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Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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The Importance of Israel

Howard Jacobson is one of Britain's greatest novelists and a Booker Prize winner. He says he didn't come at Israel the way other Jewish boys came to it. His parents weren't Zionists, but his father told him: "Israel is very important because we might need it one day" But everything changed for him in 1967 when he was in Australia.

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