completed his doctorate a
few years ago, he has been
focusing on moving to Africa
to study elephants in the
wild, or to go back to Israel
to oversee the elephant
facility in Beit Shean.
Hopefully, Shoshani says, he
will manage to do both.
Jeheskel Shoshani was
born in 1943 to a poor family
• in pre-state Israel. He was
one of several children.
Education was not high on
the family's list of priorities
— survival was. Regardless,
Shoshani found a way to an
academic career.
•
At age 15, he ran away
from home to a kibbutz,
where he worked as a shep-
herd and developed a fond-
ness for animals. After serv-
ing in the Israeli army, he
landed a job as a keeper at
the Tel Aviv zoo.
He completed his high
school education at night.
He later moved to England,
where he spent a year work-
ing as a zoo keeper there. He
moved here with his former
wife, a Michigan native.
In Detroit, Shoshani
enrolled in WSU's biological
studies program, with plans
to become a veterinarian.
Those plans were put on the
back burner when his inter-
ests swayed toward the
evolution of mammals.
Today, he is married to
Sandra Lash Shoshani, a
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elephants. The couple met
after she found a large fossil
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be a gallstone from an
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