Jerry Cantor was born in Boston, USA. He served in the US Navy during World War II. Has been a member of Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek since1951 He has worked as a dairyman, a shepherd and factory worker. He was for many years publication manager for large hightech firms in the defense industry and later founded the translation branch of the kibbutz. The stories in this book, The Magic of Moonlight, describe the lives of complex and simple people who devoted their lives to building a new world. Despite the strict ideology they followed, each of them has met and dealt with his very human problems in his own unique way.