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Matt Engelbert of Ann Arbor with Technion student Yitzchak Garaway of
Haifa and Barbara Moehiman of Farmington Hills
August 24 a 2006
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Don Cohen
Special to the Jewish News
y
itzhak Garaway, 30, is pursu-
ing his doctorate in cryo-
genics from Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology in Haifa. He
also is pursuing an understanding
of what has affected his family, his
friends, his university and his country
over the past month.
• "Over the last three weeks, I real-
ized that life is becoming a fragile
thing:' Garaway said Aug. 14 over
lunch at Yossi's Israeli Cuisine in
West Bloomfield with about 18
local Technion supporters. "Life has
changed abruptly in the last couple
weeks."
Garaway explained how his fam-
ily instituted something called "siren
time," when his two young children,
ages 1 .1/2 and 3 1/2, excitedly scurry
into the bomb shelter for cookies,
singing whenever the sirens in Haifa
sound. He smiles as he tells how his
youngest daughter, bound in an over-
sized diaper, waddles into the bomb
shelter. The previous day, his wife, six
months pregnant, told him they were
in and out of the shelter 12 times.
He told how he was in his bathing
suit, running through the sprinkler
with his kids, when he got a call to
report immediately to the reserves,
which needed him for his expertise
on disarming bombs on the Lebanese
border. Later he was transferred to the
center of the country, where he spent
long hours in a damage control center.
He told how on July 16, Technion
students had just sat down at 9 a.m.
for final exams, when at 9:15 rockets
hit Haifa.
"They emptied the classrooms and
told people to leave campus," he says.
"Cars weren't allowed to leave campus
unless they were filled with five or six
people. Many were already, that after-
noon, on the Northern border."
Born in California, Garaway's par-
ents moved the family to Israel when
he was a young boy. He spent four
years in the "bomb squad" during
his military service, before earn-
ing a master's degree in mechanical
engineering at the Technion Energy
Department. "Let this be finished; and,
in 10 months, I can be done he said
of obtaining his doctorate.
While Garaway's lab is in a strong
cement building allowing him to con-
tinue his work, most of the research
on campus was halted. Tanks contain-
ing highly flammable liquid hydrogen
were buried underground; tanks of
compressed gas for use in Technion's
state-of-the-art wind tunnels were
emptied, and the chemistry labs were
cleared of combustibles. Nonetheless,
the campus of 16,000 was reopened
before the ceasefire was declared; and
research resumed as much as possible.
The university has established a
Student Emergency Fund to help stu-
dents meet their tuition and housing
costs because their work, schooling
and lives have been disrupted by the
war.
Barb Moehiman of Farmington Hills
has been involved as a local supporter
of the Technion for six years, and had
met Yitzhak before.
- "My heart and soul and blessings
are with Israel;' Moehiman said. "They
need not only our prayers and support,
they need our money to help support
Technion and the soldiers who have
left to fight, and, God willing, swill
come back."
"If Israel won't survive, I'm afraid
the world won't survive she added. 1
For more information on the Technion, or
to contribute to the Student Emergency
Fund, call (248) 737-1990.