Editor’s note
Editor’s note: This page has been removed from our website because it did not meet our editorial standards. Published on April 25, 2023 for the 75th anniversary of Israel, it was a graphic-novel style piece combining drawings and descriptions of many of the modern state’s founders.
We discovered after publication that virtually all of the written material had previously appeared in other places. The main sources appear to have been Honest Reporting, Facts for Kids, Wikipedia and the Jewish Women’s Archive.
Following journalistic best practices, the Forward has a policy not to remove pages from our website. But we made an exception in this case because the nature of the piece and the volume of the uncredited material made it impossible to properly correct the record with integrity. We regret having published it.
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