'Not a square inch of our country is not paid for with our blood': The 106-year war

Responsibility for the north's abandonment rests entirely with the government. It is the group that still hasn't grasped that without a strong, flourishing Kiryat Shmona, eventually enrollment for schools and preschools in Tel Aviv will also plummet

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'Not a square inch of our country is not paid for with our blood': The 106-year war

Responsibility for the north's abandonment rests entirely with the government. It is the group that still hasn't grasped that without a strong, flourishing Kiryat Shmona, eventually enrollment for schools and preschools in Tel Aviv will also plummet

Israel Harel

03:15 AM • June 01 2026 IDT

"From Dan down to Beersheba / From the mountains to the flood / Not a square inch of our country / Is not paid for with our blood" (English translation by Hillel Halkin).

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