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Reuven Doron from scratch as government, parliament, Empire. Our family was a successful Jewish
democratic elections, healthcare, army, navy merchant family in Odessa, Ukraine, but
Everything in the modern State of and air force were built painstakingly and money proved very poor shelter from waves
Israel speaks of rebirth, renewal and sacrificially. Even the biblical currency, the of anti-Semitic pogroms and persecution
restoration. shekel, reappeared as part of the emerging, sweeping across Eastern Europe and
The people have been regathered robust and innovative Israeli economy. Russia.
from the four corners of the earth It seems the theme of new life is found
after an extended and painful diaspora everywhere and in every household in Israel. When the drunk mobs started banging
that threatened and stretched every on their doors, demanding that my great
fiber of Jewish existence to the limit. The My own grandfather arrived in Israel about grandfather send out his young daughters,
Hebrew language was brought back to 100 years ago, on foot, walking for nearly one they knew it was time to get out. And while
life in the streets and schools of the newly whole year as he fled the collapsing Russian some Jewish families headed to the New
born nation after centuries of neglect and
idleness. National institutions were recreated
Can these bones live?
Ezekiel 37:3 fulfilled in our day
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The Old City of Jaffa. Photos: Israel's Flickr photo stream
