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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Israel has a new museum dedicated to Allied Jewish soldiers—but not a lot of Canadians
Description: Tonight begins Yom ha-Zikaron, Israel's Remembrance Day, in honour of the soldiers and underground fighters who have died helping to create and defend the State of Israel. But ask Zvi Kan-Tor, a retired Israeli general, and he'll tell you it's time his country broadened their remembrance to include the 1.5 million Jewish Allied soldiers who fought in the Second World War.
Kan-Tor has spent decades trying to fix this problem by creating a museum dedicated to that group of Diaspora fighters, which included 17,000 Canadians, as well as 35,000 soldiers from British Palestine that joined the British army. Now, after 20...