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He set out for Harvard never imagining that he'd end up suing the university. He won, returned to Israel and now he's starting a political party.
We’ve had Matan Yaffe on the podcast before, to speak about the school for Bedouin kids that he established in the Negev after some Bedouin teenagers tried to rob him. As we’ll hear in today’s conversation once again, when they threatened him, he pulled out a gun, but instead of shooting them, decided to give them a future. Hence, “Stars of the Desert.”
I was in touch with Matan about El Ha-Degel, the new political party we’ve highlighted, and he mentioned that between Stars of the Desert and El Ha=Degel, he’d gone off to Harvard, for what he assumed would be the intellectual pinnacle of his…
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