Word: shachar
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...Shachar '96 is a self-described slave to his passions. His internal masters are many, ranging from the athletic to the intellectual to the interpersonal. He speaks about them in measured words, in an accent that ever so slightly reveals his Israeli origins and years spent in South Africa...
...Shachar's first great passion has made his name familiar to the readers of campus press--particularly the sports section of The Harvard Crimson. He served as co-captain of Harvard's varsity squash team for two years, and he was the Israeli national champion, as well as the U.S. inter-collegiate champion...
...When Ben-Shachar was nine, his father's work as an engineer moved the family from Israel to South Africa for five years. The Ben-Shachars lived in a tiny village 80 kilometers south of Johannesburg where, Ben-Shachar recalls, "there was nothing...
...friends lived far away from me, there was no public transportation, and school wasn't that challenging, so the only thing that I had left was play squash," he remembers. After school, Ben-Shachar would hit squash balls up and down the court, alone. He began to play in tournaments when...
...Jeff especially played very well," said Ben-Shachar." He beat many high-ranked players...