Aliyah To Israel
He immigrated to the Holy Land in the early 1900s and lived in Meron, Safed, and Tiberias. Halpern lost his entire family in a plague in Tiberias, where he is also buried.
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.