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On January 15th, 1958, Dr. Rudolf Israel Kastner, a Zionist activist and grandfather to current MK Merav Michaeli, was posthumously exonerated from all charges connecting him to the Nazi regime in Hungary. Dr. Kastner was born in the border town of Cluj-Napoca in modern-day Romania to a Jewish-Hungarian family. Being extremely educated and fluent in 8 separate languages, Kastner would grow up to become a leading figure in the Hungarian Zionist movement well into WWII.
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