Archbishop Makarios was presumed dead, but Mr. Gurdus overheard his appeals for assistance from a makeshift transmitter and alerted the British authorities, who rescued him. “Anyone.”Mr. Gurdus, perpetually sporting earphones and often sifting gibberish and static, listened in on a litany of, well, signal events. I sat here shaking.”Michael Gurdus (who was known as Mickey or Micki) was born on Nov. 9, 1944, in Tel Aviv. Nathan Gurdus and his wife, Irene, fled Warsaw as the Nazis invaded in 1939 and settled in Israel, where he joined the Irgun, the militant Zionist group. “He was my teacher.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Gurdus later studied Orientalism and political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Source: New York Times December 08, 2017 21:56 UTC