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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Meet the Israeli Rabbi and survivor of 7 October attack now in Australia to campaign for peace

Avi Dabush
Avi Dabush at an Israeli Knesset committee meeting in 2021. He will speak in Sydney and Melbourne on the path to peace in Israel and Palestine. Photograph: Rabbis for Human Rights

Avi Dabush felt as if he was “in a nightmare” and worried “maybe this is the end” when his family spent eight hours hiding from Hamas militants in Kibbutz Nirim in southern Israel.

So the executive director of the organisation Rabbis for Human Rights speaks with authority when he says the 7 October attacks have caused “a very deep and open wound” on Israeli society.

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