Remembering the Wonderful Petra Marquardt-Bigman
Petra Marquardt-Bigman. Photo: Hen Mazzig. I will always be grateful to Twitter for having brought Petra Marquardt-Bigman into my life. It was there, on a platform that is frequently, and justifiably, maligned for promoting strife and conflict, that we first “met” and began to “talk” about things that mattered to both of us. One day, I messaged her to tell her that I was on my way to Israel. Might she want to meet in person? She agreed right away. We met at Café Suzanna, a Tel Aviv institution that occupies a good chunk of a block on Shalom Shabazi Street — a quaint and trendy stre...