An Israeli daughter’s plea: Don’t forget my father and other hostages
Seventy-nine-year-old Chaim Peri epitomizes secular, progressive Israel. He was born in British-ruled Palestine to Zionist parents from Poland who left Europe in the early 1930s but whose extended family remained behind and was mostly wiped out in the Holocaust.
He is an activist for Israeli-Palestinian peace, the sort of person who, in recent years, volunteered to drive chronically ill patients from Gaza to specialized care in Israeli hospitals. In March, he wrote a blog post praising Jewish and Arab Israeli students who, together, shipped earthquake relief to Turkey.
And Peri was an esteemed leader of his community, Kibbutz Nir Oz — Hebrew for “meadow of strength” — when, on Oct.… Seguir leyendo »