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This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.
KIKAR YONI, Yoni Square in Jerusalem, is named for the heroic Netanyahu brother who fell in the 1976 raid on Entebbe.

This week in Jewish history: Yoni and Entebbe raid, Law of Return passed

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
ALISA FLATOW washes chicken for Shabbat, in Israel, 1995.

Looking back on 30 years: Remembering Alisa Flatow, beloved daughter - opinion

Because Alisa was in the Land of Israel, studying the religion of Israel, and among the people of Israel when the end came, she was in the right place. 

|BySTEPHEN M. FLATOW
YIGAL ALLON served as foreign minister from 1974 to 1977. His premature death at age 61 ‘left so much undone,’ laments the writer.

The 45 years since Yigal Allon’s death - opinion

“Yigal left so much undone. But it is as if he made us, who worked closely with him, promise to go on struggling for the things he believed in," a eulogy wrote.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

This week in Jewish history: Birthday of Frank Gehry, Yahrzeit of Avraham Ibn Ezra

A highly abridged version of Dust & Stars.

MARCH 1, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
MONUMENT TO Shalom Aleichem in Bohuslav, Ukraine.

Rabbi Yeshayahu Pinto to his disciples: The grave of Rabbi David Levy zt”l works miracles

DECEMBER 2, 2024ByDAVID BERGER