My name is Rachel (Michelson) Arik.  I was born in Somerset, New Jersey a really long time ago...
My brother Benjy was already almost 2 when I was born & I didn't get any more siblings until I was 18 months old -- when Sammy was born. When I was almost three, my third brother, Akiva, came along & I was left the only girl. It was only when I was almost 9 that I finally got Leah, the little sister I'd always dreamed of.

After Somerset, we moved to Pittsburgh, & then off to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Our next stop was Wiesbaden, Germany (where we lived both on the air base, and in Aukamm) & then to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

You think that's all? Hah! 

When I was 11, we moved to Fort Benning, Georgia. After a year there, I went off to live in Atlanta. At 14 I moved to Boston, Massachusetts & at the ripe old age of 15 was ready to move again, to Lawton, Oklahoma. We'd just moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma when I suddenly found myself living in Jerusalem, Israel.

Here are the schools I went to:
Jackson Elementary School (1st & 2nd grade, 1974,1975) 
Wiesbaden Air base Basement school (3rd & 4th grade, 1976,1977 
Aukamm Elementary (4th & 5th grade, 1977,1978) 
Wiesbaden Middle School (6th grade, 1979) 
Hillel School (Deal, New Jersey) (6th grade, 1979) 
Faith School (Fort Benning, Georgia) (7th grade, 1980) 
Yeshiva High School of Atlanta (8th & 9th grade, 1981, 1982) 
Brookline High (Brookline, Massachusetts) (Summer school 1983,1984) 
Maimonides School (Brookline, Massachusetts) (10th grade, 1983) 
Eisenhower Senior High School (Lawton, Oklahoma) (12th grade, 1984) 
 
I figured that wasn't quite enough school, so I went and studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1985 & 1986,
Hadassah College of Technology in 1988 & 1989
and finally started to finish my B.A. in 1995 through the Open University (hey, I'm half way...)

I married Moshe in 1989 & gave birth to our daughter, Hadas, in 1993. Our twins, Matan and Lilach, were born in 1996. We now live in Modi'in Israel.

All of my siblings live in Israel:
Ben is now married to Ilana & father to Tzvi, Elisheva, and Avital. They live in Rehovot.
Sam is married to Ofira & father to Daniel and Yonatan. They live in Alon Shvut.
Akiva is married to Nurit & father to Ariel and Yehuda. They live in Givat Ze'ev.
Leah lives with my mom in Modi'in.

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