I am refugee now, just like my parents were from Poland,

The secret, which nobody realized at the time, was that with this sand, which was 100 percent inorganic, you can control exactly what goes in it,

This was the closest site to Beersheba, so we drove down one day with our three children,

I have no regrets about the past,

It is a victory. But we just won the battle. We didn't win the war.

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it,