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ou may have seen the pic-
ture of him leaping across
a field of strangely shaped
limestones. It's the cover
photo on the coffee-table bookA
Day in the Life of Israel.
Dorothea and Abraham Beck-
er have a copy. The Birmingham
couple is proud to say their
grandson, Yochai, was the then-
10-year-old on the cover of the
book, published in 1994.
On Saturday, Yochai, now 13,
will be the bar mitzvah boy on
the bimah at Temple Emanu-El.
He already participated in a bar
mitzvah service with classmates
in Israel but wanted to honor this
rite of passage with his family
living in America.
Yochai, whose father Dan
Becker grew up in the Detroit
area and made aliyah in the late
1970s, will not have any trouble
reading his native language, He-
brew. It's the English that took
practice. Still, Yochai feels he's
ready.
"Since he is the first grand-
child, we thought it would be nice

1994, on the Hatsev moshav
where Yochai and his family live
south of the Dead Sea, near the
Jordanian border. It's one of ap-
proximately 300 moshays in Is-
rael.
In the picture, Mrs. Becker
cleans the family's Uzi subma-
chine gun while her children
watch a cartoon in the back-
ground.
"'The photographer wanted to
show that owning a gun in Israel

"We were surprised
it was on the cover."

— Yochai Becker

is not that unusual," Mrs. Beck-
er explained.
In another picture, Mr. Beck-
er gives his then-3-year-old son
Arnon a playful toss in the air.
Barren cliffs in the Negev Desert
serve as the backdrop.
Yochai remembers the day
spent with the American pho-
tographer. "He
woke us up ear-
ly in the morn-
ing to take our
pictures," Yochai
said. "My dad
took us to the
spot with the
rocks and [the
photographer]
took a bunch of
pictures of me as
I jumped from
rock to rock.
"We were sur-
prised [the pho-
tograph] was on
the cover. He
called us to say
my picture or my
dad's would
probably be in
the book, but we
didn't know
about the cover
until later."
Sixty photog-
raphers, includ-
ing the one who
spent 24 hours
Yochai Becker and the book that made him famous.
with the Beck-
to have his bar mitzvah here," ers, turned in nearly 100,000
said Yochai's mother, Naomi photos. T'cvo hundred were se-
Becker, a native of Israel. She lected for the 200-page book.
and her four sons spend their
The Beckers were selected to
summers in Michigan. Her hus- be photographed after a friend,
band joins them when he can get who was also spending a day
away from their flower farm.
with a photographer, got them
A photo of Mrs. Becker also involved with the project.
appears in the book. Actually,
"We still get phone calls from
several photographs of the Beck- people who see us in the book,"
er family made the final cut.
Mrs. Becker said. "It's kind of
The photos were taken in May fun." ❑

