In May 1967, as part of Expo ’67, Canada’s Jewish community proudly opened a Pavilion of Judaism that deliberately contained no mention of Zionism or Israel. The pavilion’s planners had taken pains to ensure no overlap with the official Israeli pavilion, which represented the young state as the “rebirth of a nation which, after 1900 years of…
Shira Herzog
Shira Herzog is a regular contributor on Israeli affairs to The Globe and Mail. Her father, Yaacov Herzog, was Israel’s ambassador to Canada from 1960 to 1963. She returned to Canada in 1974.