By Leah Garber Ninety-three years ago this month, the fifth wave of immigration to Israel began. The immigrants, mostly from Asia and Europe, fled their homelands, including Germany, in part, because of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in that country. During the horrors of Nazi rule, some 250,000 Jews fled with their lives, but many others did not—either because they couldn’t or because they didn’t believe the Nazi propaganda overtaking the country. Even before it was declared a sovereign state, the land of our Hebrew ancestors was a haven for the world’s Jews, although during the three-decades-long...