Editing Jacobo Timerman (section)

==Early life==
Timerman was born in [[Bar, Ukraine]], to Jewish parents Eve Berman and Nathan Timerman.<ref name="dia"/><ref>Penny Lernoux, "Israeli Arms Sales Imperil Vital Latin Friendships", in Israel Shahak, ''Israel's Global Role: Weapons for Repression'' (Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1981), p. 53</ref> To escape the [[Antisemitism in Ukraine|persecution]] of Jews and [[pogroms]] there, the family emigrated to Argentina in 1928, when he was five years old and his brother Joseph was seven. The family lived in the Jewish area of [[Buenos Aires]], restricted by their poverty to occupying a single room.<ref name="Curtiss">[[Richard H. Curtiss]], "[http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/199-washington-report-archives-2000-2005/january-february-2000/3117-in-memoriam-jacobo-timerman-1923-1999.html In Memoriam: Jacobo Timerman, 1923–1999]", ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'' XIX (1), February 2000, p. 59.</ref><ref name=Ivins>[[Molly Ivins]], "[http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/molly-ivins-november-14-1999-11-14.html One of the great heroes is gone] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516200958/http://www.creators.com/opinion/molly-ivins/molly-ivins-november-14-1999-11-14.html |date=16 May 2008 }}", ''Creators Syndicate'', 14 November 1999.</ref> Timerman took a job at age 12 after the death of his father.<ref name=Curtiss/> While young, Timerman lost an eye due to infection.<ref name=Diuguid />

Timerman became a [[Zionist]] as a young man. He met his future wife, Risha Mindlin,<ref name="indobit">[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-jacobo-timerman-1125585.html Obituary: "Jacobo Timerman"], ''The Independent''</ref> at a Zionist conference in [[Mendoza, Argentina|Mendoza]]. (Her surname has also been reported as Midlin.)<ref name=Curtiss /><ref name=Forward /> They married on 20 May 1950 in a simple ceremony at the Mindlin house.<ref name="MOCHKOFSKY2013">{{cite book|author=Garciela Mochkofsky|title=TIMERMAN|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sj4LeJuW3gUC&pg=PA1942|access-date=23 June 2013|date=27 February 2013|publisher=Sudamericana|isbn=978-950-07-4005-0|page=1942}}</ref>