Age Quote by Ruth Westheimer

As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.

— Frank Lowy

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

— Alek Wek

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

— Ehud Barak

In 1947 and '48, everybody in then-Palestine belonged to some group. I chose the group that was the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces.

— Ruth Westheimer

I was born in Israel. My parents came in 1925.

— Tzipi Livni

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

— David Draiman

When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone…

— Adam Sandler

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

— Jonathan Glazer

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

— Hisham Matar

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild