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I drove a friend to a protest in Jerusalem. Now Israel’s government wants to send me to prison.

My grandparents came to this country — then Palestine, in the 1930s — as Europe began to burn. They helped found a farming village in the Jezreel Valley, Beit Shearim, while most...

I drove a friend to a protest in Jerusalem. Now Israel’s government wants to send me to prison.

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My grandparents came to this country — then Palestine, in the 1930s — as Europe began to burn.

They helped found a farming village in the Jezreel Valley, Beit Shearim, while most...

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My grandparents came to this country — then Palestine, in the 1930s — as Europe began to burn. They helped found a farming village in the Jezreel Valley, Beit Shearim, while most... For nine months I was a political detainee in Israel.

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