ISRAEL: Son of Goodness

One day last summer Meyer Tobiansky went from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to visit his brother. When he did not come back, his wife Lena went to the headquarters of the Haganah, in which her husband held a high post. "I asked everyone where Mischa was," she recalls. "Most of them wouldn't talk to me. They shut their doors in my face."

Then Lena heard a report that Meyer had been executed as a spy by his own Haganah, the well-disciplined Jewish army; she could not believe that. Meyer was a Zionist pioneer...

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