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Articles
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ISRAEL UPPING ITS PACE
The Jewish state’s cycling team, ‘Israel-Premier Tech’ soars at the Tour de France
By David E. Kaplan
In only the country’s third appearance in the most prestigious cycling race in the world, Israel at the 2022 Tour de France took two nail-biting stages. A world force-fed on a daily diet of negative coverage of the Jewish state, this 109th Tour offered over a billion TV viewers a refreshing re-imaging of ISRAEL for 21 days on the saddle.
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A DREAM OF ZION
The Story of Ethiopian Jewry
By Rolene Marks
Israel is the only country in the world that has extracted a people of Africa en mass to save rather than enslave. The story of Israel’s Ethiopian community is one of unimaginable hardship and loss, but it is also one of a remarkable homecoming after 2000 years of exile.
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PAST AND PRESENT MIX AT THE LOWEST POINT ON EARTH
The highs and lows of Israel’s Dead Sea
By Motti Verses
This Communication Executive revisits his past when as a child and later as a student in Jerusalem, he would frequently visit the popular places around the Dead Sea. Time has not stood still. What remains and what has changed makes for intriguing reading as the writer ‘floats’ on a high…. or is it a low?
PAST AND PRESENT MIX AT THE LOWEST POINT ON EARTH
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