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Gershon Baskin: From Long Island Activist to Israel’s Most Unlikely Intermediary
In this sweeping and intimate episode of Tel Aviv Diary, we sit down with Gershon Baskin—one of the most consequential and least understood figures in the Israeli–Palestinian arena. Baskin traces his path from a politically awakened teenager in 1960s America to a lifelong peacebuilder whose work has spanned Arab villages inside Israel, the first Intifada, the Oslo years, and nearly two decades of clandestine contacts with Hamas. In this rare, uninterrupted narrative, he recounts the early experiences that shaped his worldview, the creation of pioneering coexistence institutions, and his long…
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