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Articles
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Distorting the Truth
Struggling to face its country’s complicity in Shoah, Lithuanian leader ‘Blames the Jews’!
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
The Nazis and local collaborators killed over 90 percent of Lithuania’s pre-war Jewish population of more than 200,000 yet on 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Lithuanian lawmaker, Valdas Rakutis, accuses its once Jewish community of alleged collaboration with Nazi and Soviet regimes.
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Helping Hand into the Arms of All
Tel Aviv rolls out COVID vaccines for illegal foreign nationals and asylum seekers
By David E. Kaplan
Despite not having inoculated half Israel’s population, Tel Aviv has started administering vaccines free of charge to the city’s foreign nationals, many of whom are undocumented asylum seekers. No borders or boundaries when it comes to a pandemic, Israel also sent vaccines to Ramallah for Palestinian healthcare workers.
Helping Hand into the Arms of All
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Aliyah on the Agenda?
Leaving South Africa for Israel
By Shelley Berman
What made the Bermans in Johannesburg who “had everything we needed” – close family, lovely home, good jobs, warm community and good friends, leave and resettle in Israel? In the first of a 2-part series, the writer recounts her journey from decision to “settling down” – adjusting to a new country and different culture.
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