{"id":146808,"date":"2025-11-22T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146808\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:38:11","slug":"an-israeli-community-thrives-at-the-foot-of-the-italian-alps-but-not-all-is-perfect-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146808\/","title":{"rendered":"An Israeli Community Thrives at the Foot of the Italian Alps. But Not All Is Perfect in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR dUvWpK hRLVFh idISHb\">Seventy-seven year-old Dina Cohen is one of the pioneers of this Israeli community in the Sesia Valley, aka Valsesia, in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. &#8220;When I arrived there were barely 20 people here,&#8221; she says. But Cohen is also a pioneer in other ways. Having been born four days after Israel came into being in May 1948 (&#8220;When Ben-Gurion was declaring the state, my mother was already in the hospital, waiting to give birth&#8221;), and after growing up on a kibbutz and raising a family in Jerusalem \u2013 Cohen&#8217;s life is suffused with much of the formative ethos of Zionism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventy-seven year-old Dina Cohen is one of the pioneers of this Israeli community in the Sesia Valley, aka&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89735,85,46,23201,43,3215],"class_list":["post-146808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-europe-jews","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jewish-diaspora","tag-news","tag-october-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}