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Growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa, Rachmiel, 22, always had a very strong sense of his Jewish identity. "Religion and Zionism were a very important part of my youth," he says. He attended Jewish day schools and his community went to great lengths to raise money for Israel.
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Despite a lifetime fraught with unimaginable hardship and loss, Mazel, 25, is an incredibly strong and inspirational young woman. She was born in Ethiopia and was raised by her grandmother after her mother died and her father abandoned her.
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Naomi, 50, lives in Israel and is a single mother to a teenage daughter, Efrat. Naomi cannot remember a day in her life when she was not sick. Suffering from diabetes, since the age of seven she has been on numerous medications that have taken a toll on her body.
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Shlomo, an Ethiopian Jew, had lived happily in Israel for eight years when a fire nearly claimed the lives of him and his family. They were grateful to be alive, but all their home and all their possessions were destroyed. It was a devastating blow but Shlomo never lost his faith in God and the power of prayer.
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For nearly 40 years, Ovadiah, a member of one of Israel's "lost tribes" living in India, dreamed of coming to Israel, his biblical homeland. Many would have given up hope of returning home. But Ovadiah prayed with full trust in God, and his dream of making aliyah (immigrating) from India to Israel was fulfilled.
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