Aliza Ziv

Aliza Ziv-Shoshani was born in Jerusalem and grew up in a traditional Jewish Home. She graduated from David Yelin Teachers' College in Jerusalem, majoring in teaching Hebrew as a foreign language. Afterwards she continued studying linguistics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the University of Tel Aviv. In the Israeli Army she served as an educational officer, teaching Hebrew and Israeli Culture to new immigrant soldiers.

In 1958, she was sent to Canada to introduce the Ulpan Method to Universities and Jewish Communities. In 1967 she returned to Israel with her Canadian born husband and three young children. Since then she has devoted all her time and energy to the absorption of new immigrants from all parts of the world who came to settle in Israel. She directed many Ulpanim in Absorption Centers.

In 2002 her book "Difficulty Beyond Words" was published in Hebrew as a Historical Novel based on her vast experience and knowledge. As a result of its success in Israel, it was translated into English and published as" New Home New Hope" by Contento de Semrik in 2014.

Aliza Ziv continues to volunteer and aid new immigrants with their problems of absorption in the city of Modiin where she and her husband live.

Other than the above book she has written books for children in Hebrew.