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“By emphasizing Israel’s needs and Israel’s well-being, as we have ever since the State was born, and almost totally ignoring what an extended Israel experience or even aliya can do to meet the needs of American Jews, we have done ourselves a grave disservice,” according to Mordechai Bar-On, head of the World Zionist Organization’s youth […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315