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October 31, 2017

Celebrating Israel’s Century-Long Special Relationship with Australia

Remembering the battle of Beersheba.

Today is the centenary of the battle of Beersheba, in which the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, serving under Britain’s General Edmund Allenby, took the city from Ottoman forces. Isi Leibler describes the battle, which he sees as the beginning of the consistently warm relations between Canberra and Jerusalem:

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