Four members of Kfar Ruppin, a Beisan Valley settlement that was an almost constant target of guerrilla attacks from 1967 until the Mideast cease-fire last August, will tour nine American cities on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, the UJA announced today. They will be in the U.S. for two weeks and will visit Newark (N.J.), Pittsburgh, Columbus, Los Angeles. San Francisco, San Jose (Calif). Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland. The group includes 18-year-old Rachel Korati and 16-year-old Uri Pesachoff, both born in Kfar Ruppin; Rachel’s mother, Anina, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1921 and settled in Palestine in 1939; and Jacob Noy, Kfar Ruppin’s security officer for the past seven years. Noy, whose nickname is “Czech,” was born in Czechoslovakia 50 years ago and went to Palestine with the Youth Aliyah movement in 1939. All four speak fluent English. They are representative of two generations of Israelis living in frontier settlements, the UJA pointed out.
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