Today, one of Israel’s national treasures turns ninety.

Gidon Lev was born on March 3rd, 1935 in Karlovy Vary in former Czechoslovakia. His family fled to Prague in 1938 after the Munich Agreement ceded the Sudeten to Hitler. In 1941, Gidon and his family were sent to Theresienstadt.  In Canada, Gidon became involved with HaShomer Hatzair and came to Israel in 1959, first to Kibbutz Hazorea, then later to Kibbutz Zikim. He has written much about his experiences, first in

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