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Fragile yet caring

PIONEER POET

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Movers and Shakers The cemetery by Kinneret Village, on the Sea of Galilee, is one of Israel’s loveliest historic sites. The peaks of the Golan Heights twinkle on the horizon, seemingly just beyond reach. Among...
Joseph Lishansky

Guard Down

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Guard Down Unnlike most of Nili’s rank and file, Joseph Lishansky had a foot in both Labor Zionism and the bourgeois homesteaders’ camp. Born in 1890, Lishansky came to the Holy Land with his father...
Two-way track. Via the HMS Monegam

Return of the Spies

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It's Complicated One of the most famous and heroic Jewish contributions to World War I is that of Nili (a Hebrew acronym meaning “Israel’s Glory Does Not Lie”), the spy ring that informed the British...
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