Hillel Gershuni is a journalist and a doctoral student in Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
They reject modern political states and their institutions. They want to return to an imagined earlier era of religious order. They are extreme, fundamentalist, and violent. What separates so-called Hilltop Youth from young Jihadis?
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