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On Auschwitz visit, Jews and Arabs
remember suffering, call for healing
At the heart of the Birkenau death camp, an Israeli rabbi, surrounded by a group of Arabs and Jews, said Kaddish. Instead of its usual ending, the rabbi added, “He will make peace upon us and upon all the peoples of the world,” as a gesture of gratitude to the Israeli Arabs who initiated this dramatic act of solidarity with the greatest tragedy of the Jewish people.

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