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AuthorAsher Lubotzky

PhD Candidate, History, Indiana University. Asher Lubotzky is a doctoral candidate for in the Department of History at Indiana University. His research focus is settler colonialism, apartheid, and decolonization in Southern Africa, as well as Africa-Israel relations, past and present. His Ph.D. dissertation explores the complex early relationship between the State of Israel and Southern Africa (1948-1976) as well as the different interpretations of Zionism among South Africans. He has also written about the Herero and Nama Genocide (1904-1907) in German Southwest Africa (Namibia). Asher is the recipient of the Gerda Henkel PhD Scholarship for 2021-2023. He has an MA in History from Bar Ilan University and a BA in Middle Eastern History and Philosophy from the University of Haifa.
Gan Siyabonga - artist impression. JNF.

South Africa and Israel: new memorial park in the Jewish state highlights complex history

by Asher Lubotzky Feb 24, 2023Feb 23, 2023

Israeli officials and Jewish South African activists inaugurated a memorial park in Tel Mond, a city north of Tel Aviv, in November 2022. Gan Siyabonga (We Thank You Garden) commemorates several dozen Jewish South African anti-apartheid activists who had personal connections to Israel.

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