Ami Ohayon

In my first post on this blog, I mentioned in passing that I had spent several years in Boston as a student. I was lucky enough to attend Harvard, where I got my MBA.

I liked Boston very much. It’s such an intensely college town, with several universities and colleges scattered around the Boston area, so student life is very full and fun. I lived in Brookline, a suburb just outside Boston proper, where I lived on what would in the usual circumstances have been a quiet side street. But Beals Street is the street on which the birthplace of John F. Kennedy stands, at number 83, and so it was a very busy area particularly around the time of his birth, when there are ceremonies and remembrances of him. Continue Reading »

The place I live is something of a contradiction. I live in a quiet corner of one of the most bustling parts of Jerusalem. Machane Yehuda is the central market in Jerusalem, the place you go to for good deals on fruits and vegetables and where you can see live chickens sitting in crates at the back of a market stall, just waiting for the knife to descend. It’s noisy, busy crowded and cheap. Great fun if you’re a people person, and you really can get some terrific bargains there. Continue Reading »

I promised that I would write about my experiences in Boston for my next post. But hey, I don’t always keep my promises. It occurred to me that it might be a surprise for some people to see an Israeli guy writing a blog in (reasonably) fluent English. But Ami, I hear you ask, how come your English is so good? (That is what I hear, isn’t it?) Continue Reading »

Well, all blogs have to start somewhere, so here is where I’m starting mine. My name is Ami Ohayon, and I live in Jerusalem. I’m in my late 20s, and work for a web development company here in Israel. I spent several years living in the United States, in Boston, where I was at university. I don’t plan to talk a great deal about my work on this blog, not because it’s so terrifically secretive or exciting or cutting edge, but because I’m more interested in writing about some of my personal experiences. Continue Reading »