Building Israel
I don’t know if Alex Goldberg (letter, Feb. 23) is correct when he says that “there would be no Jewish religion and/or group of Jews if throughout the last 2,000 years there were not a substantial number of Orthodox Jews.”
But I do know, because I was there, that there would not be an Israel today had it not been for all the young, left-wing, secular Jews who went to Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and beyond, who settled the land, fought the Arabs and the British throughout the mandate, then fought the five invading Arab armies and who built the infrastructure for the state to be. Without their incredible contributions, there would be no Israel for the Orthodox to live in today.
ADAR BELINKOFF
Claremont
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