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Stephen Langfur received a doctorate from Syracuse, in which he presented his theory of the You-I Event. He then helped rebuild the Honors Program (now Honors College) at the University of Houston, teaching in it for three years. The promise of peace in the Middle East lured him to Israel in 1979, where he favored hiking over academe, becoming a guide. A decade later, he wrote in his first book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When I was ten years younger and full of hope, I departed the USA with wife and daughter and moved to Israel. What follow are notes from an army cell, to which I have been sentenced for refusing to go into the West Bank against the Palestinians.” – Confession from a Jericho Jail<\/em> <\/a> (Grove Weidenfeld, 1992, now published in a 2nd edition by Fomite Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his release, Langfur discovered that new findings in infancy research supported the idea of his dissertation. He presented it in philosophy and psychology journals<\/a> – and now in Philosophy Meets the Infant<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Langfur as a tour guide:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Langfur has a son named Benny who is a composer-musician and a daughter named Talya who is a physical therapist. He is married to the political activist Roni Ben Efrat, whose children are Ruti, a clinical psychologist, and Yonatan, a secondary-school teacher. There are grandchildren: Susu, Sara, Toto, and Lara. It is odd that, to a grandpa, the world may seem dull and routine for much of the time, but there is nothing so exciting as to watch one’s grandchild discovering it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left to right: Susu, Roni, Toto, and Sara on vacation in Devon, England (2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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