tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476955.post2463533789882923407..comments2024-03-27T16:29:33.089+02:00Comments on A Jewish Grandmother : Hard to Recognize Our First Home in Israel, So Changed!Batyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8476955.post-4770021725624055992016-07-11T07:35:06.656+03:002016-07-11T07:35:06.656+03:00The Betar Students' Hostel that opened in 1970...The Betar Students' Hostel that opened in 1970 was in the same building, owned previously by the Kukiya Family, who were all intermarried with the Valeros and Eliyashars, that contined for about a year between 1937-1938 the Plugat HaKotel unit of Betar. About two dozen Betarim lived there and besides working, guarded Jews who went to pray at the Kotel during the those years of Arab terror. <br /><br />See page 693 here http://www.kotar.co.il/KotarApp/Viewer.aspx?nBookID=92730451&nTocEntryID=92739620#209.6078.6.default<br /><br />On the Friday night of October 29, 1937, Arabs ambushed Jews returning from the Kotel, killing one local resident, Aharon Alkabetz, who used to join the walk and seriously injured two Betarim, one the father of Tel Aviv University's Professor Itamar Rabinowitz.YMedadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14333122797414935958noreply@blogger.com