TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Lazar Berman
January 15, 2015

Calling it their “answer to Hitler,” an Israeli couple who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, reached an emotional milestone as they welcomed their 100th great-grandchild to the world. Michael and Marion Mittwoch, who were among the founders of Kibbutz Lavi in the lower Galilee, were both born in Germany, and fled separately to England after the Nazis came to power. Their latest great-grandson was named Dagan Raz during his circumcision ceremony this week, after Captain Dagan Wertman, who fell in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Wertman was in officers’ school with the baby’s father Gadi, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. READ MORE