Bet Shemesh outdoes Sallah Shabbati

oops. This reminds me, sort of, of the old Israeli movie Sallah Shabbati, but worse because they weren't just changing the JNF donor sign, as they did in the movie, but razed the entire forest to build a neighborhood. They have outdone Sallah Shabbati. Reality is often stranger than fiction.

to excerpt from Shemesh Online:

Chiune Sugihara, known as the “Japanese Schindler,” was Japan’s consul-general in Kovno, Lithuania, during World War II. Despite his government’s orders to the contrary, Sugihara signed over a thousand transit visas to Japan for the Jewish refugees ...