Veteran ABC-TV exec Yale Roe is a compelling speaker who has just written "I Followed My Heart to Jerusalem", a memoir chock-full of anecdotes, many that are funny, others that are poignant and even inspirational, about moving with his wife and children from the Middle West to the Middle East.

As an award-winning film producer, Roe met and filmed Israel's top leaders of the last generation. A perfect presentation for an in depth analysis of the challenges facing Israel in the new year, illuminated with his own personal experiences and anecdotes.

In this candid and inspirational memoir, former ABC-TV executive Yale Roe recounts the life-changing effects of his decision to make aliyah with his family to Jerusalem. Roe's narrative recounts as he and his family came to terms with the unfamiliar language, laws, and cultural expectations of the modern State of Israel. The frustrations even verge on trauma during the tempestuous events of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, in which many of Roe's new Israeli neighbors and friends lost sons, husbands and fathers. Still, Roe firmly stood by his decision of living in the land of his ancestors.

As an award-winning producer of film and video documentaries that have appeared on PBS, ABC, A&E and overseas, Roe met and filmed Israel's top leaders of the last generation, such as Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, Teddy Kollek and others. Roe's memoir takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of emotions through anecdotes that are terribly funny and others that can break your heart. The reader shares the family problems of uprooting childlren from family, friends and their very roots. At the same time the reader will gain new insights into the political issues of Israel's efforts to survive as a Jewish state 'midst the anarchy of a hostile Middle East.

"This disarmingly honest account of one improbable journey will attract readers of widely diverse backgrounds". Bryce Christensen, American Library Association