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Rav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman reflects on half a century of miracles in this turned-around development town
Photos: Menachem Kalish, ArtScroll Whatever you’ve heard about Israeli development towns is probably unpleasant. Thrown together with no foresight to house teeming groups of Jewish refugees from Arab lands, these 1950s-era outgrowths of the ma’abarot featured Second World construction, inadequate utilities, few services, no amenities, and little prospect for escape. Unemployed men loitered in town squares, and the musty, dusty streets were too dangerous to walk at night. Migdal Ha’emek, in the center of the Lower Galilee, was probably the most notorious of these towns, the poster child of the gritty immigrant cities in the 1950s and ’60s. ....
0 shares The Shin Bet security service will stop its using its controversial phone surveillance measures to help track down potential coronavirus carriers from January 20, according to the Kan public broadcaster. The agency will continue to use the measure on those who refuse to cooperate with contact tracing efforts, the report says. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it s full of beauty and meaning. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out, to capture the complexity of this extraordinary place. ....