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Youth Aliyah

An early group of Youth Aliyah refugees arrive in Israel through the Port of Haifa. (Photo/Israel Government Press Office CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inIsrael at 70

Safe rooms and powdered eggs in the shadow of independence

Raphael Danziger by Raphael Danziger April 3, 2018April 4, 2018

My family’s history is intertwined with the traumas of 1930s German-Jewish history and Israel’s turbulent birth. My parents escaped Nazi Germany for British Mandatory Palestine before the Holocaust and lived through the […]

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