About the Curator
A Life Among Books, Bees, and Beautiful Things
Some people inherit a collection.
I inherited a way of looking at the world.
Long before Veritas Books & Bees existed, I spent much of my childhood trapped in wandering through museums, auction houses, and Italian palazzi. While other children may have been looking at the gift shop, I was craning my neck toward ceiling frescoes, peering into display cases, and absorbing far more about the fine art world than any sensible young person should.
The experience left me with some lasting afflictions: a permanent curiosity about the stories objects carry with them, and a desire to get a closer look. One might call it a bee’s-eye view.
As a rebellious and thoroughly near-sighted teenager, I chose musicology instead of art history. The detour led me not away from collections, but deeper into them. Somewhere between bookshelves, archives, research projects, and reference desks, the librarian was born.
Today I help manage the largest English-language library in Israel, where I continue to champion the enduring value of printed works in an increasingly digital world. I have spent countless hours cataloguing, preserving, organizing, researching, and connecting readers with books that might otherwise remain undiscovered.
The seeds of Veritas Books & Bees were planted when I inherited my mother’s library. What began as an act of stewardship gradually revealed itself to be something more: a remarkable gathering of fine art books, exhibition catalogues, scholarly references, and beautiful printed works deserving of a wider audience.
As the collection grew, so did the realization that books are not merely containers of information. They are artifacts. They preserve scholarship, record cultural memory, and provide access to ideas and images that might otherwise remain out of reach.
Veritas Books & Bees was created to share those discoveries.
Alongside my work with books, my husband Dave and I keep bees in and around Tzfat, introducing visitors from around the world to the wonders of the hive. It turns out that beekeeping and librarianship have more in common than one might expect. Both require patience, observation, stewardship, and an appreciation for systems far larger than oneself.
Whether I am examining a centuries-old art catalogue, helping a library patron locate an obscure reference, or opening a hive on a spring morning, the motivation remains much the same: curiosity,
preservation, and the joy of discovery.
I invite you to explore the collection and perhaps discover something unexpected.
After all, every book has a story. Sometimes the journey it takes to find its next reader becomes part of that story too.