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‘Operation Wedding’(12:30)
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Yosef Mendelevitch.
VOI's Judy Lash Balint describes the moving atmosphere at a unique marriage ceremony held in the hills overlooking Jericho.
Forty-five years ago in the former Soviet Union, Yosef Mendelevitch and a group of renegade Jewish activists hatched a plan: take over a plane, fly it across the border and publicize the plight of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Code named “Operation Wedding,” it resulted in the capture of the young Jews by the KGB and subsequent 11-year imprisonment. Last week, Mendelevich launched a second “Operation Wedding” — the marriage of one of his seven children.
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