Open the gates!

Originally published in 1975 with a forward by Golda Meir. Published in the U.S. by Atheneum and in the UK by Weidenfeld &​ Nicolson. Ehud Avriel was an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1955 and 1957. Born in Vienna, Avriel worked with Youth Aliyah, a Jewish organization that rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis during the Third Reich in occupied Vienna. Youth Aliyah arranged for their resettlement in Palestine in kibbutzim and youth villages that became both home and school. In 1940, Avriel migrated from Vienna to Palestine.