Meet one Jewish man.

His name was Avraham Horovitz. He was born in 1901 in Jerusalem.

The Ottomans were refusing land sales and citizenship to Jews.

His stateless parents both died in a Cholera epidemic and he was an orphan by 1904.
It seems things only got worse for Avraham. He left the orphanage when about 13 and followed some of his extended family to Tel Aviv. He was soon expelled by the Ottomans and he followed his family members to Egypt.
The Egyptians did not give him citizenship either. All because he was a Jew. Almost all Egyptian Jews were denied citizenship.
But Avraham had a sharp mind and despite his stateless position, he built a successful business in Alexandria.
Then in 1956 the Egyptians arrested him because he was Jewish and considered a threat. They stole his business, his property and threw him, his wife and 2 children out of the country.

This stateless Jew was now a twice expelled man

They were sent as refugees to France.
In France Avraham and his family were sent to a refugee camp. He was now 56 years old - had been expelled from his home twice - and had never held a citizenship of his own.

That all changed in 1957. He headed to Israel.
Upon his arrival in Israel Avraham tried to follow his roots. He couldn't visit the graves of his parents because it was then on land occupied by Jordan.

When the land was recaptured by Israel in 1967 - it was found his parents graves had been desecrated and could not be found.
But that aside - Avraham for the first time in his life had citizenship.
He had a state and a home.

He was protected as a Jew and was surrounded by an army that would not let anyone expel him, massacre his family, render him stateless or desecrate family graves.
Israel is of vital importance and a matter of survival for Jews wherever they may be.

Don't let anyone tell you differently.

Avraham Horovitz was my wife's grandfather.

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#thelifeofajew
#jewswithoutisrael
#Israel #zionism

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