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for his undergraduate studies, and during his master's degree he spent a year as a
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Tikkun o la vendetta di Mende
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888:"Yaniv Iczkovits, author, Artist in Residence for 2021/2022"
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531:– "One of the 10 fiction books to look forward to in 2021"
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Iczkovits lives with his wife and three daughters in
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380:and Israeli extremism. Iczkovits also blames the
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320:In 2002, after a stint of reservist service in
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586:(Based on his doctoral dissertation), London,
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938:"A conversation with author Yaniv Iczkovits"
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