Jon Kowal:  

Currently living in Israel for the past 14 years with my wife Sara. Sara and I have been married for 40 years and have been blessed with 3 children and 11 grandchildren who are all with us in Israel. We live in a small village called Yad Binyamin (near the coast/Ashdod) with one of my daughters, Shoshan and her six kids just down the street. My other daughter Kayla and her 5 kids live 25 minutes away in a town called Beit Shemesh. Our youngest, Mikki, age 26 is completed serving as a commander in the Engineering corp of the Israel Defense Forces who recently completed his bachelors in business administration at the Jerusalem Instititue of Technology. Now he is working as an analyst in a company that specializes in Mergers and Acquisitions. I left high tech a few year back where I worked full time as a business consultant for Amdocs, which is an international company that has developed large billing, charging, ordering and CRM systems fir Telecommunication companies.. My last position at Amdocs I worked on the Customer Experience Team where I traveled different parts of the world where my companies systems are deployed such as in Ireland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, India, Canada and in Southeast Asia. My passion in the past 23 years has been long distance running - having completed my 25th marathon last beginning of December 2021, 12 years ago I developed a beginning runners program for my wife - including intervals of running and walking. After testing the program for a number of years, I started giving volunteer running clinics in our village. The program has grown so big that I sessions twice a week with 100s having participating. over the past 10 years. So a few years ago, I went to the leading sports institute in Israel, the Wingate Institute to receive by running coach certification. So no...Expand for more