Israel was hailed as a global model for its handling of the pandemic, and Israelis were justifiably proud of the country’s effective response. And then everything changed.
In 1987, on the eve of a summit between President Ronald Reagan and Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, 250,000 people marched on Washington in solidarity with Soviet Jewry.
At Meir Shfeyah, Na’ale program participants, students recruited from the former Soviet Union, stayed on campus because there was no way for them to join their families overseas.