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🔵 It Was a Controversial Program in Israel Before the War. Now It's More Contentious Than Ever.

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All were part of a promotional campaign this year for Taglit-Birthright Israel—more commonly known as Birthright—a program that offers free trips to Israel for Jews between the ages of 18 and 26. Birthright’s operations halted after Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants kidnapped 251 people and killed 1,200 Israelis, 815 of them civilians. In the year since, Israel has responded to the attack with a cataclysmic bombing campaign and invasion of the Gaza Strip, a territory that Hamas overtook from the Palestinian National Authority in 2007, in a devastating war that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and continues to spread throughout the Middle East.

Slate     Oct 21, 2024