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Amit Naor

Aug 1, 2022, 4:48 PM

Donating pocket money for Jewish refugees in Cyprus

Children donate clothing for Jewish refugees in Cyprus, 1948. Photo: Benno Rothenberg, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel

In 1947, Britain still held Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. Here's how the children of the Yishuv helped

Apr 14, 2021, 7:49 PM

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Israel’s first Independence Day and the parade that didn’t march

Photo by Beno Rothenberg, the Meitar Collection, the National Library of Israel

In 1949, organizational blunders led to the debacle of an army that managed to conquer everything...except the streets of Tel Aviv

Dec 2, 2020, 1:35 PM

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Hannah Senesh’s last note

From the Hannah Senesh Collection, at the National Library of Israel.

The parachuting hero was always writing, even after embarking on the mission from which she never returned, even until her final moments in her prison cell

About Me

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.