  I met Peter J. Bickel for the first time in 1981. He came to Jerusalem for a
year; I had just started working on my Ph.D. studies. Yossi Yahav, who was my
advisor at this time, busy as the Dean of Social Sciences, brought us together.
Peter became my chief thesis advisor. A year and a half later I came to
Berkeley as a post-doc. Since then we have continued to work together. Peter
was first my advisor, then a teacher, and now he is also a friend. It is
appropriate that this interview took place in two cities. We spoke together
first in Jerusalem, at Mishkenot Shaananim and the Center for Research of
Rationality, and then at the University of California at Berkeley. These
conversations were not formal interviews, but just questions that prompted
Peter to tell his story.
