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Open the gates!

A personal account of the remarkable story of the Mossad - a small but intensely dedicated clandestine organization of Palestinian Jews that, for ten years, from 1938 to 1948, rivaled the accomplishments of all the powers of the day in rescuing Jews from Europe-told by one of its central leaders.

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Preface by Golda Meir

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 370 pages

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