Although he was only a toddler when Israel became a state in 1948, Valley resident Jacob Zilber learned about the country’s formative days at an early age.
Zilber, who moved to Arizona three years ago, said he was raised with the stories about what happened during Israel’s war of independence, as well as what led up to it.
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