Dec 30, 2020
“We help people connect with an innate spark inside of them spiritually attached to the Land of Israel,” says Livnot visionary Aharon Botzer.
By Ebin Sandler, United with Israel
Aharon Botzer, founder of Israeli outreach program Livnot U’Lehibanot, was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but found himself searching for deeper meaning in life during a post-college hitchhiking sojourn through Central America in 1970.
“During that trip, someone gave me a book by James Michener called
The Source, which is about the relationship between the Land of Israel and the spirit,” Botzer recently told United with Israel (UWI).
“While I was reading the book, I saw the northern lights [aurora borealis] in Mexico, which is very rare. I took this as a sign and decided to go to Israel,” Botzer recounted in a 2019 interview with