Two cousins separated during the Holocaust will reunite in Israel this week. Ruth Alon, who lives on a kibbutz, is slated to meet Friday in Jerusalem with Angela Poeller, a Chicago resident who arrived in Israel this week on a United Jewish Communities mission.
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