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For the first time, female Israeli authors outpaced males in publishing in 2021
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Jewish featherweight champion Isaac ‘Ike’ Berger dead at 85
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Israeli heirs to the ‘Top Gun’ story sue Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement
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Jewish man beaten and allegedly called ‘dirty Jew’ while campaigning for his political candidate wife in France
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Group of Democrats and Republicans call on Palestinian Authority to release bullet that killed Palestinian journalist
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