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Was the spy ring avenged?(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)
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The Washington Times
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June 19, 2005
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2005 The Washington Times LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Carol Herman, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Almost 60 years before Hillel Halkin moved from the United States to Zichron Ya"akov in Israel in 1970,
the idyllic Mediterranean town was in its heyday. Funded by the largesse of Edmond de Rothschild and fueled by his utopian plans, prosperity came early to what Mr. Halkin wryly calls the "little outpost of Frenchdom in the Levant" - but not without hardship.
As a European sponsored Jewish settlement in Ottoman Palestine, "one of the first Jewish farming colonies established [there] toward the end of the nineteenth century," many of the colonists were suddenly thrust into roles they were ill-equipped to manage. Some had ...
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