A recently arrived family of immigrants from the Soviet Union refused to accept an apartment in Acre, a city on Haifa Bay, because they were convinced it was outside Israel’s borders, Ma’ariv reported.
The family, from Donetsk, in the Ukraine, got their information from a 1947 atlas published by the Soviet government survey department. The map of Palestine showed it as it was partitioned by the United Nations into Jewish and Arab states on Nov. 29, 1947.
The partition was never implemented because Israel’s Arab neighbors attacked the Jewish state the day after it was founded on May 14, 1948.
Had it been, not only Acre but Nazareth, Nahariya and many other Israeli cities would have been outside its boundaries. The 43-year-old Soviet atlas identifies Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital.
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