More in ‘Palmach’

Jewish folklore attributes a certain otherworldly aura to those who die on their birthdays, as if by entering and exiting the world on the same day one’s life acquires a hidden meaning or secret grace. Last Friday, on her 91st birthday, the Israeli author Naomi Frankel passed away. She was largely forgotten; few, if any, ...

Author Anita Diamant talked to CNN.com about her new novel, Day After Night, which tells the story of four women freed in 1945 from a detention camp in the town of Atlit, near Haifa, during British Mandate Palestine by members of the Palmach, the pre-state Jewish fighting force. While Diamant’s characters are fictional (they are ...