Born and raised in Atlantic City, N.J., Steve Kramer graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University in 1967 and spent the next six years living and working (off and on), mostly on the West Coast. After marrying and working in his family's business for 15 years, Steve and his wife Michal and their two sons moved to Israel in 1991. Over more than twenty years, Steve has written 1,000+ opinion columns and two books about Israel, while living just over the Green Line in Alfe Menashe.