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Jo-Ann Mort

Jo-Ann Mort is co-author (with Gary Brenner) of Our Hearts Invented a Place: can Kibbutzim survive in today’s Israel? (Cornell University Press, 2003). She writes frequently about Israeli culture and politics.

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America and Israel: what kind of friends?

How real, and how rightful, is America’s support for Israel? In the eleventh of our Letters to Americans series, the journalist and West Bank settler Yisrael Harel writes to Jo-Ann Mort, peace campaigner and co-author of a book about the Kibbutzim.

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