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THE ISRAEL BRIEF –23–26 February 2026
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Lay of the Land wishes our readers a
“CHAG PURIM SAMEACH ” – (Happy Purim holiday)
As we ‘celebrate’ Purim during war this week, the Biblical story of the defeat of Haman, who plotted to annihilate the Jewish people, feels more like a news headline than ancient history.
ARTICLES
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ANC AMNESIA
A Beit Berl Project – As South Africa’s leadership engages in state-sponsored antisemitism, it should remember Israel’s unique contribution in its transition to post-Apartheid
By David E. Kaplan
on a Leadership and Community Development Program together with local South Africans,
including former member of uMkhonto weSizwe Arthur Goldreich (bottom left).
ANC AMNESIA
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WE ARE ALL JEWS HERE
The heroism of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds
By Andrew Fox
writer recalls a time when a brave NCO in a POW camp with a Nazi gun pointed at his head,
refused to identify the Jews under his command, answering: “We are all Jews here.”
WE ARE ALL JEWS HERE
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THE RIGHT OF JEWS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
Indigenous and Sovereignty are in most cases mutually exclusive.
By Neville Berman
THE RIGHT OF JEWS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
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