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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

‘Island of peace’: Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin to close – but live on as TV series

Oz Ben David, right, and alil Dabit work in their restaurant's kitchen in Berlin
Jalil Dabit and Oz Ben David said Kanaan’s closure was due to economic factors, German bureaucracy and the fraught political environment. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

An Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin conceived as an “island of peace” will close in the spring, but its Jewish and Arab owners say their dream will live on in a television series based on their unlikely partnership.

Kanaan, a decade-old casual eatery in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital, gained an international profile for its message of “unity over hate” after the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas and the outbreak of the Gaza war.

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