“This is a great day for me. I was not privileged to experience a bar mitzvah. Rather, I experienced continuous escape during the Second World War, with severe hunger. My family was murdered before my eyes.
Celebrating my bar mitzvah brings me serenity. And today I return to being a 13-year-old boy.”
So said Avraham Alstar, 83-years old, who celebrated – along with 9 other Holocaust survivors – a moving bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.
Foreign Minister of North Macedonia: “The significance of Jerusalem for world civilization is of immense importance”
During his first official visit to Israel since taking office, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of North Macedonia, Mr. Timčo Mucunski, arrived
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