What Love Can Do
Rav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman reflects on half a century of miracles in this turned-around development town  Photos: Menachem Kalish, ArtScroll Whatever you’ve heard about Israeli development towns is probably unpleasant. Thrown together with no foresight to house teeming groups of Jewish refugees from Arab lands, these 1950s-era outgrowths of the ma’abarot featured Second World construction, inadequate utilities, few services, no amenities, and little prospect for escape. Unemployed men loitered in town squares, and the musty, dusty streets were too dangerous to walk at night. Migdal Haâ...