Nes Harim is normally a place where youth groups and others come for a day or two to hike and enjoy the nature. But over the last few weeks, it has become home for about 150 Jewish refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. Many of them are children who came without parents.
They fled a war zone with little more than the clothes on their backs. Less than two weeks later, they were greeted on the tarmac by the prime minister of Israel. The two events bookended an escape that took a group of 100 Jewish children from the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir across the Carpathian Mountains…