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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 27 – 30 January 2025
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Lay of the Land’s ‘Pick of the Week’ photo
FROM HELL TO HOME
A nation cries with joy and relief as three more hostages return to their loved ones
and Yarden Bibas (center), whose wife Shiri and two ginger-haired babies remain in captivity – fate and whereabouts unknown.
(Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Ronen Harish, GPO)
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HAMAS’ NARRATIVE FALLING UPART
Increasing evidence reveals No deliberate starvation; No genocide; No freezing and No indiscriminate targeting.
By Andrew Fox
social media, they dominate no less the global news networks. Research and evidence expose the truth
behind the contrived and malicious lies.
HAMAS’ NARRATIVE FALLING UPART
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SHAME ON YOU
Have you no sense of decency
By Neville Berman
political memory – was when he was replied to with: “Have you no sense of decency?” It’s a question the writer
challenges all those who today wage war on the Jewish state and Jews globally.
SHAME ON YOU
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ZICHRON YA’AKOV – A CULTURAL COLONY ON THE CARMEL
Views, vineyards and wineries, this Moshava (colony) has it all – besides the multitude of visitors it deserves.
By Motti Verses
attracted hard-working innovative pioneers to emerge a haven for artistic expression. Today, it’s incomparable
beauty and charm attract tourists from the four corners of the world. The writer argues it deserves more.
ZICHRON YA’AKOV – A CULTURAL COLONY ON THE CARMEL
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LETTER TO MY GRANDFATHER
A lifelong personal journey of a grandson to expose Lithuanian complicity in the mass murder of its Jewish citizens in the Holocaust.
By Grant Gochin
LETTER TO MY GRANDFATHER
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