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Moses Lederman 

A 100-year-old Jewish man finally took the step to leave the country where he lived nearly his entire life and left it behind for Israel, according to press reports from Israel.

“I Want to take care of my daughter,” Moses Lederman told news reporters about why he has finally decided to immigrate to Israel with the help of the Jewish Agency at the ripe age of 100.

 

“I always wanted to live in Israel. I went there many times, but I was married to a Brazilian woman who did not like living in a place with a cold climate, so I never had the opportunity. In September 2010 my wife died and I finally decided to immigrate. I want to take care of my daughter and to be near my family,” he told news reporters.

 

Lederman, celebrated his 100th birthday recently. Lederman was in 1912, in Chelm, Poland. He is the


youngest son of Jacob and Leah Lederman, who also raised Fanny, Meir and Paula.

 

Moshe immigrated to Brazil in 1930, at the age of 18 and settled in Recife, where he already had family and where a small community of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Russia, Romania and Serbia resided.

In 1942 he married Miriam Alkalai, a Brazilian native, who was from a Sephardic Jewish family. Together they had three children, George, Eliezer and Leah, with Eliezer and Leah now living in Israel. Lederman has seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.


 

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