How it really was: Israel’s first government vs ‘Fiddler on the Roof‘
Jews were in the forefront of modernization.
‘Tevye the Dairyman’ played by Chaim Topol in the popular 1971 film, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, the minister of police, leaves Tel Mond Prison on November 2, 1949, before pardoning prisoners in a general amnesty(photo credit: HUGO MENDELSON/GPO)ByAVRAHAM AVI-HAIRead More