Hey Israel story listeners, it's Mishi.

We just receive the truly devastating news that Avichei Ben-Beruch, the subject of one

of our most popular episodes ever, died last Sunday of a heart attack at the age of 31.

So in honor of Avichei, and as a way of expressing our love and support for Khay'a, Israel,

and the rest of the Ben-Beruch family, we are, once again, sharing our 2014 episode, Love Syndrome.

Here it is, it made the story of Avichei's life be a blessing and an inspiration to us all.

So, Khay'a, maybe just begin by telling me the story from the start.

Okay, so I grew up in New York, I grew up in Long Island, I was a twin.

My parents were conservative docks in, now that means that we had milk dishes and we had meat dishes,

and then we also had trough dishes and paper plates for when my mother wanted to eat Chinese food

that wasn't kosher, she really, really liked sweet and sour pork.

The first time I met Khay'a Ben-Beruch was in her tiny flat in this huge Soviet-style apartment block in Spat,

which is an ultra-orthodox, burrow park meets woodstock kind of town in the north of Israel.

We had talked on the phone a few times, but I really didn't know what to expect.

When she opened the door, I walked into a pretty typical, herady home, super sparse little kids running all over the place,

a woman with a head covering, a man in black with a patchy long beard,

a few pictures of rabbis hanging on the walls, but there's actually not a single part of this story,

or this family, or Khay'a, which is typical.

Let's go back to Khay'a, growing up in New York, act one, see others.

Despite the occasional sweet and sour pork at home, Khay'a's family was actually pretty traditional.

She attended a Shivar religious high school where her mom taught.

But when she graduated Khay'a, whose name at the time was Inid, kind of rebelled,

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