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Lebanon’s Jews recall a lost era of the community as new talks with Israel stir hope

Times of Israel18 October 2026, 10:20 UTCLebanon

‘We’ve lost a world’: Former residents remember peaceful childhoods and civil-war trauma; only some 20 Jews are believed to remain from a once-vibrant community

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