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Last week we were honored to host three teachers from the “Torah VeChinuch” Jewish school in the island of Djerba, Tunisia. Visits from Tunisia are quite scarce, especially since 2012, when the relationship between Israel and Tunisia deteriorated following the events of the “Arab Spring” in several countries. Sarit Hadad, Anael Hadad and Batia Ahuh are teachers in “Torah VeChinuch”, the only Jewish school in Djerba, in which a thousand Jews are living in one large Jewish quarter. All three went to this school as children. They came to visit Israel and Beit Hatfutsot due to the efforts of Miriam Kedoshim[�]

On June 16, 2017, the documentary film Remembering Dr Melville Edelstein – the life & death of a Good Man was screened at Beit Hatfutsot, to mark the 41st anniversary to the uprising in Soweto, South Africa, a defining event that began the demise of the Apartheid regime in that country. Dr. Edelstein was an unsung hero who fought the injustice in his homeland, in his constructive, quiet way, as a social worker in Soweto.  Dr. Edelstein was the grandfather of Sarah Rosenthal who won an award in 2016  for her My Family Story project, “Jacket of Hope”. Shana Rosenthal, Sarah’s mother,[�]