Text size this story is by  Late one night in June 2001,
slightly after midnight, Rony Epstein called his wife Dafna from
his office at the Sadna Internet Branding Agency. Dafna was at
home in Ramat Aviv with the couple's son Shai. "I told her, 'I
googled my mother,'" he recalls. And that's how after two years,
the search of his life came to an end. At age 40, Epstein
finally found his mother online, by entering her first name and
year and place of birth into the search engine.  Epstein was
born on September 21 in the Ashkelon hospital. His mother, Alma
Schwartz, was 20 years old. A new immigrant from the United
States, she had fled to Kibbutz Zikim in an advanced state of
pregnancy, planning to stay there until the birth of her son,
whom she intended to put up for adoption. He was born during the
first rain of the season, known in Hebrew as the yoreh. Friends
of his mother from the kibbutz, who came to visit her, suggested
that she name him Yoray, and she did.  Two days later, her
father Edward arrived in Is