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experiences he had undertaken were not the essence, that the

road to happiness is in the internal dimension, the Jewish one.

Today, Segal tries to connect the people who attend his

workshops and courses to their inner dimension, to their true

desires and secret ambitions, while outlining a path for the

couple to fulfill these ambitions together.

Segal was born in England in 1946, but was honorably dubbed

‘Oleh Chadsh’ when he was only 1 year old. He spent his

childhood in the Tel-Aviv – Ramat-Gan area. The family is light

to moderate traditional, “A normal household’s way of thinking,

a secular high-school and then the army”. After giving much

thought to his professional future, he decided to go to England

to study industrial engineering. Segal arrived at a college at

which he was the only Israeli. This was just after the six day

war, and the anti-Israeli atmosphere began to spread out across

the academic institutions. Segal was involved with all kinds of

Israeli and Jewish establishments and was a pro-Israel activist,

but his strongest motivation was the desire to gather

experiences. He spent a year in the U.S., hitch-hiked for more

than 6,000 miles, in large part with hippies. “I talked to them a

lot, rode with them and slept with them. From my little

perspective, I got the impression that they’re looking for real

things”.

On the other hand, Segal explains, the famous hippy slogan

speaking for love didn’t bring about a life of real love, but a life

in communes, which according to him causes “all the problems,

troubles and complications that one can think of”.

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