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The Oren Case:
A Fellow-Traveler Comes Home
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Kibbutz misra is one of the oldest collective settlements in the Jezreel valley, not a showplace perhaps, but a solid and neat little village. On the afternoon and evening of May 17, 1956, thousands of people in cars and trucks were streaming to Misra from all over Israel to take part in a great meeting. For a day or two, the small kibbutz had become the nerve center of the country. “Something had changed in us,” A. S’dan, one of the founders of the kibbutz, was quoted as saying by the next day’s Al Ha-mishmar. “All of a sudden, the skies had become bluer and the trees greener, the birds were singing with greater joy, and the members of Misra had grown younger.” But emotion was not confined to the speakers. “Tears were in the eyes of many members of the public,” Al Ha-mishmar reported. It was a great day in the history of Misra: the homecoming of Mordecai Oren after four and a half years in a Czechoslovak prison.
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