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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 10-12 March 2025
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“NEW DAY WILL RISE”
Israel’s entry in the 2025 Eurovision in Basel, Switzerland
Yuval Raphael – New Day Will Rise | Eurovision2025
Representing Israel at the 2025 Eurovision is Yuval, whose story of survival is both harrowing and inspiring. What was meant to be a night of music and celebration with friends at the Nova festival turned into a desperate struggle to stay alive as she lay motionless for eight hours – pretending to be dead – concealing herself among the bodies of those murdered by Hamas. Testifying before a Knesset committee, she related: “I was surrounded by bodies everywhere. There was one specific body I hid beneath every time terrorists came. It was riddled with bullets, bleeding on me from every direction. I lifted her head, pressed her cheek against mine — that’s how I shielded myself.”
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JEWISH SECURITY IN BELGIUM – AT A ‘KNIFE’S’ EDGE
How secure are Jews in Belgium after recent court decision relating to “sharp knife” threat?
By David E. Kaplan
was acquitted in a Ghent court of hate speech. A court’s messaging it’s not illegal to incite to murder Jews,
Belgium’s judiciary upholds an all-to-familiar heinous European tradition.
JEWISH SECURITY IN BELGIUM – AT A ‘KNIFE’S’ EDGE
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NOT SINCE ‘HAMAN’ HAS PERSIA POSED SUCH A DANGER TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
A Christian and Jew unite this Purim in prayer and to call to end the threatening evil menace of the Ayatollah regime in Iran.
By Marziyeh Amirizadeh and Jonathan Feldstein
NOT SINCE ‘HAMAN’ HAS PERSIA POSED SUCH A DANGER TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
Navigating the artistic response of Israelis to a massacre and war and the power to heal – a visiting architect’s perspective.
By Michael Witkin
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
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