Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1163/9789004434530_012
S. Jalagin
In November 1947, the United Nations’ decision to accept the partition of Palestine reached Jerusalem, where Finnish missionaries for the Jews also rejoiced, together with their local co-workers, children at the mission school and their Jewish neighbours. “The partition did not fulfil all hopes”, wrote Aili Havas, the leader of the mission, in her annual report and later in her memoir that was published in 1958. She also described the antagonism that followed:
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