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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — Earlier this year, Yair Lev was trying to organize Jews to speak out against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government and draw attention to its right-wing backers in the Philadelphia region. The Israeli American doctor at Jefferson Health always had an activist streak, but his mission changed on Oct. 7. He suddenly found himself tapping into his grassroots network to rally the region’s Jewish community behind Israel — to grieve the 1,200 killed in the Hamas attack, to support the war against Hamas, and more recently, to combat the rise of antisemitism that he sees spreading from …