Israelis lament their divides, and cling to them, as they mark a holiday commemorating the toll of disunity
Two days before Tisha B’Av, the Israeli scholar Tomer Persico warned that the country was facing another destruction of Jerusalem, this time of its “moral and religious core” brought on by Israel’s conduct in Gaza. Citing the verse from Lamentations, “Look, Lord, and see, children starve in the streets,” he pointed to the images of […]
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