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It swept me into the orchard and into the sources of our tradition.” – Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel “A fascinating, beautiful book about the roots of the Judaism we inhabit today.” – Peter Beinart, journalist and author of The Crisis of Zionism “Yochi Brandes takes Rabbi Akiva out of the world of history books and places him into the realm of the familiar in this Israeli classic.” – A. B. Yehoshua, best-selling author of The Lover and Mr. Mani “The Orchard exposed Judaism to me in such a different way than I had known it as an Israeli Arab. 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