Alex Kalantirsky “was in his 40s, married and with children,
when he was sent to Chernobyl to work on the construction of the sarcophagus.
“Did he know what was waiting for him there, and that his health
would be irreparably harmed? Absolutely. But at no point did he contemplate
evading this mission. ‘We knew that if the radiation continued to spread, not
only would Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Russia be hit, but all of Europe,
including the Mediterranean basin. That was all we were thinking about. We
hoped we would be able to neutralize that immense danger.'”
About 5,000 “Chernobyl liquidators” immigrated
to Israel at the start of the 1990s, and 1,500 of them still live there.
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