Jews have lived in the area since ancient times, and leaders from Catherine the Great to Stalin encouraged their settlement there
A discussion with historian Derek Penslar about why their valor has been forgotten, even though it made the Jewish state possible
For kids growing up in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, before cable TV and video games, summer meant apricots and the apricot-pit game called gogoim, mindless child’s play with political overtones