Shazar visits the Frierdiker Rebbe, who asks his assistance in creating a village in Israel to be comprised of Lubavitchers (most of them Holocaust survivors and immigrants from the Soviet Union). The village, established in 1949, is named Kfar Chabad and is one of the first villages established in the new state. Shazar is pleased to help, though he is taken aback by the request; the opposition of the Frierdiker Rebbe and the even more intense opposition of his father to Zionism was well known to him.
