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Miryam Zakheim
Content editor. Mother to Yishai, Avi and Ruthi. A reader, first of all, and only then a writer and editor.
Diaspora
In February 1943, the “Tehran Children” arrived in Israel. These child refugees from Poland were gathered in Iran from where they were sent via a circuitous route to Mandatory Palestine in one of WWII’s most comprehensive and successful rescue operations. Documents and photos in the Ein Harod Archive offer an intimate glimpse into the complex absorption process and heart-wrenching personal stories
One rainy December evening, Agatha Christie left her house and never returned. The disappearance of the bestselling mystery writer shocked the British nation, including Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who took a surprising part in the unprecedented search mission…
Land of Israel
Although Avshalom Feinberg was only 27 years old when he died, he knew a true love or two… or five. Meet the many contenders for the title – “recipient of the most romantic love letter in the Hebrew language”
The story of how a fighter in the Palmach, a Jewish underground organization from the pre-state era, managed to translate a popular children’s classic while incarcerated in Jerusalem’s central prison…
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