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TIL that the co-owners of Macy’s, the Strauss brothers, visited Palestine in 1912. Isidor, decided to return to America after spending a week in Palestine. The other brother, Nathan, decided that there was more work to be done an stayed. Unfortunately, Isidor died traveling back on the Titanic

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