My name is Leon Gork. I was born in a little town in S. Africa by the name of Krugersdorp
where I did all the wonderful things that go to developing a child into an adult. I attended primary school and I high school
and like all Jewish children, Heder (an afternoon school where I learnt the basics of the Jewish Religion, Hebrew and Jewish
History),
I loved all of this, but constantly felt that there was more to know than the teachers
taught me. My curiosity lead me to delve deeply into the history of all religions, especially Christianity and Judaism
and to learning languages.
I knew that language was the key to information, so now I speak, study
and guide in German, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch and I still keep on learning from the people of the various countries
whom I've been guiding for the last 35 years.
I came to settle in Israel with my family, then 2 sons
now 4 and 4 grandchildren.
I love my work and thank God every moment for giving me this love of
learning about His holy Land. Either I'm in the library learning about Israel or I'm out with tourists telling them about
this wonderful land and it's history and most of all the relationship with God.
I spend a lot of
my spare time touring on my own, finding new places and new scraps of history for my tourists.
My
motto in life is to love everybody and everything and to give thanks to God for everything. I don't consider myself religious,
but I belong to the Jewish Faith. I love all religions. Judaism is my religion because I was born with it and because I've
learned to respect its tenets and I love the Jewish People. I believe that the Jewish People gave the other religions like
Christianity and Islam their belief and they should love and be grateful to the Jews for that.
Everything
in life is so sudden and so surprising, we simply don't know what's going to happen next.
We just
have to accept and respect and adjust to living in the new situation.
Let's all
try to enjoy those close to us, to be kind to them and give them encouragement in
everything they di,
Let's enjoy our kids and our
family for a good long life
