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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 08-11 September 2025
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Lay of the Land’s Photo Pick of the Week
JERUSALEM AT A KNIFE’S EDGE – LITERALLY!
A week that began with a shooting and ended with a knifing
Towards the end of the week, two sustained injuries in a terror stabbing attack in a dining hall of a hotel in the Jerusalem Hills. A nervous city wonders, “What’s next?”.
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RESOLVING RESOLUTION 181 – A NEW LOOK AT THE UN’S PARTITION PLAN of 1947
Misguided Western concepts for the Middle East and hope for Gaza
By Neville Berman
become a success story,” contends the writer. Looking back over history of what went wrong,
to get things right for both Palestinians and Israelis, removing Hamas is an essential start.
RESOLVING RESOLUTION 181 – A NEW LOOK AT THE UN’S PARTITION PLAN of 1947
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A MEMBER’S RESPONSE TO HIS CONNIVING COLLEAGUES
A MEMBER’S RESPONSE TO HIS CONIVING COLLEAGUES
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FROM PłOńSK TO A NATION
Tracing Ben Gurion’s roots from small town in central Poland to forging a nation.
By Motti Verses
Sde Boker in the Negev, the writer, an Israeli, visits in Poland his first home where the nation’s
“Founding Father” was born and raised. What insights could he learn?
FROM PłOńSK TO A NATION
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