Deborah Danan
By Deborah Danan
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Israel News Why these Israeli farmers became heroes after killing their crops (hint: it’s in the Bible)
An organization that subsidizes farmers observing shmita, the every-seven-years agricultural sabbatical, says it is doling out more than twice as much as last time around.
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Fast Forward Mourners throng Bnei Brak for funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, largest in Israel’s history
(JTA) — Thousands of men escorted the late leader’s body from his home on Rashbam Street to his final resting place close to the grave of his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Yeshayohu Karelitz (the “Chazon Ish”) in the Zichron Meir Cemetery. Only close members of family and senior public figures, including Israel’s chief rabbis, were allowed…
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