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2 unusual facts about Israel Dov Frumkin


Israel Dov Frumkin

Gad Frumkin's grandson—and thus Israel Dov Frumkin's great-grandson—is Karmi Gilon, who was head of the Shabak (Israeli security service).

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In 1883, for reflecting upon Gen. Lew Wallace, the American Minister to the Ottoman Empire, in an editorial in Havatzelet (xiii. No. 6), headed "An American and yet a Despot", the Havatzelet was suspended, and Frumkin was imprisoned for forty-five days, by order from Constantinople directed to the pasha of Jerusalem.



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