My parents Ron and Aliza were born in Warsaw and Lublin in Poland where they lived a middle-class lifestyle as children until they were forced to abandon their houses and flee when the Nazis invaded Poland. They spent their teenage years with their respective families in small god-forsaken villages in Siberia, hungry and poor, sometimes living off a single loaf of bread for the whole family for a whole day. Their families eventually made their way to Israel where they were faced with a new culture, a new language, poverty and a lack of education. Despite all these odds, they both went on to earn Ph.D. degrees and became internationally recognized leaders in their fields. My father, Ron, headed up the Mapping Agency of Israel for many years, and was a Professor of Mapping and Geo-Information at the Technion until his retirement in 2007. And my mother, Aliza, went on to become a world renowned Cancer researcher and published many papers on Immunological Treatments of Cancer. They are both retired in Israel and continue to be a source of love and inspiration.