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Wartime Diaries: Hai Ashkenazi

The IDF turned to archeologists to do heartbreaking work

Hai Ashkenazi (Israel Story)
Hai Ashkenazi (Israel Story)

53-year-old Hai Ashkenazi from Tel Aviv is an archeologist, but never imagined he would find himself excavating a 21st-century Kibbutz. Yet in the insane reality that has become our life since October 7th, archeologists too are part of the war effort, and the term “destruction layer” has accrued a contemporary and chilling meaning.

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