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    Ayelet Gundar-Goshen; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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    Adeena Suss­man
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    Den­nis Ross
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    Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Lega­cy of the Six-Day War
    Micah Goodman; Eylon Levy, trans.
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    Sarit Yishai-Levi; Anthony Berris, trans.
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    Yos­si Klein Halevi
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    Meir Shalev
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    Mat­ti Friedman
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