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'I moved to Israel because I didn't want to be Leslie the Jew. I wanted to be part of the majority'

This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A French expat who moved to Israel so that her son 'won't have to grow up in a place where he has explain who he is all the time,' and an Israeli expat who moved to Brazil for love after being wounded in the Yom Kippur War

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This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A French expat who moved to Israel so that her son 'won't have to grow up in a place where he has explain who he is all the time,' and an Israeli expat who moved to Brazil for love after being wounded in the Yom Kippur War

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