Inside Jerusalem’s 1948 siege through the eyes of a child who survived the Old City’s fall

Strolling through the halls of Jerusalem’s Beit Tovei Ha’ir assisted-living facility on a recent morning, I felt myself being suddenly transported from the comfortable chairs of the bright, spacious lobby and taken to a darker, more difficult time – April of 1948, when the Old City of Jerusalem was under siege by th…

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