Word: holocaustal
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...born in Ramat Gan in 1967—the year of a major Middle East war in which Israel conquered and occupied the Palestinian territories—to two Holocaust survivors who instilled in him and his two siblings “ambition, but not for anything in particular.” The result is that Keret has an ultra-orthodox sister who lives in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim with nine children and a brother who is the head of Israel’s marijuana legalization movement...
...government, too, takes commissions. When survivors or their descendants locate properties bought before the Holocaust in what was then Palestine, the government charges them a 5% "administration fee" for managing these abandoned assets through the years. Yet officials acknowledge they never looked for heirs to the property, which is now worth $35 million. Aharon Shindler heads the Ministry of Justice department newly charged with sifting through abandoned properties and bank accounts to find which owners may have died in the Holocaust. Shindler's list will be expected to be completed in the spring. A new squad of investigators being hired...
Psychiatrists like Barak had to fight more than just a bad diagnosis made decades ago. They were up against a Zionist ideology that saw Holocaust victims as weaklings who had gone "like sheep to the slaughter" - unlike the strong "new Jew" Israel's founders hoped to create. Holocaust survivors were treated with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived...
Ministry officials say it looked bad for Israel to do so little to investigate Holocaust funds at a time when Swiss banks are under pressure from Jewish groups to unearth dormant accounts. A recent book by Bar-Ilan University professor Yossi Katz asserts that institutions like the Jewish National Fund, which was set up to purchase land for Jews in what was then Palestine, and Bank Leumi, one of Israel's biggest banks, failed to examine land records and abandoned accounts for Holocaust money. Last April, a Knesset committee finally pushed Israel's banks to audit these accounts...
...survivors get older, it's not just the long-term mentally ill who suffer. At Abarbanel, 70 Holocaust survivors with no history of psychological disorder were brought in last year, mostly for depression. New research by Abarbanel psychiatrists finds that Holocaust survivors are 40% more likely to commit suicide than other old people. Though 1,200 survivors die in Israel each year, the Finance Ministry estimates it will still be making payments to the rest for another 30 years. The final chapter will be long, but perhaps easier than those that went before. At least some of the survivors with...