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Amit Naor
Amit Naor, an avid history fan, and Israeli history in particular. Likes practically anything about pop culture, sports and politics. Married to Ma’ayan, father to Itamar and the one who keeps Juno the cat from starving.
Land of Israel
Is it possible that the unicorn, that graceful and noble mythological creature, in fact originates from the Land of Israel?
Diaspora
In May of 1933, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, organized the burning of thousands of books in Berlin. Two scorched pages survived the burning and made their way to the National Library in Jerusalem.
For two and a half years, the weekly magazine “Yiddishe Bilder” aimed to become a Jewish version of Life magazine. The fall of 1939 was marked by both the Jewish holiday season and the guns of war…
Ulrich Schnaft was a former member of the SS, who posed as a Jew and joined the Israeli army after WWII
How Israel’s declaration of independence shaped the fate of 69 Jews on an American passenger ship
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