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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam

‘Best of both sides’: Berlin’s Israeli-Palestinian restaurant that won’t give in to fear

Jalil Dabit and Oz Ben David, owners of Kanaan, both wearing black chef's outfits
‘If you are closing up, you are surrendering to terror’: Jalil Dabit (and) and Oz Ben David, owners of Kanaan. Photograph: PR Photo

Six days after the Hamas attacks on Israel, a restaurant known for serving some of Berlin’s best hummus announced it would reopen its doors.

The restaurant, Kanaan, had been hastily shuttered as Jewish communities across Europe wrestled with a rise in antisemitism. But, as the world watched in horror as war gripped his homeland, Oz Ben David knew the time had come to reopen.

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