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Little do we, Israelis, know about a country in the heart of Central Asia called Uzbekistan. I say ‘we’ since it’s been 15 years since I live in Israel and see my motherland only in my dreams. ‘Ah, it’s one of those ‘-stans’!’ Tell me my local friends, when I answer a simple question of where I am from. And then they begin to count ‘Kazakhstan, Afghanistan…’. ‘No, not Afghanistan!’ – I have to say. And they smile and I hear something like ‘Anyway, nice to meet you’.