He was following what he considered his duty. He died in 2011. Michael of Romania died last month. He was roughly a generation older than Leka, born in 1921. His birthplace was Peles Castle ...

BUCHAREST (JTA) — When Michael Shafir moved to Israel from his native Romania as a teenager in the 1960s, it wasn’t because the Jewish teen was burning with Zionist fervor. Instead ...