Rochel Istrin

Rochel Istrin grew up in Independence, Missouri and received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. After working for several years as a teacher and parent trainer at the Judevine Center for Autistic Children she made aliya to Israel in 1973 where she married and raised a family. In Israel Rochel attended nursing school at Laniado Hospital in Netanya, and is currently employed at the Mayenei HaYeshua hospital as a senior nurse in the newborn nursery. Searching is her first novel, a tapestry of real events woven toggether with her rich imagination and life experience. A sequel is being prepared for publication, and the reader is invited to join the Levine family as their lives unfold from the early years of the twentieth century until the first years of the founding of the State of Israel.