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WWI Zionist spy rings's mystery pursued in new historical novel

Klung, Lisa Alcalay
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
04-18-2006
ZICHRON YA'ACOV, Israel, April 17 (JTA) -- When American-born Hillel Halkin
and his wife Marcia first visited the northern Israeli town of Zichron
Ya'acov in 1970, they discovered an unsolved mystery. The town is named for
Baron James de Rothschild, and its Jewish community dates to 1882. It ranks
among the earliest farming communities that Zionists established in the
Holy Land in the late 19th century.

Halkin stumbled in shortly after he immigrated to Israel. A New Yorker
raised on Zionist ideals, Halkin and his wife were driving from their home
in Jerusalem to Haifa to visit friends when a spontaneous decision to turn
off the main road and ...

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