During my first visit, Stan organized a seminar where I gave a talk about the ECB and the Eurosystem. I told the audience that it was my first visit to Israel, but I had had a particular opportunity to learn about the country and the culture.
During my high school years, I had been an exchange student in Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York. Then a tall man in the audience stood up and asked: “Do you remember me, I was the captain of the basketball team?” Of course: he was Ed Offenbach, now a senior economist at the Bank of Israel.