text:  Trials and tribulations. Yes, I was born in Israel. My father was born in Israel. But shortly after we moved around, my parents were teachers. They moved to South Africa for four years. And then I came back to Israel and to the States for a few more years. My father did his PhD at the University of Miami. So I spent some very key childhood years, my teenage years in South Florida. And that's where I adopted my American accent and many of my Americanisms.