Cathy Raff greets visitors at her workshop center, Beit Elfarasha, in the Old City of Acre (Akko) with hometown pride.
It doesn’t matter that Raff grew up in Georgia, in the south of the United States. Raff moved to Israel when she was 25, in 1985.
After her marriage to businessman Alon Bar-Shany, on a visit to Akko, she asked, “Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a house here?”
