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Joe Woolf, part of the Machel foreign-fighters unit during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. Credit; Courtesy of the Woolf family.

Joe Woolf, 94, helped connect fellow veterans of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence

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Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, died on Feb. 28 at...
Harold “Smoky” Simon displaying his Nefesh B’Nefesh’s Sylvan Adams Bonei Zion Lifetime Achievement Award on Sept. 24, 2019. Source: Nefesh B'Nefesh via Facebook.

Saluting one of the last living heroes of Israel’s fight for independence

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Nothing really prepares you for the Smoky smile and the twinkle in an eye undimmed by nearly a century on earth. And when Harold “Smoky” Simon grins at you, it’s hard to remember that, at...