This month is the anniversary of the kidnapping of sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz in Jerusalem in May 1947. While the story of Rubowitz should be a well-known one, it is one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the British Mandate era in Israel, the truth is that far too few have ever come across the story.
Stories of Immigration and Absorption Part 1
Translated by Peloni
Part 2 can be found HERE
I come from a family of immigrants, half of them illegal immigrants for they broke the British Mandate over Palestine: My mother arrived through the illegal “Aliyah Bet” immigration from Europe, from the DP (Displaced Persons) Camps after the Second World War. My father arrived to the State of Israel exactly two years after Israel’s rebirth.
My father’s father fought the Nazis in General Anders’ Polish Army, and at the end of the war found himself in Italy, from where he joined his brother in New York. The two brothers lived in Manhattan, one with his wife in Upper East Side and the other with his second wife (the first was murdered during the Holocaust) in Upper West Side, this until the end of their lives.







US Ambassador Mike Huckabee meets with Rabbi Dov Landau. Screenshot via Youtube
President Trump upon landing in China. Screenshot via Youtube
