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A heartwarming story emerged from Israel this week after a brother and sister separated by the Holocaust were reunited. Binyamin Shilon and Shoshana November had last seen one another before the outbreak of World War II, during which he joined the Red Army to fight Hitler and she  was sucked into the chain of concentration camps established by Der Fuehrer. He assumed that she, like something in the order of 6 million other European Jews, had perished as part of the Nazis’ “Final Solution.” Now, having been living just 90 minutes apart, the siblings have been brought together at last, and the Israeli media is justifiably entranced.

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