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Matti Friedman: The Song of the Israel-Hamas War
Shlomi Shaban performs onstage January 2024 (Lior Keter)
In a deserted border town, I listened to the reigning genius of Israeli pop blast his songs toward Gaza.
By Matti Friedman
03.07.24
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If you’ve been reading The Free Press, you might already think of Matti Friedman as one of our columnists. He has written some unforgettable pieces for us from Jerusalem. He was also the subject of one of the best episodes of Honestly we’ve ever published. But today we are making it official: every month, and sometimes a bit more often than that, you ca…

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Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman is a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press. He’s the author of five nonfiction books, including Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe, just published by Spiegel & Grau.
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