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Zack Rothbart

Zack Rothbart is a writer, editor, and international spokesman at the National Library of Israel, where he manages global content and media relations and co-edits The Librarians, an online publication dedicated to Jewish, Israeli, and Middle Eastern history, heritage and culture.

  • The crime scene where Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Shlomo Argov was shot in the head after a banquet at the Dorchester Hotel in London, June 3, 1982
    The crime scene where Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Shlomo Argov was shot in the head after a banquet at the Dorchester Hotel in London, June 3, 1982
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    The Botched Hit That Sparked the First Lebanon War

    Forty years ago this month, Israel greenlighted an ill-fated invasion of Lebanon after the wrong Palestinian terrorists tried to whack the wrong Zionist diplomat

    byZack Rothbart
  • David Sompolinsky in Congo-Léopoldville, 1960
    David Sompolinsky in Congo-Léopoldville, 1960
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    A Holocaust Hero in the Congo

    David Sompolinsky saved hundreds of Danish Jews from the Nazis. Then he went to Africa.

    byZack Rothbart
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    The Day of the Million

    Israel’s forgotten secular nationalist Hanukkah holiday was all about welcoming immigrants

    byZack Rothbart
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