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I was born in genuary 1966,in Jerusalem, under the name of Jacob Shmuel Levy. From some kind of reason my mother allways call me Yankee and that has remain my name. In a very young age, 9 or 10 i guess, i started to collect reptails ( snakes and scorpions ) and at 14 years old i started to milk them for the propose of manufacturing products against the venums, to make long story short, i ended up in the age of 18, with the biggest collection of snakes in the middle east. 16 to 18 as well i fell in love with exotic marine fish and i was one of the first ones, in Israel, to brid them in cautivity. In college i started to lern archeology, and i fell in love with it. But then at the age of 18 i had to join the israelian army, as every one in Israel have to, as you can see and i hope understand. I serve for 6 years in special forces and finish as a capitan, where i got seriously wonded in the Lebanon war and had to pass multiple hard serguries. Then i was offer to work as a military advaiser in the jungles of Colombia, treaning the army there in the Kali distric, Sierra Nevada, i stay there for 2 more years, and then i decided that was enough for me. I went to the caribian islands, Sant Tomas, as a profesional diver for a while. Then i left to work as a diver in the oil industry in the sea of Alaska. I stay there for a year...
Then i started to travel. I been in the five continents and in so many countryes that i can not even remeber.
Finally i ended up in the Netherlands, and i open up a company for extreme sports bussines, but because of the weather, after two years i decided that i needed sun and i moved to the wonderfull sunny Spain, with the same bussines, i stay there for 2 years. And rigth before i left Spain, i meet a wonderfull girl. I didn't know at that time that this girl will be my wife. I left Spain to India where she was allready leaving for the pass 14 years. We lived for a while in the Himalaya, where her first son was born and after 2 years we moved to Jaipur, Rajastan (Thar desert) where still we where there for 2 more years. My pasion to beads started because of her pasion for tibetan beads, and the sky door dzi bead that still she is wearing.
I started to collect ancient beads where ever i could find them in India, only to discovered that my home town, Jerusalem, was one of the best places on earth to find any kind of ancient beads.
Finally after 4 years, we got married and got back to Spain, we have 2 wonderfull kids and we opened a antique reproduction furnitures and high indian artesany (maharaja style) shop.
I speak 8 languages and my wife 5, all diferent ones, except for english.
Happy new year to every body!! I wish all your whises will came true in this 2009.
Yankee
PS. That is the bead that made me fall in love with beads.
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