His hobby of stamp collecting led him to an interest in the North and South Poles which he visited over the years. Amongst the places he visited are the island of Spitsbergen Norway, North Alaska, Finnish Lapland, North Greenland, Northern Canada. He even managed to land on the North Pole on Israel's 50th anniversary. He has also visited the Antarctic Peninsula. In parallel he amassed a library of books dealing with Pole Exploration and Expeditions that he donated to the Geography Department