Al-Ludd, 1948-2014-...
That brutal, hopeless and never-ending history probably started in a small Palestinian town 15 kilometers southeast of Tel Aviv. Arabs call it al-Ludd (). The Jews now call it by its Biblical name Lod. It used to be known as Lydda.
Before the turmoil of World War II, Arabs lived side by side there with the Jews who had started arriving in 1913. On the slopes, a Jewish immigrant established an olive-oil soap factory; another founded an orphanage for forced exiles from Eastern Europe.
August 12, 2014
That brutal, hopeless and never-ending history probably started in a small Palestinian town 15 kilometers southeast of Tel Aviv. Arabs call it al-Ludd (). The Jews now call it by its Biblical name Lod. It used to be known as Lydda.
Before the turmoil of World War II, Arabs lived side by side there with the Jews who had started arriving in 1913. On the slopes, a Jewish immigrant established an olive-oil soap factory; another founded an orphanage fo
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